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Definition of Gesneria family
1. Noun. Large family of tropical herbs or shrubs or lianas; in some classification systems placed in the order Scrophulariales.
Generic synonyms: Asterid Dicot Family
Group relationships: Order Polemoniales, Polemoniales
Member holonyms: Gesneriad, Genus Gesneria, Genus Achimenes, Genus Aeschynanthus, Alsobia, Genus Alsobia, Genus Columnea, Genus Episcia, Genus Gloxinia, Gloxinia, Genus Kohleria, Genus Saintpaulia, Saintpaulia, Genus Sinningia, Sinningia, Genus Streptocarpus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gesneria Family
Literary usage of Gesneria family
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Propagation of Plants: Giving the Principles which Govern the by Andrew Samuel Fuller (1887)
"... (gesneria family).—A large family of tropical herbs and shrubs, rarely trees;
often growing from scaly tubers. ..."
2. Floricultural Cabinet and Florists' Magazine. (1857)
"Its treatment resembles that of the gesneria family, requiring a light, but rather
rich soil. I have found it flourish well in chopped turfy loam, ..."
3. Transactions by Massachusetts Horticultural Society (1896)
"... which belongs to the gesneria family. Seed sown in February flowers in July,
and it may become a very desirable house plant. ..."
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