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Dwarf-Mistletoes
Arceuthobium
The genus Arceuthobium, commonly called dwarf mistletoes, is a genus of 26 species of parasitic plants that parasitize members of Pinaceae and Cupressaceae in North America, Central America, Asia, Europe, and Africa. Of the 42 species, 39 and 21 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
11 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Campylopoda
sectionCampylopoda
Arceuthobium Sect. Americana
sectionAmericana
Vaginata
sectionVaginata
Pusilla
sectionPusilla
Arceuthobium
sectionArceuthobium
Minuta
sectionMinuta
Globosa
sectionGlobosa
Azorica
sectionAzorica
Rubra
sectionRubra
Chinense
sectionChinense
Penda
sectionPenda
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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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 50259.