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Agrostistachys Gaudichaudii
''Agrostistachys'' is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1850. It is native to Southeast Asia, New Guinea, India, and Sri Lanka. ;Species # ''Agrostistachys borneensis'' Becc. - India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Borneo, Philippines, Sumatra, New Guinea # '' Agrostistachys gaudichaudii'' Müll.Arg. - Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia # '' Agrostistachys hookeri'' (Thwaites) Benth. & Hook.f. - Sri Lanka # ''Agrostistachys indica'' Dalzell - India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Malaysia, Borneo, Philippines, New Guinea # ''Agrostistachys sessilifolia'' (Kurz) Pax & K.Hoffm. - Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra # '' Agrostistachys staminodiata'' Sevilla - Sumatra ;formerly included moved to other genera ''(Pseudagrostistachys Tannodia Wetria ''Wetria'' is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae, first described as a genus in 1858. It is native to Australia, New Guinea and Southeast Asia.van Welzen, P.C. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicol Alexander Dalzell
Nicol (or Nicholas) Alexander Dalzell FRSE FLS (21 April 1817 – 18 December 1877) was a Scottish botanist. He was one of the first persons to form the link between forest denudation and the impact of rainfall upon the wider countryside. Life Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, his early education was at the High School in Edinburgh. Dalzell studied divinity (rather than botany) at university, under Rev Thomas Chalmers, and received an M.A. at the University of Edinburgh in 1837. He served as the assistant commissioner of customs, salt and opium in Bombay, India in 1841. In 1862 he became conservator of forests in Bombay and superintendent of the Botanical Gardens in the Bombay Presidency. He published ''The Bombay Flora'' (1861), and other works on Indian botany, and retired in 1870. In 1862 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his proposer being John Hutton Balfour. He lost his savings in the collapse of the Bank of Hindostan, China, and Japan. He reti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |