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Costera (plant)
''Costera'' is a genus in the Ericaceae found in the Malesian floristic region. It is a small genus of often epiphytic shrubs that grows in tropical rainforests. Description ''Costera'' is a small genus of shrubs with glabrous, leathery, unlobed leaves arranged in alternate phyllotaxy. The inflorescences are axile and sessile; flowers emerge in bundles directly from the stem. The flowers are small and tetramerous or pentamerous. They are directly attached to the stem via a pedicel with 2 basal bracts. The calyx is mostly fused and forms 4 or 5 apical teeth, which are the unfused tips of the sepals. The 4 or 5 petals are also fused into a short tube, and the inner surface of the corolla contains minute laciniate projections toward the base. The alternating stamens are lightly appressed to the corolla and have a short linear filament. The anthers are elongated, tubular, and erect. They face inward and release pollen through an apical pore. The ovary is inferior and is d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Costera Ovalifolia
''Costera'' may refer to: *La Costera La Costera () is a comarca in the province of Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain. Municipalities *L'Alcúdia de Crespins * Barxeta *Canals * Cerdà * Estubeny * La Font de la Figuera * Genovés * La Granja de la Costera * Llanera de Ranes * ..., a comarca in Valencia, Spain * ''Costera'' (plant), a genus of plants in the Ericaceae {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perianth
The perianth (perigonium, perigon or perigone in monocots) is the non-reproductive part of the flower, and structure that forms an envelope surrounding the sexual organs, consisting of the calyx (sepals) and the corolla (petals) or tepals when called a perigone. The term ''perianth'' is derived from Greek περί (, "around") and άνθος (, "flower"), while ''perigonium'' is derived from περί () and γόνος (, "seed, sex organs"). In the mosses and liverworts (Marchantiophyta), the perianth is the sterile tubelike tissue that surrounds the female reproductive structure (or developing sporophyte). Flowering plants In flowering plants, the perianth may be described as being either dichlamydeous/heterochlamydeous in which the calyx and corolla are clearly separate, or homochlamydeous, in which they are indistinguishable (and the sepals and petals are collectively referred to as tepals). When the perianth is in two whorls, it is described as biseriate. While the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Costera Cyclophylla
''Costera'' may refer to: *La Costera La Costera () is a comarca in the province of Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain. Municipalities *L'Alcúdia de Crespins * Barxeta *Canals * Cerdà * Estubeny * La Font de la Figuera * Genovés * La Granja de la Costera * Llanera de Ranes * ..., a comarca in Valencia, Spain * ''Costera'' (plant), a genus of plants in the Ericaceae {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Costera Borneensis
''Costera'' may refer to: *La Costera La Costera () is a comarca in the province of Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain. Municipalities *L'Alcúdia de Crespins * Barxeta *Canals * Cerdà * Estubeny * La Font de la Figuera * Genovés * La Granja de la Costera * Llanera de Ranes * ..., a comarca in Valencia, Spain * ''Costera'' (plant), a genus of plants in the Ericaceae {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karimata Islands
The Karimata Islands are a chain of small islands off the west coast of Indonesian Borneo, the largest of which is (Pulau) Karimata, being about across (east-west). It is part of Kayong Utara Regency of West Kalimantan province in Indonesia. Karimata has a wide range of ecosystems, from mangroves and tropical rain forest in the lowlands to montane shrubland on the summit of the c. mountain (a spectacular example of the Massenerhebung effect). The mountain is composed of granite. A substantial population of cave swiftlets has historically been the source of birds nests for birds nest soup, but has decreased recently to near extirpation, due to overharvesting by non-indigenous collectors who have been arriving from the mainland. A number of small villages are situated on the coast, the largest of which is Padang, on the eastern tip of the island. The island is renowned by inhabitants of the west coast of Kalimantan to have a serious malaria Malaria is a mosquito-borne inf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vaccinieae
Vaccinieae is a tribe of over 1000 species in the plant family Ericaceae. The tribe consists of morphologically diverse woody plants. Species within Vaccinieae can be found on all continents except Australia and Antarctica. Genetic analysis indicates that Vaccinieae is a monophyletic group. Genera ''Agapetes'' - '' Anthopteropsis'' - '' Anthopterus'' - '' Calopteryx'' - ''Cavendishia'' - '' Ceratostema'' - ''Costera'' - '' Demosthenesia'' - '' Didonica'' - '' Dimorphanthera'' - '' Diogenesia'' - '' Disterigma'' - ''Gaylussacia'' - '' Gonocalyx'' - '' Laterospora'' - '' Macleania'' - '' Mycerinus'' - ''Notopora'' - '' Oreanthes'' - '' Orthaea'' - '' Paphia'' - '' Pellegrinia'' - '' Periclesia'' - '' Plutarchia'' - '' Polyclita'' - ''Psammisia'' - '' Rusbya'' - ''Satyria'' - '' Semiramisia'' - ''Siphonandra'' - ''Sphyrospermum'' - '' Symphysia'' - '' Themistoclesia'' - ''Thibaudia'' - '' Utleya'' - ''Vaccinium ''Vaccinium'' is a common and widespread genus of shrubs or dwarf sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johannes Jacobus Smith
