Four species of MHP occur in Bryophytes. Two species in the genus Aneura (Aneuraceae) and two species in Buxbaumia (Buxbaumiaceae).
One species of gymnosperms, Parasitaxus usta (Podocarpaceae) is mycoheterotrophic and parasitic at once.
Burmanniaceae comprise 8 genera and 70 species of MHP. Apteria, Dictyostega, Marthella and Miersiella contain 1 species each, Dictyostega orobanchoides has 3 subspecies. Hexapterella include 2 species, Campylosiphon 5 species (based on Xiaojuan et al. 2023), Burmannia 22 achlorophyllous species (plus some more species with various reductions of photosynthetic ability) and Gymnosiphon 37 species.
Thismiaceae include 6 genera and 121 species. By far the largest genus is Thismia with 112 species and 1 variety. Hence, in competition with the orchid genus Gastrodia (101 species), it is the largest mycoheterotrophic genus in the plant kingdom. Thismia versteegii became synonymized with T. crocea by Jonker (1938), which has been challenged by Larsen (1965). Unfortunately, the type material of T. versteegii got lost. Oxygyne has 6 species, Haplothismia,Tiputinia and the recently described Relictithismia (Suetsugu et al. 2024) have 1 species each.
Afrothismiaceae have 1 genus (Afrothismia) with 16 species. Some authors keep Afrothismia gabonensis as a valid taxon (counting 17 species), which, however, has been attributed as synonym to A. saingei by Maas-van de Kamer and Maas (2010).
Triuridaceae have 8 genera and 63 species. The largest genus is Sciaphila with 48 species and one variety, Triuris encompass 4 species, Kihansia, Kupea, Lacandonia, Peltophyllum and Triuridopsis contain 2 species each, Soridium is monotypic. Seychellaria spp., for years kept in an own genus, became included in Sciaphila by Christenhusz et al. (2018).
Corsiaceae include 3 genera and 28 species. Arachnitis has 2 species, Coriopsis 1 species and Corsia 25 species and 1 variety.
Iridaceae includes 1 MHP genus (Geosiris) with 3 species.
Orchidaceae encompass 44 genera with mycoheterotrophic representatives, 331 orchid species are fully mycoheterotrophic. The genus with the most MHP is Gastrodia with 101 species, next in size is Lecanorchis with 23 species and 7 varieties. Didymoplexis inlcudes 22 species and 3 varieties, Aphyllorchis 20 species and 1 variety, Neottia has 17 species, Eulophia 13 species, Dipodium 12 species, Corallorhiza 11 species, 5 varieties and 1 form, Bletia 10 species. Didymoplexiella (together with Didymoplexiopsis challenged in its genus rank by Suetsugu & Hsu (2019)) comprises 9 species, Cyrtosia and Pseudovanilla contain 7 species each, Cephalanthera encompass 6 species. Epipogium, Rhizanthella, and Yoania have 5 species each, 4 species of MHP are included in each case of Auxopus, Galeola, Odontochilus, Silvorchis and Uleiorchis, 3 of them belong to any of the genera Chamaegastrodia, Cystorchis, Danhatchia, Limodorum, and Tropidia. Brachycorythis, Corybas, Crepidium, Erythrorchis, Pogoniopsis and Wullschlaegelia all encompass 2 MHP species, and, finally, the following genera only have 1 achlorophyllous representative: Arthrochilus (plus one subspecies), Aspidogyne, Burnettia, Cremastra, Cryptostylis, Cymbidium, Degranvillea, Didymoplexiopsis (challenged as a genus by Suetsugu & Hsu 2019), Platanthera, Risleya, Stereosandra and Thaia.
Petrosaviaceae, an isolated family in its own order, with only 2 species in the genus Petrosavia.
Ericaceae have 17 species of MHP in 12 genera, most of which are monotypic. Cheilotheca has 3 species, Monotropa, Monotropsis and Monotropastrum contain 2 species each, Monotropastrum humile has one additional variety. Pyrola contains 42 species, but only a variant of Pyrola picta is mycoheterotrophic.
In Polygalaceae only the genus Epirixanthes, comprising 7 species and 2 forms, is entirely devoid of chlorphyll. Other species in Polygala and Salomonia show reductions in photosynthetic surface, e.g. Polygala setacea (Long and Lakela 1971) or Salomonia ciliata (van der Meijden 1988), However, they are, according to our criterium, not included here.
Gentianaceae include 4 genera with 28 mycoheterotropohic species. Voyria is the largest genus with 21 species and 2 subspecies, Exacum encompasses 5 species, whereas Exochaenium and Voyriella have 1 species each.