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Cigaritis Vulcanus
''Cigaritis vulcanus'', the common silverline, is a species of lycaenid or blue butterfly found in Asia. It was first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1775. Description The wingspan is 26–34 mm. Subspecies The subspecies of ''Cigaritis vulcanus'' are- * ''Spindasis vulcanus vulcanus'' Fabricius, 1775 – India * ''Spindasis vulcanus fusca'' (Moore, 881 – Sri Lanka * ''Spindasis vulcanus javanus'' (Fruhstorfer, 1912) – Java * ''Spindasis vulcanus tavoyana'' (Evans, 925 – Myanmar, Thailand Distribution These butterflies are found in Sri Lanka, India, central Thailand, Vietnam and Java. In India, the species has been spotted in the territories of Maharashtra, Orissa, Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. And in Vietnam, this species has only been recorded in Bình Phước province (Monastyrskii, 2003). Habitat Their numbers peak during the south-west and north-east monsoons. It inhabits scr ...
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Johan Christian Fabricius
Johan Christian Fabricius (7 January 1745 – 3 March 1808) was a Danish zoologist, specialising in "Insecta", which at that time included all arthropods: insects, arachnids, crustaceans and others. He was a student of Carl Linnaeus, and is considered one of the most important entomologists of the 18th century, having named nearly 10,000 species of animals, and established the basis for the modern insect classification. Biography Johan Christian Fabricius was born on 7 January 1745 at Tønder in the Duchy of Schleswig, where his father was a doctor. He studied at the gymnasium at Altona and entered the University of Copenhagen in 1762. Later the same year he travelled together with his friend and relative Johan Zoëga to Uppsala, where he studied under Carl Linnaeus for two years. On his return, he started work on his , which was finally published in 1775. Throughout this time, he remained dependent on subsidies from his father, who worked as a consultant at Frederiks Hospita ...
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Jujube
Jujube (), sometimes jujuba, known by the scientific name ''Ziziphus jujuba'' and also called red date, Chinese date, and Chinese jujube, is a species in the genus ''Ziziphus'' in the buckthorn family Rhamnaceae. Description It is a small deciduous tree or shrub reaching a height of , usually with thorny branches. The leaves are shiny-green, ovate-acute, long and wide, with three conspicuous veins at the base, and a finely toothed margin. The flowers are small, wide, with five inconspicuous yellowish-green petals. The fruit is an edible oval drupe deep; when immature it is smooth-green, with the consistency and taste of an apple with lower acidity, maturing brown to purplish-black, and eventually wrinkled, looking like a small date. There is a single hard kernel, similar to an olive pit, containing two seeds. Chemistry Leaves contain saponin and ziziphin, which suppresses the ability to perceive sweet taste. Flavinoids found in the fruits include Kaempfero ...
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Fauna Of Pakistan
Pakistan 's native fauna reflect its varied climatic zones. The northern Pakistan, which includes Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit Baltistan, has portions of two biodiversity hotspots, Mountains of Central Asia and Himalayas. Distribution Northern highlands and plains The northern highlands include lower elevation areas of Potohar and Pakistan Administered Kashmir regions and higher elevation areas embracing the foothills of Himalayan, Karakorum and Hindukush mountain ranges. Some of the wildlife species found on northern mountainous areas and Pothohar Plateau include the non-threatened mammal species of bharal, Eurasian lynx, Himalayan goral, Indian leopard, Marco Polo sheep, marmot (in Deosai National Park) and yellow-throated marten and birds species of chukar partridge, Eurasian eagle-owl, Himalayan monal and Himalayan snowcock and amphibian species of Himalayan toad and Muree Hills frog. The threatened ones include Asiatic black bear, Himalayan brown bear, Indian wolf, K ...
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Cigaritis
''Cigaritis'' is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. Its species are found in the Afrotropical realm, the Indomalayan realm and adjacent regions of Asia. ''Cigaritis'' includes species that used to be placed in two other genera: ''Apharitis'' Riley, 1925 and ''Spindasis'' Wallengren, 1857. The latter were synonymised with ''Cigaritis'' by Heath ''et al.'', 2002,, 2002. ''The butterflies of Zambia. African Butterfly Research Institute and The Lepidopterists’ Society of Africa''. i-xvii, 1-137. and this synonymy is followed in recent works., 2015. Phylogeny of the Aphnaeinae: myrmecophilous African butterflies with carnivorous and herbivorous life histories. ''Systematic entomology'' 40(1): 169–182. Species Listed alphabetically: *'' Cigaritis abnormis'' (Moore, 884 *'' Cigaritis acamas'' (Klug, 1834) *'' Cigaritis allardi'' Oberthür, 1909 *'' Cigaritis apelles'' (Oberthür, 1878) *''Cigaritis apuleia'' (Hulstaert, 1924) *'' Cigaritis arooni'' (Murayama & Kimura, ...
