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Definition of Brachycome
1. Noun. Mostly Australian herbs having basal or alternate leaves and loosely corymbose flower heads.
Generic synonyms: Asterid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Aster Family, Asteraceae, Compositae, Family Asteraceae, Family Compositae
Member holonyms: Brachycome Iberidifolia, Swan River Daisy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brachycome
Literary usage of Brachycome
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Flower Garden, Or, Breck's Book of Flowers: In which are Described All by Joseph Breck (1858)
"Brachycome. Brachycome iberidifolia.. — Swan Daisy. — A beautiful hardy annual,
of dwarf habit, six or eight inches high; in bloom from July to September. ..."
2. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1856)
"Brachycome nivalis, F. Muell.; perennial, herbaceous, smooth; leaves all radical,
... HAB. On the highest cliffs of Mount Buller. 107. Brachycome ..."
3. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"Belli*, however, has no pappus, whilst Brachycome has. Another point in which
the genera differ is found in the character of the bracts forming the ..."
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