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Definition of Passifloraceae
1. Noun. Tropical woody tendril-climbing vines.
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Family
Group relationships: Hypericales, Order Hypericales, Order Parietales, Parietales
Member holonyms: Genus Passiflora, Passiflora
Lexicographical Neighbors of Passifloraceae
| Pastafarian Pastafarianism Pastafarians Pasternak |
Literary usage of Passifloraceae
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)
"In dry soil. Kansas to Texas, Mexico, Colorado and New Mexico. April-July.
; Family 91. passifloraceae Dumort. Anal. Fam. 37. 1829. PASSION-FI. ..."
2. Plant Life of Alabama: An Account of the Distribution, Modes of Association by Charles Theodore Mohr (1901)
"... passifloraceae. Passion Flower Family. PASSIFLORA L. Sp. PI. 2:959. 1753.
About 130 species, chiefly of tropical America from West Indies to Brazil. ..."
3. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun, F. W. Oliver (1895)
"In the Loasaceae and passifloraceae the floral-leaves are in two whorls, ...
In the passifloraceae a many-membered corona is inserted between the androecium ..."
4. Morphology of Angiosperms: (Morphology of Spermatophytes. Part II) by John Merle Coulter, Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1903)
"... Guttiferae with 760 species, Flacourtiaceae with 525, Begoniaceae with 405,
Violaceae with 400, Dipterocarpaceae with 320, and passifloraceae with 315. ..."
5. Systematic Anatomy of the Dicotyledons: A Handbook for Laboratories of Pure by Hans Solereder (1908)
"... Turneraceae (scattered groups of tannin-cells in the leaf, idioblasts in the
cortex), passifloraceae ..."
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