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Definition of Family Lythraceae
1. Noun. Herbs and shrubs and small trees with pink or purple flowers.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Family, Magnoliopsid Family
Group relationships: Myrtales, Order Myrtales, Order Thymelaeales, Thymelaeales
Member holonyms: Genus Lythrum, Lythrum, Genus Lagerstroemia, Lagerstroemia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Lythraceae
Literary usage of Family Lythraceae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Plant Materials of Decorative Gardening: The Woody Plants by William Trelease (1917)
"Family LYTHRACEAE. Loosestrife Family. A rather small and unimportant family,
mostly of herbs, including the cigar plant and a few other species of Cu[>hca ..."
2. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.), Wild Flower Preservation Society of America (1902)
"family Lythraceae. Loosestrife Family. Contains about 21 genera and 350 species
of very wide distribution. They are herbs, shrubs or even trees, ..."
3. Wild flowers worth notice by Phebe Lankester (1879)
"THIS is a showy plant belonging to the family Lythraceae. It has a perennial
root-stock, with short annual erect stems, two or three feet high, ..."
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