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Carlo Luigi Spegazzini
Carlo Luigi Spegazzini, in Spanish Carlos Luis Spegazzini (20 April 1858 – 1 July 1926), was an Italian-born Argentinian botanist and mycologist. On the 1881/1882 expedition led by Giacomo Bove to explore Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, the Italian Decio Vinciguerra was officially both zoologist and botanist, but in fact Spegazzini handled the botanical work. Spegazzini published about 100 scientific papers on vascular plants, describing around 1000 new taxa. He was a professor at the University of La Plata and Buenos Aires in Argentina, curator of the herbarium of the National Department of Agriculture, first head of the herbarium of Museo de la Plata, and founder of an arboretum and an institute of mycology in La Plata city. In 1924 he edited the journal ''Revista Argentina de Botánica'', but only four issues were published before his death. In a 1924 ''Mycologia'' publication, William Murrill recounted his time visiting with Spegazzini, who was then 66 years old: Dr Sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the southern subregion of a single continent called America. South America is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east by the Atlantic Ocean; North America and the Caribbean Sea lie to the northwest. The continent generally includes twelve sovereign states: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, and Venezuela; two dependent territories: the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands; and one internal territory: French Guiana. In addition, the ABC islands of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Ascension Island (dependency of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, a British Overseas Territory), Bouvet Island ( dependency of Norway), Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flora Of Southern America
Flora is all the plant life present in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring (indigenous) native plants. Sometimes bacteria and fungi are also referred to as flora, as in the terms ''gut flora'' or ''skin flora''. Etymology The word "flora" comes from the Latin name of Flora, the goddess of plants, flowers, and fertility in Roman mythology. The technical term "flora" is then derived from a metonymy of this goddess at the end of the sixteenth century. It was first used in poetry to denote the natural vegetation of an area, but soon also assumed the meaning of a work cataloguing such vegetation. Moreover, "Flora" was used to refer to the flowers of an artificial garden in the seventeenth century. The distinction between vegetation (the general appearance of a community) and flora (the taxonomic composition of a community) was first made by Jules Thurmann (1849). Prior to this, the two terms were used indiscriminately.Thurmann, J. (1849). ''Essai de Phyt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adesmia (plant)
''Adesmia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It was recently assigned to the informal monophyletic ''Adesmia'' clade within the Dalbergieae. Species ''Adesmia'' comprises the following species: * '' Adesmia aconcaguensis'' Burkart * '' Adesmia acuta'' Burkart * '' Adesmia adrianii'' M.N. Correa * '' Adesmia aegiceras'' Phil. * '' Adesmia ameghinoi'' Speg. * '' Adesmia aphanantha'' Speg. * '' Adesmia aphylla'' Clos * '' Adesmia arachnipes'' Clos * '' Adesmia araucana'' Phil. * '' Adesmia araujoi'' Burkart * '' Adesmia arenicola'' (R.E. Fr.) Burkart * '' Adesmia argentea'' Meyen * '' Adesmia argyrophylla'' Phil. * '' Adesmia arillata'' Miotto * '' Adesmia aromatica'' Burkart * '' Adesmia aspera'' Hook. & Arn. * '' Adesmia atacamensis'' Phil. * '' Adesmia atuelensis'' Burkart * '' Adesmia aucaensis'' Burkart * '' Adesmia aueri'' Burkart * '' Adesmia augustii'' J.F. Macbr. * '' Adesmia aurantiaca'' (Dusen) Burkart * '' Adesmia axillaris'' P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
