Dansiea

	Dansiea ''Dansiea'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Combretaceae. Its native range is Northeastern Australia. The genus name honours Samuel Justin Dansie (1927–2012), an Australian forester and plant collector, it was published in Austrobaileya Vol.1 on page 385 in 1981. Species known: ''Dansiea elliptica'' ''Dansiea grandiflora ''Dansiea grandiflora'' is a species of rainforest tree that is endemic to Queensland, Australia. It is known to exist only within a limited zone of notophyll vine forest on Cape York Peninsula. It is listed as ‘Vulnerable’ under the Quee ...'' References {{Taxonbar, from=Q8353797 Combretaceae Myrtales genera Taxa named by Norman Brice Byrnes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Dansiea Elliptica ''Dansiea elliptica'' is a species of rainforest tree which is endemic to Queensland, Australia. The species, which occurs within two highly disjunct centres of distribution, is primarily found in drier notophyll vine forests and semi evergreen vine thickets in the Wet Tropics of Queensland and Central Queensland. The species is listed as Near Threatened under the Queensland Nature Conservation Act (1992) and has a total area of occupancy of less than 40 square km. One of only two species in its genus along with '' Dansiea grandiflora'', ''Dansiea elliptica'' was first described by N.B. Byrnes in Austrobaileya Vol.1 on page 385 in 1981. The genus name honours Sam Dansie (1927–2012), an Australian forester and plant collector. Description ''Dansiea elliptica'' grows up to 35 m tall. It features dark, greyish brown bark which is fissured and flaky and a trunk which reaches a diameter of up to 70 cm. The arrangement of the leaves is spiral and subopposite and their shape ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Dansiea Grandiflora ''Dansiea grandiflora'' is a species of rainforest tree that is endemic to Queensland, Australia. It is known to exist only within a limited zone of notophyll vine forest on Cape York Peninsula. It is listed as ‘Vulnerable’ under the Queensland Nature Conservation Act (1992). One of only two species in the ''Dansiea'' genus along with ''Dansiea elliptica'', ''Dansiea grandiflora'' was first described by Leslie Pedley in Flora of Australia Volume 18 (1990) from a specimen in relatively poor condition. Paul Irwin Forster later collected higher quality specimens from which he provided an amplified botanical description of the species in 1994. The genus name honours Sam Dansie (1927–2012), an Australian forester and plant collector. Description ''Dansiea grandiflora'' is a tree that grows up to high. It has bark that is whitish in tone and lacks any significant distinguishing features. Its branches sit erect bearing petiolate leaves with upper and lower surfaces of diff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Combretaceae The Combretaceae, often called the white mangrove family, are a family of flowering plants in the order Myrtales. The family includes about 530 species of trees, shrubs, and lianas in ca 10 genera. The family includes the leadwood tree, ''Combretum imberbe''. Three genera, ''Conocarpus'', ''Laguncularia'', and ''Lumnitzera'', grow in mangrove habitats (mangals). The Combretaceae are widespread in the subtropics and tropics. Some members of this family produce useful construction timber, such as idigbo from ''Terminalia ivorensis''. The commonly cultivated ''Quisqualis indica'' is now placed in the genus ''Combretum''. Many plants in the Quisqualis species contain the Non-proteinogenic amino acid excitotoxin Quisqualic acid, a potent AMPA agonist.Excitotoxic cell death and delayed rescue in human neurons derived from NT2 cells, M Munir, L Lu and P Mcgonigl, Journal of Neuroscience, Vol 15, 7847–7860 White mangroves The family name comes from the type genus ''Combretum''; it also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Flowering Plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ('container, vessel') and ('seed'), and refers to those plants that produce their seeds enclosed within a fruit. They are by far the most diverse group of land plants with 64 orders, 416 families, approximately 13,000 known genera and 300,000 known species. Angiosperms were formerly called Magnoliophyta (). Like gymnosperms, angiosperms are seed-producing plants. They are distinguished from gymnosperms by characteristics including flowers, endosperm within their seeds, and the production of fruits that contain the seeds. The ancestors of flowering plants diverged from the common ancestor of all living gymnosperms before the end of the Carboniferous, over 300 million years ago. The closest fossil relatives of flowering plants are uncertain and contentious. The earliest angiosperm fossils ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Myrtales Genera The Myrtales are an order of flowering plants placed as a sister to the eurosids II clade as of the publishing of the ''Eucalyptus grandis'' genome in June 2014. The APG III system of classification for angiosperms still places it within the eurosids. This finding is corroborated by the placement of the Myrtales in the Malvid clade by the One Thousand Plant Transcriptomes Initiative. The following families are included as of APGIII: * Alzateaceae S. A. Graham * Combretaceae R. Br. ( leadwood family) * Crypteroniaceae A. DC. * Lythraceae J. St.-Hil. ( loosestrife and pomegranate family) * Melastomataceae Juss. (including Memecylaceae DC.) * Myrtaceae Juss. (myrtle family; including Heteropyxidaceae Engl. & Gilg, Psiloxylaceae Croizat) * Onagraceae Juss. (evening primrose and Fuchsia family) * Penaeaceae Sweet ex Guill. (including Oliniaceae Arn., Rhynchocalycaceae L. A. S. Johnson & B. G. Briggs) * Vochysiaceae A. St.-Hil. The Cronquist system gives essentially the same co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]