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Definition of Polanisia
1. Noun. Widely distributed herbs having palmate leaves and creamy white to or pink to magenta flowers with many stamens of unequal length.
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Caper Family, Capparidaceae, Family Capparidaceae
Member holonyms: Clammyweed, Polanisia Dodecandra, Polanisia Graveolens
Lexicographical Neighbors of Polanisia
Literary usage of Polanisia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"polanisia Raf. Journ. Phys. 89: 98. 1819. Annual branching herbs, mainly
glandular-pubescent and exhaling a strong disagreeable odor, with whitish or ..."
2. The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas by Ann Fowler Rhoads, William M. Klein (1993)
"polanisia dodecandra (L.) DC. ssp. dodecandra ... polanisia graveolens Raf.
PFB polanisia dodecandra (L.) DC. ssp. ..."
3. Plant Life of Alabama: An Account of the Distribution, Modes of Association by Charles Theodore Mohr (1901)
"Rare and local. Annual. Type locality : "Texas, Drummond!'' Herb. Geol. Surv.
Herb. Mohr. polanisia tenuifolia Torr. & Gray, Fl. NA 1:123. 1838. ..."
4. Pittonia by Edward Lee Greene (1905)
"It is the Cleome tenuifolia of Le Conte, referred to polanisia by later authorities.
... It has neither the corolla of Cleome nor the fruit of polanisia. ..."
5. A Class-book of Botany by Alphonso Wood (1851)
"One species of polanisia is used as a vermifuge. Conspectus of the Genera. ...
polanisia. 3. J Stamens S Cleome. 2. Torus linear and elongated like ..."
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