Editing Arceuthobium (section)

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{{Short description|Genus of mistletoes}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| name = Dwarf mistletoes
| image = Arceuthobium abietinum 1.jpg
| image_caption = ''Arceuthobium abietinum''
| taxon = Arceuthobium
| authority = [[Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein|M.Bieb.]]
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = See [[list of Arceuthobium species|list of ''Arceuthobium'' species]]
}}

The [[genus]] '''''Arceuthobium''''', commonly called '''dwarf [[mistletoe]]s''', is a genus of 42<ref name="Nick">{{cite journal | last = Nickrent | first = D.L. |author2=M.A. García |author3=M.P. Martín |author4=R.L. Mathiasen | s2cid = 13745441 | year = 2004 | title = A phylogeny of all species of ''Arceuthobium'' (Viscaceae) using nuclear and chloroplast DNA sequences | journal = American Journal of Botany | volume = 91 | pages = 125–138 | doi = 10.3732/ajb.91.1.125 | pmid = 21653369 | issue = 1| doi-access = free | bibcode = 2004AmJB...91..125N }}</ref> species of [[parasitic plant]]s that parasitize members of [[Pinaceae]] and [[Cupressaceae]] in [[North America]], [[Central America]], [[Asia]], [[Europe]], and [[Africa]].<ref name="oneill_rana_2016">{{cite journal|last1=O'Neill|first1=A.R.|last2=Rana|first2=S.K.|date=2019|title=An ethnobotanical analysis of parasitic plants (Parijibi) in the Nepal Himalaya|journal=Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine|volume=12|issue=14|pages=14|doi=10.1186/s13002-016-0086-y|pmid=26912113|pmc=4765049 |doi-access=free }}</ref> Of the 42 species that have been recognized, 39 and 21 of these are endemic to North America and the United States, respectively. They all have very reduced shoots and [[leaves]] (mostly reduced to scales) with the bulk of the plant living under the host's bark. Recently the number of species within the genus has been reduced to 26 as a result of more detailed genetic analysis.<ref name="Nick"/>