family combretaceae meaning

Noun: family Combretaceae

1. A family of tropical trees and shrubs of the order Myrtales
   - Combretaceae, combretum family

Type of: dicot family, magnoliopsid family

Part of: Myrtales, order Myrtales, order Thymelaeales, Thymelaeales

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Examples

1. There also are sclerophyllous trees such as species in the family Combretaceae, for example Terminalia bentzoe
2. ""'Conocarpus " "'is a genus of two species of flowering plants in the family Combretaceae, native to tropical regions of the world.
3. ""'Terminalia " "'is a genus of large trees of the flowering plant family Combretaceae, comprising around 100 species distributed in tropical regions of the world.
4. ""'Conocarpus lancifolius " "', one of two species in the genus " Conocarpus ", is a tree in the family Combretaceae native to coastal and riverine areas of Somalia, Djibouti, and Yemen.
5. Three genera of the tropical woody family Combretaceae, " Laguncularia ", " Conocarpus ", and " Lumnitzera ", are found in mangroves but " Lumnitzera " is the only one to occur in the Indo-West Pacific mangroves, including Australia.