Genus Pinckneya (Noun)
Meaning
Small genus of shrubs or small trees of southeastern United States and northern South America.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- The genus Pinckneya consists of a single species, Pinckneya bracteata, native to the southeastern United States.
- Pinckneya is a small genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae, which includes coffee, and has one known species in the southeastern United States.
- Plants in the genus Pinckneya are usually small trees or shrubs and are native to the southeastern United States and northern parts of South America.
- The small genus Pinckneya bracteata, is known as the Fevertree, due to its use in traditional medicine for fever and is native to the southeastern United States.
- Only one species of the genus Pinckneya has been officially documented, that being Pinckneya bracteata which can be found in the southeastern United States and South America.