Order Santalales Brown 1820
Parent taxon: Superasterids according to The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 2016
See also Jud 2011, Knowlton 1919 and Mabberley 2000
Sister taxa: Asterids, Berberidopsidales, Caryophyllales
Subtaxa: Anacolosidites Balanophoraceae Eremolepidaceae Exocarpos Loranthaceae Medusandraceae Misodendraceae Olacaceae Opiliaceae Santalaceae Schoepfiaceae
Ecology: "photoautotroph"