Definition of Genus Helipterum

1. Noun. Genus of South African and Australian herbs or shrubs grown as everlastings; the various Helipterum species are currently in process of being assigned to other genera especially genera Pteropogon and Hyalosperma.

Exact synonyms: Helipterum
Generic synonyms: Asterid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Aster Family, Asteraceae, Compositae, Family Asteraceae, Family Compositae
Member holonyms: Strawflower

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Helipterum

genus Hazardia
genus Hedeoma
genus Hedera
genus Hedysarum
genus Helenium
genus Heleodytes
genus Heliamphora
genus Helianthemum
genus Helianthus
genus Helichrysum
genus Helicteres
genus Heliobacter
genus Heliophila
genus Heliopsis
genus Heliothis
genus Helipterum (current term)
genus Helix
genus Helleborus
genus Helminthostachys
genus Heloderma
genus Helotium
genus Helvella
genus Helwingia
genus Helxine
genus Hemachatus
genus Hemerocallis
genus Hemigalus
genus Hemigrammus
genus Hemipteronatus
genus Hemitripterus

Literary usage of Genus Helipterum

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

1. Sessional Papers by Ontario Legislative Assembly (1913)
"... are often placed under the genus Helipterum, These both for bedding and for ... second of these everlastings which belongs to the genus Helipterum, or, ..."

2. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"genus Helipterum HELIPTERUM (Greek, helios, the sun, and pteron, a wing). A genus comprising about forty species of herbs, rarely small shrubs, ..."

3. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"... and so commonly cultivated in greenhouses, are natives of the Cape, not of Madagascar, and are generally placed in the genus Helipterum. ..."

4. Icones Plantarum, Or, Figures, with Brief Descriptive Characters and Remarks ...by William Jackson Hooker by William Jackson Hooker (1841)
"... occasionally tinged with brown or purple. The genus Helipterum of De Candolle only differs from Helichrysum, in the plumose, not scabrous pappus. ..."

5. Luther Burbank: His Methods and Discoveries and Their Practical Application by Luther Burbank, John Whitson, Robert John, Henry Smith Williams, Luther Burbank Society (1915)
"... perimented most extensively belong to the genus Helipterum, and are known to the horticulturist as ..."

6. Luther Burbank: His Methods and Discoveries and Their Practical Application by Luther Burbank, John Whitson, Robert John, Henry Smith Williams, Luther Burbank Society (1915)
"... perimented most extensively belong to the genus Helipterum, and are known to the horticulturist as ..."

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