Definition of Parkeriaceae
1. Noun. Coextensive with the genus Ceratopteris; sometimes included in family Polypodiaceae.
Generic synonyms: Fern Family
Group relationships: Filicales, Order Filicales, Order Polypodiales, Polypodiales
Member holonyms: Ceratopteris, Genus Ceratopteris
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Parkeriaceae
Literary usage of Parkeriaceae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"... and are found also upon the stalk and lamina of older leaves. See Kny, Die Entwicklung der parkeriaceae, in Nova acta der kaiserl. Leop. ..."
2. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1917)
"parkeriaceae. Ceratopteris thalictroides. FLOATING FERN. Reported to be used as a potherb in the warmer parts of the earth. ..."