Arceuthobium: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Santalales
- Family
- Santalaceae
- Genus
- Arceuthobium
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Arceuthobium
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Arceuthobium
The genus Arceuthobium, commonly called dwarf mistletoes, is a genus of 42 species of parasitic plants that parasitize members of Pinaceae and Cupressaceae in North America, Central America, Asia, Europe, and Africa. Of the 42 species that have been recognized, 39 and 21 of these are endemic to North America and the United States, respectively. They all have very reduced shoots and leaves (mostly reduced to scales) with the bulk of the plant living under the host's bark. Recently the number of species within the genus has been reduced to 26 as a result of more detailed genetic analysis.
...Arceuthobium in languages:
- Chinese
- 油杉寄生屬
- English
- dwarf mistletoe
- English
- Dwarf-Mistletoes
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Parent Taxon
Child Taxa
- Arceuthobium abietinum
- Arceuthobium abietis-religiosae
- Arceuthobium americanum
- Arceuthobium apachecum
- Arceuthobium azoricum
- Arceuthobium blumeri
- Arceuthobium californicum
- Arceuthobium campylopodum
- Arceuthobium chinense
- Arceuthobium cyanocarpum
- Arceuthobium divaricatum
- Arceuthobium douglasii
- Arceuthobium gambyi
- Arceuthobium gillii
- Arceuthobium globosum
- Arceuthobium guatemalense
- Arceuthobium hondurense
- Arceuthobium juniperi-procerae
- Arceuthobium littorum
- Arceuthobium microcarpum
- Arceuthobium minutissimum
- Arceuthobium monticola
- Arceuthobium nigrum
- Arceuthobium occidentale
- Arceuthobium oxycedri
- Arceuthobium pendens
- Arceuthobium pini
- Arceuthobium pusillum
- Arceuthobium rubrum
- Arceuthobium sichuanense
- Arceuthobium siskiyouense
- Arceuthobium strictum
- Arceuthobium tibetense
- Arceuthobium tsugense
- Arceuthobium vaginatum
- Arceuthobium verticilliflorum
- Arceuthobium yecorense























































































































































