Onagraceae

Thesaurus

Noun

Onagraceae - a large and widely distributed family of plants of the order Myrtalesevening-primrose family, family Onagraceaerosid dicot family - a family of dicotyledonous plantsMyrtales, order Myrtales, order Thymelaeales, Thymelaeales - Myrtaceae; Combretaceae; Elaeagnaceae; Haloragidaceae; Melastomaceae; Lecythidaceae; Lythraceae; Rhizophoraceae; Onagraceae; Lecythidaceae; PunicaceaeCircaea, genus Circaea - enchanter's nightshadeEpilobium, genus Epilobium - large widely distributed genus of herbs and subshrubs of especially western North America and Arctic areasgenus Fuchsia - large genus of decorative tropical shrubs with pendulous tetramerous flowersgenus Oenothera, Oenothera - chiefly North American herbs with usually nocturnal flowersevening primrose - any of several plants of the family Onagraceae

Onagraceae

[‚än·ə′grās·ē‚ē] (botany) A family of dicotyledonous plants in the order Myrtales characterized generally by an inferior ovary, axile placentation, twice as many stamens as petals, a four-nucleate embryo sac, and many ovules.

Onagraceae

a family of dicotyledonous plants. They are herbs, sometimes semishrubs and shrubs, and occasionally small trees. The flowers are solitary or in inflorescences (spicate, racemose, or panicled) with leaves, for the most part regular and perfect, usually tetramerous, and with the calyx tubes joined to the ovary. The fruit is a capsule or is nutlike; occasionally it is berry-like. There are about 20 genera, embracing more than 650 species, which are found predominantly in temperate and subtropical regions. In the USSR there are six genera (for example, Epilobium, Oenothera, Fuchsia, and Clarkia) including about 70 species; some of them are raised as ornamentals. Jussieua repens, which has three types of roots—feeding, floating, and respiratory—grows in stagnant water and swamps in tropical America.

REFERENCE

Takhtadzhian, A. L. Sistema i filogeniia tsvetkovykh rastenii. Moscow-Leningrad, 1966.

Onagraceae

Related to Onagraceae: Polemoniaceae

noun

Synonyms for Onagraceae

noun a large and widely distributed family of plants of the order Myrtales

Synonyms

evening-primrose family
family Onagraceae

Related Words

rosid dicot family
Myrtales
order Myrtales
order Thymelaeales
Thymelaeales
Circaea
genus Circaea
Epilobium
genus Epilobium
genus Fuchsia
genus Oenothera
Oenothera
evening primrose