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Definition of Fouquieriaceae
1. Noun. Small family of spiny shrubs or trees of southwestern United States.
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Family
Group relationships: Hypericales, Order Hypericales, Order Parietales, Parietales
Member holonyms: Fouquieria, Genus Fouquieria
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fouquieriaceae
Literary usage of Fouquieriaceae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Contributions from the New York Botanical Garden by New York Botanical Garden (1902)
"Its distribution would also tend to confirm this distribution of the group, for
Tamaricaceae, with Fouquieriaceae removed, is strictly Old World, ..."
2. Outlines of Geologic History, with Especial Reference to North America: A by Bailey Willis, American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"... have been reduced to linear vestiges representing various parts of the foliar
organ, branches to spines or short rudiments as in certain Fouquieriaceae, ..."
3. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1901)
"... is found in the Mediterranean region and in central Asia (see Fig. 159).
Family Fouquieriaceae. Candle-tree Family. Contains the single genus ..."
4. Biodiversity and the Management of the Madrean Archipelago: The Sky Islands edited by Leonard F. DeBano (1999)
"A taxonomic revision of the Fouquieriaceae. Aliso 7:439-537. Jones, G .N. 1968.
Taxonomy of American species of linden (Tilia). ..."
5. Botanisches Zentralblatt by Botanischer Verein in München, Deutsche Botanische Gesellschaft, Berlin (1904)
"NASH, GV, A revision of thé Fouquieriaceae. (Bull, of thé Torrey Bot. Club. XXX.
Aug. 1903. p. 449—459.) Contains thé following new names: ..."
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