Definition of Genus gymnadenia

1. Noun. Small genus of terrestrial orchids of North America and temperate Eurasia.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Gymnadenia

genus Grammatophyllum
genus Grampus
genus Graptophyllum
genus Grevillea
genus Grewia
genus Grias
genus Grindelia
genus Griselinia
genus Grison
genus Groenlandia
genus Grus
genus Guaiacum
genus Guevina
genus Gulo
genus Gutierrezia
genus Gymnadenia
genus Gymnadeniopsis
genus Gymnelis
genus Gymnocalycium
genus Gymnocarpium
genus Gymnocladus
genus Gymnogyps
genus Gymnopilus
genus Gymnorhina
genus Gymnosporangium
genus Gymnura
genus Gynura
genus Gypaetus
genus Gyps
genus Gypsophila

Literary usage of Genus gymnadenia

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, Addison Brown (1913)
"... pean genus Gymnadenia, from which it differs in the appendages of the stigma ; hence the name. A North American genus, formerly included in Habenaria. ..."

2. The Orchids of New England: A Popular Monograph by Henry Ives Baldwin (1884)
"... in botanical arrangement, stand the Naked-gland Orchises, belonging to the sub-genus Gymnadenia. In these the anther-cells are still parallel, ..."

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