magnolioid
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English[edit]
Noun[edit]
magnolioid (plural magnolioids)
- (botany) A member of the botanical family Magnoliaceae for which the genus Magnolia is representative
- 1970, Australian Journal of Botany, page 411:
- If treated as a magnolioid it seems to be the only genus with cruciferous stomata, the anthers are neither adnate nor extrorse, the ovary syncarpous, unilocular, and with a long style, the ovules are orthotropous with cellular endosperm, […]
- 1993, Wilson Nichols Stewart, Paleobotany and the Evolution of Plants, page 468:
- Each follicle is provided with major vascular bundles, two ventral and one dorsal as in conduplicate carpels of other magnolioids.