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Ehretioideae
Ehretioideae is a subfamily of the flowering plant family Boraginaceae. Genera *''Bourreria'' P.Browne *'' Cortesia'' Cav. *''Ehretia'' P.Browne *''Halgania'' Gaudich. *''Ixorhea'' Fenzl *''Lepidocordia'' Ducke *'' Menais'' Loefl. *'' Patagonula'' L. *''Rochefortia'' Sw. *''Rotula'' Lour. *''Tiquilia'' Pers. Christiaan Hendrik Persoon (1 February 1761 – 16 November 1836) was a German mycologist who made additions to Linnaeus' mushroom taxonomy. Early life Persoon was born in South Africa at the Cape of Good Hope, the third child of an imm ... References Asterid subfamilies {{Asterid-stub ...
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Ehretioideae
Ehretioideae is a subfamily of the flowering plant family Boraginaceae. Genera *''Bourreria'' P.Browne *'' Cortesia'' Cav. *''Ehretia'' P.Browne *''Halgania'' Gaudich. *''Ixorhea'' Fenzl *''Lepidocordia'' Ducke *'' Menais'' Loefl. *'' Patagonula'' L. *''Rochefortia'' Sw. *''Rotula'' Lour. *''Tiquilia'' Pers. Christiaan Hendrik Persoon (1 February 1761 – 16 November 1836) was a German mycologist who made additions to Linnaeus' mushroom taxonomy. Early life Persoon was born in South Africa at the Cape of Good Hope, the third child of an imm ... References Asterid subfamilies {{Asterid-stub ...
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Rotula (plant)
''Rotula aquatica'' is a species of aromatic flowering shrub in the borage family, Boraginaceae. It is a rare rheophyte native to India, where it is a member of the lotic ecosystem of streams. The plant is a mandatory component of many ayurvedic drug preparations and is an important traditional medicine for kidney and bladder stones. The root tuber is astringent, bitter, diuretic and also useful in treating coughs, heart diseases, dysuria, blood disorders, fever, poisonings, ulcers and uterine diseases. Root decoctions are both diuretic and laxative and are used to treat bladder stones and sexually transmitted disease Sexually transmitted infections (STIs), also referred to as sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and the older term venereal diseases, are infections that are spread by sexual activity, especially vaginal intercourse, anal sex, and oral ...s. Plants were exploited for their medicinal properties by excavating the roots, causing them to die. A study ...
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Lepidocordia
''Lepidocordia'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Boraginaceae Boraginaceae, the borage or forget-me-not family, includes about 2,000 species of shrubs, trees and herbs in 146, to 156 genera with a worldwide distribution. The APG IV system from 2016 classifies the Boraginaceae as single family of the or .... Its native range is Southern Mexico to Northern Brazil. Species: *'' Lepidocordia punctata'' *'' Lepidocordia williamsii'' References {{Taxonbar, from=Q9021679 Ehretioideae Boraginaceae genera Taxa named by Adolpho Ducke ...
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Boraginaceae
Boraginaceae, the borage or forget-me-not family, includes about 2,000 species of shrubs, trees and herbs in 146, to 156 genera with a worldwide distribution. The APG IV system from 2016 classifies the Boraginaceae as single family of the order Boraginales within the asterids. Under the older Cronquist system it was included in Lamiales, but it is now clear that it is no more similar to the other families in this order than they are to families in several other asterid orders. A revision of the Boraginales, also from 2016, split the Boraginaceae in eleven distinct families: Boraginaceae ''sensu stricto'', Codonaceae, Coldeniaceae, Cordiaceae, Ehretiaceae, Heliotropiaceae, Hoplestigmataceae, Hydrophyllaceae, Lennoaceae, Namaceae, and Wellstediaceae. These plants have alternately arranged leaves, or a combination of alternate and opposite leaves. The leaf blades usually have a narrow shape; many are linear or lance-shaped. They are smooth-edged or toothed, and some have petiol ...
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Halgania
''Halgania'' is a genus of small shrubs in the family Boraginaceae. The genus comprises about 20 species that are endemic to Australia. ''Halgania'' is named for Emmanuel Halgan, a vice-admiral in the French Navy. Features ''Halgania'' species are spreading to erect shrubs or subshrubs up to 1.2 m high. Leaves are simple, alternating along the stem and membranaceous or leathery. The leaf margin is entire or toothed to serrate and often revolute. Herbaceous stems and leaves can be glabrous but also covered with glandular hairs, simple or bifurcating (resembling cleats, "dolabriform") hairs. In some species, the surface is also covered with a viscose layer of exudates. The flowers have a calyx of five more or less connected sepals. The 5-parted corolla is blue to violet, rarely white and flat or widely cup-shaped, similar to ''Solanum''-flowers. The five stamens have short filaments and long yellow to yellow-violet anthers. They are connected via intertwining hairs to an anther c ...
