Definition of Genus sarcostemma

1. Noun. Succulent subshrubs or vines; tropical and subtropical India and Africa and Malaysia.

Exact synonyms: Sarcostemma
Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Asclepiadaceae, Family Asclepiadaceae, Milkweed Family
Member holonyms: Haoma, Sarcostemma Acidum, Soma

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Sarcostemma

genus Santalum
genus Santolina
genus Sanvitalia
genus Sapindus
genus Saponaria
genus Saprolegnia
genus Sarcobatus
genus Sarcocephalus
genus Sarcochilus
genus Sarcocystis
genus Sarcodes
genus Sarcophaga
genus Sarcophilus
genus Sarcoptes
genus Sarcorhamphus
genus Sarcostemma
genus Sarda
genus Sardina
genus Sardinia
genus Sardinops
genus Sarracenia
genus Satureia
genus Satureja
genus Saturnia
genus Sauromalus
genus Saurosuchus
genus Saururus
genus Saussurea

Literary usage of Genus sarcostemma

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

1. Lectures on the Results of the Great Exhibition of 1851: Delivered Before by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1852)
"... but now a genus, Sarcostemma, has been formed, containing three or four species, which are all similar in habit. It is curious that these plants are not ..."

2. Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency by Bombay (India : Presidency), James MacNabb Campbell, Bombay (India : State), India, Reginald Edward Enthoven (1886)
"given in Ayur-Veda as translated by F. Max-Mtiller points to a plant of the genus Sarcostemma. We have in India, besides the above-mentioned plant, ..."

3. Zeitschrift der Deutschen morgenländischen Gesellschaft by Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft (1881)
"Die Pflanze wurde übrigens von späteren D ein anderes Genus, Sarcostemma, gestellt und heisst bei Wight ind Arnott, Contributions to the Botany of India, ..."

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