Definition of Family leitneriaceae

1. Noun. Coextensive with the genus Leitneria; commonly isolated in a distinct order.

Exact synonyms: Corkwood Family, Leitneriaceae
Generic synonyms: Dicot Family, Magnoliopsid Family
Group relationships: Myricales, Order Myricales
Member holonyms: Genus Leitneria, Leitneria

Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Leitneriaceae

family Lamnidae
family Lampridae
family Lampyridae
family Laniidae
family Lanthanotidae
family Lardizabalaceae
family Laricariidae
family Laridae
family Lasiocampidae
family Latimeridae
family Lauraceae
family Lecanoraceae
family Lecythidaceae
family Leguminosae
family Leiopelmatidae
family Leitneriaceae
family Lemnaceae
family Lemuridae
family Lennoaceae
family Lentibulariaceae
family Lepadidae
family Lepidobotryaceae
family Lepidodendraceae
family Lepiotaceae
family Lepismatidae
family Lepisosteidae
family Leporidae
family Leptodactylidae
family Leptotyphlopidae
family Liliaceae

Literary usage of Family leitneriaceae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs: A Concise Description of the by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews (1915)
"CORKWOOD FAMILY. Leitneriaceae. Shrubs or small trees with toothless, alternate-growing leaves, and staminate and pistillate flowers borne on separate ..."

2. The Essentials of Botany by Charles Edwin Bessey (1896)
"family leitneriaceae : Shrubs with alternate leaves and dioecious flowers in catkins ; perianth minute or 0 ; pistil 1-celled, 1-ovuled ; endosperm minute. ..."

3. Plant Materials of Decorative Gardening: The Woody Plants by William Trelease (1917)
"Family LEITNERIACEAE. Corkwood Family. A family consisting of only the following genus with a single species of no decorative value but sometimes grown as a ..."

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