Definition of Family Melastomaceae

1. Noun. A family of trees and bushes and herbs of order Myrtales; many are cultivated as ornamentals.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Melastomaceae

family Marattiaceae
family Marchantiaceae
family Marsileaceae
family Martyniaceae
family Mastodontidae
family Mastotermitidae
family Mayacaceae
family Megachilidae
family Megadermatidae
family Megalonychidae
family Megalosauridae
family Megapodiidae
family Megatheriidae
family Melampsoraceae
family Melanthiaceae
family Melastomaceae (current term)
family Melastomataceae
family Meleagrididae
family Meliaceae
family Meliphagidae
family Meloidae
family Membracidae
family Menuridae
family Menyanthaceae
family Meropidae
family Micrococcaceae
family Microdesmidae
family Microhylidae
family Mimidae

Literary usage of Family Melastomaceae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Essentials of Botany by Charles Edwin Bessey (1896)
"... stamens indefinite ; pistil 2- to many-celled, inferior ; ovules 2 to many ; placenta; basal or axile. (Sp. 2100 ) family Melastomaceae ..."

2. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1843)
"... the same method in his Monograph of the family Melastomaceae ; but he has not "thought proper to follow it in later works, either from the difficulty of ..."

3. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.), Wild Flower Preservation Society of America (1902)
"family Melastomaceae. Melastoma Family. This is also an Fig 174. The Yellow Deer-grass (Rhexia lulea. ..."

4. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1843)
"... the same method in his Monograph of the family Melastomaceae ; but he has not thought proper to follow it in later works, either from the difficulty of ..."

5. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1921)
"... with leaves rounded at base, from Rio Guao, Pinar del Rio (Britton & Cowell 10102'), may represent this species or a related one. Family MELASTOMACEAE ..."

6. Forestry Quarterly by New York State College of Forestry (1906)
"The family Melastomaceae, represented by numerous shrubs and trees, was found here, but nowhere in the lowland, except in one canyon. ..."

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