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Sherbournieae ''
Sherbournieae is a tribe of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae and contains 54 species in 4 genera. Its representatives are found in tropical and southern Africa. Genera Currently accepted names * '' Atractogyne'' Pierre (2 sp) * '' Mitriostigma'' Hochst. (5 sp) * ''Oxyanthus'' DC. (34 sp) * ''Sherbournia'' G.Don (13 sp) Synonyms * ''Afrohamelia'' Wernham = '' Atractogyne'' * ''Amaralia'' Welw. ex Hook.f. = ''Sherbournia'' * ''Megacarpha'' Hochst. = ''Oxyanthus ''Oxyanthus'' is a genus of plant in family Rubiaceae. It contains the following species (but this list may be incomplete): # ''Oxyanthus barensis'' K. Krause References Ixoroideae tribes[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ixoroideae Tribes
Ixoroideae is a subfamily of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae and contains about 4000 species in 27 tribes. Tribes * Airospermeae Kainul. & B.Bremer * Alberteae Hook.f. * Aleisanthieae Mouly, J.Florence & B.Bremer * Augusteae Kainul. & B.Bremer * Bertiereae Bridson * Coffeeae DC. * Condamineeae Hook.f. * Cordiereae A.Rich. ex DC. emend. Mouly * Cremasporeae Bremek. ex S.P.Darwin * Crossopterygeae F.White ex Bridson * Gardenieae A.Rich. ex DC. * Greeneeae Mouly, J.Florence & B.Bremer * Henriquezieae Benth. & Hook.f. * Ixoreae Benth. & Hook.f. * Jackieae Korth. * Mussaendeae Hook.f. * Octotropideae Bedd. * Pavetteae A.Rich. ex Dumort. * Posoquerieae Delprete * Retiniphylleae Hook.f. * Sabiceeae Bremek. * Scyphiphoreae Kainul. & B.Bremer * Sherbournieae Mouly & B.Bremer * Sipaneeae Bremek. * Steenisieae Kainul. & B.Bremer * Trailliaedoxeae Kainul. & B.Bremer * Vanguerieae A.Rich. ex Dumort. Classification Ixoroideae is a subfamily of the family Rub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rubiaceae
The Rubiaceae are a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the coffee, madder, or bedstraw family. It consists of terrestrial trees, shrubs, lianas, or herbs that are recognizable by simple, opposite leaves with interpetiolar stipules and sympetalous actinomorphic flowers. The family contains about 13,500 species in about 620 genera, which makes it the fourth-largest angiosperm family. Rubiaceae has a cosmopolitan distribution; however, the largest species diversity is concentrated in the tropics and subtropics. Economically important genera include ''Coffea'', the source of coffee, '' Cinchona'', the source of the antimalarial alkaloid quinine, ornamental cultivars (''e.g.'', '' Gardenia'', ''Ixora'', ''Pentas''), and historically some dye plants (''e.g.'', ''Rubia''). Description The Rubiaceae are morphologically easily recognizable as a coherent group by a combination of characters: opposite or whorled leaves that are simple and entire, interpetiolar stipules, tubu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atractogyne
''Atractogyne'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It is found in western and western-central tropical Africa.Jean Baptiste Louis Pierre. 1896. Bulletin Mensuel de la Société Linnéenne de Paris 2: 1262. Species Two species are currently recognised: *''Atractogyne bracteata'' (Wernham) Hutch. & DalzielWernham, Herbert Fuller. 1913. Catalogue of the plants collected by Mr. & Mrs. P.A. Talbot in the Oban district South Nigeria p 44, ''Afrohamelia bracteata'' - Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Nigeria, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Gabon *''Atractogyne gabonii'' Pierre - Central African Republic, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville, Congo-Kinshasa The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloquially "La RDC" ), informally Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DRC, the DROC, or the Congo, and formerly and also colloquially Zaire, is a country in ... ( Zaire) References External links ''Atracto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherbournia
''Sherbournia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It comprises 13 currently recognized species. It was named after British botanist Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ... Margaret Sherbourne. (1791-1846) References External links ''Sherbournia'' in the World Checklist of Rubiaceae Rubiaceae genera Sherbournieae {{Ixoroideae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augustin Pyramus De Candolle
Augustin Pyramus (or Pyrame) de Candolle (, , ; 4 February 17789 September 1841) was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched de Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at a herbarium. Within a couple of years de Candolle had established a new genus, and he went on to document hundreds of plant families and create a new natural plant classification system. Although de Candolle's main focus was botany, he also contributed to related fields such as phytogeography, agronomy, paleontology, medical botany, and economic botany. De Candolle originated the idea of "Nature's war", which influenced Charles Darwin and the principle of natural selection. de Candolle recognized that multiple species may develop similar characteristics that did not appear in a common evolutionary ancestor; a phenomenon now known as convergent evolution. During his work with plants, de Candolle noticed that plant leaf movements follow a near-24-hour cycle in constant light, suggestin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (30 June 1817 – 10 December 1911) was a British botanist and explorer in the 19th century. He was a founder of geographical botany and Charles Darwin's closest friend. For twenty years he served as director of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, succeeding his father, William Jackson Hooker, and was awarded the highest honours of British science. Biography Early years Hooker was born in Halesworth, Suffolk, England. He was the second son of the famous botanist Sir William Jackson Hooker, Regius Professor of Botany, and Maria Sarah Turner, eldest daughter of the banker Dawson Turner and sister-in-law of Francis Palgrave. From age seven, Hooker attended his father's lectures at Glasgow University, taking an early interest in plant distribution and the voyages of explorers like Captain James Cook. He was educated at the Glasgow High School and went on to study medicine at Glasgow University, graduating M.D. in 1839. This degree qualified him for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Welwitsch
