Definition of Genus calliandra

1. Noun. Genus of pinnate-leaved shrubs and small trees of tropical and subtropical North and South America and India and West Africa.

Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Mimosoideae, Subfamily Mimosoideae
Member holonyms: Calliandra

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Calliandra

genus Caiman
genus Cairina
genus Cajanus
genus Cakile
genus Caladenia
genus Caladium
genus Calamagrostis
genus Calamintha
genus Calamus
genus Calandrinia
genus Calanthe
genus Calceolaria
genus Calendula
genus Calidris
genus Calla
genus Calliandra
genus Callicebus
genus Callimorpha
genus Callinectes
genus Calliophis
genus Calliphora
genus Callirhoe
genus Callisaurus
genus Callistephus
genus Callithrix
genus Callitriche
genus Callitris
genus Callophis
genus Callorhinus
genus Calluna

Literary usage of Genus calliandra

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

1. The Geology of the Corocoro Copper District of Bolivia by Joseph Theophilus Singewald, Edward Wilber Berry (1922)
"genus calliandra BENTHAM Calliandra obliqua ENGELHARDT PLATE IV. Calliandra obliqua Engelhardt, Sitz. Naturw. Gesell. Isis in Dresden, 1894, Abh. i, p. ..."

2. The Journal of Botany by William Jackson Hooker (1840)
"... more or less monadelphous at the base, amongst which A. tetragona and probably some others enter into my genus Calliandra, defined below, ..."

3. The London Journal of Botany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1846)
"Beskr. Fl. Guin. p. 322, belongs evidently to this genus. CALLIANDRA, Lond. Journ v. 3, p. 93 to 112. ..."

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