Definition of Platystemon

1. Noun. One species: creamcups.

Exact synonyms: Genus Platystemon
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Papaveraceae, Papaveraceae, Poppy Family
Member holonyms: Creamcups, Platystemon Californicus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Platystemon

Platycerium
Platycerium alcicorne
Platycerium andinum
Platycerium bifurcatum
Platycladus orientalis
Platyctenea
Platyhelminthes
Platylobium
Platylobium formosum
Platymiscium
Platymiscium pinnatum
Platymiscium trinitatis
Platypoecilus
Platypoecilus maculatus
Platyrrhini
Platystemon
Platystemon californicus
Platz
Plaut
Plaut's bacillus
Plaut-Vincent angina
Plautine
Plautus
Plautus alle
Plavix
PlayStation
PlayStations
PlayStations 3
Play Station

Literary usage of Platystemon

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

1. The Flower Garden, Or, Breck's Book of Flowers: In which are Described All by Joseph Breck (1858)
"... PHLOX PHASEOLUS platystemon. PHLOX. The only annual Phlox with which we are acquainted is Phlox Drummondii, and this, in all its varieties ..."

2. Popular Studies of California Wild Flowers by Bertha Marguerite Rice, Roland Rice (1920)
"Their name, platystemon californicus, is given them because of the flattened filaments to the stamens. There is another flower, ..."

3. Synoptical Flora of North America by Asa Gray (1897)
"platystemon Torreyi, Greene, Fl. Francis. 283. ... platystemon linearit, MK Curran, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. ser. 2, i. 242. 3 A dubious specimen from ..."

4. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1901)
"platystemon. Sepals 2 (in Eschscholtzia the calyx is a single mitre-like piece which ... Annual herbs with the leaves, sepals and petals as in platystemon, ..."

5. Pittonia by Edward Lee Greene (1905)
"And I believe this judgment to be as good as any; and that platystemon is indeed nearly allied to the very type of the Papaveraceae. ..."

6. The Flower Garden, Or, Breck's Book of Flowers: In which are Described All by Joseph Breck (1858)
"... PHLOX PHASEOLUS platystemon. PHLOX. The only annual Phlox with which we are acquainted is Phlox Drummondii, and this, in all its varieties ..."

7. Popular Studies of California Wild Flowers by Bertha Marguerite Rice, Roland Rice (1920)
"Their name, platystemon californicus, is given them because of the flattened filaments to the stamens. There is another flower, ..."

8. Synoptical Flora of North America by Asa Gray (1897)
"platystemon Torreyi, Greene, Fl. Francis. 283. ... platystemon linearit, MK Curran, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. ser. 2, i. 242. 3 A dubious specimen from ..."

9. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1901)
"platystemon. Sepals 2 (in Eschscholtzia the calyx is a single mitre-like piece which ... Annual herbs with the leaves, sepals and petals as in platystemon, ..."

10. Pittonia by Edward Lee Greene (1905)
"And I believe this judgment to be as good as any; and that platystemon is indeed nearly allied to the very type of the Papaveraceae. ..."

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