Definitions for burmanniaceae
bur·man·ni·aceae

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1. Burmanniaceae, family Burmanniaceaenoun

   family of chiefly tropical herbs with basal leaves like bracts and small flowers

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1. burmanniaceae

   Burmanniaceae is a family of flowering plants, also known as the Bluethread family. It consists of around 100-150 species spread over 8-9 genera. It has a widespread tropical distribution, with some species found in temperate zones. Most members of this family are herbaceous, mycoheterotrophic related to fungi and lack chlorophyll, deriving nutrients from decaying plant material.

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1. Burmanniaceae

   Burmanniaceae is a botanical name of a family of flowering plants, consisting of about a hundred species of herbaceous plants in roughly a dozen genera. Often they are quite remarkable plants, more often red than green, without much leaf area and not growing very big in any way. The reason for this appearance is that the members of the family are all myco-heterotrophic species. They are mainly distributed in the southern hemisphere and grow in shady and tropical environments. Many of the plants in the family are threatened species. The APG II system, of 2003, places the family in the order Dioscoreales, in the clade monocots. The circumscription of the family in APG II is wider than in the APG system, of 1998, and includes the plants that belonged to the family Thismiaceae in APG. However, the older classification better reflects the evolutionary relationships between the genera. The clades are as follows: Burmanniaceae sensu stricto ⁕Apteria ⁕Burmannia ⁕Campylosiphon ⁕Cymbocarpa ⁕Dictyostega ⁕Gymnosiphon ⁕Hexapterella ⁕Marthella ⁕Mierisella Afrothismia clade ⁕Afrothismia Tribe Thismieae ⁕Haplothismia ⁕Oxygyne ⁕Thismia ⁕Tiputinia According to mollecular analyses the myco-heterotrophic type of life that these species lead evolved six times independently in the three clades that are part of Burmanniaceae. Afrothismia and tribe Thismieae represent two of these shifts to myco-heterotrophy from autotrophy while Burmanniaceae sensu stricto are the clade where the other four took place. The family appears in Late Cretaceous but the further diversification and shifts to the typical habit occurred later in the same period and continued after the K-T boundary in Paleogene.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of burmanniaceae in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of burmanniaceae in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

References

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