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Achyrocalyx Pungens
''Achyrocalyx'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae. It is native to Madagascar. Taxonomy It was first described by Raymond Benoist in 1930 (in a publication dated to 1929). Description They are said to be shrub-like and are found at elevations of . Species The African Plant Database recognises the following four species as of 2012: # ''Achyrocalyx decaryi'' # ''Achyrocalyx gossypinus ''Achyrocalyx'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae. It is native to Madagascar. Taxonomy It was first described by Raymond Benoist in 1930 (in a publication dated to 1929). Description They are said to be shrub ...'' # '' Achyrocalyx pungens'' # '' Achyrocalyx vicinus'' References {{Taxonbar, from=Q8187418 Acanthaceae Acanthaceae genera Plants described in 1929 Endemic flora of Madagascar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Achyrocalyx Decaryi
''Achyrocalyx'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae. It is native to Madagascar. Taxonomy It was first described by Raymond Benoist in 1930 (in a publication dated to 1929). Description They are said to be shrub-like and are found at elevations of . Species The African Plant Database recognises the following four species as of 2012: # '' Achyrocalyx decaryi'' # ''Achyrocalyx gossypinus ''Achyrocalyx'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae. It is native to Madagascar. Taxonomy It was first described by Raymond Benoist in 1930 (in a publication dated to 1929). Description They are said to be shrub ...'' # '' Achyrocalyx pungens'' # '' Achyrocalyx vicinus'' References {{Taxonbar, from=Q8187418 Acanthaceae Acanthaceae genera Plants described in 1929 Endemic flora of Madagascar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madagascar
Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa across the Mozambique Channel. At Madagascar is the world's List of island countries, second-largest island country, after Indonesia. The nation is home to around 30 million inhabitants and consists of the island of Geography of Madagascar, Madagascar (the List of islands by area, fourth-largest island in the world), along with numerous smaller peripheral islands. Following the prehistoric breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana, Madagascar split from the Indian subcontinent around 90 million years ago, allowing native plants and animals to evolve in relative isolation. Consequently, Madagascar is a biodiversity hotspot; over 90% of wildlife of Madagascar, its wildlife is endemic. Human settlement of Madagascar occurred during or befo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millennium Seed Bank
The Millennium Seed Bank Partnership (MSBP or MSB), formerly known as the Millennium Seed Bank Project, is the largest ''ex situ'' plant conservation programme in the world coordinated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. After being awarded a Millennium Commission grant in 1995, the project commenced in 1996, and is now housed in the Wellcome Trust Millennium Building situated in the grounds of Wakehurst Place, West Sussex. Its purpose is to provide an "insurance policy" against the extinction of plants in the wild by storing seeds for future use. The storage facilities consist of large underground frozen vaults preserving the world's largest wild-plant seedbank or collection of seeds from wild species. The project had been started by Dr Peter Thompson and run by Paul Smith after the departure of Roger Smith. Roger Smith was awarded the OBE in 2000 in the Queen's New Year Honours for services to the Project. In collaboration with other biodiversity projects around the world, ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Benoist
Raymond Benoist (10 June 1881, Vendresse – 17 January 1970) was a French botanist and entomologist. He is known for his research involving the plant family Acanthaceae. He studied botany in Paris, receiving his doctorate in 1912. Following graduation, he served as an assistant at the École pratique des Hautes Études. In 1913–14 he was sent by the government to French Guiana to conduct studies of its forests. He later made two scientific trips to Morocco — the first expedition being to the Middle Atlas and the High Moulouya for the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (1918), and the second trip as an expedition leader for the ''Institut Scientifique Cherifien de Rabat'' (1928). In 1930–32 he taught classes in botany at the medical school in Quito. During his time spent in Ecuador, he conducted phytogeographical research as well as studies in regards to the morphology and biology of plants native to the Andes. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Plant Names Index
The International Plant Names Index (IPNI) describes itself as "a database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of seed plants, ferns and lycophytes." Coverage of plant names is best at the rank of species and genus. It includes basic bibliographical details associated with the names. Its goals include eliminating the need for repeated reference to primary sources for basic bibliographic information about plant names. The IPNI also maintains a list of standardized author abbreviations. These were initially based on Brummitt & Powell (1992), but new names and abbreviations are continually added. Description IPNI is the product of a collaboration between The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Index Kewensis), The Harvard University Herbaria (Gray Herbarium Index), and the Australian National Herbarium ( APNI). The IPNI database is a collection of the names registered by the three cooperating institutions and they work towards standardizing the information. The stan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flowering Plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ('container, vessel') and ('seed'), and refers to those plants that produce their seeds enclosed within a fruit. They are by far the most diverse group of land plants with 64 orders, 416 families, approximately 13,000 known genera and 300,000 known species. Angiosperms were formerly called Magnoliophyta (). Like gymnosperms, angiosperms are seed-producing plants. They are distinguished from gymnosperms by characteristics including flowers, endosperm within their seeds, and the production of fruits that contain the seeds. The ancestors of flowering plants diverged from the common ancestor of all living gymnosperms before the end of the Carboniferous, over 300 million years ago. The closest fossil relatives of flowering plants are uncertain and contentious. The earliest angiosperm fossils ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acanthaceae
