Definition of Genus Brachycome

1. Noun. Mostly Australian herbs having basal or alternate leaves and loosely corymbose flower heads.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Brachycome

genus Borrelia
genus Bos
genus Boselaphus
genus Boswellia
genus Botaurus
genus Bothrops
genus Botrychium
genus Bougainvillaea
genus Bougainvillea
genus Bouteloua
genus Bowiea
genus Boykinia
genus Brachinus
genus Brachychiton
genus Brachycome (current term)
genus Brachystegia
genus Bradypus
genus Brama
genus Branchiobdella
genus Branta
genus Brasenia
genus Brevoortia
genus Brickelia
genus Brodiaea
genus Bromus
genus Brontosaurus

Literary usage of Genus Brachycome

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

1. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"... the other to the Australian genus Brachycome, from which the rounded and striate, instead of flattened, achenes at once distinguish them. ..."

2. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"... a single disk-floret surrounded by the pappus- hairs ; 4, a ray-floret. SWAN RIVER DAISIES Natural Order COMPOSITE. genus Brachycome BRACHYCOME (Greek, ..."

3. The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and by C M Hovey (1842)
"The genus Brachycome, Dr. Lindley remarks, consists mostly of "little mean looking flowers, altogether unsuited to gardens;" but that which is now figured ..."

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