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Definition of Genus Helianthemum

1. Noun. Widely distributed evergreen or semi-evergreen shrublets; America; Europe and North Africa to Asia Minor and central Asia.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Helianthemum

Literary usage of Genus Helianthemum

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

1. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1907)
"The genus Helianthemum contained, according to Dunal sections; several of these sections have since been raised to generic rank kept for the divisions ..."

2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1902)
"... reddish flowers are more common when the stems are red than when they are green. In the Cistaceae, or rock-rose family, the genus Helianthemum ..."

3. On Buds and Stipules by John Lubbock (1899)
"... and might be asked with reference to several other groups besides the genus Helianthemum. The results of my observations have been embodied in several ..."

4. Odorographia: A Natural History of Raw Materials and Drugs Used in the by John Charles Sawer (1894)
"There are about 150 species of the genus Helianthemum- C. ladaniferus (Lin., Spec. 737, Bot. Mag., t. 112. The writer in Curtis' Botanical Magazine justly ..."

5. The Horticultural Register by Sir Joseph Paxton, Joseph Harrison (1834)
"CULTURE OF THE genus Helianthemum. THE hardy shrubby kinds of this genus arc amongst the most beautiful little shrubs for ornamenting rock-work. ..."

6. Annals of Botany by Carl Dietrich Eberhard König, John Sims (1806)
"To judge from dried specimens, it appears to come very close to C. cheiranthoides Lam. la retaining the genus Helianthemum of Tournefort, ..."

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