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Definition of Family Styracaceae
1. Noun. A widely distributed family of shrubs and trees of order Ebenales.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Family, Magnoliopsid Family
Group relationships: Ebenales, Order Ebenales
Member holonyms: Genus Styrax, Genus Halesia, Halesia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Styracaceae
Literary usage of Family Styracaceae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"Of the four families, the ebony family (Ebenaceae) contains the well-known
persimmon (Diospyros virginiana) and the storax family (Styracaceae) with the ..."
2. Plant Materials of Decorative Gardening: The Woody Plants by William Trelease (1917)
"Leaves half-evergreen, firm, entire. S. tinctoria. Family STYRACACEAE. Storax Family.
A small and unimportant family except for the following decorative ..."
3. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.), Wild Flower Preservation Society of America (1902)
"family Styracaceae. Storax Family. These also are shrubs or trees with regular,
mostly perfect flowers, the calyx-tube partly adnate to the ovary and ..."
4. Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs: A Concise Description of the by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews (1915)
"... STORAX FAMILY. Styracaceae April. Fruit a nutlike, elliptical drupe J inch
long, with one seed. Rich woods and thickets from ..."
5. Contributions to the Paleobotany of Peru, Bolivia and Chile: Five Papers by Edward Wilber Berry (1922)
"... has two species of Styrax of the family Styracaceae in the Chilean flora, and
no traces have been discovered of the families Sapotaceae or Ebenaceae—the ..."
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