Definition of Order marattiales

1. Noun. Lower ferns coextensive with the family Marattiaceae.

Exact synonyms: Marattiales
Generic synonyms: Plant Order
Group relationships: Class Filicinae, Class Filicopsida, Filicinae, Filicopsida
Member holonyms: Family Marattiaceae, Marattiaceae

Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Marattiales

order Lagomorpha
order Laminariales
order Lechanorales
order Lepidodendrales
order Lepidoptera
order Lichenales
order Liliales
order Lobata
order Loricata
order Lycoperdales
order Lycopodiales
order Lyginopteridales
order Madreporaria
order Mallophaga
order Malvales
order Marattiales
order Marchantiales
order Marsupialia
order Mecoptera
order Moniliales
order Monotremata
order Mucorales
order Musales
order Myaceae
order Mycelia Sterilia
order Mycoplasmatales
order Mycrosporidia
order Myricales
order Myrtales
order Mysidacea

Literary usage of Order marattiales

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

1. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"order marattiales (One Family, Marattiaceae).—These are tropical ferns, with only four or five living genera ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The microspores were borne in sporangia similar in structure and location to those of the order marattiales in the Phylum Pteridophyta. ..."

3. Nature and Development of Plants by Carlton Clarence Curtis (1918)
"... that they are sometimes associated together in groups, known as sori (sing. FIG. 217. Arrangement of the sporangia of an allied order, Marattiales; A, ..."

4. Reports Dealing with the Systematic Geology and Paleontology of Maryland by Maryland Geological Survey (1911)
"For the purposes of the present work they are included with a query in the order Marattiales, using that term in a broad sense so as to include the ..."

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