Definition of Kohleria

1. Noun. Shrubby herb cultivated for their soft velvety foliage and showy scarlet flowers.

Group relationships: Genus Kohleria
Generic synonyms: Houseplant

Lexicographical Neighbors of Kohleria

koftworks
kogal
kogals
kogarkoite
koha
kohai
kohanga reo
kohanim
kohas
kohekohe
kohen
kohl
kohl-rabi
kohled
kohler disease
kohleria (current term)
kohling
kohlrabi
kohlrabies
kohlrabis
kohls
kohutuhutu
koi
koilocyte
koilocytes
koilocytosis
koilonychia
koilosternia
koine
koines

Literary usage of Kohleria

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

1. The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany edited by George Luxford, Edward Newman (1850)
"Mr. Borrer remarks that this Poa resembles kohleria (Aira) cristata in its panicle, only much shorter and smaller; to myself, when in full flower, ..."

2. Grasses and Forage Plants: A Practical Treatise Comprising Their Natural by Charles Louis Flint (1887)
"... from Pennsylvania to Illinois and westward. Panicle narrowly spiked; lower palea pointed; leaves flat, the lower ones somewhat hairy. TRUNCATED kohleria ..."

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