An obligate parasite or holoparasite is a parasitic organism that cannot complete its life-cycle without exploiting a suitable host. If an obligate parasite...

hemiparasite. Holoparasites are always obligate so only two terms are needed, e.g. Dodder is a stem holoparasite. Hydnora spp. are root holoparasites. Plants...

"A structural, functional and molecular analysis of plastids of the holoparasites Cuscuta reflexa and Cuscuta europaea". Planta. 181 (1): 91–96. doi:10...

mistletoe derives some of its nutrients from another living plant, whereas a holoparasite such as dodder derives all of its nutrients from another plant. Parasitic...

is an achlorophyllous (lacking chlorophyll), root parasitic plant (holoparasite). It is native to Northern Mexico, and to the Southwestern United States...

is native to the chaparral of California and Baja California. It is a holoparasite growing attached to the roots of shrubs, usually chamise. Orobanche bulbosa...

Cuscuta chinensis Lam. is a stem holoparasite vine in the family Convolvulaceae. It was first described in China in 1786. C. chinensis is a thin, yellow...

Orobanchaceae. These parasitic plants can either be hemi-parasites or holoparasites. The order Lamiales has a variety of species with anthropogenic uses...

breaking down organic matter. While only a few species are achlorophyllous holoparasites, all orchids are myco-heterotrophic during germination and seedling...

caseariae, native to Central America and northern South America. It is a holoparasite that lives inside plants from the families Salicaceae and Fabaceae, and...

leaves, stems or even roots, and does not have chlorophyll. It lives as a holoparasite on vines of the genus Tetrastigma. Similar to fungi, individuals grow...

parasitism: facultative parasite, obligate parasite, hemiparasites, and holoparasites. Parasitic plants are attached to their host by means of haustoria,...

Mauseth, J.D., Montenegro, G.M. Walckowiak, A.M. 2011. Studies of the holoparasite Tristerix aphyllus (Loranthaceae) infecting Trichocereus chilensis (Cactaceae)...

Oxford Botanic Garden. The plant has no stems, leaves or roots. It is a holoparasite of vines in the genus Tetrastigma (a plant in the Vitaceae, the grape...

(2016-02-01). "Successful translocation of the threatened New Zealand root-holoparasite Dactylanthus taylorii (Mystropetalaceae)". Plant Ecology. 217 (2): 127–138...

comprise the Southern Hemisphere group Mystropetalaceae. All three are holoparasites, lacking chlorophyll, and are descended from hemiparasitic root parasites...

Robinson-Rechavi, Marc (2016). "Complete plastid genome of the recent holoparasite Lathraea squamaria reveals earliest stages of plastome reduction in Orobanchaceae"...

growth form and simple, broad leaves. Individuals can grow to 0.4 m. Holoparasite of Artemisia spp. Distribution: Europe, SW Asia, Russia, Kazakhstan,...

species, Tozzia alpina. While the plant in its young, vegetative stage is holoparasite, it becomes hemiparasite in its flowering stage. The originality of this...

aegyptiaca, the Egyptian broomrape, is a plant which is an obligate holoparasite from the family Orobanchaceae with a complex lifecycle. This parasite...

phenotypically, due to sheer morphological diversity, ranging from tropical holoparasites with giant flowers and temperate trees and herbs with tiny, simple flowers...

a rhizome, which is attached to the roots of its host plant; it is a holoparasite, i.e. totally dependent on its host. The low-growing inflorescence emerges...

western Malaysia belong to Rh. infanticida. This strange plant is a holoparasite of the roots of the jungle lianas in the genus Tetrastigma, a plant related...

were dispersed. O'Neill, Alexander; Rana, Santosh (26 July 2018). "Root holoparasite Balanophora polyandra Griff. (Balanophoraceae) in eastern Himalaya (Sikkim...

ant-pollination system of Cytinus hypocistis (Cytinaceae), a Mediterranean root holoparasite". Annals of Botany. 103 (7): 1065–1075. doi:10.1093/aob/mcp049. PMC 2707910...

species named in honour of the Konyak people in Nagaland. The species is a holoparasite, meaning that it derives its entire nutritional requirement from its...

heterokaryon (adj. heterokaryotic) heterothallic heterotroph holomorph holoparasite homokaryon (adj. homokaryotic) homothallism (adj. homothallic) horizontal...

Tetsuro (2012). "A novel brood-site pollination mutualism?: The root holoparasite Thonningia sanguinea (Balanophoraceae) and an inflorescence-feeding fly...

their own families, Codonaceae and Wellstediaceae. The achlorophyllous holoparasites Lennoa and Pholisma were once regarded as a family, Lennoaceae, but...

caused it to become extirpated from this island. Rafflesia patma is a holoparasite of Tetrastigma lanceolaurium, a rainforest liana in the Vitaceae, the...