Definition of Burmanniaceae

1. Noun. Family of chiefly tropical herbs with basal leaves like bracts and small flowers.

Exact synonyms: Family Burmanniaceae
Generic synonyms: Liliopsid Family, Monocot Family
Group relationships: Orchidales, Order Orchidales
Member holonyms: Burmannia, Genus Burmannia

Lexicographical Neighbors of Burmanniaceae

Burkina Faso franc
Burkinabe
Burkinese
Burkism
Burkitt's lymphoma
Burlew disk
Burlew wheel
Burlington
Burlington bun
Burlington buns
Burma
Burma padauk
Burmah
Burman
Burmannia
Burmanniaceae (current term)
Burmans
Burmeisteria
Burmeisteria retusa
Burmese
Burmese-Yi
Burmese cat
Burmese rosewood
Burmilla
Burmillas
Burn and Rand theory
Burner
Burnett
Burnett's syndrome
Burnham

Literary usage of Burmanniaceae

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)
"Burmanniaceae Blume, Enum. P!. Jav. i: 27. 1830.* BURMANNIA FAMILY. Low annual herbs, with filiform stems and fibrous roots. Leaves basal or reduced to ..."

2. Plant-geography Upon a Physiological Basis by Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1903)
"Plants without chlorophyll belonging to the Orchidaceae, Burmanniaceae, Triuridaceae, Gentianaceae. Balanophoraceae. Rafflesia. Loranthaceae. i. ..."

3. Australasia by Alfred Russel Wallace, Francis Henry Hill Guillemard (1893)
"... and Burmanniaceae—are recorded from any temperate colony, a single species of each and in one case two species, extending their range from Queensland ..."

4. The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany edited by George Luxford, Edward Newman (1851)
"... and observes that we have no satisfactory evidence of the existence of an embryo, in the ordinary sense of the term, in Burmanniaceae. ..."

5. Botanisches Zentralblatt by Botanischer Verein in München, Deutsche Botanische Gesellschaft, Berlin (1898)
"... Burmanniaceae und Orchidaceae, weichen in mehreren Merkmalen erheblich von ... der Orchideen weicht von den Liliiflorae und den Burmanniaceae durch den ..."

6. Jahrbücher für wissenschaftliche Botanik by N. Pringsheim, W. Pfeffer, E. Strasburger (1889)
"Ders., On a new gonus of plants of the family of Burmanniaceae. Ebenda XX, 1851, p. 373 ff., tab. ..."

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