Definition of Family Psilotaceae

1. Noun. Small family of lower ferns having nearly naked stems and minute scalelike leaves.

Exact synonyms: Psilotaceae
Generic synonyms: Fern Family
Group relationships: Order Psilotales, Psilotales
Member holonyms: Genus Psilotum, Psilotum

Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Psilotaceae

family Portunidae
family Potamogalidae
family Potamogetonaceae
family Priacanthidae
family Primulaceae
family Pristidae
family Procaviidae
family Procellariidae
family Procyonidae
family Proteaceae
family Proteidae
family Prunellidae
family Pseudococcidae
family Pseudomonodaceae
family Psilophytaceae
family Psilotaceae (current term)
family Psittacidae
family Psocidae
family Psophiidae
family Psychodidae
family Psyllidae
family Pteridaceae
family Pteriidae
family Pteroclididae
family Pterodactylidae
family Ptilonorhynchidae
family Pucciniaceae
family Pulicidae
family Punicaceae
family Pygopodidae

Literary usage of Family Psilotaceae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"... jrj the family Psilotaceae is an ancient feature." Without accepting this position, this much at least is clear, that the present Psilotaceae possess ..."

2. The Structure and Development of Mosses and Ferns (Archegoniatae). by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1905)
"Solms-Laubach (2) says: "The statements respecting fossil remains of the family Psilotaceae are few and uncertain, nor is this surprising in such simple and ..."

3. Fossil Botany: Being an Introduction to Palaeophytology from the Standpoint by Hermann Solms-Laubach, Henry Edward Fowler Garnsey (1891)
"The statements respecting fossil remains of the family Psilotaceae are few and uncertain, nor is this surprising in such simple and slightly differentiated ..."

4. The Evolution of Plants by Dukinfield Henry Scott (1911)
"I do not include the small family Psilotaceae, which seems to have closer affinities with another class (see below, p. 212). The class is divided into two ..."

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