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Christian Hendrik Persoon
Christiaan Hendrik Persoon (1 February 1761 – 16 November 1836) was a German mycologist who made additions to Linnaeus' mushroom taxonomy. Early life Persoon was born in South Africa at the Cape of Good Hope, the third child of an immigrant Pomeranian father and Dutch mother. His mother died soon after he was born; at the age of thirteen his father (who died a year later) sent him to Europe for his education. Education Initially studying theology at Halle, at age 22 (in 1784) Persoon switched to medicine at Leiden and Göttingen. He received a doctorate from the "Kaiserlich-Leopoldinisch-Carolinische Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher" in 1799. Later years He moved to Paris in 1802, where he spent the rest of his life, renting an upper floor of a house in a poor part of town. He was apparently unemployed, unmarried, poverty-stricken and a recluse, although he corresponded with botanists throughout Europe. Because of his financial difficulties, Persoon agreed to do ...
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Tiquilia
''Tiquilia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the borage family, Boraginaceae. The 27 species in this genus are known by the common name crinklemat. They are native to the Western Hemisphere and are mostly found in desert regions. Selected species * '' Tiquilia canescens'' (DC.) A.T.Richardson. – woody crinklemat * '' Tiquilia darwinii'' (Hook.f. 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 ...) A.T.Richardson * '' Tiquilia fusca'' Hook.f. * '' Tiquilia galapagoa'' (J.T.Howell) A.T.Richardson * '' Tiquilia gossypina'' (Woot. & Standl.) A.T.Richardson. – Texas crinklemat * '' Tiquilia greggii'' (Torr. & A.Gray) A.T.Richardson. – plumed crinklemat * '' Tiquilia hispidissima'' (Torr. & A.Gray) A.T.Richardson. – hairy crinklemat * '' Tiquilia latior'' (I. ...
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João De Loureiro
João de Loureiro (1717, Lisbon – 18 October 1791) was a Portuguese Jesuit missionary and botanist. Biography After receiving admission to the Jesuit Order, João de Loureiro served as a missionary in Goa, capital of Portuguese India (3 years) and Macau (4 years). In 1742 he traveled to Cochinchina, remaining there for 35 years. Here he worked as a mathematician and naturalist for the king of Cochinchina, acquiring knowledge on the properties and uses of native medicinal plants. In 1777, he journeyed to Canton, in Bengal, returning to Lisbon four years later. During this period, the Captain Thomas Riddel gave Loureiro the books ''Systema Naturae'', ''Genera Plantarum'' and ''Philosophia Botanica'' by Carl Linnaeus, which greatly influenced the Portuguese botanist. The first 40 years he stayed in Vietnam, João de Loureiro was inventorying indigenous herbal remedies. His local garden contained 1,000 unique herbal species, making him one of the greatest botanist collectors o ...
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Olof Swartz
Olof Peter Swartz (21 September 1760 – 19 September 1818) was a Swedish botanist and taxonomist. He is best known for his taxonomic work and studies into pteridophytes. Biography Olof Swartz attended the University of Uppsala where he studied under Carl Linnaeus the Younger (1741–1783) and received his doctorate in 1781. He first traveled in 1780 to Lapland in the company of several other botanists. In 1783 he sailed for North America and the West Indies, primarily in the area of Jamaica and Hispaniola, to collect botanical specimens. His botanical collection, of an impressive 6000 specimens, is now held by the Swedish Museum of Natural History, as part of the Regnellian herbarium. By 1786 he left for London to prepare his collection. There he met naturalist Joseph Banks (1743–1820), who was impressed with his knowledge of Botany. He was offered a position with the British East India Company as a travelling physician, but turned it down, and returned to ...
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Rochefortia
''Rochefortia'' is a genus of flowering plants in family Boraginaceae. Its species are native to North America, the Caribbean, and South America. Species Species include: * '' Rochefortia acanthophora'' (syn: ''Ehretia ''Ehretia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the borage family, Boraginaceae. It contains about 50 species. The generic name honors German botanical illustrator Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708–1770). Species Accepted species and other notable t ... acanthophora'') − (DC.) Griseb. — Greenheart ebony * '' Rochefortia acrantha'' − Urb. * '' Rochefortia brasiliensis'' − Willd. ex Schult. * '' Rochefortia cubensis'' − Britton & P.Wilson. * '' Rochefortia cuneata'' − Sw. ** ''Rochefortia cuneata'' subsp. ''bahamensis'' − (Britton) G. Klotz * '' Rochefortia lundellii'' − Camp. * '' Rochefortia spinosa'' − (Jacq.) Urb. — Espino External linksUSDA Plants Profile for ''Rochefortia'' (rochefortia)
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Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy". Many of his writings were in Latin; his name is rendered in Latin as and, after his 1761 ennoblement, as . Linnaeus was born in Råshult, the countryside of Småland, in southern Sweden. He received most of his higher education at Uppsala University and began giving lectures in botany there in 1730. He lived abroad between 1735 and 1738, where he studied and also published the first edition of his ' in the Netherlands. He then returned to Sweden where he became professor of medicine and botany at Uppsala. In the 1740s, he was sent on several journeys through Sweden to find and classify plants and animals. In the 1750s and 1760s, he continued to collect an ...
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