NOUN | plant | Orites, genus Orites | small genus of Australian shrubs or trees |
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Meaning | small genus of Australian shrubs or trees. | |
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Synonym | genus Orites | |
Member of | Proteaceae, family Proteaceae, protea family | large family of Australian and South African shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and clustered mostly tetramerous flowers |
Members | prickly ash, Orites excelsa | Australian tree having alternate simple leaves (when young they are pinnate with prickly toothed margins) and slender axillary spikes of white flowers |
Broader | dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus | genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination |
Spanish | genus orites, orites | |
Catalan | genus orites, orites |
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