Meanings
adjectivenitschkiaceous (not comparable)
- not comparablerarebiologyOf or relating to the Nitschkiaceae.
Three species with accepted Nitschkia names, together with Fracchiaea broomeiana and Acanthonitschkea argentinensis, comprise the paraphyletic nitschkiaceous complex.
2004 December, SM Huhndorf, “Molecular systematics of the Coronophorales and new species of Bertia, Lasiobertia and Nitschkia”, in Mycological Research, volume 108, number 12, page 1384
Origin
From translingual Nitschkiaceae + -ous.
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