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Definition of Mentzelia
1. Noun. Genus of bristly herbs or subshrubs of western America lacking stinging hairs.
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Loasaceae, Loasa Family, Loasaceae
Member holonyms: Blazing Star, Mentzelia Laevicaulis, Mentzelia Livicaulis, Bartonia, Mentzelia Lindleyi
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mentzelia
Literary usage of Mentzelia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Synopsis of the Flora of Colorado by Thomas Conrad Porter, John Merle Coulter (1874)
"Mentzelia MULTIFLORA, Nutt. Pl. Gamb. in Jour. Proc. Acad. Phil. Feb. 184. ...
Mentzelia OLIGOSPERMA, Nutt. — Wet Mountain Valley, Brandegee. ..."
2. Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey: Made Under the by United States Department of the Interior, William Hemsley Emory, Spencer Fullerton Baird, Charles Frederic Girard, Timothy Abbott Conrad, George Engelmann, James Hall, Charles Christopher Parry, Arthur Carl Victor Schott, John Torrey (1858)
"Mentzelia MULTIFLORA, Nutt. PI. Gamb. p. 180; Gray, PL Wright. 1, p. 74. ...
Mentzelia OLIGOSPERMA, Nutt. in Bot. Mag. t. 1760; Torr. & Gray, Fl . 1, p. ..."
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