Meanings
plural magnolioids
- biologyA member of the botanical family Magnoliaceae for which the genus Magnolia is representative
Each follicle is provided with major vascular bundles, two ventral and one dorsal as in conduplicate carpels of other magnolioids.
1993, Wilson Nichols Stewart, Paleobotany and the Evolution of Plants, page 4681 more example
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, […]
1970, Australian Journal of Botany, page 411
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