Definition of Sarcostemma

1. Noun. Succulent subshrubs or vines; tropical and subtropical India and Africa and Malaysia.

Exact synonyms: Genus Sarcostemma
Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Asclepiadaceae, Family Asclepiadaceae, Milkweed Family
Member holonyms: Haoma, Sarcostemma Acidum, Soma

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sarcostemma

Sarcodes sanguinea
Sarcophaga carnaria
Sarcophilus
Sarcophilus hariisi
Sarcopsylla penetrans
Sarcopsyllidae
Sarcoptes
Sarcoptes scabiei
Sarcoptidae
Sarcorhamphus
Sarcorhamphus papa
Sarcoscypha coccinea
Sarcoscyphaceae
Sarcosomataceae
Sarcosporidia
Sarcostemma
Sarcostemma acidum
Sarda
Sarda chiliensis
Sarda lineolata
Sarda sarda
Sardar
Sardegna
Sardes
Sardina
Sardina pilchardus
Sardinia
Sardinian
Sardinians
Sardinops

Literary usage of Sarcostemma

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

1. Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey: Made Under the by United States Department of the Interior, William Hemsley Emory, Spencer Fullerton Baird, Charles Frederic Girard, Timothy Abbott Conrad, George Engelmann, James Hall, Charles Christopher Parry, Arthur Carl Victor Schott, John Torrey (1858)
"The follicles are pubescent, about 4 inches long, half an inch wide in the middle, and tapering to a long point. sarcostemma UNDULATUM (n. sp. ..."

2. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1886)
"sarcostemma lineare, Decaisne, 1. c., & in PI. ... 63; Willd. Spec. i. 1270 (Sloane, Jam. t. 131, f. 1). sarcostemma ..."

3. Hortus Kewensis; Or, A Catalogue of the Plants Cultivated in the Royal by William Aiton (1811)
"42. Ceropegia sagittata. Willden. sp. pl. \.p. 1276. sarcostemma. ... sarcostemma. Twisting sarcostemma. Cynanchum viminale. Willden. sp. pl. lp 1252. ..."

4. The Journal of Botany: Being a Second Series of the Botanical Miscellany by William Jackson Hooker (1834)
"729 (1) sarcostemma ... HBK—"This with the other S. American species scarcely agree with the true sarcostemma in the form and origin of the exterior corona ..."

5. Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey: Made Under the by United States Department of the Interior, William Hemsley Emory, Spencer Fullerton Baird, Charles Frederic Girard, Timothy Abbott Conrad, George Engelmann, James Hall, Charles Christopher Parry, Arthur Carl Victor Schott, John Torrey (1858)
"The follicles are pubescent, about 4 inches long, half an inch wide in the middle, and tapering to a long point. sarcostemma UNDULATUM (n. sp. ..."

6. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1886)
"sarcostemma lineare, Decaisne, 1. c., & in PI. ... 63; Willd. Spec. i. 1270 (Sloane, Jam. t. 131, f. 1). sarcostemma ..."

7. Hortus Kewensis; Or, A Catalogue of the Plants Cultivated in the Royal by William Aiton (1811)
"42. Ceropegia sagittata. Willden. sp. pl. \.p. 1276. sarcostemma. ... sarcostemma. Twisting sarcostemma. Cynanchum viminale. Willden. sp. pl. lp 1252. ..."

8. The Journal of Botany: Being a Second Series of the Botanical Miscellany by William Jackson Hooker (1834)
"729 (1) sarcostemma ... HBK—"This with the other S. American species scarcely agree with the true sarcostemma in the form and origin of the exterior corona ..."

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