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Definition of Platystemon
1. Noun. One species: creamcups.
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Papaveraceae, Papaveraceae, Poppy Family
Member holonyms: Creamcups, Platystemon Californicus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Platystemon
Literary usage of Platystemon
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)
"... PHLOX PHASEOLUS Platystemon. PHLOX. The only annual Phlox with which we are
acquainted is Phlox Drummondii, and this, in all its varieties ..."
2. Popular Studies of California Wild Flowers by Bertha Marguerite Rice, Roland Rice (1920)
"Their name, Platystemon californicus, is given them because of the flattened
filaments to the stamens. There is another flower, ..."
3. Synoptical Flora of North America by Asa Gray (1897)
"Platystemon Torreyi, Greene, Fl. Francis. 283. ... Platystemon linearit, MK
Curran, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. ser. 2, i. 242. 3 A dubious specimen from ..."
4. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1901)
"Platystemon. Sepals 2 (in Eschscholtzia the calyx is a single mitre-like piece which
... Annual herbs with the leaves, sepals and petals as in Platystemon, ..."
5. Pittonia by Edward Lee Greene (1905)
"And I believe this judgment to be as good as any; and that Platystemon is indeed
nearly allied to the very type of the Papaveraceae. ..."
6. The Flower Garden, Or, Breck's Book of Flowers: In which are Described All by Joseph Breck (1858)
"... PHLOX PHASEOLUS Platystemon. PHLOX. The only annual Phlox with which we are
acquainted is Phlox Drummondii, and this, in all its varieties ..."
7. Popular Studies of California Wild Flowers by Bertha Marguerite Rice, Roland Rice (1920)
"Their name, Platystemon californicus, is given them because of the flattened
filaments to the stamens. There is another flower, ..."
8. Synoptical Flora of North America by Asa Gray (1897)
"Platystemon Torreyi, Greene, Fl. Francis. 283. ... Platystemon linearit, MK
Curran, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. ser. 2, i. 242. 3 A dubious specimen from ..."
9. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1901)
"Platystemon. Sepals 2 (in Eschscholtzia the calyx is a single mitre-like piece which
... Annual herbs with the leaves, sepals and petals as in Platystemon, ..."
10. Pittonia by Edward Lee Greene (1905)
"And I believe this judgment to be as good as any; and that Platystemon is indeed
nearly allied to the very type of the Papaveraceae. ..."
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