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Definition of Genus mutisia

1. Noun. Genus of South American shrubs or lianas having large flower heads with feathery pappuses.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Mutisia

Literary usage of Genus mutisia

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

1. The MAGAZINE of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and (1862)
"The genus Mutisia is " remarkable for the peculiar habit of the species, generally scandent, with cirrhose leaves, and for the great size and rich coloring ..."

2. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History by Taylor and Francis, William Jardine (1853)
"... characteristic of the western side of South America and of the Andes, are few and inconspicuous ; even the genus Mutisia does not extend into La Plata. ..."

3. Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon & Andes: Being Records of Travel on the by Richard Spruce, Alfred Russel Wallace (1908)
"... and in the latter form extend nearly to the limit of arborescent vegetation, especially as species of the fine genus Mutisia; while on the frigid ..."

4. Notes of a Naturalist in South America by John Ball (1887)
"... overgrown by climbing plants, amongst which the most strange and attractive were composites of the genus Mutisia. The Chilian species have all stiff, ..."

5. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1829)
"The genus Mutisia, for example, has been split by him into three, distinguished by the appendage of the scales or the involucre ; but these scales are ..."

6. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London by Linnean Society of London (1855)
"It is curious, that the genus Mutisia, which ranges all up the west side of the continent from southern Chile into New Granada, and is scattered also ..."

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