Definition of Genus hermannia

1. Noun. Genus of African herbs and subshrubs having honey-scented bell-shaped flowers.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Hermannia

genus Helminthostachys
genus Heloderma
genus Helotium
genus Helvella
genus Helwingia
genus Helxine
genus Hemachatus
genus Hemerocallis
genus Hemigalus
genus Hemigrammus
genus Hemipteronatus
genus Hemitripterus
genus Hepatica
genus Heracleum
genus Heritiera
genus Hermannia
genus Hermissenda
genus Hernaria
genus Herpestes
genus Herrerasaurus
genus Hesperiphona
genus Hesperis
genus Heteranthera
genus Heterocephalus
genus Heterodon
genus Heteromeles
genus Heteroscelus
genus Heterotheca
genus Heuchera
genus Hevea

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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