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Definition of Andreaea
1. Noun. Brown or blackish Alpine mosses having a dehiscent capsule with 4 longitudinal slits.
Generic synonyms: Moss Genus
Group relationships: Andreaeales, Order Andreaeales
Lexicographical Neighbors of Andreaea
Literary usage of Andreaea
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mosses with a Hand-lens: A Non-technical Handbook of the More Common and by Abel Joel Grout (1905)
"The Andreaea Family. I HIS family is characterized chiefly by the ... Andreaea
PETROPHILA Ehrh. is common on exposed rocks in the mountains of our range. ..."
2. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Eberhard Goebel (1905)
"The pro-embryo in Andreaea. The remarkable behaviour of ... Another form which
is met with in the pro-embryo of Andreaea is that of the tree- pro-embryo. ..."
3. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"... and the columella is in Andreaea a very irregular one (Fig. ... which some
writers put in close relation to Andreaea. any cell derived from the endo- ..."
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