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Definition of Hypopitys
1. Noun. Term used in some classifications for the pinesaps, which are usually included in the genus Monotropa.
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Monotropaceae, Monotropaceae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypopitys
Literary usage of Hypopitys
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Botany, Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants by James Sowerby, John Thomas Boswell, Phebe Lankester, John William Salter (1866)
"hypopitys multiflora, Scop. DC Prod. Vol. VII. p. 280. Inside of the sepals,
petals, stamens, ovary, and style, pubescent. Bracts ciliated, otherwise as in ..."
2. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1901)
"son in Dictionary of Gardening records hypopitys ... (M. hypopitys) from England,
and Asa Gray in his Manual of Botany closes his description of the plant ..."
3. The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany edited by George Luxford, Edward Newman (1843)
"... hypopitys. In deference to such high authority as that by which Mr. Newman's views
are supported, ..."
4. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"Small. Pine-sap. False Beech-Drops. Fig. 3211. hypopitys ... This species and
the preceding one were included in H. hypopitys, an Old World species, ..."
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