
sandalwoods, mistletoes, and allies
Santalales
The Santalales are an order of flowering plants of eudicots. 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. It derives its name from its type genus, Santalum (sandalwood).
7 branches of this order, most-observed first

sandalwood family
familySantalaceae

showy mistletoes
familyLoranthaceae

olax family
familyOlacaceae

balanophora family
familyBalanophoraceae

opilia family
familyOpiliaceae
schoepfia family
familySchoepfiaceae

feathery mistletoes
familyMisodendraceae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 49669.