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Definition of Family Loasaceae
1. Noun. Family of bristly hairy sometimes climbing plants; America and Africa and southern Arabia.
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Family
Member holonyms: Genus Loasa, Genus Mentzelia, Mentzelia
Group relationships: Hypericales, Order Hypericales, Order Parietales, Parietales
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Loasaceae
Literary usage of Family Loasaceae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Essentials of Botany by Charles Edwin Bessey (1896)
"family Loasaceae: Herbs with opposite or alternate leaves ; flowers perfect;
sepals and petals dissimilar ; stamens indefinite ; ovary inferior ; endosperm ..."
2. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1901)
"family Loasaceae. Loasa Family. These are herbs, usually rough with glutinous or
sometimes stinging hairs, and having white, yellow, or reddish flowers. ..."
3. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"... a native of South America, belonging to the family Loasaceae. Although the
spherical fruit of this plant has a diameter of 2'5 cm. it only weighs 0'34 ..."
4. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium by United States. National Herbarium, United States National Museum (1905)
"family Loasaceae; a hairy herb with triangular dentate leaves and deep buff flowers.
Our specimens were obtained to the southward of Coamo, not far from the ..."
5. Economic plants of Porto Rico by Orator Fuller Cook, Guy N. Collins (1903)
"family Loasaceae; a hairy herb with triangular dentate leaves and deep buff flowers.
Our specimens were obtained to the southward of Coamo, not far from the ..."
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