Table 2.
Number of parasitic species per clade (as reported by Nickrent 2020), further subdivided according to five functional groups
| Parasitic Plant Lineages | Number of Species |
Totals | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Euphytoid Parasites | Mistletoes | Parasitic Vines | Obligate Root Parasites | Endoparasites | ||
| Apodanthaceae | – | – | – | – | 10 | 10 |
| Cassytha | – | – | 20 | – | – | 20 |
| Cuscuta | – | – | 215 | – | – | 215 |
| Cynomoriaceae | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 |
| Cytinaceae | – | – | – | 12 | 12 | |
| Hydnoraceae | – | – | – | 12 | – | 12 |
| Krameriaceae | 23 | – | – | – | 23 | |
| Lennoaceae | – | – | 4 | – | 4 | |
| Mitrastemonaceae | – | – | – | 2 | 2 | |
| Orobanchaceae | 1,833 | – | – | 309 | – | 2,142 |
| Rafflesiaceae | – | – | 36 | 36 | ||
| Santalales | 613 | 1,647 | – | 45 | 18 | 2,323 |
| Total, n (%) | 2,469 (51.4) | 1,647 (34.3) | 235 (5.0) | 371 (7.7) | 78 (1.6) | 4,800 |