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Monsteroideae
Monsteroideae is a subfamily of flowering plants in the family Araceae. This subfamily is notable for having many trichosclereids in the vegetative and floral parts of the plants, but rarely in the roots. Tribes and genera Monotypic tribes *Anadendreae: genus '' Anadendrum'' - SE Asia *Heteropsideae: genus '' Heteropsis'' - S America Monstereae # '' Alloschemone'' - Amazon region (Bolivia, Brazil) # '' Amydrium'' - SE Asia # ''Epipremnum'' - Himalayas, SE Asia to Australia # '' Monstera'' – tropical Americas and common houseplants # ''Rhaphidophora'' - tropical Africa, Asia to W. Pacific. # '' Rhodospatha'' – tropical Americas # ''Scindapsus'' - SE Asia, New Guinea, Queensland, W Pacific Islands # '' Stenospermation'' - central and South America Spathiphylleae # '' Holochlamys'' - New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago # '' Spathiphyllum'' - tropical Americas The Americas, which are sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of Nort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhaphidophora
''Rhaphidophora'' is a genus in the family Araceae, occurring from tropical Africa eastwards through Malesia and Australasia to the Western Pacific. The genus consists of approximately 100 species. Description This is a genus of evergreen, robust, climbing plants. The flowers are bisexual, lacking a perigone. The spathe is shed after flowering. The ovules number eight or more and are superposed on two (rarely 3) parietal placentas of the ovary. The flowers produce many, ellipsoid, straight seeds with a brittle and smooth outer coat (testa). These are hemiepiphytes, plants capable of beginning life as a seed and sending roots to the soil, or beginning as a terrestrial plant that climbs a tree and then sends roots back to the soil. In rare cases they are terrestrial rheophytes (plants that grow in fast-flowing water). Their bast fibers have typically abundant, long and slender trichosclereids, merging with the fibers of the sclerenchyma. If the blade of the leaf is torn, many ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monsteroideae
Monsteroideae is a subfamily of flowering plants in the family Araceae. This subfamily is notable for having many trichosclereids in the vegetative and floral parts of the plants, but rarely in the roots. Tribes and genera Monotypic tribes *Anadendreae: genus '' Anadendrum'' - SE Asia *Heteropsideae: genus '' Heteropsis'' - S America Monstereae # '' Alloschemone'' - Amazon region (Bolivia, Brazil) # '' Amydrium'' - SE Asia # ''Epipremnum'' - Himalayas, SE Asia to Australia # '' Monstera'' – tropical Americas and common houseplants # ''Rhaphidophora'' - tropical Africa, Asia to W. Pacific. # '' Rhodospatha'' – tropical Americas # ''Scindapsus'' - SE Asia, New Guinea, Queensland, W Pacific Islands # '' Stenospermation'' - central and South America Spathiphylleae # '' Holochlamys'' - New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago # '' Spathiphyllum'' - tropical Americas The Americas, which are sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of Nort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Araceae
The Araceae are a family of monocotyledonous flowering plants in which flowers are borne on a type of inflorescence called a spadix. The spadix is usually accompanied by, and sometimes partially enclosed in, a spathe (or leaf-like bract). Also known as the arum family, members are often colloquially known as aroids. This family of 140 genera and about 4,075 known species is most diverse in the New World tropics, although also distributed in the Old World tropics and northern temperate regions. Many species display very decorative leaves and flowers, and they are widely used for gardening; popular as indoor plants and also outdoor plants where climates are mild, and winter freezes will not generally occur. However, some temperate species are also very popular in Mediterranean-climate gardening, or in moderately cool temperate zones, such as ''Zantedeschia''. Description Species within Araceae are often rhizomatous or tuberous, and the leaves nearly always contain calcium oxa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anadendrum
''Anadendrum'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae. It is native to China and Southeast Asia Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical United Nations geoscheme for Asia#South-eastern Asia, south-eastern region of Asia, consistin ....Bown, Deni (2000). Aroids: Plants of the Arum Family LLUSTRATED Timber Press. Species #'' Anadendrum affine'' Schott - Borneo, Sumatra #'' Anadendrum angustifolium'' Engl. - Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia #'' Anadendrum badium'' P.C.Boyce - Thailand #'' Anadendrum cordatum'' Schott - Sumatra #'' Anadendrum ellipticum'' Widyartini & Widjaja - Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Peninsular Malaysia #'' Anadendrum griseum'' P.C.Boyce - Thailand #'' Anadendrum latifolium'' Hook.f - Yunnan, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, Java, Sumatra, Sulawesi, Philippines #'' Anadendrum marcesovaginatum'' P.C.Boyce - Thailand #'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heteropsis (plant)
''Heteropsis'' is a genus of plants in the family Araceae, native to Central and South America.Govaerts, R. & Frodin, D.G. (2002). World Checklist and Bibliography of Araceae (and Acoraceae): 1-560. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Species * '' Heteropsis boliviana'' Rusby - Bolivia * '' Heteropsis croatii'' M.L.Soares - Peru, northwestern Brazil * '' Heteropsis duckeana'' M.L.Soares - northwestern Brazil * '' Heteropsis ecuadorensis'' Sodiro - Ecuador * ''Heteropsis flexuosa'' ( Kunth) G.S.Bunting - Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, northwestern Brazil * '' Heteropsis linearis'' A.C.Sm. - Peru, northwestern Brazil * '' Heteropsis longispathacea'' Engl. - northwestern Brazil * '' Heteropsis macrophylla'' A.C.Sm. - Amazonas State of northwestern Brazil * '' Heteropsis melinonii'' (Engl.) A.M.E.Jonker & Jonker - Venezuela, the Guianas * '' Heteropsis oblongifolia'' Kunth - Central America, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil * '' Het ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alloschemone
