Schoepfia is a small genus of flowering plants belonging to the enigmatic family Schoepfiaceae

Schoepfiaceae

Schoepfiacaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants . Such a family has been recognized by few taxonomists; the plants in question usually being assigned to family Olacaceae and Santalaceae....

. The genus has long been placed in the Olacaceae

Olacaceae

Olacaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Santalales. They are woody plants, native throughout the tropical regions of the world....

 family though many researchers noted the differences between it and the rest of the family. Recent molecular studies have show Schoepfia to be more closely related to the families Misodendraceae

Misodendraceae

Misodendron is a genus of hemiparasites which grow as mistletoes on various species of Nothofagus. The twelve species are all restricted to South America.Misodendron is placed in its own family, Misodendraceae, in the order Santalales...

 and Loranthaceae

Loranthaceae

Loranthaceae is a family of flowering plants, which has been universally recognized by taxonomists. It consists of about 75 genera and 1,000 species of woody plants, many of them hemi-parasites, all of them except three having the mistletoe habit...

, and to uphold the criteria of monophyly it must be excluded from Olacaceae.