Definition of Salviniaceae

1. Noun. Water ferns.

Exact synonyms: Family Salviniaceae
Member holonyms: Genus Salvinia, Salvinia, Azolla, Genus Azolla
Generic synonyms: Fern Family
Group relationships: Class Filicinae, Class Filicopsida, Filicinae, Filicopsida

Lexicographical Neighbors of Salviniaceae

Salvia divinorum
Salvia farinacea
Salvia lancifolia
Salvia leucophylla
Salvia lyrata
Salvia officinalis
Salvia pratensis
Salvia reflexa
Salvia sclarea
Salvia spathacea
Salvia verbenaca
Salvidor Dali
Salvinia
Salvinia auriculata
Salvinia rotundifolia
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Literary usage of Salviniaceae

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 (1913)
"salviniaceae Reichenb. Consp. 30. 1828. SALVINIA FAMILY. Small floating plants with a more or less elongated and sometimes branching axis bearing apparently ..."

2. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1910)
"In contrasting the structures called sporocarps in salviniaceae and Marsileaceae, it is evident that they are very different. In salviniaceae FIGS. 412-414. ..."

3. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun, F. W. Oliver (1895)
"The sporocarps in both these plants do not—as in the salviniaceae—consist of mere sori with an investment; but each is a leaf-segment in which a number of ..."

4. The Structure and Development of Mosses and Ferns (Archegoniatae). by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1905)
"folded (salviniaceae) ; sporangia without an annulus and borne in special "sporocarps," which are either modified branches of ordinary leaves ..."

5. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"salviniaceae Reichenb. Consp. 30. 1828. SALVINIA FAMILY. Small floating plants with a more or less elongated and sometimes branching axis bearing apparently ..."

6. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1910)
"In contrasting the structures called sporocarps in salviniaceae and Marsileaceae, it is evident that they are very different. In salviniaceae FIGS. 412-414. ..."

7. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun, F. W. Oliver (1895)
"The sporocarps in both these plants do not—as in the salviniaceae—consist of mere sori with an investment; but each is a leaf-segment in which a number of ..."

8. The Structure and Development of Mosses and Ferns (Archegoniatae). by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1905)
"folded (salviniaceae) ; sporangia without an annulus and borne in special "sporocarps," which are either modified branches of ordinary leaves ..."

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