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Definition of Genus Psychotria
1. Noun. Tropical chiefly South American shrubs and trees.
Generic synonyms: Asterid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Rubiaceae, Madder Family, Rubiaceae
Member holonyms: Lemon-wood, Lemon-wood Tree, Lemonwood, Lemonwood Tree, Psychotria Capensis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Psychotria
Literary usage of Genus Psychotria
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Observations of a Naturalist in the Pacific Between 1896 and 1899 by Henry Brougham Guppy (1906)
"The arrangement of the species shows fairly conclusively that the genus Psychotria,
as it is found in the Pacific, has, like most of the other plants of ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1914)
"The genus Psychotria Linne comprises about 350 existing species of shrubs and
small trees in tropical America. Asia and the East Indies, two thirds U US ..."
3. Contributions to the Paleobotany of Peru, Bolivia and Chile: Five Papers by Edward Wilber Berry (1922)
"The genus Psychotria is a large one with several hundred existing species in the
tropics of America, Africa, Asia and the East Indies, thus indicating a ..."
4. The Indigenous Trees of the Hawaiian Islands by Joseph Francis Charles Rock (1913)
"The genus Psychotria consists of about 350 species or more. It is distributed
over tropical Africa, the Malayan archipelago, East India, Brazil; ..."
5. The Journal of Botany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1853)
"In the Antilles the genus Psychotria greatly predominates in regard to the number
of species (about 50). The same is the case with Exo- stemma, ..."
6. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany by William Jackson Hooker (1849)
"In the Antilles the genus Psychotria greatly predominates in regard to the number
of species (about 50). The same is the case with Exo- stemma, ..."
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