The Loranthaceae are a family of flowering plants. It consists of about 75 genera and 1,000 species of woody plants, many of them hemiparasites, all of them except three having the mistletoe habit. The three terrestrial species are Nuytsia floribunda – the Western Australian Christmas tree, Atkinsonia ligustrina – a rare shrub of the Blue Mountains of Australia, and the Central to South American species Gaiadendron punctatum.