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Definition of Burmanniaceae
1. Noun. Family of chiefly tropical herbs with basal leaves like bracts and small flowers.
Generic synonyms: Liliopsid Family, Monocot Family
Group relationships: Orchidales, Order Orchidales
Member holonyms: Burmannia, Genus Burmannia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Burmanniaceae
Literary usage of Burmanniaceae
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, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"Burmanniaceae Blume, Enum. P!. Jav. i: 27. 1830.* BURMANNIA FAMILY. Low annual
herbs, with filiform stems and fibrous roots. Leaves basal or reduced to ..."
2. Plant-geography Upon a Physiological Basis by Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1903)
"Plants without chlorophyll belonging to the Orchidaceae, Burmanniaceae, Triuridaceae,
Gentianaceae. Balanophoraceae. Rafflesia. Loranthaceae. i. ..."
3. Australasia by Alfred Russel Wallace, Francis Henry Hill Guillemard (1893)
"... and Burmanniaceae—are recorded from any temperate colony, a single species of
each and in one case two species, extending their range from Queensland ..."
4. The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany edited by George Luxford, Edward Newman (1851)
"... and observes that we have no satisfactory evidence of the existence of an
embryo, in the ordinary sense of the term, in Burmanniaceae. ..."
5. Botanisches Zentralblatt by Botanischer Verein in München, Deutsche Botanische Gesellschaft, Berlin (1898)
"... Burmanniaceae und Orchidaceae, weichen in mehreren Merkmalen erheblich von
... der Orchideen weicht von den Liliiflorae und den Burmanniaceae durch den ..."
6. Jahrbücher für wissenschaftliche Botanik by N. Pringsheim, W. Pfeffer, E. Strasburger (1889)
"Ders., On a new gonus of plants of the family of Burmanniaceae. Ebenda XX, 1851, p.
373 ff., tab. ..."
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