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Definition of Melastomaceae
1. Noun. A family of trees and bushes and herbs of order Myrtales; many are cultivated as ornamentals.
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Family
Group relationships: Myrtales, Order Myrtales, Order Thymelaeales, Thymelaeales
Member holonyms: Genus Melastoma, Melastoma, Genus Medinilla, Medinilla, Genus Rhexia, Rhexia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Melastomaceae
Literary usage of Melastomaceae
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 (1897)
"Melastomaceae R. Br. Exp. Congo, App. 5. 1818. MEADOW-BEAUTY FAMILY. Herbs (shrubs
or trees in tropical regions), with opposite 3-9-nerved simple leaves, ..."
2. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel (1900)
"... which of course indicate a less degree of biological importance,butl prefer
to cite some more examples from other cycles of affinity. 2. Melastomaceae. ..."
3. Systematic Anatomy of the Dicotyledons: A Handbook for Laboratories of Pure by Hans Solereder (1908)
"75), Melastomaceae (Fig. 79, p. 362), Umbelliferae (Fig. 95, p. ... 268), which
is pointed like the cell containing it ; in certain Melastomaceae, ..."
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