Kenaley Shawn C, Mathiasen Robert L
Department of Environmental Conservation and Horticulture, Finger Lakes Community College, Canandaigua, NY 14424, USA.
School of Forestry, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011, USA.
Plants (Basel). 2025 Jul 4;14(13):2051. doi: 10.3390/plants14132051.
-the dwarf mistletoes-is a clearly defined genus of hemi-parasitic plants in the family Viscaceae. The genus occurs throughout much of the Northern Hemisphere; however, the greatest concentration of species and subspecies occurs within coniferous forests of western North America, where considerable research was executed in the mid-to-late 20th century to determine their geographic distributions, host specializations, and taxonomic boundaries. However, the last monograph of presenting morphological, phenological, phylogenetic, and physiological information for N. American dwarf mistletoes was published in 1996, and since that time, no subsequent publications have presented taxonomic information for the present classification of N. American . Thus, herein, we provide updated phylogenetic and taxonomic data for 44 taxa of indigenous to N. America while simultaneously addressing knowledge gaps and suggesting future research to improve our understanding of these ecologically and economically important forest tree parasites. The present classification systems for and recent treatments of N. American are also discussed.
-矮槲寄生属-是檀香科中一个明确界定的半寄生植物属。该属分布于北半球的大部分地区；然而，物种和亚种最集中的区域在北美西部的针叶林内，20世纪中后期在那里开展了大量研究，以确定它们的地理分布、寄主专一性和分类界限。然而，上一本介绍北美矮槲寄生形态、物候、系统发育和生理信息的专著于1996年出版，自那时起，没有后续出版物提供北美矮槲寄生当前分类的分类信息。因此，在此我们提供了44种北美本土矮槲寄生类群的更新系统发育和分类数据，同时填补知识空白并提出未来研究方向，以增进我们对这些具有生态和经济重要性的林木寄生虫的理解。还讨论了北美矮槲寄生的当前分类系统和近期研究情况。
