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Definition of Family Flacourtiaceae
1. Noun. Chiefly tropical trees and shrubs.
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Family
Group relationships: Hypericales, Order Hypericales, Order Parietales, Parietales
Member holonyms: Flacourtia, Genus Flacourtia, Dovyalis, Genus Dovyalis, Genus Hydnocarpus, Genus Taraktagenos, Genus Taraktogenos, Hydnocarpus, Taraktagenos, Taraktogenos, Genus Idesia, Genus Kiggelaria, Kiggelaria, Genus Xylosma
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Flacourtiaceae
Literary usage of Family Flacourtiaceae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1901)
"family Flacourtiaceae. Flacourtia Family. Contains 70 genera and about 300 species,
tropical shrubs or trees of wide distribution. ..."
2. Contributions to the Paleobotany of Peru, Bolivia and Chile: Five Papers by Edward Wilber Berry (1922)
"The family Flacourtiaceae is a rather large one in the modern flora with over
500 species in 70 or more genera, largely wanting in the known geological ..."
3. The Indigenous Trees of the Hawaiian Islands by Joseph Francis Charles Rock (1913)
"The family Flacourtiaceae is represented by two species in these islands, both
of the lower forest zone, though one, ..."
4. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1921)
"... ß-valved, about as long as the sepals. Hillside, serpentine palm barren, Santa
Clara (Britton & Wilson 6140). Family FLACOURTIACEAE Myroxylon ( ? ..."
5. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium by United States. National Herbarium, United States National Museum (1905)
"family Flacourtiaceae; a shrub 3 to 4 meters high; in mountains and waste places,
preferring cool shades. (Stahl, 4: 34. ..."
6. Economic plants of Porto Rico by Orator Fuller Cook, Guy N. Collins (1903)
"family Flacourtiaceae; a shrub 3 to 4 meters high; in mountains and waste places,
preferring cool shades. (Stahl, 4: 34. ..."
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