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Definition of Loasaceae
1. Noun. Family of bristly hairy sometimes climbing plants; America and Africa and southern Arabia.
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Family
Member holonyms: Genus Loasa, Genus Mentzelia, Mentzelia
Group relationships: Hypericales, Order Hypericales, Order Parietales, Parietales
Lexicographical Neighbors of Loasaceae
Literary usage of Loasaceae
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 (1898)
"2:415. tt Sepals or calyx-segments imbricated or convolute (except in Loasaceae,
in which the calyx-tube is adnate to the ovary); ... Loasaceae. 2:458. II. ..."
2. Phytogeography of Nebraska: I. General Survey by Roscoe Pound, Frederic Edward Clements (1900)
"This section contains 24 genera and 44 species, distributed among the following
5 families: Loasaceae, 1 genus, 3 species; Cactaceae, 2 genera, 7 species; ..."
3. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"On the leaves on Nettles, Loasaceae, ... in the species of the genus Jatropha,
in Loasaceae, and in nettles, the extremity is swollen into a small head, ..."
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