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Acleisanthes Wrightii
''Acleisanthes'' is a genus of flowering plants in the ''Bougainvillea'' family, Nyctaginaceae. There are currently 16 species. The generic name is derived from the Greek words ακλειοτος (''akleistos''), meaning "not closed", and ανθος (''anthos''), meaning "flower". Plants of this genus are known commonly as trumpets due to the elongated, open-ended shape of their flowers. These are arid-adapted perennials with thick taproots which are usually compact and low to the ground or slightly ascending. An individual plant may have cleistogamous (unopening and self-pollinating) flowers as well as opening flowers which are usually nocturnal as a water-saving adaptation and are pollinated by night-flying or crepuscular insects such as hawkmoths. Flowers are usually white, sometimes yellow. These plants are native to the Chihuahuan and Sonoran Deserts of Mexico and the United States. Taxonomy In the year 2000 studies by Rachel A. Levin reclassified the members of two genera, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acleisanthes Longiflora
''Acleisanthes'' is a genus of flowering plants in the ''Bougainvillea'' family, Nyctaginaceae. There are currently 16 species. The generic name is derived from the Greek words ακλειοτος (''akleistos''), meaning "not closed", and ανθος (''anthos''), meaning "flower". Plants of this genus are known commonly as trumpets due to the elongated, open-ended shape of their flowers. These are arid-adapted perennials with thick taproots which are usually compact and low to the ground or slightly ascending. An individual plant may have cleistogamous (unopening and self-pollinating) flowers as well as opening flowers which are usually nocturnal as a water-saving adaptation and are pollinated by night-flying or crepuscular insects such as hawkmoths. Flowers are usually white, sometimes yellow. These plants are native to the Chihuahuan and Sonoran Deserts of Mexico and the United States. Taxonomy In the year 2000 studies by Rachel A. Levin reclassified the members of two genera, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acleisanthes Acutifolia
''Acleisanthes'' is a genus of flowering plants in the ''Bougainvillea'' family, Nyctaginaceae. There are currently 16 species. The generic name is derived from the Greek words ακλειοτος (''akleistos''), meaning "not closed", and ανθος (''anthos''), meaning "flower". Plants of this genus are known commonly as trumpets due to the elongated, open-ended shape of their flowers. These are arid-adapted perennials with thick taproots which are usually compact and low to the ground or slightly ascending. An individual plant may have cleistogamous (unopening and self-pollinating) flowers as well as opening flowers which are usually nocturnal as a water-saving adaptation and are pollinated by night-flying or crepuscular insects such as hawkmoths. Flowers are usually white, sometimes yellow. These plants are native to the Chihuahuan and Sonoran Deserts of Mexico and the United States. Taxonomy In the year 2000 studies by Rachel A. Levin reclassified the members of two genera, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (30 June 1817 – 10 December 1911) was a British botanist and explorer in the 19th century. He was a founder of geographical botany and Charles Darwin's closest friend. For twenty years he served as director of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, succeeding his father, William Jackson Hooker, and was awarded the highest honours of British science. Biography Early years Hooker was born in Halesworth, Suffolk, England. He was the second son of the famous botanist Sir William Jackson Hooker, Regius Professor of Botany, and Maria Sarah Turner, eldest daughter of the banker Dawson Turner and sister-in-law of Francis Palgrave. From age seven, Hooker attended his father's lectures at Glasgow University, taking an early interest in plant distribution and the voyages of explorers like Captain James Cook. He was educated at the Glasgow High School and went on to study medicine at Glasgow University, graduating M.D. in 1839. This degree qualified him for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Bentham
George Bentham (22 September 1800 – 10 September 1884) was an English botanist, described by the weed botanist Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century". Born into a distinguished family, he initially studied law, but had a fascination with botany from an early age, which he soon pursued, becoming president of the Linnaean Society in 1861, and a fellow of the Royal Society in 1862. He was the author of a number of important botanical works, particularly flora. He is best known for his taxonomic classification of plants in collaboration with Joseph Dalton Hooker, his ''Genera Plantarum'' (1862–1883). He died in London in 1884. Life Bentham was born in Stoke, Plymouth, on 22 September 1800.Jean-Jacques Amigo, « Bentham (George) », in Nouveau Dictionnaire de biographies roussillonnaises, vol. 3 Sciences de la Vie et de la Terre, Perpignan, Publications de l'olivier, 2017, 915 p. () His father, Sir Samuel Bentham, a naval architect, was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acleisanthes Wrightii
''Acleisanthes'' is a genus of flowering plants in the ''Bougainvillea'' family, Nyctaginaceae. There are currently 16 species. The generic name is derived from the Greek words ακλειοτος (''akleistos''), meaning "not closed", and ανθος (''anthos''), meaning "flower". Plants of this genus are known commonly as trumpets due to the elongated, open-ended shape of their flowers. These are arid-adapted perennials with thick taproots which are usually compact and low to the ground or slightly ascending. An individual plant may have cleistogamous (unopening and self-pollinating) flowers as well as opening flowers which are usually nocturnal as a water-saving adaptation and are pollinated by night-flying or crepuscular insects such as hawkmoths. Flowers are usually white, sometimes yellow. These plants are native to the Chihuahuan and Sonoran Deserts of Mexico and the United States. Taxonomy In the year 2000 studies by Rachel A. Levin reclassified the members of two genera, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acleisanthes Parvifolia
