Family Santalaceae (Noun)
Meaning
Chiefly tropical herbs or shrubs or trees bearing nuts or one-seeded fruit.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- Members of the family Santalaceae can be mainly identified as tropical herbs or shrubs or trees that typically produce nuts or one-seeded fruits.
- Many members of family Santalaceae thrive as root parasites by absorbing necessary nutrients and water from host plants nearby.
- Species from family Santalaceae range greatly from various root systems such as holoparasites or hemiparasites and partial hemiparasites, giving variations on parasitic adaptation.
- They form their haustorium when contact with host plants occur then usually depend heavily on it afterwards to give them nourishment to make and sustain growth of the host plant from the family Santalaceae.
- Some members of family Santalaceae have the unique feature of heteroblastic development, such as having multiple juvenile forms varying with their hosts.