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Definition of Genus Hermannia
1. Noun. Genus of African herbs and subshrubs having honey-scented bell-shaped flowers.
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Sterculiaceae, Sterculia Family, Sterculiaceae
Member holonyms: Hermannia Verticillata, Honey Bell, Honeybells, Mahernia Verticillata
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Hermannia
Literary usage of Genus Hermannia
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)
"herbs or shrubs, with only five stamens, including the large African genus
Hermannia, the tropical genera ..."
2. The Garden: An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Gardening in All Its Branches by Esther Baldwin York (1906)
"... is distinguished from the allied genus Hermannia in the filaments of the
stamens being dilated in the middle.— HP Five good single Dahlias. ..."
3. Natal Plants: Descriptions and Figures of Natal Indigenous Plants, with ...by John Medley Wood, Maurice Smethurst Evans by John Medley Wood, Maurice Smethurst Evans (1902)
"... forming a section of the genus Hermannia. This plant has no known useful
properties, and the natives so far as we can learn have no distinctive name for ..."
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