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Definition of Pyxidanthera
1. Noun. One species: pyxie; the eastern United States.
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Diapensia Family, Diapensiaceae, Family Diapensiaceae
Member holonyms: Pixie, Pixy, Pyxidanthera Barbulata, Pyxie
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pyxidanthera
Literary usage of Pyxidanthera
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"Pyxidanthera Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. i : 152. />/. //. 1803. A creeping tufted
much-branched ... A monotypic genus of eastern North America. i. Pyxidanthera ..."
2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"Pyxidanthera Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 152. pi. 17. ... A monotypic genus of eastern
North America. 1. Pyxidanthera ..."
3. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1901)
"As a genus Pyxidanthera has but one species, and its nearest ally is Diapensia,
which differs in having the anthers opening longitudinally; also the fls. ..."
4. A General System of Botany Descriptive and Analytical: In Two Parts by Emmanuel Le Maout, Joseph Decaisne, Joseph Dalton Hooker (1876)
"Diapensia inhabits North Europe and the Himalayas; Pyxidanthera and Galax the
United States ; Shortia the United States and Japan.—ED. ..."
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