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Corsiopsis
''Corsiopsis'' is a genus of plants in the Corsiaceae family. It contains only one known species, ''Corsiopsis chinensis'', endemic to Guangdong Province in China. Both the genus and the species were circumscribed In geometry, the circumscribed circle or circumcircle of a polygon is a circle that passes through all the vertices of the polygon. The center of this circle is called the circumcenter and its radius is called the circumradius. Not every polyg ... by Dian Xiang Zhang, Richard M.K. Saunders and Chi-Ming Hu in Syst. Bot. vol.24 (3) on page 313 in 1999. The genus name of ''Corsiopsis'' is in honour of Bardo Corsi Salviati (1844–1907), who was an Italian nobleman with a large botanical park near Florence. References Monotypic Liliales genera Corsiaceae Parasitic plants Flora of Guangdong {{Liliales-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corsiaceae
Corsiaceae is a family of monocotyledonous flowering plants. The APG II system (2003) treats the family in the order Liliales, in the clade monocots. This is a slight change from the APG system, of 1998, which left the family unplaced as to order, but did assign it also to the monocots. Taxonomy The family is usually taken to include three genera, ''Corsia'', ''Corsiopsis'', and ''Arachnitis'' with a total of 27 known species. As the members of this family are achlorophyllous non-autotrophic herbs (i.e. they are not green, and do not photosynthesize) they have sometimes been included in the family Burmanniaceae which, however, according to APG II is not even in the same order. ThAPG companion sitecites a reference which suggests the family should consist of ''Corsia'' only, with ''Arachnitis'' better placed nearer to family Burmanniaceae. ''Corsiopsis'', like ''Arachnitis'' a monotypic genus, has been described recently. Genera and species *''Arachnitis'' Phil., 1864 **''Arachn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
