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Definition of Comandra

1. Noun. Small genus of chiefly North American parasitic plants.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Comandra

Literary usage of Comandra

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Biographical History of Lancaster County: Being a History of Early by Alexander Harris (1872)
"It was during one of his botanical rambles he made the discovery of the parasitism of a certain plant known as the comandra ..."

2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"L. south to Georgia, Kansas and Arkansas. April-July. 2. comandra ... comandra pallida A. DC. Prodr. 14: 636. 1857. Similar to the preceding species but ..."

3. New Manual of Botany of the Central Rocky Mountains (vascular Plants) by John Merle Coulter, Aven Nelson (1909)
"comandra pallida A. DC. Prodr. 14: 636. 1857. Stems 1-2 dm. high, arising at somewhat regular intervals from the horizontal rootstock, usually simple: ..."

4. Manual of Tree Diseases by William Howard Rankin (1918)
"On that host urediniospores are formed which infect other comandra plants. ... Both the pines and species of comandra must be present in the same locality ..."

5. Mountain Wild Flowers of America: A Simple and Popular Guide to the Names by Julia W. Henshaw (1906)
"The comandra is parasitic on the roots of other plants. It has pretty little whitish-green ... C. livida, or Swamp comandra, differs from the foregoing ..."

6. Mountain Wild Flowers of Canada: A Simple and Popular Guide to the Names and by Julia Wilmotte Henshaw (1906)
"The comandra is parasitic on the roots of other plants. ... C. livida, or Swamp comandra, differs from the foregoing species in that it has wider leaves, ..."

7. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1905)
"This northern plant has only a superficial resemblance to the western whitish-green much firmer-leaved comandra pallida ; but it is the plant which has been ..."

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