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Definition of Callitriche
1. Noun. Water starworts.
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Callitrichaceae, Family Callitrichaceae
Member holonyms: Water Starwort
Lexicographical Neighbors of Callitriche
Literary usage of Callitriche
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, Addison Brown (1897)
"Callitriche heterophylla Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 3. 1814. Similar to the preceding
species, either aquatic or growing in the mud. Fruit smaller, mostly obovate ..."
2. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Eberhard Goebel (1905)
"Callitriche. Callitriche (Fig. 297) has leaves in decussate pairs. ... Callitriche
verna. Leaf-rosette plant reaches the surface of the water an arrest ..."
3. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1894)
"Callitriche bifida (L.) Morong. Callitriche palustris var. biß Ja L. Sp. PI. ...
Callitriche palustris L. Sp. PI. 969 (1753). Callitriche verna L. FI. Suec. ..."
4. The Flora of British India by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1879)
"Callitriche. Linn. Glabrous slender annual herbs growing in moist places, or
their branches floating or submerged. Leaves opposite, linear- or ..."
5. Flora of Worcester County: A Catalogue of the Phaenogamous and Vascular by Joseph Jackson (1894)
"Callitriche, L. heterophylla, Pursh. Mt. Wachusett. WWB &-/. FC PAGE 34.
RHODODENDRON, L. viscosum, Torr., var. *glaucum, Gray. Princeton. W. IV. ..."