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Definition of Family Cyatheaceae
1. Noun. Tropical tree ferns.
Generic synonyms: Fern Family
Group relationships: Class Filicinae, Class Filicopsida, Filicinae, Filicopsida
Member holonyms: Cyathea, Genus Cyathea
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Cyatheaceae
Literary usage of Family Cyatheaceae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Essentials of College Botany by Charles Edwin Bessey, Ernst Athearn Bessey (1914)
"... and hence may be set off as Land Ferns (Order FILICALES), in which are the
less common Climbing Ferns (Lygodium), Tree Ferns (family Cyatheaceae), ..."
2. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1907)
"Cyathea is the type of the family Cyatheaceae containing most of the tree-ferns.
There are about eleven other genera, only one, Alsophila, ..."
3. Professional Paper by Geological Survey (U.S.) (1919)
"T. family Cyatheaceae. Dicksonia groenlandica Heer. T. Family Gleicheniaceae.
Gleichenia delicatula Heer. T. Family Marattiaceae (?). ..."
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