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Definition of Loasa family
1. Noun. Family of bristly hairy sometimes climbing plants; America and Africa and southern Arabia.
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Family
Member holonyms: Genus Loasa, Genus Mentzelia, Mentzelia
Group relationships: Hypericales, Order Hypericales, Order Parietales, Parietales
Lexicographical Neighbors of Loasa Family
Literary usage of Loasa family
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, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"loasa family. hairs, with alternate or opposite exstipulate leaves, and solitary
racemose or Erect or climbing branching herbs, often armed with hooked ..."
2. The Elements of Botany for Beginners and for Schools by Asa Gray (1887)
"... loasa family. Herbs with rough pubescence, and some with stinging bristles,
no stipules ; a 1-celled ovary coherent with the tube of the calyx (which is ..."
3. Field, Forest, and Garden Botany: A Simple Introduction to the Common Plants by Asa Gray (1895)
"... loasa family. Herbs with rough pubescence, and some with stinging bristles,
no stipules; a 1-celled ovary coherent with the tube of the calyx (which is ..."
4. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"loasa family. Fig. 41.. Erect or climbing herbs, rarely shrubby, with very peculiar
and characteristic hairs, some hooked, some stinging: leaves opposite or ..."
5. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1901)
"loasa family. These are herbs, usually rough with glutinous or sometimes stinging
hairs, and having white, yellow, or reddish flowers. ..."
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