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Definition of Genus Salpiglossis
1. Noun. Small genus of herbs of the southern Andes having large showy flowers.
Group relationships: Family Solanaceae, Potato Family, Solanaceae
Member holonyms: Salpiglossis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Salpiglossis
Literary usage of Genus Salpiglossis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1850)
"There is little in the genus Salpiglossis that calls for observation ; one peculiar
feature however claims attention, the singular form of its pollen-grains ..."
2. The Ladies' Flower-garden of Ornamental Annuals. by Loudon (Jane) (1842)
"The genus Salpiglossis seems to have puzzled botanists where to place it, as well
as in the arrangement of its species. It was first supposed to belong to ..."
3. Illustrations of South American Plants by John Miers (1857)
"There is little in the genus Salpiglossis that calls for observation ; one peculiar
feature however claims attention, the singular form of its pollen-grains ..."
4. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1838)
"... and the varieties of the genus Salpiglossis. per side of the tube, glabrous,
bent nearly to a right angle immediately below the stigma. ..."
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