Definition of Genus Centranthus

1. Noun. Genus of southern European herbs and subshrubs.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Centranthus

genus Cattleya
genus Caulophyllum
genus Cavia
genus Cebuella
genus Cebus
genus Cecropia
genus Cedrela
genus Cedrus
genus Ceiba
genus Celastrus
genus Celosia
genus Celtis
genus Cenchrus
genus Centaurea
genus Centaurium
genus Centranthus (current term)
genus Centrocercus
genus Centrolobium
genus Centropomus
genus Centropristis
genus Centropus
genus Centrosema
genus Centunculus
genus Cephalanthera
genus Cephalopterus
genus Cephalotaxus
genus Cephalotus
genus Cepphus
genus Cerapteryx
genus Cerastes

Literary usage of Genus Centranthus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"283s); the genera Marina and Fedia have two stamens in each flower, whilst the genus Centranthus (Red Valerian) has only one (see p. 240, fig. 2632). ..."

2. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1843)
"This plant with four other species from the genus Valeriana have been made by De Candolle to form the genus Centranthus. The leaves have a glaucous aspect, ..."

3. Familiar Wild Flowers by Frederick Edward Hulme (1878)
"... and Linnaeus himself included it in that genus, it has since, for reasons into which we need not here go, been placed in the genus Centranthus, ..."

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