Definition of Genus welwitschia

1. Noun. Type and sole genus of Welwitschiaceae.

Exact synonyms: Genus Welwitchia
Generic synonyms: Gymnosperm Genus
Group relationships: Family Welwitschiaceae, Welwitschiaceae
Member holonyms: Welwitschia, Welwitschia Mirabilis

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Welwitschia

genus Vireo
genus Virgilia
genus Viscum
genus Vitis
genus Vittaria
genus Viverra
genus Viverricula
genus Volvaria
genus Volvariella
genus Volvox
genus Vorticella
genus Vulpes
genus Vultur
genus Weigela
genus Welwitchia
genus Welwitschia
genus Wintera
genus Wisteria
genus Wolffia
genus Wolffiella
genus Woodsia
genus Woodwardia
genus Wyethia
genus Wynnea
genus Xanthium
genus Xanthomonas
genus Xanthorroea
genus Xanthosoma
genus Xenicus
genus Xenopus

Literary usage of Genus welwitschia

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

1. The Anatomy of Woody Plants by Edward Charles Jeffrey (1917)
"The broad short axis of the remarkable genus Welwitschia may now claim our attention. Here the stem never attains a height FIG. 263. ..."

2. Structural Botany: Or Organography on the Basis of Morphology. To which is by Asa Gray (1879)
"... ¡neta- ceous genus Welwitschia are structurally polygamous, the male flowers having a well-formed but sterile ..."

3. Journal of Applied Microscopy by Bausch & Lomb Optical Company (1900)
"been so difficult to procure material, one genus, Welwitschia, being found only in Damara-land, Africa, another genus, Ephedra, being a desert plant, ..."

4. Gray's Botanical Text-book by Asa Gray (1879)
"... either dioecious or monoecious ; except that those of the strange G ncta- ceous genus Welwitschia are structurally polygamous, the male flowers having a ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"In the gymnospermous genus Welwitschia, there are two cotyledons which lost throughout its life (moro than a century), and in the course of time they, ..."

6. A Contribution to Our Knowledge of Seedlings by John Lubbock (1896)
"There are many cases in which the cotyledons grow considerably after quitting the seed. In the wonderful genus Welwitschia it was at one time supposed that ..."

7. The Forest Flora of North-west and Central India: A Handbook of the by John Lindsay Stewart, Dietrich Brandis (1874)
"... enclosed in a 2-fid sheathing perianth ; filaments connate into a fleshy column ; anthers 1- or 2-celled (3-celled in the abnormal genus Welwitschia). ..."

8. First book of Indian botany by Daniel Oliver (1869)
"... is the genus Welwitschia, a most extraordinary and very anomalous dwarf tree of South Africa, attaining a great age, with a table-like trunk seldom ..."

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