Definition of Order Sarraceniales

1. Noun. Plants that are variously modified to serve as insect traps: families Sarraceniaceae; Nepenthaceae; Droseraceae.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Sarraceniales

order Raptores
order Rhamnales
order Rheiformes
order Rhoeadales
order Rhynchocephalia
order Rickettsiales
order Rodentia
order Rosales
order Rubiales
order Salicales
order Salientia
order Santalales
order Sapindales
order Saprolegniales
order Sarcosporidia
order Sarraceniales (current term)
order Saurischia
order Sauropterygia
order Scandentia
order Sclerodermatales
order Scleroparei
order Scorpionida
order Scrophulariales
order Secotiales
order Selaginellales
order Siluriformes
order Siphonaptera
order Siphonophora
order Sirenia
order Solenichthyes

Literary usage of Order Sarraceniales

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

1. Flora of Pennsylvania by Thomas Conrad Porter (1903)
"Droseraceae in Order SARRACENIALES. 157 Stigmas entire. Stamens with united filaments and no staminodia. ..."

2. Text-book of Botany and Pharmacognosy by Henry Kraemer (1908)
"order Sarraceniales. This order includes several families which are of special interest because of the fact that the leaves are of peculiar construction and ..."

3. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"order Sarraceniales.—Insectivorous plants. The pitcher-plant family (Sarraceniaceae). Examples: Sarra- cenia purpurea, the pitcher-plant, in peat-bogs, ..."

4. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"order Sarraceniales.—Insectivorous plants. The pitcher-plant family (Sarraceniaceae). Examples: Sarra- cenia purpurea, the pitcher-plant, in peat-bogs, ..."

5. Applied and Economic Botany for Students in Technical and Agricultural by Henry Kraemer (1916)
"order Sarraceniales. This order includes several families which are of special interest because of the fact that the leaves are of peculiar construction and ..."

6. Essentials of College Botany by Charles Edwin Bessey, Ernst Athearn Bessey (1914)
"Order SARRACENIALES. "Insectivorous" plants. Family 82. Sarraceniaceae; 83, Nepenthaceae. Order GERANIALES. Pistil of several carpels; receptacle usually ..."

7. Flora of Miami: Being Descriptions of the Seed-plants Growing Naturally on by John Kunkel Small (1913)
"Order SARRACENIALES. Insectivorous, usually scapose herbs, with viscid-fluid secreting tissues. Leaves alternate, various, filiform, or with dilated, ..."

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