Definition of Pyxidanthera

1. Noun. One species: pyxie; the eastern United States.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Pyxidanthera

Pythian Games
Pythias
Pythium debaryanum
Pythius
Python
Python molurus
Python reticulatus
Python sebae
Python variegatus
Pythonesque
Pythoness
Pythonesses
Pythonidae
Pythoninae
Pyu
Pyxidanthera
Pyxidanthera barbulata
Pyxis
Pœuilly
Pärnu
Pædion
Pæonia
Père David's deer
Père David's deers
Pécs
Périgord pie
Périgord pies
Pétainism
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Literary usage of Pyxidanthera

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)
"pyxidanthera Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. i : 152. />/. //. 1803. A creeping tufted much-branched ... A monotypic genus of eastern North America. i. pyxidanthera ..."

2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"pyxidanthera Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 152. pi. 17. ... A monotypic genus of eastern North America. 1. pyxidanthera ..."

3. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1901)
"As a genus pyxidanthera has but one species, and its nearest ally is Diapensia, which differs in having the anthers opening longitudinally; also the fls. ..."

4. A General System of Botany Descriptive and Analytical: In Two Parts by Emmanuel Le Maout, Joseph Decaisne, Joseph Dalton Hooker (1876)
"Diapensia inhabits North Europe and the Himalayas; pyxidanthera and Galax the United States ; Shortia the United States and Japan.—ED. ..."

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