strelitzia Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun small genus of large perennial evergreen herbs having leaves resembling those of banana plants; sometimes placed in family Musaceae
genus Strelitzia.

NL., named after Charlotte, Princess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and queen of George III of Great Britain.

(Bot.) A genus of plants related to the banana, found at the Cape of Good Hope. They have rigid glaucous distichous leaves, and peculiar richly colored flowers.