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Definition of Lambertia
1. Noun. Small genus of Australian shrubs.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Family Proteaceae, Protea Family, Proteaceae
Member holonyms: Honey-flower, Honeyflower, Lambertia Formosa, Mountain Devil
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lambertia
Literary usage of Lambertia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The London Journal of Botany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1843)
"One of them, belonging to the genus Lambertia, grows thirty feet high, with a
trunk three feet in diameter. Judging from some imperfect flowers which still ..."
2. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1900)
"The group Lambertia, reckoned by Tryon and Fischer a sub genus of ... As the
Lambertia had already been used in zoology when Sou verb! wrote (by ..."
3. Systematic Anatomy of the Dicotyledons: A Handbook for Laboratories of Pure by Hans Solereder (1908)
"In the species of Banksia and Dryandra (according to Mohl) and Lambertia (according
to Engler ') the pairs of guard- cells have the same structure as that ..."
4. Icones Plantarum: Or Figures, with Brief Descriptive Characters and Remarks ...by William Jackson Hooker by William Jackson Hooker (1843)
"Lambertia ILICIFOLIA. Hook. ... vol. of the "London Journal of Botany," where it
is said : " This proves to be a new and very distinct species of Lambertia, ..."
5. A Contribution to the Flora of Australia by William Woolls (1867)
"(1) Grevillea, (2) Hakea, (3) Lambertia, (4) Xylo- melum, (5) Telopea, (6) Lomatia,
... Lambertia. The species near Sydney and Parramatta is L.formosa. ..."
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