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Definition of Jungermanniaceae
1. Noun. Comprising the leafy members of the order Jungermanniales.
Generic synonyms: Moss Family
Group relationships: Jungermanniales, Order Jungermanniales
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jungermanniaceae
Literary usage of Jungermanniaceae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences by Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (1914)
"Jungermanniaceae IV. Plagiochila Dumort. The genus Plagiochila is one of the
largest genera of Hepaticae, • nearly eight hundred species being recognized by ..."
2. Mosses with a Hand-lens: A Non-technical Handbook of the More Common and by Abel Joel Grout (1905)
"Jungermanniaceae. The Scale Mosses. The reproductive part of the Scale Mosses,
including the ripened capsule and its connected parts, perianth, involucre, ..."
3. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"Lettering the same. Ill, young leaf-auricle seen from above. After Leitgeb.
Jungermanniaceae. Mucilage-papillae are of common occurrence in this group. ..."
4. The Structure and Development of Mosses and Ferns (Archegoniatae). by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1905)
"In the Jungermanniaceae, however, a single apical cell is always ... Among the
foliose Jungermanniaceae it always has the form of a three-sided pyramid. ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"The capsule opens by splitting into four halves. Kual plant is well illustrated
by the nine genera of this group Jungermanniaceae ..."