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Definition of Genus dicksonia
1. Noun. Tree ferns of temperate Australasia having bipinnatifid or tripinnatifid fronds and usually marginal sori; in some classification systems placed in family Cyatheaceae.
Generic synonyms: Fern Genus
Group relationships: Dicksoniaceae, Family Dicksoniaceae
Member holonyms: Dicksonia Antarctica, Soft Tree Fern
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Dicksonia
Literary usage of Genus dicksonia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"There remains, then, only the old comprehensive genus Dicksonia. ... The genus
Dicksonia includes some large Tree Ferns, and others of ..."
2. The Structure and Life-history of the Hay-scented Fern by Henry Shoemaker Conard (1908)
"The removal of our fern from the genus Dicksonia L'Herit. is generally agreed
upon, and is quite sure to stand. The use of the name Dicksonia certainly ..."
3. Our Ferns in Their Haunts: A Guide to All the Native Species by Willard Nelson Clute (1901)
"The genus Dicksonia was named for James Dickson an English botanist. There are
about fifty species in the world, twenty of which would be placed in ..."
4. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1899)
"UNDERWOOD : REVIEW OF THE GENERA OF FERNS 1788 L'Héritier (Sertum Anglicum, 30,
31) established the genus Dicksonia based on D. ..."
5. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"genus dicksonia DICKSONIA (named in honour of James Dickson, a cryptogamic botanist).
A genus of about forty species of stove and greenhouse Ferns, ..."
6. The Principles of Floriculture by Edward Albert White (1915)
"... genus, Dicksonia (after James Dickson, an English botanist); species, two,
antarctica and squarrosa. 567. Dicksonia, botanical characters. ..."
7. Botanical Guide Through the Phipps Conservatories in Pittsburg and Allegheny by Gustave Guttenberg (1894)
"... sometimes called Sweet Fern on account of the fragrance of the fronds, noticed
especially when they are wilting, belongs to this genus (Dicksonia ..."
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