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Definition of Genus Brachycome
1. Noun. Mostly Australian herbs having basal or alternate leaves and loosely corymbose flower heads.
Generic synonyms: Asterid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Aster Family, Asteraceae, Compositae, Family Asteraceae, Family Compositae
Member holonyms: Brachycome Iberidifolia, Swan River Daisy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Brachycome
Literary usage of Genus Brachycome
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"... the other to the Australian genus Brachycome, from which the rounded and
striate, instead of flattened, achenes at once distinguish them. ..."
2. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"... a single disk-floret surrounded by the pappus- hairs ; 4, a ray-floret.
SWAN RIVER DAISIES Natural Order COMPOSITE. genus Brachycome BRACHYCOME (Greek, ..."
3. The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and by C M Hovey (1842)
"The genus Brachycome, Dr. Lindley remarks, consists mostly of "little mean looking
flowers, altogether unsuited to gardens;" but that which is now figured ..."
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