''Acleisanthes parvifolia'', common names littleleaf moonpod and Big Bend trumpets, is a plant species native to northeastern Chihuahua, Mexico, and western Texas, United States. In Texas, is known from only 4 counties: Culberson, Hudspeth, Brewster and Presidio. Some of the populations are situated inside Big Bend National Park, others within Guadalupe Mountains National Park Guadalupe Mountains National Park is an American national park in the Guadalupe Mountains, east of El Paso, Texas. The mountain range includes Guadalupe Peak, the highest point in Texas at , and El Capitan used as a landmark by travelers on the ro .... ''Acleisanthes parvifolia'' is a perennial herb up to 60 cm tall, sometimes a bit woody at the base. Leaves are yellow-green, up to 25 mm long. Flowers are usually solitary, yellow-green, up to 6 cm long. Fruits are up to 10 mm long, hairy.Flora of North America, v4 p 37. References {{Taxonbar, from=Q16157980 Nyctaginaceae Flora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Denis Choisy
Jacques Denys (Denis) Choisy (5 April 1799, Jussy – 26 November 1859, Geneva) was a Swiss Protestant clergyman and botanist. He studied theology, law, humanities and sciences at the ''Académie de Genéve''. In 1821 he became ordained as a minister, and during the following year, furthered his education in Paris. During his stay in Paris, he was accepted as a member of the ''Société d'histoire naturelle''. Following his return to Geneva in 1824, he was named chair of rational philosophy at the Academy, a position he maintained until 1847.Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France: publication mensuelle ..., Volume 7 by Société Botanique de France As a student in Geneva, he came under the influence of |
Acleisanthes Obtusa
''Acleisanthes'' is a genus of flowering plants in the ''Bougainvillea'' family, Nyctaginaceae. There are currently 16 species. The generic name is derived from the Greek words ακλειοτος (''akleistos''), meaning "not closed", and ανθος (''anthos''), meaning "flower". Plants of this genus are known commonly as trumpets due to the elongated, open-ended shape of their flowers. These are arid-adapted perennials with thick taproots which are usually compact and low to the ground or slightly ascending. An individual plant may have cleistogamous (unopening and self-pollinating) flowers as well as opening flowers which are usually nocturnal as a water-saving adaptation and are pollinated by night-flying or crepuscular insects such as hawkmoths. Flowers are usually white, sometimes yellow. These plants are native to the Chihuahuan and Sonoran Deserts of Mexico and the United States. Taxonomy In the year 2000 studies by Rachel A. Levin reclassified the members of two genera, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billie Lee Turner (botanist)
Billie Lee Turner (February 22, 1925 – May 27, 2020) was an American botanist and professor of botany at the University of Texas at Austin where he also directed the botany research programme and herbarium. He died from COVID-19 in Round Rock, Texas, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Texas. Biography Born in Yoakum, Texas, Turner lived almost his entire life in Texas, apart from military service and attending graduate school. He was schooled in Texas City from 1939, graduating in 1943 and enlisting in the US Army, transferred to the Army Air Corp and navigation school, becoming second lieutenant. In 1945 he joined the 15th Air Force division at the Giulia Airfield in Cerignola, Italy. He was awarded the Purple Heart when he was injured in a sortie over Brenner Pass. During the post war occupation, he was stationed in Heidelberg and Straubing, Germany as First Lieutenant, and finally in El Paso, Texas. He received his B.S. in Biology form Sul Ross State Universityin 1949 and lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acleisanthes Nevadensis
''Acleisanthes nevadensis'' (syn. ''Selinocarpus nevadensis'') is a species of flowering plant in the four o'clock family known by the common names desert moonpod and desert wing-fruit. It is native to a section of the southwestern United States encompassing southern Nevada and adjacent corners of Utah and Arizona. One occurrence has been observed in eastern California. The plant grows in desert habitat such as scrub and rocky washes. This herb produces several spreading stems up to about 30 centimeters in m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acleisanthes Diffusa
''Acleisanthes'' is a genus of flowering plants in the ''Bougainvillea'' family, Nyctaginaceae. There are currently 16 species. The generic name is derived from the Greek words ακλειοτος (''akleistos''), meaning "not closed", and ανθος (''anthos''), meaning "flower". Plants of this genus are known commonly as trumpets due to the elongated, open-ended shape of their flowers. These are arid-adapted perennials with thick taproots which are usually compact and low to the ground or slightly ascending. An individual plant may have cleistogamous (unopening and self-pollinating) flowers as well as opening flowers which are usually nocturnal as a water-saving adaptation and are pollinated by night-flying or crepuscular insects such as hawkmoths. Flowers are usually white, sometimes yellow. These plants are native to the Chihuahuan and Sonoran Deserts of Mexico and the United States. Taxonomy In the year 2000 studies by Rachel A. Levin reclassified the members of two genera, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acleisanthes Crassifolia
''Acleisanthes crassifolia'', the Texas trumpets, is a plant in the Nyctaginaceae Nyctaginaceae, the four o'clock family, is a family of around 33 genera and 290 species of flowering plants, widely distributed in tropical and subtropical regions, with a few representatives in temperate regions. The family has a unique fruit t ... family. It is found in North America and Mexico and is native to southwestern counties of Texas and northeastern Mexico. These plants grow low to the ground with the stem of these fully grown plants between 15 cm to 20 cm long. There are few other species of Acleisanthes that inhabit the same areas. However, Texas trumpets can be easily identified throughout the year based on their thick and dark green leaves which has white veins. ''Acleisanthes crassifolia'' is a perennial herbaceous plant with fruits and flowers. Distribution ''Acleisanthes crassifolia'' naturally occurs in Southwestern Texas counties and in Mexico. They can be found in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
