Definition of Genus Cortaderia

1. Noun. Tall ornamental grasses of South America and New Zealand and New Guinea: pampas grass.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Cortaderia

genus Coragyps
genus Corallorhiza
genus Corchorus
genus Cordaites
genus Cordia
genus Cordyline
genus Cordylus
genus Coregonus
genus Coreopsis
genus Coriandrum
genus Corixa
genus Cornus
genus Corokia
genus Coronilla
genus Corozo
genus Cortaderia (current term)
genus Corticium
genus Cortinarius
genus Corvus
genus Coryanthes
genus Corydalis
genus Corydalus
genus Corylopsis
genus Corylus
genus Corynebacterium
genus Corypha
genus Coryphantha
genus Corythosaurus
genus Coscoroba
genus Cosmocampus

Literary usage of Genus Cortaderia

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

1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"... and is now considered to be ihe only species in that genus, the Pampas Grass having been removed in 1897 to the new genus Cortaderia. ..."

2. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"Stapf, in a monograph of this genus, published in the Gardener's Chronicle for 1897, separates the genus, placing the pampas grass in the genus Cortaderia, ..."

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