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Definition of Marattiales
1. Noun. Lower ferns coextensive with the family Marattiaceae.
Generic synonyms: Plant Order
Group relationships: Class Filicinae, Class Filicopsida, Filicinae, Filicopsida
Member holonyms: Family Marattiaceae, Marattiaceae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Marattiales
Literary usage of Marattiales
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The Marattiales, on the other hand, had an extended geological history. In the
present state of our knowledge, confused as it is by the resemblance of ..."
2. Botanical Abstracts by Board of Control of Botanical Abstracts (1921)
"... and Marattiales, at any rate, the stelar system begins as a single strand
common to the first leaf and root. The stem is absent or insignificant at ..."
3. The Eusporangiatae: The Comparative Morphology of the Ophioglossaceae and by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1911)
"THE Marattiales. The members of the second order of the ... Marattiales— resemble
quite closely the typical ..."
4. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1919)
"... in the present Hawaiian flora, of an extremely important group of pteridophytes,
namely, the Marattiales. Moreover, it also occurs in the Fiji Islands, ..."
5. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"Order Marattiales (One Family, Marattiaceae).—These are tropical ferns, with only
four or five living genera ..."
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