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Definition of Genus Streptocarpus
1. Noun. Large genus of usually stemless African or Asian herbs: Cape primrose.
Group relationships: Family Gesneriaceae, Gesneria Family, Gesneriaceae
Member holonyms: Streptocarpus, Cape Primrose
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Streptocarpus
Literary usage of Genus Streptocarpus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Botanical Abstracts by Board of Control of Botanical Abstracts (1921)
"... in 1904 for the characteristic behavior of the cotyledons of seedlings of
certain members of the Gesneriaceae, particularly of the genus Streptocarpus. ..."
2. Beiträge zur Biologie der Pflanzen by Ferdinand Cohn (1870)
"... if not wholly unknown, species, of the curious genus Streptocarpus, . . .
but it was quite impossible to include the entire foliage in an octavo page. ..."
3. Wochenschrift des Vereines zur Beförderung des Gartenbaues in den Königlich by Karl Heinrich Emil Koch, Verein zur Beförderung des Gartenbaues in den Königlich Preussischen Staaten (1871)
"... auch das interessante genus Streptocarpus, vertreten. Sehr reich ist endlich
der botanische Garten in Kew an ..."
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