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Definition of Diapensia family
1. Noun. North temperate low evergreen plants; in some classifications placed in its own order Diapensiales.
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Family
Group relationships: Ericales, Order Ericales
Member holonyms: Genus Diapensia, Genus Galax, Genus Pyxidanthera, Pyxidanthera, Genus Shortia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Diapensia Family
Literary usage of Diapensia family
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"diapensia family. Low tufted shrubs, or perennial scapose herbs, with alternate
or basal simple exstipulate leaves, and small white pink or purple ..."
2. Southern Wild Flowers and Trees: Together with Shrubs, Vines and Various by Alice Lounsberry (1901)
"... bright green than when it is showing its delicate bloom. They then are pale,
often with a copper-like, sunny tint. THE diapensia family. ..."
3. The Elements of Botany for Beginners and for Schools by Asa Gray (1887)
"... diapensia family. Low and prostrate or tufted plants, herbaceous or soft-woody,
glabrous or nearly so; leaves small and simple, without stipules ..."
4. Field, Forest, and Garden Botany: A Simple Introduction to the Common Plants by Asa Gray (1895)
"... diapensia family. Low and prostrate or tufted plants, herbaceous or soft-woody,
glabrous or nearly so; leaves small and simple, without stipules ..."
5. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1902)
"diapensia family.—The pyxie is rapidly sharing the fate of the trailing arbutus.
Galax is being used to such an extent for funeral wreaths, that it would be ..."
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