Definition of Callitriche

1. Noun. Water starworts.

Exact synonyms: Genus Callitriche
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Callitrichaceae, Family Callitrichaceae
Member holonyms: Water Starwort

Lexicographical Neighbors of Callitriche

Callirhoe digitata
Callirhoe involucrata
Callirhoe triangulata
Callirrhoë
Callisaurus
Callisaurus draconoides
Callison's fluid
Callistan
Callistephus
Callistephus chinensis
Callisto
Callistoan
Callistonian
Callithricidae
Callitrichaceae
Callitriche (current term)
Callitris
Callitris calcarata
Callitris cupressiformis
Callitris endlicheri
Callitris glauca
Callitris glaucophylla
Callitris parlatorei
Callitris quadrivalvis
Callitroga
Callophis
Callorhinus
Callorhinus ursinus
Callum
Calluna

Literary usage of Callitriche

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, Addison Brown (1897)
"Callitriche heterophylla Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 3. 1814. Similar to the preceding species, either aquatic or growing in the mud. Fruit smaller, mostly obovate ..."

2. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Eberhard Goebel (1905)
"Callitriche. Callitriche (Fig. 297) has leaves in decussate pairs. ... Callitriche verna. Leaf-rosette plant reaches the surface of the water an arrest ..."

3. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1894)
"Callitriche bifida (L.) Morong. Callitriche palustris var. biß Ja L. Sp. PI. ... Callitriche palustris L. Sp. PI. 969 (1753). Callitriche verna L. FI. Suec. ..."

4. The Flora of British India by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1879)
"Callitriche. Linn. Glabrous slender annual herbs growing in moist places, or their branches floating or submerged. Leaves opposite, linear- or ..."

5. Flora of Worcester County: A Catalogue of the Phaenogamous and Vascular by Joseph Jackson (1894)
"Callitriche, L. heterophylla, Pursh. Mt. Wachusett. WWB &-/. FC PAGE 34. RHODODENDRON, L. viscosum, Torr., var. *glaucum, Gray. Princeton. W. IV. ..."

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