logania family

logania family
the plant family Loganiaceae, typified by herbaceous plants, trees, and shrubs of warm regions having usually opposite leaves, clusters of regular flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry, capsule, or fleshy fruit, and including the butterfly bush, Carolina jessamine, logania, and trees of the genus Strychnos, which are the source of curare, nux vomica, and strychnine.

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  • logania family — the plant family Loganiaceae, typified by herbaceous plants, trees, and shrubs of warm regions having usually opposite leaves, clusters of regular flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry, capsule, or fleshy fruit, and including the butterfly… …   Useful english dictionary

  • Logania — noun type genus of the Loganiaceae; Australian and New Zealand shrubs sometimes cultivated for their flowers • Syn: ↑genus Logania • Hypernyms: ↑dicot genus, ↑magnoliopsid genus • Member Holonyms: ↑Loganiaceae, ↑family Logania …   Useful english dictionary

  • logania — /loh gay nee euh/, n. any of several plants or shrubs of the genus Logania, native chiefly to Australia, having small white or pink flowers. Cf. logania family. [ < NL: genus name, after James Logan (1674 1751), colonial American botanist, born… …   Universalium

  • logania — [lō gā′nē ə, lōgān′yə] adj. [ModL, after J. Logan (1674 1751), Ir botanist + IA] designating a family (Loganiaceae, order Gentianales) of chiefly tropical and subtropical, often poisonous dicotyledonous plants, including buddleia, nux vomica, and …   English World dictionary

  • Logania distanti — Taxobox name = Dark Mottle image width =230px image caption =Museum specimen from Malaya regnum = Animalia phylum = Arthropoda classis = Insecta ordo = Lepidoptera superfamilia = Papilionoidea familia = Lycaenidae genus = Logania species = L.… …   Wikipedia

  • Logania watsoniana — Taxobox name = Watson s Mottle image width = image caption = regnum = Animalia phylum = Arthropoda classis = Insecta ordo = Lepidoptera superfamilia = Papilionoidea familia = Lycaenidae genus = Logania species = L. watsoniana binomial = Logania… …   Wikipedia

  • Logania — Taxobox name = Logania regnum = Plantae divisio = Magnoliophyta classis = Magnoliopsida ordo = Gentianales familia = Loganiaceae genus = Logania subdivision ranks = Species subdivision = Logania is a genus of plants belonging to the family… …   Wikipedia

  • Logania (butterfly) — Taxobox name = Logania regnum = Animalia phylum = Arthropoda classis = Insecta ordo = Lepidoptera familia = Lycaenidae genus = Logania Logania is a genus of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae …   Wikipedia

  • family Loganiaceae — noun a dicotyledonous family of plants of order Gentianales • Syn: ↑Loganiaceae • Hypernyms: ↑dicot family, ↑magnoliopsid family • Member Holonyms: ↑Gentianales, ↑order Gentianales …   Useful english dictionary

  • genus Logania — noun type genus of the Loganiaceae; Australian and New Zealand shrubs sometimes cultivated for their flowers • Syn: ↑Logania • Hypernyms: ↑dicot genus, ↑magnoliopsid genus • Member Holonyms: ↑Loganiaceae, ↑family Loganiaceae …   Useful english dictionary

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