''Alloschemone'' is a genus of evergreen root climbing plants in the family Araceae that is native to the Amazon region of Bolivia and Brazil. There are only two species in the genus and both are extremely rare. These two species are '' Alloschemone occidentalis'' and '' Alloschemone inopinata''. At one point in history, the genus ''Alloschemone'' was dissolved and added to ''Scindapsus ''Scindapsus'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae. It is native to Southeast Asia, New Guinea, Queensland, and a few western Pacific islands. The species ''Scindapsus pictus'' is common in cultivation. ''Scindapsus'' is not ea ...'', but it has since been reinstated after further observations of the plants.Govaerts, R. & Frodin, D.G. (2002). World Checklist and Bibliography of Araceae (and Acoraceae): 1-560. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Species # '' Alloschemone inopinata'' Bogner & P.C.Boyce - Amazonas State of western Brazil # '' Alloschemone oc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amydrium
''Amydrium'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae that is native to Southeast Asia, southern China, and New Guinea. ''Amydrium'' is distinguished from other members of the tribe Monstereae by having two ovules in each ovary. The seeds tend to be heart shaped. The leaves of ''Amydrium'' often show fenestration Fenestration may refer to: * Fenestration (architecture), the design, construction, or presence of openings in a building * Used in relation to fenestra in anatomy, medicine and biology * Fenestration, holes in the rudder of a ship to reduce the w ....Bown, Deni (2000). Aroids: Plants of the Arum Family LLUSTRATED Timber Press. #'' Amydrium hainanense'' (H.Li, Y.Shiao & S.L.Tseng) H.Li - Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Hunan, Yunnan, Vietnam #'' Amydrium humile'' Schott - Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra #'' Amydrium medium'' (Zoll. & Moritzi) Nicolson - Myanmar, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, Java, Maluku, Philippines #'' Amydrium sinense'' (E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holochlamys
''Holochlamys'' is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae. ''Holochlamys beccarii'' is the only species in the genus ''Holochlamys.'' It is native to New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago and is found growing in mud near lowland streams or rocky streambeds at high elevations. The species is primarily rheophytic and closely related to the genus '' Spathiphyllum''. ''Holochlamys'' closely resemble ''Spathiphyllum'' except that in ''Holochamys'' the spathe clasps the spadix. Also, the inflorescence rots quickly after flowering which doesn't occur in ''Spathiphyllum''. The inflorescence emerges below the foliage and has a white spathe and spadix. The spadix tends to be about the same length as the spathe and produces a leathery fruit. Contained within the fruit are very small seeds. The leaves can vary greatly in size, but they tend to be either oval or lanceolate The following is a list of terms which are used to describe leaf morphology in the description ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scindapsus
''Scindapsus'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae. It is native to Southeast Asia, New Guinea, Queensland, and a few western Pacific islands. The species ''Scindapsus pictus'' is common in cultivation. ''Scindapsus'' is not easily distinguishable from ''Epipremnum''. The main difference between the two genera is in the number of seeds they produce. ''Scindapsus'' species have one ovule in each ovary whereas ''Epipremnum'' species have a few. The seeds of ''Scindapsus'' are rounded to slightly kidney-shaped. The plants are primarily root climbing vines. History of the name Claudius Aelianus (Aelian, 2-3 cc., ''De Natura Animalium'' XII.44-46, XVII.18), uses the word in relation to an Indian musical instrument used for taming the wild elephants.Bown, Deni (2000). Aroids: Plants of the Arum Family LLUSTRATED Timber Press. Species #'' Scindapsus alpinus'' Alderw. - Sumatra #'' Scindapsus altissimus'' Alderw. - Queensland, New Guinea, Solomon Islands #'' Scindaps ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Family (biology)
Family ( la, familia, plural ') is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified between order and genus. A family may be divided into subfamilies, which are intermediate ranks between the ranks of family and genus. The official family names are Latin in origin; however, popular names are often used: for example, walnut trees and hickory trees belong to the family Juglandaceae, but that family is commonly referred to as the "walnut family". What belongs to a family—or if a described family should be recognized at all—are proposed and determined by practicing taxonomists. There are no hard rules for describing or recognizing a family, but in plants, they can be characterized on the basis of both vegetative and reproductive features of plant species. Taxonomists often take different positions about descriptions, and there may be no broad consensus across the scientific community for some time. The publishing of new data and opini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the southern subregion of a single continent called America. South America is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east by the Atlantic Ocean; North America and the Caribbean Sea lie to the northwest. The continent generally includes twelve sovereign states: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, and Venezuela; two dependent territories: the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands; and one internal territory: French Guiana. In addition, the ABC islands of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Ascension Island (dependency of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, a British Overseas Territory), Bouvet Island ( dependency of Norway), Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wallace Line
The Wallace Line or Wallace's Line is a faunal boundary line drawn in 1859 by the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace and named by English biologist Thomas Henry Huxley that separates the biogeographical realms of Asia and Wallacea, a transitional zone between Asia and Australia. West of the line are found organisms related to Asiatic species; to the east, a mixture of species of Asian and Australian origin is present. Wallace noticed this clear division during his travels through the East Indies in the 19th century. The line runs through Indonesia, between Borneo and Sulawesi (Celebes), and through the Lombok Strait between Bali and Lombok. The distance between Bali and Lombok is small, about . The distributions of many bird species observe the line, since many birds do not cross even the shortest stretches of open ocean water. Some bats have distributions that cross the line, but larger terrestrial mammals are generally limited to one side or the other; exceptions include ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
