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Catesbaeeae
Chiococceae is a tribe of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae and contains about 233 species in 27 genera. Most representatives occur from southern Florida to tropical and subtropical America, except for the genera '' Badusa'' and '' Bikkia'', which are found from the Philippines to the West Pacific, and '' Morierina'' and '' Thiollierea'', which are native to New Caledonia. Genera Currently accepted names * '' Badusa'' A.Gray (3 sp) * '' Bikkia'' Reinw. ex Blume (10 sp) * '' Catesbaea'' L. (17 sp) * '' Ceratopyxis'' Hook.f. (1 sp) * '' Ceuthocarpus'' Aiello (1 sp) * ''Chiococca'' P.Browne (25 sp) * '' Coutaportla'' Urb. (3 sp) * '' Coutarea'' Aubl. (6 sp) * '' Cubanola'' Aiello (2 sp) * '' Eosanthe'' Urb. (1 sp) * '' Erithalis'' P.Browne (8 sp) * '' Exostema'' (Pers.) Rich. ex Humb. & Bonpl. (43 sp) * '' Hintonia'' Bullock (3 sp) * '' Isidorea'' A.Rich ex DC. (17 sp) * '' Morierina'' Vieill. (2 sp) * '' Nernstia'' Urb. (1 sp) * '' Osa'' Aiello (1 sp) * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chiococca Alba
''Chiococca alba'' is a species of flowering plant in the coffee family (Rubiaceae) native to Florida and the extreme southern tip of Texas in the United States, Bermuda, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, the Galápagos, and tropical South America. Common names include David's milkberry, West Indian milkberry, cahinca and West Indian snowberry. The specific epithet, ''alba'', means "white" in Latin and refers to the color of its fruits. Description West Indian milkberry is an evergreen woody vine or scrambling shrub that often grows on other vegetation and may reach a height of . The opposite, simple leaves are long and may be elliptic to ovate or broadly lanceolate in shape. Yellow, bell-shaped flowers up to in length appear throughout the year on racemes or panicles of six of to eight. The fruit is a white drupe in diameter that generally contains two dark brown seeds. Taxonomy ''Lonicera alba'' was described in 1753 by Carl Linnaeus. It was moved to ''Chiococca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Caledonia
) , anthem = "" , image_map = New Caledonia on the globe (small islands magnified) (Polynesia centered).svg , map_alt = Location of New Caledonia , map_caption = Location of New Caledonia , mapsize = 290px , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = , established_title = Annexed by France , established_date = 24 September 1853 , established_title2 = Overseas territory , established_date2 = 1946 , established_title3 = Nouméa Accord , established_date3 = 5 May 1998 , official_languages = French , regional_languages = , capital = Nouméa , coordinates = , largest_city = capital , demonym = New Caledonian , government_type = Devolved parliamentary dependency , leader_title1 = President of France , leader_name1 = Emmanuel Macron , leader_title2 = President of the Government , leader_name2 = Louis Mapou , leader_title3 = President of the Congress , leader_name3 = Roch Wamytan , leader_title4 = High Commissioner , leader_name4 = Patrice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cubanola
''Cubanola'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae, with large, showy, hanging flowers."Cubanola" Aiello, Annette. 1979. Journal of the Arnold Arboretum 60(1): 111–113 They are to the and eastern . [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet
Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet (November 4, 1720 – May 6, 1778) was a French pharmacist, botanist and one of the earliest botanical explorers in South America.JSTOR He was one of the first botanists to study ethnobotany in the Neotropics. Born in Salon-de-Provence, Aublet left home early and traveled to Grenada, then a French colony, where he became an apothecary's assistant and learned about medicinal plants. A year later he returned to France and continued his studies in natural history, chemistry, and pharmacology. One of his mentors was Bernard de Jussieu, a French naturalist who would later help him with plant identification.Mori He joined the French East India Company and in 1752 was sent to Mauritius (then known as ''l'Île de France'') to establish a pharmacy and a botanical garden. He became involved in an intense rivalry with Pierre Poivre, a fellow botanist at the Mon Plaisir garden, and eventually left to establish a new garden at Le Réduit. When Aub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coutarea
''Coutarea'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. The genus is native to southern Mexico, Central America, South America and the West Indies. These plants are woody trees and shrubs with oppositely arranged leaves and terminal inflorescences. The large, showy flowers are white, pink, red, or purplish, sometimes with whitish or greenish markings. The fruit is a woody, flattened capsule containing seeds with large wings.''Coutarea''. Selected Rubiaceae Tribes and Genera. Tropicos. Species *'' Coutarea andrei'' Standl. - |
Ignatz Urban
