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Definition of Family Monotropaceae
1. Noun. Used in some classification for saprophytic herbs sometimes included in the family Pyrolaceae: genera Monotropa and Sarcodes.
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Family
Group relationships: Ericales, Order Ericales
Member holonyms: Genus Monotropa, Monotropa, Genus Hypopitys, Hypopitys, Genus Sarcodes, Sarcodes
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Monotropaceae
Literary usage of Family Monotropaceae
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.), Wild Flower Preservation Society of America (1902)
"family Monotropaceae. Indian-pipe Family. What rambler in the June or July woods
has failed to observe the clusters of Indian-pipe 'just breaking through a ..."
2. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"Examples: The wintergreen family (Pyrolaceae), including the shin-leaf (Pyrola
elliptica). The Indian-pipe family (Monotropaceae), ..."
3. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"The Indian-pipe family (Monotropaceae), with the Indian- pipe (Monotropa uniflora)
and other humus saprophytes. (See paragraphs 182-191. ..."
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