Definition of Genus Helichrysum

1. Noun. Large genus of mostly African and Australian herbs and shrubs: everlasting flowers; in some classifications includes genus Ozothamnus.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Helichrysum

genus Haplopappus
genus Hardenbergia
genus Harpia
genus Harpullia
genus Harrisia
genus Hatiora
genus Hazardia
genus Hedeoma
genus Hedera
genus Hedysarum
genus Helenium
genus Heleodytes
genus Heliamphora
genus Helianthemum
genus Helianthus
genus Helichrysum (current term)
genus Helicteres
genus Heliobacter
genus Heliophila
genus Heliopsis
genus Heliothis
genus Helipterum
genus Helix
genus Helleborus
genus Helminthostachys
genus Heloderma
genus Helotium
genus Helvella
genus Helwingia
genus Helxine

Literary usage of Genus Helichrysum

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

1. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society by Wernerian Natural History Society, Edinburgh, Wernerian Natural History Society (Edinburgh, Scotland) (1826)
"The genus Helichrysum, as here limited, is distinguished by a naked receptacle, and a capillary seed-crown. It will thus include a large proportion of the ..."

2. Climbs in the New Zealand Alps: Being an Account of Travel and Discovery by Edward Arthur FitzGerald (1896)
"... except for its procumbent habit, while the second forms dense tufts, and, like the U. Youngii, has been classified under the sub-genus Helichrysum. ..."

3. Spicilegium Neilgherrense, Or, a Selection of Neilgherry Plants: Drawn and by Robert Wight (1851)
"The plant here figured is referred to the genus Helichrysum but I cannot discover in what respect; it differs generally from gome others named, ..."

4. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People by Chambers, W. and R., publ (1876)
"... the name belong to nearly allied genera, but particularly to the genus Helichrysum, which contains a great number of species, mostly natives of Africa. ..."

5. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"... nearly allied genera, but particularly to the genus Helichrysum, which contains a great number of species, mostly natives of Africa. ..."

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