Acanthaceae is a family (the acanthus family) of dicotyledonous flowering plants containing almost 250 genera and about 2500 species. Most are tropical herbs, shrubs, or twining vines; some are epiphytes. Only a few species are distributed in temperate regions. The four main centres of distribution are Indonesia and Malaysia, Africa, Brazil, and Central America. Representatives of the family can be found in nearly every habitat, including dense or open forests, scrublands, wet fields and valleys, sea coast and marine areas, swamps, and mangrove forests. Description Plants in this family have simple, opposite, decussated leaves with entire (or sometimes toothed, lobed, or spiny) margins, and without stipules. The leaves may contain cystoliths, calcium carbonate concretions, seen as streaks on the surface. The flowers are perfect, zygomorphic to nearly actinomorphic, and arranged in an inflorescence that is either a spike, raceme, or cyme. Typically, a colorful bract subtends ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shrub
A shrub (often also called a bush) is a small-to-medium-sized perennial woody plant. Unlike herbaceous plants, shrubs have persistent woody stems above the ground. Shrubs can be either deciduous or evergreen. They are distinguished from trees by their multiple stems and shorter height, less than tall. Small shrubs, less than 2 m (6.6 ft) tall are sometimes termed as subshrubs. Many botanical groups have species that are shrubs, and others that are trees and herbaceous plants instead. Some definitions state that a shrub is less than and a tree is over 6 m. Others use as the cut-off point for classification. Many species of tree may not reach this mature height because of hostile less than ideal growing conditions, and resemble a shrub-sized plant. However, such species have the potential to grow taller under the ideal growing conditions for that plant. In terms of longevity, most shrubs fit in a class between perennials and trees; some may only last about five y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Achyrocalyx Gossypinus
''Achyrocalyx'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae. It is native to Madagascar. Taxonomy It was first described by Raymond Benoist in 1930 (in a publication dated to 1929). Description They are said to be shrub A shrub (often also called a bush) is a small-to-medium-sized perennial woody plant. Unlike herbaceous plants, shrubs have persistent woody stems above the ground. Shrubs can be either deciduous or evergreen. They are distinguished from trees ...-like and are found at elevations of . Species The African Plant Database recognises the following four species as of 2012: # '' Achyrocalyx decaryi'' # '' Achyrocalyx gossypinus'' # '' Achyrocalyx pungens'' # '' Achyrocalyx vicinus'' References {{Taxonbar, from=Q8187418 Acanthaceae Acanthaceae genera Plants described in 1929 Endemic flora of Madagascar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Achyrocalyx Pungens
''Achyrocalyx'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae. It is native to Madagascar. Taxonomy It was first described by Raymond Benoist in 1930 (in a publication dated to 1929). Description They are said to be shrub-like and are found at elevations of . Species The African Plant Database recognises the following four species as of 2012: # ''Achyrocalyx decaryi'' # ''Achyrocalyx gossypinus ''Achyrocalyx'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae. It is native to Madagascar. Taxonomy It was first described by Raymond Benoist in 1930 (in a publication dated to 1929). Description They are said to be shrub ...'' # '' Achyrocalyx pungens'' # '' Achyrocalyx vicinus'' References {{Taxonbar, from=Q8187418 Acanthaceae Acanthaceae genera Plants described in 1929 Endemic flora of Madagascar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Achyrocalyx Vicinus
''Achyrocalyx'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae. It is native to Madagascar. Taxonomy It was first described by Raymond Benoist in 1930 (in a publication dated to 1929). Description They are said to be shrub-like and are found at elevations of . Species The African Plant Database recognises the following four species as of 2012: # ''Achyrocalyx decaryi'' # ''Achyrocalyx gossypinus'' # ''Achyrocalyx pungens ''Achyrocalyx'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae. It is native to Madagascar. Taxonomy It was first described by Raymond Benoist in 1930 (in a publication dated to 1929). Description They are said to be shrub-like ...'' # '' Achyrocalyx vicinus'' References {{Taxonbar, from=Q8187418 Acanthaceae Acanthaceae genera Plants described in 1929 Endemic flora of Madagascar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acanthaceae Genera
Acanthaceae is a family (the acanthus family) of dicotyledonous flowering plants containing almost 250 genera and about 2500 species. Most are tropical herbs, shrubs, or twining vines; some are epiphytes. Only a few species are distributed in temperate regions. The four main centres of distribution are Indonesia and Malaysia, Africa, Brazil, and Central America. Representatives of the family can be found in nearly every habitat, including dense or open forests, scrublands, wet fields and valleys, sea coast and marine areas, swamps, and mangrove forests. Description Plants in this family have simple, opposite, decussated leaves with entire (or sometimes toothed, lobed, or spiny) margins, and without stipules. The leaves may contain cystoliths, calcium carbonate concretions, seen as streaks on the surface. The flowers are perfect, zygomorphic to nearly actinomorphic, and arranged in an inflorescence that is either a spike, raceme, or cyme. Typically, a colorful bract sub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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