family Lepidobotryaceae

Definitions of family Lepidobotryaceae
  1. noun
    family created in 1950 solely for the classification of a distinctive African tree repeatedly classified in other families; trees long believed to exist only in Africa
    synonyms: Lepidobotryaceae
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    type of:
    rosid dicot family
    a family of dicotyledonous plants
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