genus streptocarpus

Noun
  1. Large genus of usually stemless African or Asian herbs: Cape primrose (synset 112854553)
    is a type of: asterid dicot genus - genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs
    member holonym:
    • streptocarpus - any of various plants of the genus Streptocarpus having leaves in a basal rosette and flowers like primroses
    • cape primrose - any of various African plants of the genus Streptocarpus widely cultivated especially as houseplants for their showy blue or purple flowers
    belongs to: family gesneriaceae, gesneria family, gesneriaceae - large family of tropical herbs or shrubs or lianas; in some classification systems placed in the order Scrophulariales

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