Definition of Family flacourtiaceae

1. Noun. Chiefly tropical trees and shrubs.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Flacourtiaceae

family Eschrichtiidae
family Esocidae
family Euglenaceae
family Euphorbiaceae
family Eurylaimidae
family Exocoetidae
family Fabaceae
family Fagaceae
family Falconidae
family Fasciolidae
family Felidae
family Filariidae
family Fissurellidae
family Fistulariidae
family Fistulinaceae
family Flacourtiaceae
family Forficulidae
family Formicariidae
family Formicidae
family Fouquieriaceae
family Fregatidae
family Fringillidae
family Fucaceae
family Fulgoridae
family Fumariaceae
family Funkaceae
family Furnariidae
family Gadidae
family Galbulidae
family Gasterophilidae

Literary usage of Family flacourtiaceae

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

1. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1901)
"family flacourtiaceae. Flacourtia Family. Contains 70 genera and about 300 species, tropical shrubs or trees of wide distribution. ..."

2. Contributions to the Paleobotany of Peru, Bolivia and Chile: Five Papers by Edward Wilber Berry (1922)
"The family Flacourtiaceae is a rather large one in the modern flora with over 500 species in 70 or more genera, largely wanting in the known geological ..."

3. The Indigenous Trees of the Hawaiian Islands by Joseph Francis Charles Rock (1913)
"The family Flacourtiaceae is represented by two species in these islands, both of the lower forest zone, though one, ..."

4. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1921)
"... ß-valved, about as long as the sepals. Hillside, serpentine palm barren, Santa Clara (Britton & Wilson 6140). Family FLACOURTIACEAE Myroxylon ( ? ..."

5. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium by United States. National Herbarium, United States National Museum (1905)
"family flacourtiaceae; a shrub 3 to 4 meters high; in mountains and waste places, preferring cool shades. (Stahl, 4: 34. ..."

6. Economic plants of Porto Rico by Orator Fuller Cook, Guy N. Collins (1903)
"family flacourtiaceae; a shrub 3 to 4 meters high; in mountains and waste places, preferring cool shades. (Stahl, 4: 34. ..."

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