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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Calandrinia \Calandrinia\ n. a large genus of low-growing herbs; widespread throughout tropical and warm temperate regions having usually basal leaves and panicles of purplish ephemeral flowers.
Syn: genus Calandrinia.
Wikipedia
Calandrinia is a plant genus that contains many species of purslane, including the redmaids. The genus was named for Jean Louis Calandrini, an 18th-century Swiss botanist. It includes around 150 species of annual herbs which bear colorful flowers in shades of red to purple and white. Plants of this genus are native to Australia, Chile, and western North America.
Species include:
- Calandrinia balonensis - broadleaf parakeelya
- Calandrinia breweri - Brewer's redmaid
- Calandrinia calyptrata - pink purslane
- Calandrinia ciliata - fringed redmaid
- Calandrinia corrigioloides - strap purslane
- Calandrinia eremaea - twining purslane
- Calandrinia feltonii - Felton's flower
- Calandrinia galapagosa
- Calandrinia grandiflora - rock purslane
- Calandrinia maritima - seaside calandrinia
- Calandrinia polyandra
- Calandrinia umbellata - rock purslane
Category:Portulacaceae
Usage examples of "calandrinia".
Lawrence was never quite certain, but Calandrinia seemed to turn to him just before he started talking.
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If Calandrinia had been telling the truth, there was no way of telling what represented a danger to them.
And according to Calandrinia it took decades for Santa Chico to develop the gene blend.