Definition of Hypopitys

1. Noun. Term used in some classifications for the pinesaps, which are usually included in the genus Monotropa.

Exact synonyms: Genus Hypopitys
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Monotropaceae, Monotropaceae

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypopitys

Hyperoglyphe
Hyperoodon
Hyperoodon ampullatus
Hyperstat
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Hyphantria
Hyphantria cunea
Hyphomyces destruens
Hypnos
Hypochaeris
Hypochaeris radicata
Hypochoeris
Hypocreaceae
Hypodermatidae
Hypopachus
Hypopitys
Hypoxidaceae
Hypoxis
Hypoxis hirsuta
Hypsiglena
Hypsiglena torquata
Hypsiprymnodon
Hypsiprymnodon moschatus
Hyracotherium
Hyrcanian
Hyrtl's anastomosis
Hyrtl's epitympanic recess
Hyrtl's foramen
Hyrtl's loop
Hyrtl's sphincter

Literary usage of Hypopitys

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

1. English Botany, Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants by James Sowerby, John Thomas Boswell, Phebe Lankester, John William Salter (1866)
"hypopitys multiflora, Scop. DC Prod. Vol. VII. p. 280. Inside of the sepals, petals, stamens, ovary, and style, pubescent. Bracts ciliated, otherwise as in ..."

2. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1901)
"son in Dictionary of Gardening records hypopitys ... (M. hypopitys) from England, and Asa Gray in his Manual of Botany closes his description of the plant ..."

3. The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany edited by George Luxford, Edward Newman (1843)
"... hypopitys. In deference to such high authority as that by which Mr. Newman's views are supported, ..."

4. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"Small. Pine-sap. False Beech-Drops. Fig. 3211. hypopitys ... This species and the preceding one were included in H. hypopitys, an Old World species, ..."

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