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Canthium Parviflorum
''Canthium'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. They are shrubs and small trees. The leaves are deciduous and the stems are usually thorny. Distribution ''Canthium'' species are predominantly found in Southeast Asia, especially in Thailand and the Philippines. A small number of species is found in India, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. Only a limited number of species is found on the African continent, especially in Southern and East Africa. Taxonomy ''Canthium'' was named by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck in 1785 in Encyclopédie Méthodique. The name is a latinisation of "kantankara", a Malayalam name from Kerala for ''Canthium coromandelicum''. ''Kantan'' means "shining" and ''kara'' means "a spiny shrub". The biological type for the genus consists of specimens originally described by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck as ''Canthium parviflorum''''Canthium'' In: Index Nominum Genericorum. In: Regnum Vegetabile but this species is now included in ''Canthium coromandelicum''. ''Ca ...
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Ixora Chinensis
''Ixora chinensis'', commonly known as Chinese ixora, is a species of plant of the genus ''Ixora''. Synonyms The Catalogue of Life regonises the following synonyms: References https://biofertilize.com/ixora-chinensis/ External links

* Ixora, chinensis {{Rubiaceae-stub ...
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Allophylus Cobbe
''Allophylus cobbe'', commonly known as titberry or Indian allophylus, is a pantropical, shrub in the family Sapindaceae with many uses in traditional medicine. It has a highly variable morphology throughout its range and may prove to be more than one species. Description The described size of ''Allophylus cobbe'' varies greatly from place to place. In Australia it is known as a small to large shrub, and "never a tree". In India however it is described as a "shrub to small tree", while in Papua New Guinea it is described as a tree "up to 25 m high". The compound leaves are usually trifoliolate but may have from one to five leaflets. The petiole may be from long, the petiolules of the leaflets up to long. The leaflet blades are acuminate, obovate or elliptic, with pointed tips and cuneate bases, and the margins may be crenate towards the distal end. The leaf surfaces vary from glabrous to tomentose Many small actinomorphic flowers to diameter are borne on a long infloresc ...
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Clerodendrum Inerme
''Volkameria inermis'', the glory bower, is a species of flowering plant in the genus ''Volkameria'' of the family Lamiaceae, found in Australia, Asia, Malesia and the Pacific islands Collectively called the Pacific Islands, the islands in the Pacific Ocean are further categorized into three major island groups: Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. Depending on the context, the term ''Pacific Islands'' may refer to one of se .... References Lamiaceae Flora of Asia Flora of Oceania Flora of Australia Plants described in 1753 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus {{Lamiaceae-stub ...
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Clerodendrum Siphomanthus
''Clerodendrum'' is a genus of flowering plants formerly placed in the Family (biology), family Verbenaceae, but now considered to belong to the Lamiaceae (mint) family. Its common names include glorybower, bagflower and bleeding-heart. It is currently classified in the subfamily Ajugoideae, being one of several genera transferred from Verbenaceae to Lamiaceae in the 1990s, based on phylogenetic analysis of Plant morphology, morphological and Molecular biology, molecular data. Estimates of the number of species in ''Clerodendrum'' vary widely, from about 150Yao-Wu Yuan, David J. Mabberley, Dorothy A. Steane, and Richard G. Olmstead. 2010. "Further disintegration and redefinition of ''Clerodendrum'' (Lamiaceae): Implications for the understanding of the evolution of an intriguing breeding strategy". ''Taxon'' 59(1):125-133. to about 450.Raymond M. Harley, Sandy Atkins, Andrey L. Budantsev, Philip D. Cantino, Barry J. Conn, Renée J. Grayer, Madeline M. Harley, Rogier P.J. de Kok, ...
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Ixora Longifolia
''Ixora'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It is the only genus in the tribe Ixoreae. It consists of tropical evergreen trees and shrubs and holds around 544 species. Though native to the tropical and subtropical areas throughout the world, its centre of diversity is in Tropical Asia. ''Ixora'' also grows commonly in subtropical climates in the United States, such as Florida where it is commonly known as West Indian jasmine. Other common names include viruchi, kiskaara, kepale, rangan, kheme, ponna, chann tanea, techi, pan, siantan, jarum-jarum/jejarum, jungle flame, jungle geranium, and cruz de Malta, among others. The plants possess leathery leaves, ranging from 3 to 6 inches in length, and produce large clusters of tiny flowers in the summer. Members of Ixora prefer acidic soil, and are suitable choices for bonsai. It is also a popular choice for hedges in parts of South East Asia. In tropical climates they flower year round and are common ...
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Zizyphus Rugosa
''Ziziphus'' is a genus of about 40 species of spiny shrubs and small trees in the buckthorn family, Rhamnaceae, distributed in the warm-temperate, subtropical and tropical regions of the world. The leaves are alternate, entire, with three prominent basal veins, and long; some species are deciduous, others evergreen. The flowers are small, inconspicuous yellow-green. The fruit is an edible drupe, yellow-brown, red, or black, globose or oblong, long, often very sweet and sugary, reminiscent of a date in texture and flavour. Etymology The generic name is derived via classical Latin from Hellenistic Greek, where it is presumed to have been borrowed from another language, perhaps from ''zizfum'' or ''zizafun'', the Persian word for '' Z. lotus''. Ecology ''Ziziphus'' species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including ''Bucculatrix zizyphella'', which feeds exclusively on the genus, and ''Endoclita malabaricus''. Well known species includes ''Ziz ...
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