Lexicographical Neighbors of Calathea
Literary usage of Calathea
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. New and Rare Beautiful-leaved Plants by Shirley Hibberd (1870)
"calathea VEITCHIANA. 1M.ATE XXV. ... and dense flower-head, the bracts imbricated
all round, determine its immediate relationship to the celebrated calathea ..."
2. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry, Division of Plant Industry, Queensland (1907)
"16932. calathea PRINCEPS. 16933. calathea ... 1-6935. calathea ORNATA SANDERI-
16940 to 16944. 16936. calathea ..."
3. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1895)
"In 1828 the plant was redescribed by Lindley from garden specimens (Botanical
Register, t. 1210), under the name of calathea macilenta, and it was figured ..."
4. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1901)
"In calathea, the flower-cluster is terminal on a leafy stem or rarely on a leafless
scape arising ... In calathea the corolla-tube is usually slender; ..."
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