The Santalales are an order of flowering plants in the dicotyledons. Well-known members of the Santalales include sandalwoods and the many species of mistletoes . The order has a cosmopolitan distribution , but is heavily concentrated in tropical and subtropical regions.

Santalales, the sandalwood order of flowering plants, consisting of 7 or 14 families, 151 genera, and about 1,990 species. All the families in Santalales are parasitic to some degree, attaching to either roots or branches of their hosts.

Santalaceae, the sandalwood family (order Santalales), which includes about 44 genera and more than 1,000 species of semiparasitic shrubs, herbs, and trees, distributed in tropical and temperate regions. The majority of the Santalaceae are root parasites; the others are stem parasites.

Santalales, especially Santalaceae and Loranthaceae, are food plants of caterpillars of some Pieridae-Pierinae-Aporiina, the so-called mistletoe butterflies (see below for mistletoes), and these include the large genus Delias, with 165-to 250+ species (all told, ca 440 species of butterflies recorded, but eating only ca 9 genera; 2/5 of all ...

Hemiparasitic Santalales make up the bulk of the order with 148 genera and 2278 species. Of these, 60% of the genera and 70% of the species are mistletoes.

Santalales involve plants that form haustorium to penetrate the host's barks and roots, plants that undergo photosynthesizing activities in the stem, and members with usually simple and exstipulate leaves. Sandalwood and mistletoes are just two of the known plants under Santalales.

Apr 1, 2010 · We present here a revised classification of Santalales, an angiosperm order that contains 18 families, 160 genera, and over 2200 species. Both nonparasitic and parasitic flowering plants occur in the traditionally circumscribed family Olacaceae whereas all other families are composed entirely of parasites.

Apr 1, 2010 · We present here a revised classification of Santalales, an angiosperm order that contains 18 families, 160 genera, and over 2200 species.

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Mar 11, 2019 · The sandalwood order (Santalales) includes members that present a diverse array of inflorescence types, some of which are unique among angiosperms. This diversity presents not only interpretational challenges but also opportunities to test …