Ignatz Urban (7 January 1848 – 7 January 1931) was a German botanist. He is known for his contributions to the flora of the Caribbean and Brazil, and for his work as curator of the Berlin Botanical Garden. Born the son of a brewer, Urban showed an interest in botany as an undergraduate. He pursued further study at the University of Bonn and later at the University of Berlin where he gained a doctorate in 1873. Urban was appointed by A. W. Eichler to run the Berlin Botanical Garden and supervised its move to Dahlem. He also worked as Eichler's assistant on the ''Flora Brasiliensis'', later succeeding him as editor. In 1884 Urban began working with Leopold Krug on his Puerto Rican collections, a collaboration would later produce the nine-volume '' Symbolae Antillanae'', one of his most important contributions, and his 30-part ''Sertum Antillanum''. Urban's herbarium, estimated to include 80,000 or more sheets, was destroyed when the Berlin Herbarium was bombed in 1943 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coutaportla
''Coutaportla'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It is found in Mexico and Guatemala. Species *'' Coutaportla ghiesbreghtiana'' (Baill.) Urb. - Puebla, Oaxaca *'' Coutaportla guatemalensis'' (Standl.) Lorence - Veracruz Veracruz (), formally Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave), is one of the 31 states which, along with Me ..., Chiapas, Guatemala *'' Coutaportla pailensis'' Villarreal - Coahuila References External links''Coutaportla'' in the World Checklist of Rubiaceae Rubiaceae genera Chiococceae {{Cinchonoideae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annette Aiello
Annette A. Aiello (born May 1, 1941) is an American zoologist, botanical entomologist, and professor. She develops academic activities at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Biography Annette Aiello was born on May 1, 1941 in New York City, New York. She initially studied commercial photography, and became interested in botany via nature photography. In 1972, Aiello obtained a BA in biology, ''magna cum laude'', from Brooklyn College. In 1975 she obtained an MA in biology from Harvard University, followed in 1978 by a PhD in biology, defending her thesis: "A Reexamination of ''Portlandia'' (Rubiaceae) and Associated Taxa", under the supervision of her advisor, botanist Richard A. Howard. During the late 1970s Aiello studied on the Barro Colorado Island Barro Colorado Island is located in the man-made Gatun Lake in the middle of the Panama Canal. The island was formed when the waters of the Chagres River were dammed to form the lake in 1913. When the waters rose, they ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ceuthocarpus
''Ceuthocarpus'' is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. The genus contains only one species, viz. ''Ceuthocarpus involucratus'', which is endemic to 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 links ''Ceuthocarpus'' in the World Checklist of Rubiaceae Monotypic Rubiaceae genera Chiococceae {{Cinchonoideae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ceratopyxis
''Ceratopyxis'' is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. The genus contains only one species, viz. ''Ceratopyxis verbenaceae'', which is endemic to Cuba. It is a resin In polymer chemistry and materials science, resin is a solid or highly viscous substance of plant or synthetic origin that is typically convertible into polymers. Resins are usually mixtures of organic compounds. This article focuses on n ...ous small tree or bush with 4.5-8 centimeter oblong leaves. The fruit it produces is 4-5 millimeters in diameter, and with small hairs attached to the skin. References External links ''Ceratopyxis'' in the World Checklist of Rubiaceae Monotypic Rubiaceae genera Chiococceae Taxa named by Joseph Dalton Hooker {{Cinchonoideae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy". Many of his writings were in Latin; his name is rendered in Latin as and, after his 1761 ennoblement, as . Linnaeus was born in Råshult, the countryside of Småland, in southern Sweden. He received most of his higher education at Uppsala University and began giving lectures in botany there in 1730. He lived abroad between 1735 and 1738, where he studied and also published the first edition of his ' in the Netherlands. He then returned to Sweden where he became professor of medicine and botany at Uppsala. In the 1740s, he was sent on several journeys through Sweden to find and classify plants and animals. In the 1750s and 1760s, he continued to collect an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catesbaea
''Catesbaea'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It occurs in the West Indies, The Bahamas, and the Florida Keys. The genus is named in honour of English naturalist Mark Catesby. This source says the genus was named by Gronovius. Species * '' Catesbaea ekmaniana'' Urb. - Haiti * '' Catesbaea flaviflora'' Urb. - Cuba * '' Catesbaea foliosa'' Millsp. - Bahamas, Turks & Caicos Islands * '' Catesbaea fuertesii'' Urb. - Dominican Republic * '' Catesbaea gamboana'' Urb. - Cuba * '' Catesbaea glabra'' Urb. - Dominican Republic, Haiti * '' Catesbaea grayi'' Griseb. - Cuba, Haiti * '' Catesbaea holacantha'' C.Wright ex Griseb. - Cuba * '' Catesbaea longispina'' A.Rich. - Cuba * '' Catesbaea macrantha'' C.Wright - Cuba * '' Catesbaea melanocarpa'' Urb. - tropical lilythorn - Puerto Rico, Leeward Islands * '' Catesbaea microcarpa'' Urb. - Haiti * '' Catesbaea nana'' Greenm. - Cuba * '' Catesbaea parviflora'' Sw. - smallflower lilythorn or dune lilythor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
