Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Santalales R.Br. ex Bercht. & J.Presl
Family
Mystropetalaceae
 Subordinate Taxa
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Dactylanthus Hook.f., Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 22: 425, t. 75 (1859)
 Description

Dioec. root-parasite. Spadices aggregated in terminal capitula surrounded by scale lvs. Fls densely crowded; ♂ with 0–2–(4) filamentous per.-segs, and us. single stamen with short filament and one adnate bilobed anther; ♀ with per. adnate to ovary, with subulate processes, ovary 2-loculed, style filiform, stigma simple; fr. a hard-walled nut, one-seeded. Rhizome ± hemispherical, attached over broad irregular surface to expanded end of host root; shoots ∞, arising irregularly, lvs entire, sessile. One sp. endemic to N.Z.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Number of species in New Zealand within Dactylanthus Hook.f.
CategoryNumber
Indigenous (Endemic)1
Total1
 Bibliography
Ju, H-J.; Hu, J-M.; Anderson, F.E.; Der, J.P.; Nickrent, D.L. 2015: Phylogenetic relationships of Santalales with insights into the origins of holoparasitic Balanophoraceae. Taxon 64(3): 491–506.
Mabberley, D.J. 2008: Mabberley's plant book, a portable dictionary of plants, their classification and uses. Edition 3. Cambridge University Press.
Transactions of the Linnean Society of London