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Definition of Genus welwitschia
1. Noun. Type and sole genus of Welwitschiaceae.
Generic synonyms: Gymnosperm Genus
Group relationships: Family Welwitschiaceae, Welwitschiaceae
Member holonyms: Welwitschia, Welwitschia Mirabilis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Welwitschia
Literary usage of Genus welwitschia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anatomy of Woody Plants by Edward Charles Jeffrey (1917)
"The broad short axis of the remarkable genus Welwitschia may now claim our attention.
Here the stem never attains a height FIG. 263. ..."
2. Structural Botany: Or Organography on the Basis of Morphology. To which is by Asa Gray (1879)
"... ¡neta- ceous genus Welwitschia are structurally polygamous, the male flowers
having a well-formed but sterile ..."
3. Journal of Applied Microscopy by Bausch & Lomb Optical Company (1900)
"been so difficult to procure material, one genus, Welwitschia, being found only
in Damara-land, Africa, another genus, Ephedra, being a desert plant, ..."
4. Gray's Botanical Text-book by Asa Gray (1879)
"... either dioecious or monoecious ; except that those of the strange G ncta-
ceous genus Welwitschia are structurally polygamous, the male flowers having a ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"In the gymnospermous genus Welwitschia, there are two cotyledons which lost
throughout its life (moro than a century), and in the course of time they, ..."
6. A Contribution to Our Knowledge of Seedlings by John Lubbock (1896)
"There are many cases in which the cotyledons grow considerably after quitting
the seed. In the wonderful genus Welwitschia it was at one time supposed that ..."
7. The Forest Flora of North-west and Central India: A Handbook of the by John Lindsay Stewart, Dietrich Brandis (1874)
"... enclosed in a 2-fid sheathing perianth ; filaments connate into a fleshy
column ; anthers 1- or 2-celled (3-celled in the abnormal genus Welwitschia). ..."
8. First book of Indian botany by Daniel Oliver (1869)
"... is the genus Welwitschia, a most extraordinary and very anomalous dwarf tree
of South Africa, attaining a great age, with a table-like trunk seldom ..."
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