Claim · model-written summary
Orobanchaceae has over 2100 species.
- Taxon
- OrobanchaceaeOrobanchaceaee0
- Outcome
- speciese0
- Value
- over 2100 speciese0
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Verbatim
e0“Orobanchaceae is the largest single family with 102 genera and over 2100 species.”
Title
Parasitic angiosperms: How often and how many?
Daniel L. Nickrent Taxon 2020. doi:10.1002/tax.12195
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Observation Parasitic angiosperms evolved independently 12 times.
- Observation Parasitic angiosperms comprise 292 genera.
- Observation Parasitic angiosperms comprise about 4750 species.
- Observation Hemiparasites predominate among parasitic angiosperms.
- Observation Holoparasitism evolved in all but two clades.
- Observation Santalales has 179 parasitic genera.
- Observation Santalales has 2428 parasitic species.
- Observation Orobanchaceae has 102 genera.
- Method / resource Molecular phylogenetic methods reveal closest nonparasitic relatives of holoparasites.