Vegetative key to the families

ROOTLESS EPIPHYTIC PARASITES.
Either; stems robust, erect or pendulous and with well developed leaves; or, stems flat, 3–9 mm wide and bearing scale-like leaves
Leaves well developed Loranthaceae
Epiphytic parasites
Anthers versatile, dorsifixed; filaments attenuated at the summit. Flowers in a raceme of 3-flowered cymes, terminal on short lateral branches Muellerina
Anthers adnate; filaments not tapering at the summit but passing imperceptibly into the anthers