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Small genus of Australian woody vines with small violet flowers
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hardenbergia
Alternative clues for the word hardenbergia
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hardenbergia \Hardenbergia\ prop. n. A small genus of Australian woody vines with small violet flowers; closely related to genus Kennedia. Syn: genus Hardenbergia .
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Hardenbergia is a small genus of leguminous vines from Australia . The genus was named in honour of Franziska, Countess von Hardenberg (sister of Baron von Huegel ) by English botanist George Bentham , in 1837. There are three species as follows: Hardenbergia ...
Usage examples of hardenbergia.
Archontophoenix and Livistona palms, and the giant Alsophila ferns-Cooperi and australis-and the promontories stood with their shaggy westringias and hibbertias and hardenbergias and white button-flowers all aglow, staring, staring, staring out over the blue lazy ocean, and casting blue and purple shadows across the yellow sand of the beach, even reaching to the masses of white foam that were swept ashore, when the little breakers were dashed to pieces, the enemy was seen on the top, above the dark wall of ironstone, right out on the edge, waving spears, and he was heard shouting to the family of Arrilla down on the beach.
Big old gnarled Banksia serrata leaned over bowing to the sea, and the underscrub was leptospermum and bracken fern with a tangle of hibbertia and smilax and hardenbergias.