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Orchidaceae
Orchids are plants that belong to the family Orchidaceae (), a diverse and widespread group of flowering plants with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant. Along with the Asteraceae, they are one of the two largest families of flowering plants. The Orchidaceae have about 28,000 currently accepted species, distributed in about 763 genera. (See ''External links'' below). The determination of which family is larger is still under debate, because verified data on the members of such enormous families are continually in flux. Regardless, the number of orchid species is nearly equal to the number of bony fishes, more than twice the number of bird species, and about four times the number of mammal species. The family encompasses about 6–11% of all species of seed plants. The largest genera are ''Bulbophyllum'' (2,000 species), ''Epidendrum'' (1,500 species), ''Dendrobium'' (1,400 species) and ''Pleurothallis'' (1,000 species). It also includes ''Vanilla'' (the genus of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anathallis
''Anathallis'' is a genus of orchids, comprising about 97 species native to Mexico, Central America, South America and the West Indies. Selected species The genus includes the following species: * '' Anathallis abbreviata'' * '' Anathallis acuminata'' (Kunth) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase, Lindleyana 16: 247 (2001). * '' Anathallis adenochila'' * '' Anathallis adrianae'' * '' Anathallis anderssonii'' (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase, Lindleyana 16: 247 (2001). * '' Anathallis anfracta'' * '' Anathallis angulosa'' * '' Anathallis angustilabia'' (Schltr.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase, Lindleyana 16: 247 (2001). * '' Anathallis ariasii'' (Luer & Hirtz) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase, Lindleyana 16: 247 (2001). * '' Anathallis aristulata'' (Lindl.) Luer, Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 112: 118 (2007). * '' Anathallis articulata'' * '' Anathallis attenuata'' (Rolfe) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase, Lindleyana 16: 247 (2001). * '' Anathallis barbulata'' * '' Anathallis bertoniensis'' * '' Anathallis bleyensis'' (Pabst) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flora Of Ecuador
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