Friedrich Martin Josef Welwitsch (25 February 1806 – 20 October 1872) was an Austrian explorer and botanist who in Angola was the first European to describe the plant '' Welwitschia mirabilis''. His report received wide attention among the botanists and general public, comparable only to the discovery of two other plants in the 19th century, namely '' Victoria amazonica'' and '' Rafflesia arnoldii''.Strlič, Matija. "Dr. Friderik Velbič, 1806–1872". ''Proteus, the journal of the Natural Sciences Society of Slovenia''. Year 61, No. 9/10 (pp. 396-404). ISSN 0033-1805. In Angola, Welwitsch also discovered '' Rhipsalis baccifera'', the only cactus species naturally occurring outside the New World. It was found a few years later in Sri Lanka too, which reignited the now already one-and-a-half-century-old debate on the origin of cacti in Africa and Asia. At the time, the debate concluded with the conviction of numerous authors that they were introduced and spread by migrat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Fuller Wernham
Herbert Fuller Wernham (1879 - 1941) was a British botanist, who from 1909 to 1929 worked at the British Museum, as an assistant in the botany department. From 1911 to 1921 he published extensively on tropical plants and many genera, retiring in 1921 due to ill health (alcoholism). Names published He published 603 names, including *'' Acrocephalus klossii'' Wernham, J. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam iv. 142 (1921). (now a synonym of '' Platostoma cochinchinense'' (Lour.) A.J.Paton) *''Alibertia pedicellata'' Wernham, Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1914(2): 66 (1914) (now a synonym of ''Sphinctanthus polycarpus'' (H.Karst.) Hook.f.) *''Anthocleista microphylla'' Wernham, Cat. Pl. Oban 67 (1913). *''Cowiea borneensis'' Wernham, J. Linn. Soc., Bot. xlii. 97 (1914). *'' Fagraea carstensensis'' Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Bot. 9(1): 111 (1916). Publications (incomplete) * * * * * * * * * * * * * Honours He is honoured in the ganus & species names: *''Wernhamia'' S.Moore * ''Psychotria wernhamiana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Don
George Don (29 April 1798 – 25 February 1856) was a Scottish botanist and plant collector. Life and career George Don was born at Doo Hillock, Forfar, Angus, Scotland on 29 April 1798 to Caroline Clementina Stuart and George Don (b.1756), principal gardener of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in 1802. Don was the elder brother of David Don, also a botanist. He became foreman of the gardens at Chelsea in 1816. In 1821, he was sent to Brazil, the West Indies and Sierra Leone to collect specimens for the Royal Horticultural Society. Most of his discoveries were published by Joseph Sabine, although Don published several new species from Sierra Leone. Don's main work was his four volume ''A General System of Gardening and Botany'', published between 1832 and 1838 (often referred to as Gen. Hist., an abbreviation of the alternative title: ''A General History of the Dichlamydeous Plants''). He revised the first supplement to Loudon's ''Encyclopaedia of Plants'', and provided a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birgitta Bremer
Birgitta Bremer (born 17 January 1950), Swedish botanist and academic, is professor at Stockholm University, and director of the Bergius Botanic Garden. Career Professor Bremer obtained her doctorate in botany in 1980 from Stockholm University, with the thesis "Taxonomy of mosses of the genus Schistidium". In 1981 she was appointed docent at Stockholm University; 1983–1990 she was an instructor of systematics. Between 1990 and 2000 she was systematic botany instructor; in 2000–2001 she served as dean of the department of systematics; 2000–2004 – professor of plant molecular systematics. Since 2002 she has been director of the Bergius Fund and director of Botanical Garden. Since 2004 she has been a professor of systematics at Stockholm University. Personal life She is married to Kåre Bremer, and they have two children. Achievements On 11 February 2009 Professor Bremer, Professor Bergianus at the Bergius Foundation, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, was elected a m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oxyanthus
''Oxyanthus'' is a genus of plant in family Rubiaceae. It contains the following species (but this list may be incomplete): # ''Oxyanthus barensis'' K. Krause Catalogue of Life: 22nd March 2017 # ''Oxyanthus biflorus'' J.E. Burrows & S.M. Burrows, 2010 /ref> (Endangered species, Endangered) Global species Oxyanthus # ''Oxyanthus bremekampii'' Cavaco # ''Oxyanthus brevicaulis'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tribe (biology)
In biology, a tribe is a taxonomic rank above genus, but below family and subfamily. It is sometimes subdivided into subtribes. By convention, all taxonomic ranks from genus upwards are capitalized, including both tribe and subtribe. In zoology, the standard ending for the name of a zoological tribe is "-ini". Examples include the tribes Caprini (goat-antelopes), Hominini (hominins), Bombini (bumblebees), and Thunnini (tunas). The tribe Hominini is divided into subtribes by some scientists; subtribe Hominina then comprises "humans". The standard ending for the name of a zoological subtribe is "-ina". In botany, the standard ending for the name of a botanical tribe is "-eae". Examples include the tribes Acalypheae and Hyacintheae. The tribe Hyacintheae is divided into subtribes, including the subtribe Massoniinae. The standard ending for the name of a botanical subtribe is "-inae". In bacteriology, the form of tribe names is as in botany, e.g., Pseudomonadeae, based on the ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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