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Definition of Family 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 Family Melastomaceae
Literary usage of Family Melastomaceae
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)
"... stamens indefinite ; pistil 2- to many-celled, inferior ; ovules 2 to many ;
placenta; basal or axile. (Sp. 2100 ) family Melastomaceae ..."
2. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1843)
"... the same method in his Monograph of the family Melastomaceae ; but he has
not "thought proper to follow it in later works, either from the difficulty of ..."
3. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.), Wild Flower Preservation Society of America (1902)
"family Melastomaceae. Melastoma Family. This is also an Fig 174. The Yellow
Deer-grass (Rhexia lulea. ..."
4. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1843)
"... the same method in his Monograph of the family Melastomaceae ; but he has not
thought proper to follow it in later works, either from the difficulty of ..."
5. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1921)
"... with leaves rounded at base, from Rio Guao, Pinar del Rio (Britton & Cowell
10102'), may represent this species or a related one. Family MELASTOMACEAE ..."
6. Forestry Quarterly by New York State College of Forestry (1906)
"The family Melastomaceae, represented by numerous shrubs and trees, was found
here, but nowhere in the lowland, except in one canyon. ..."
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