Johannes Jacobus Smith (Antwerp 29 June 1867 – Oegstgeest 14 January 1947) (sometimes written as Joannes Jacobus Smith) was a Dutch botanist who, between years 1905 to 1924, crossed the islands of the Dutch East Indies (mainly Java), collecting specimens of plants and describing and cataloguing the flora of these islands. The standard botanical author abbreviation J.J.Sm. is applied to plants described by J.J. Smith. The description of the flowers of the western half of New Guinea (then a Dutch territory) is largely based on his work. He was, next to Rudolf Schlechter, the most prolific author on New Guinea orchids. He also described numerous plants from other families, such as Ericaceae and Euphorbiaceae. Biography J.J. Smith sailed to Java in 1891 and became assistant curator at the Buitenzorg Botanical Gardens (near Batavia), now Bogor. He made several expeditions in Java, Celebes (now Sulawesi), the Ambon Islands and the Moluccas. In 1905 he was promoted to assistant of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diplycosia
''Diplycosia'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Ericaceae. Its native range is Indo-China to Papuasia Papuasia is a Level 2 botanical region defined in the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD). It lies in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, in the Melanesia ecoregion of Oceania and Tropical Asia. It comprises the .... Species: *'' Diplycosia abanii'' *'' Diplycosia abscondita'' *'' Diplycosia acuminata'' *'' Diplycosia amboinensis'' *'' Diplycosia annamensis'' *'' Diplycosia aperta'' *'' Diplycosia apiculifera'' *'' Diplycosia apoensis'' *'' Diplycosia atjehensis'' *'' Diplycosia aurea'' *'' Diplycosia balgooyi'' *'' Diplycosia barbigera'' *'' Diplycosia bartolomei'' *'' Diplycosia benitotanii'' *'' Diplycosia brachyantha'' *'' Diplycosia capitata'' *'' Diplycosia carrii'' *'' Diplycosia caryophylloides'' *'' Diplycosia caudatifolia'' *'' Diplycosia celebensis'' *'' Diplycosia chrysothrix'' *'' Dipl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vaccinium
''Vaccinium'' is a common and widespread genus of shrubs or dwarf shrubs in the heath family (Ericaceae). The fruits of many species are eaten by humans and some are of commercial importance, including the cranberry, blueberry, bilberry (whortleberry), lingonberry (cowberry), and huckleberry. Like many other ericaceous plants, they are generally restricted to acidic soils. Description The plant structure varies between species: some trail along the ground, some are dwarf shrubs, and some are larger shrubs perhaps tall. Some tropical species are epiphytic. Stems are usually woody. Flowers are epigynous with fused petals, and have long styles that protrude from their bell-shaped corollas. Stamens have anthers with extended tube-like structures called "awns" through which pollen falls when mature. Inflorescences can be axillary or terminal. The fruit develops from an inferior ovary, and is a four- or five-parted berry; it is usually brightly coloured, often being red or bluish wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fruit
In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants that is formed from the ovary after flowering. Fruits are the means by which flowering plants (also known as angiosperms) disseminate their seeds. Edible fruits in particular have long propagated using the movements of humans and animals in a symbiotic relationship that is the means for seed dispersal for the one group and nutrition for the other; in fact, humans and many animals have become dependent on fruits as a source of food. Consequently, fruits account for a substantial fraction of the world's agricultural output, and some (such as the apple and the pomegranate) have acquired extensive cultural and symbolic meanings. In common language usage, "fruit" normally means the seed-associated fleshy structures (or produce) of plants that typically are sweet or sour and edible in the raw state, such as apples, bananas, grapes, lemons, oranges, and strawberries. In botanical usage, the term "fruit" also i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nectar
Nectar is a sugar-rich liquid produced by plants in glands called nectaries or nectarines, either within the flowers with which it attracts pollinating animals, or by extrafloral nectaries, which provide a nutrient source to animal mutualists, which in turn provide herbivore protection. Common nectar-consuming pollinators include mosquitoes, hoverflies, wasps, bees, butterflies and moths, hummingbirds, honeyeaters and bats. Nectar plays a crucial role in the foraging economics and evolution of nectar-eating species; for example, nectar foraging behavior is largely responsible for the divergent evolution of the African honey bee, ''A. m. scutellata'' and the western honey bee. Nectar is an economically important substance as it is the sugar source for honey. It is also useful in agriculture and horticulture because the adult stages of some predatory insects feed on nectar. For example, a number of parasitoid wasps (e.g. the social wasp species ''Apoica flavissima'') rely ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stigma (botany)
The stigma () is the receptive tip of a carpel, or of several fused carpels, in the gynoecium of a flower. Description The stigma, together with the style and ovary (typically called the stigma-style-ovary system) comprises the pistil, which is part of the gynoecium or female reproductive organ of a plant. The stigma itself forms the distal portion of the style, or stylodia, and is composed of , the cells of which are receptive to pollen. These may be restricted to the apex of the style or, especially in wind pollinated species, cover a wide surface. The stigma receives pollen and it is on the stigma that the pollen grain germinates. Often sticky, the stigma is adapted in various ways to catch and trap pollen with various hairs, flaps, or sculpturings. The pollen may be captured from the air (wind-borne pollen, anemophily), from visiting insects or other animals ( biotic pollination), or in rare cases from surrounding water (hydrophily). Stigma can vary from long and sle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
