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Definition of Hypericales
1. Noun. A large order of dicotyledonous plants of subclass Dilleniidae.
Generic synonyms: Plant Order
Member holonyms: Family Loasaceae, Loasa Family, Loasaceae, Begonia Family, Begoniaceae, Family Begoniaceae, Dilleniaceae, Family Dilleniaceae, Clusiaceae, Family Clusiaceae, Family Guttiferae, Guttiferae, St John's Wort Family, Family Hypericaceae, Hypericaceae, Actinidiaceae, Family Actinidiaceae, Canella Family, Canellaceae, Family Canellaceae, Caricaceae, Family Caricaceae, Papaya Family, Caryocaraceae, Family Caryocaraceae, Cistaceae, Family Cistaceae, Rockrose Family, Dipterocarpaceae, Family Dipterocarpaceae, Family Flacourtiaceae, Flacourtia Family, Flacourtiaceae, Family Fouquieriaceae, Fouquieriaceae, Family Ochnaceae, Ochna Family, Ochnaceae, Family Passifloraceae, Passifloraceae, Passionflower Family, Family Resedaceae, Mignonette Family, Resedaceae, Family Tamaricaceae, Tamaricaceae, Tamarisk Family, Family Violaceae, Violaceae, Violet Family, Family Theaceae, Tea Family, Theaceae
Group relationships: Dilleniidae, Subclass Dilleniidae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypericales
Literary usage of Hypericales
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"hypericales (Parietales). Sepals distinct, mostly persistent. Endosperm little
or none. Trees or shrubs with alternate leaves, and large solitary axillary ..."
2. Flora of Miami: Being Descriptions of the Seed-plants Growing Naturally on by John Kunkel Small (1913)
"Turneraceae In Order hypericales. Anther with the conspicuous connective produced
beyond the sacs. ..."
3. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1838)
"hypericales.—Leaves simple ; stipules 0. Flowers regular. Sepals 2-7, in a broken
series, imbricated. Corolla hypogynous, of 4-10 divisions. ..."
4. What comes from what, or, The relationships of animals and plants by Charles L. Abbott (1922)
"hypericales, etc. From the Tea family have been developed, directly or indirectly,
the wax-flowers, St. John's-wort, the rock rose, and the Indian plum. ..."
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