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Connarus Lamii
''Connarus'' is a genus of plants in the family Connaraceae with a pan-tropical distribution. Description Plants in this genus are vines, shrubs or small trees. Leaves are compound, either trifoliate or imparipinnate. The inflorescences are panicles, usually or , individual flowers are bisexual (i.e. each having both male and female organs), 5-merous (with five parts), and covered with glands; petals are free of each other, stamens 10 in two whorls, the inner whorl shorter, carpels 1. The fruit are flattened follicles, often with a at the base and a small beak at the apex, opening on a longitudinal suture. Seeds 1, black with a fleshy yellow sarcotesta. Distribution and habitat ''Connarus'' species are distributed throughout the tropics of Africa, Asia and the Americas, and extends into some temperate areas as well (southern Brazil and southern China). Species , Plants of the World Online Plants of the World Online (POWO) is an online taxonomic database published by t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy". Many of his writings were in Latin; his name is rendered in Latin as and, after his 1761 ennoblement, as . Linnaeus was the son of a curate and was born in Råshult, in the countryside of Småland, 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 co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Connarus Agamae
''Connarus agamae'' is a tree in the family Connaraceae. It is named for José Agama, a former Deputy Conservator of Forests in British North Borneo. Description ''Connarus agamae'' grows up to tall with a trunk diameter of up to . The obovate fruits measure up to long. Distribution and habitat ''Connarus agamae'' is endemic to Sabah in Malaysian Borneo. Its habitat is mixed dipterocarp Dipterocarpaceae is a family of flowering plants with 22 genera and about 695 known species of mainly lowland tropical forest trees. Their distribution is pantropical, from northern South America to Africa, the Seychelles, India, Indochina, Indo ... forest from sea-level to elevation. References Connaraceae Endemic flora of Borneo Trees of Borneo Flora of Sabah Plants described in 1918 Flora of the Borneo lowland rain forests {{rosid-tree-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Connarus Congolanus
''Connarus'' is a genus of plants in the family Connaraceae with a pan-tropical distribution. Description Plants in this genus are vines, shrubs or small trees. Leaves are compound, either trifoliate or imparipinnate. The inflorescences are panicles, usually or , individual flowers are bisexual (i.e. each having both male and female organs), 5-merous (with five parts), and covered with glands; petals are free of each other, stamens 10 in two whorls, the inner whorl shorter, carpels 1. The fruit are flattened follicles, often with a at the base and a small beak at the apex, opening on a longitudinal suture. Seeds 1, black with a fleshy yellow sarcotesta. Distribution and habitat ''Connarus'' species are distributed throughout the tropics of Africa, Asia and the Americas, and extends into some temperate areas as well (southern Brazil and southern China). Species , Plants of the World Online Plants of the World Online (POWO) is an online taxonomic database published by t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
