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Definition of Genus Alstonia
1. Noun. Genus of evergreen trees or shrubs with white funnel-shaped flowers and milky sap; tropical Africa to southeastern Asia and Polynesia.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Apocynaceae, Dogbane Family, Family Apocynaceae
Member holonyms: Alstonia Scholaris, Devil Tree, Dita, Dita Bark
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Alstonia
Literary usage of Genus Alstonia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1867)
"NOTES ON TWO SPECIES OF THE genus Alstonia, FROM NEW CALEDONIA AND NEW SOUTH WALES.
Br GEORGE BENNETT, MD, FLS, ETC. R The Natural Order of plants, ..."
2. Scientific Memoirs: Selected from the Transactions of Foreign Academies of by Arthur Henfrey, Thomas Henry Huxley (1853)
"The genus Alstonia, R. Br., includes several species with left-wound segments of
the flowers, and one other species in which the segments wind to the right ..."
3. King's American Dispensatory by John King, Harvey Wickes Felter, John Uri Lloyd (1905)
"The genus Alstonia comprises about twelve species, seven of them being given in
Bentham's Flora of Australia. They are milk bearing shrubs or trees, ..."
4. Pamphlets on Forestry in the Philippine Islands (1916)
"Genus ALSTONIA. A genus of about five species, of which all but dita furnish wood
practically identical in general appearance and structure. ..."
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