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Basiphyllaea Hoffmannii
''Basiphyllaea'' is a genus of orchids (family Orchidaceae), known as Carter's orchid or crab orchids.Nir, M. Orchidaceae Antillanae, 33-34, 2000. They are native to Florida and the West Indies. At the present time (May 2014), 7 species are recognized: *'' Basiphyllaea carabiaiana'' (L.O.Williams) Sosa & M.A.Díaz - Cuba *'' Basiphyllaea corallicola'' (Small) Ames - Florida, Bahamas, Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico *'' Basiphyllaea hamiltoniana'' Ackerman & Whitten - Jamaica *'' Basiphyllaea hoffmannii'' M.A.Díaz & Llamacho - Cuba *''Basiphyllaea sarcophylla'' (Rchb.f.) Schltr. - Cuba *''Basiphyllaea volubilis'' (M.A.Díaz) Sosa & M.A.Díaz - Cuba *''Basiphyllaea wrightii'' (Acuña) Nir - Cuba Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located where the northern Caribbea ... References External linksUSDA plant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schlechter (botanist)
Schlechter is a family surname of German origin, which literally means “worse”. Notable people with this surname: * Carl Schlechter (1874–1918), Austrian chess master * Emanuel Schlechter (1906–1943), Polish lyricist, composer, writer * Lambert Schlechter Lambert Schlechter (born 1941) is a Luxembourg author who has published some 40 books written in French, most of them published in France and two written in German published in Luxembourg. His work includes poetry, novels, short stories and essays ... (born 1941), Luxembourg author * Rudolf Schlechter (1872–1925), German taxonomist {{Surname German-language surnames Surnames from nicknames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hispaniola
Hispaniola (, also ; es, La Española; Latin and french: Hispaniola; ht, Ispayola; tnq, Ayiti or Quisqueya) is an island in the Caribbean that is part of the Greater Antilles. Hispaniola is the most populous island in the West Indies, and the region's second largest in area, after the island of Cuba. The island is divided into two separate nations: the Spanish-speaking Dominican Republic (48,445 km2, 18,705 sq mi) to the east and the French/ Haitian Creole-speaking Haiti (27,750 km2, 10,710 sq mi) to the west. The only other divided island in the Caribbean is Saint Martin, which is shared between France ( Saint Martin) and the Netherlands (Sint Maarten). Hispaniola is the site of one of the first European settlements in the Americas, La Navidad (1492–1493), as well as the first proper town, La Isabela (1493–1500), and the first permanent settlement, the current capital of the Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo (est. 1498). These settlements were founded succe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basiphyllaea Wrightii
''Basiphyllaea'' is a genus of orchids (family Orchidaceae), known as Carter's orchid or crab orchids.Nir, M. Orchidaceae Antillanae, 33-34, 2000. They are native to Florida and the West Indies. At the present time (May 2014), 7 species are recognized: *'' Basiphyllaea carabiaiana'' (L.O.Williams) Sosa & M.A.Díaz - Cuba *'' Basiphyllaea corallicola'' (Small) Ames - Florida, Bahamas, Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico *'' Basiphyllaea hamiltoniana'' Ackerman & Whitten - Jamaica *'' Basiphyllaea hoffmannii'' M.A.Díaz & Llamacho - Cuba *'' Basiphyllaea sarcophylla'' (Rchb.f.) Schltr. - Cuba *'' Basiphyllaea volubilis'' (M.A.Díaz) Sosa & M.A.Díaz - Cuba *'' Basiphyllaea wrightii'' (Acuña) Nir - Cuba Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located where the northern Caribbea ... References External linksUSDA pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basiphyllaea Volubilis
''Basiphyllaea'' is a genus of orchids (family Orchidaceae), known as Carter's orchid or crab orchids.Nir, M. Orchidaceae Antillanae, 33-34, 2000. They are native to Florida and the West Indies. At the present time (May 2014), 7 species are recognized: *'' Basiphyllaea carabiaiana'' (L.O.Williams) Sosa & M.A.Díaz - Cuba *'' Basiphyllaea corallicola'' (Small) Ames - Florida, Bahamas, Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico *'' Basiphyllaea hamiltoniana'' Ackerman & Whitten - Jamaica *'' Basiphyllaea hoffmannii'' M.A.Díaz & Llamacho - Cuba *'' Basiphyllaea sarcophylla'' (Rchb.f.) Schltr. - Cuba *'' Basiphyllaea volubilis'' (M.A.Díaz) Sosa & M.A.Díaz - Cuba *''Basiphyllaea wrightii'' (Acuña) Nir - Cuba Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located where the northern Caribbea ... References External linksUSDA pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basiphyllaea Sarcophylla
''Basiphyllaea'' is a genus of orchids (family Orchidaceae), known as Carter's orchid or crab orchids.Nir, M. Orchidaceae Antillanae, 33-34, 2000. They are native to Florida and the West Indies. At the present time (May 2014), 7 species are recognized: *'' Basiphyllaea carabiaiana'' (L.O.Williams) Sosa & M.A.Díaz - Cuba *'' Basiphyllaea corallicola'' (Small) Ames - Florida, Bahamas, Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico *'' Basiphyllaea hamiltoniana'' Ackerman & Whitten - Jamaica *'' Basiphyllaea hoffmannii'' M.A.Díaz & Llamacho - Cuba *'' Basiphyllaea sarcophylla'' (Rchb.f.) Schltr. - Cuba *''Basiphyllaea volubilis'' (M.A.Díaz) Sosa & M.A.Díaz - Cuba *''Basiphyllaea wrightii'' (Acuña) Nir - Cuba Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located where the northern Caribbea ... References External linksUSDA plan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basiphyllaea Hoffmannii
''Basiphyllaea'' is a genus of orchids (family Orchidaceae), known as Carter's orchid or crab orchids.Nir, M. Orchidaceae Antillanae, 33-34, 2000. They are native to Florida and the West Indies. At the present time (May 2014), 7 species are recognized: *'' Basiphyllaea carabiaiana'' (L.O.Williams) Sosa & M.A.Díaz - Cuba *'' Basiphyllaea corallicola'' (Small) Ames - Florida, Bahamas, Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico *'' Basiphyllaea hamiltoniana'' Ackerman & Whitten - Jamaica *'' Basiphyllaea hoffmannii'' M.A.Díaz & Llamacho - Cuba *''Basiphyllaea sarcophylla'' (Rchb.f.) Schltr. - Cuba *''Basiphyllaea volubilis'' (M.A.Díaz) Sosa & M.A.Díaz - Cuba *''Basiphyllaea wrightii'' (Acuña) Nir - Cuba Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located where the northern Caribbea ... References External linksUSDA plant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamaica
Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola (the island containing the countries of Haiti and the Dominican Republic); the British Overseas Territory of the Cayman Islands lies some to the north-west. Originally inhabited by the indigenous Taíno peoples, the island came under Spanish rule following the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1494. Many of the indigenous people either were killed or died of diseases, after which the Spanish brought large numbers of African slaves to Jamaica as labourers. The island remained a possession of Spain until 1655, when England (later Great Britain) conquered it, renaming it ''Jamaica''. Under British colonial rule Jamaica became a leading sugar exporter, with a plantation economy dependent on the African slaves and later their des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basiphyllaea Hamiltoniana
''Basiphyllaea'' is a genus of orchids (family Orchidaceae), known as Carter's orchid or crab orchids.Nir, M. Orchidaceae Antillanae, 33-34, 2000. They are native to Florida and the West Indies. At the present time (May 2014), 7 species are recognized: *''Basiphyllaea carabiaiana'' (L.O.Williams) Sosa & M.A.Díaz - Cuba *'' Basiphyllaea corallicola'' (Small) Ames - Florida, Bahamas, Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico *'' Basiphyllaea hamiltoniana'' Ackerman & Whitten - Jamaica *''Basiphyllaea hoffmannii'' M.A.Díaz & Llamacho - Cuba *''Basiphyllaea sarcophylla'' (Rchb.f.) Schltr. - Cuba *''Basiphyllaea volubilis'' (M.A.Díaz) Sosa & M.A.Díaz - Cuba *''Basiphyllaea wrightii'' (Acuña) Nir - Cuba Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located where the northern Caribbea ... References External linksUSDA plants ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico (; abbreviated PR; tnq, Boriken, ''Borinquen''), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ( es, link=yes, Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, lit=Free Associated State of Puerto Rico), is a Caribbean island and Unincorporated territories of the United States, unincorporated territory of the United States. It is located in the northeast Caribbean Sea, approximately southeast of Miami, Florida, between the Dominican Republic and the United States Virgin Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands, and includes the eponymous main island and several smaller islands, such as Isla de Mona, Mona, Culebra, Puerto Rico, Culebra, and Vieques, Puerto Rico, Vieques. It has roughly 3.2 million residents, and its Capital city, capital and Municipalities of Puerto Rico, most populous city is San Juan, Puerto Rico, San Juan. Spanish language, Spanish and English language, English are the official languages of the executive branch of government, though Spanish predominates. Puerto Rico ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bahamas
The Bahamas (), officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the West Indies in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic. It takes up 97% of the Lucayan Archipelago's land area and is home to 88% of the archipelago's population. The archipelagic state consists of more than 3,000 islands, cays, and islets in the Atlantic Ocean, and is located north of Cuba and northwest of the island of Hispaniola (split between the Dominican Republic and Haiti) and the Turks and Caicos Islands, southeast of the U.S. state of Florida, and east of the Florida Keys. The capital is Nassau, Bahamas, Nassau on the island of New Providence. The Royal Bahamas Defence Force describes The Bahamas' territory as encompassing of ocean space. The Bahama Islands were inhabited by the Lucayan people, Lucayans, a branch of the Arawakan-Taino language, speaking Taíno, for many centuries. Christopher Columbus was the first European to see the islands, making hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family (taxonomy), family. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus. :E.g. ''Panthera leo'' (lion) and ''Panthera onca'' (jaguar) are two species within the genus ''Panthera''. ''Panthera'' is a genus within the family Felidae. The composition of a genus is determined by taxonomy (biology), taxonomists. The standards for genus classification are not strictly codified, so different authorities often produce different classifications for genera. There are some general practices used, however, including the idea that a newly defined genus should fulfill these three criteria to be descriptively useful: # monophyly – all descendants ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basiphyllaea Corallicola
''Basiphyllaea corallicola'' is a species of orchid native to Florida, Bahamas, Cuba, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico Puerto Rico (; abbreviated PR; tnq, Boriken, ''Borinquen''), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ( es, link=yes, Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, lit=Free Associated State of Puerto Rico), is a Caribbean island and Unincorporated ....McCartney, C. 1992. Stalking the elusive ''Basiphyllaea corallicola''. Part 2. Florida Orchidist 34: 195–211. ''Basiphyllaea corallicola'' is a terrestrial herb up to 40 cm tall, with underground tubers. Leaves are narrowly linear to elliptic, up to 25 cm long. Flowers are borne in a scape of up to 10 nodding flowers, each yellow-green with a white lip. References External linksBiota of North America Program, county distribution map, ''Basiphyllaea corallicola'' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
