Lexic.us

Definition of Genus Andreaea

1. Noun. Brown or blackish Alpine mosses having a dehiscent capsule with 4 longitudinal slits.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Andreaea

Literary usage of Genus Andreaea

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

1. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1911)
"In the first part, the genus Andreaea is treated, including 102 species of which 5 are North American and 28 from South America, all but 13 of these ..."

2. The Nature Library by Doubleday, Page & Co., Firm, Publ (1907)
"The species of the genus Andreaea are found in small, brown or black, fragile tufts on granite or slate rocks in high altitudes. ..."

3. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1906)
"... for pistil is given (after a wholly erroneous definition in reference to spermatophytes) an obsolete sense which is restricted to the genus Andreaea, ..."

4. Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden by New York Botanical Garden (1908)
"The genus Andreaea. EVANS, ALEXANDER WILLIAM. Yale, Ph.B.,'90; MD,'9z; Ph.D., '99. Prof. Botany, Yale, '06-. Taxonomy of Hepaticae. EVANS, HELENA. ..."

5. A Glossary of Botanic Terms, with Their Derivation and Accent by Benjamin Daydon Jackson (1900)
"... a pestle), (1) the female organ of a flower, consisting of ovary, style and stigma, when complete; (2) the archegonium of the genus Andreaea (Hooker and ..."

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