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Definition of Marsileaceae
1. Noun. Clover ferns.
Member holonyms: Genus Marsilea, Marsilea, Genus Pilularia, Pilularia, Genus Regnellidium
Generic synonyms: Fern Family
Group relationships: Class Filicinae, Class Filicopsida, Filicinae, Filicopsida
Lexicographical Neighbors of Marsileaceae
Literary usage of Marsileaceae
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 (1913)
"... sori large, about midway between the midrib and margins of the segments, upon
the anterior branch of the mostly ij-forked veins. Family 6. Marsileaceae ..."
2. An Introduction to Botany by John Lindley (1839)
"The type of Marsileaceae, properly so called, may be taken from Marsilea itself,
of which the most complete account has been given by M. Fabre. ..."
3. New Manual of Botany of the Central Rocky Mountains (vascular Plants) by John Merle Coulter (1909)
"Marsileaceae R. Br. Perennial herbaceous plants rooting in the mud, with slender
creeping root- stocks, and 4-foliate or filiform long-petioled leaves. ..."
4. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1910)
"412-414); but in Marsileaceae the output of sperms is 32, ... It is noteworthy
that the Marsileaceae have retained the primary vertical wall of the egg, ..."
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