Monographs Details:
Authority:
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Family:
Loranthaceae
Loranthaceae
Description:
Description - Parasitic green shrubs or herbs, containing chlorophyll, growing on woody plants and absorbing food from their sap through specialized roots called haustoria (a few tropical species terrestrial). Leaves in the following genera opposite, in Bazoumofskya reduced to opposite scales. Flowers regular, terminal or axillary, dioecious or monoecious, and perianth simple, or in some genera perfect, and with perianth of both calyx and corolla. Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary. Stamens 2-6. Ovary solitary, erect; style simple or none; stigma terminal, undivided, obtuse. Fruit a berry. Seed solitary, its testa indistinguishable from the endosperm, which is usually copious and fleshy; ernbryo terete or angled. About 21 genera and 500 species, widely distributed; most abundant in tropical regions.
Description - Parasitic green shrubs or herbs, containing chlorophyll, growing on woody plants and absorbing food from their sap through specialized roots called haustoria (a few tropical species terrestrial). Leaves in the following genera opposite, in Bazoumofskya reduced to opposite scales. Flowers regular, terminal or axillary, dioecious or monoecious, and perianth simple, or in some genera perfect, and with perianth of both calyx and corolla. Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary. Stamens 2-6. Ovary solitary, erect; style simple or none; stigma terminal, undivided, obtuse. Fruit a berry. Seed solitary, its testa indistinguishable from the endosperm, which is usually copious and fleshy; ernbryo terete or angled. About 21 genera and 500 species, widely distributed; most abundant in tropical regions.