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Definition of Order Plantaginales
1. Noun. Coextensive with the family Plantaginaceae.
Generic synonyms: Plant Order
Group relationships: Class Dicotyledonae, Class Dicotyledones, Class Magnoliopsida, Dicotyledonae, Dicotyledones, Magnoliopsida
Member holonyms: Family Plantaginaceae, Plantaginaceae, Plantain Family
Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Plantaginales
Literary usage of Order Plantaginales
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Flora of Miami: Being Descriptions of the Seed-plants Growing Naturally on by John Kunkel Small (1913)
"... Order PLANTAGINALES. Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves wholly or mainly basal,
or crowded on a simple or branched caudex : blades typically ..."
2. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"1229 order Plantaginales with one family (Plantaginaceae) includes the
plantains (Plantago). 1230. ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1903)
"The order Plantaginales includes but a single family, the Plantaginaceae, or
plantain family. The inflorescence is in spikes with small 4-merous flowers, ..."
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