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Definition of Primulales
1. Noun. Primulaceae; Theophrastaceae; Myrsinaceae; and (in some classifications) Plumbaginaceae.
Generic synonyms: Plant Order
Group relationships: Class Dicotyledonae, Class Dicotyledones, Class Magnoliopsida, Dicotyledonae, Dicotyledones, Magnoliopsida
Member holonyms: Family Primulaceae, Primrose Family, Primulaceae, Family Myrsinaceae, Myrsinaceae, Myrsine Family, Order Plumbaginales, Plumbaginales, Family Plumbaginaceae, Leadwort Family, Plumbaginaceae, Sea-lavender Family, Family Theophrastaceae, Theophrastaceae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Primulales
Literary usage of Primulales
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Morphology of Angiosperms: (Morphology of Spermatophytes. Part II) by John Merle Coulter, Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1903)
"This latter feature is suggestive of the primulales, but the multilocular ovary
with usually large solitary ovules is suggestive neither of primulales nor ..."
2. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"There are about 3500 species in this order, which is divided quite naturally into
three suborders (including 15 to 20 families), as follows: primulales ..."
3. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.), Wild Flower Preservation Society of America (1902)
"... instead of being alternate with them. In both families the calyx is free from
the ovary. THE primulales consist of two families, Primulaceae and Plumba- ..."
4. Contributions to the Paleobotany of Peru, Bolivia and Chile: Five Papers by Edward Wilber Berry (1922)
"... are scantily represented, although both are important in the existing flora
of the American tropics. The order primulales, or ..."
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