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Eucarpha
''Eucarpha'' is a genus of flowering plant of the family Proteaceae, endemic to New Caledonia. Two species are recognised. Up to 1975, these were classified within the genus ''Knightia (plant), Knightia'' until Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson, Lawrence Johnson and Barbara G. Briggs recognised their distinctness, particularly their prominent bracts, in their 1975 monograph "On the Proteaceae: the evolution and classification of a southern family". Nomenclatural combinations for these two species in the genus ''Eucarpha'' were published in 2022. In 2006, the genus was placed in the tribe Roupaleae. Its closest relative is the Australian ''Triunia''.Sauquet, H., P. H. Weston, C. J. Anderson, N. P. Barker, D. J. Cantrill, A. R. Mast, and Savolainen, V. (2009). Contrasted Patterns of Hyperdiversifaction in Mediterranean Hotspots. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 106 (1): 221–25. Species , Plants of the World Online accepted two species: *''Eucarpha depl ...
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Knightia (plant)
''Knightia'' is a small genus of the family Proteaceae endemic to New Zealand, named in honor of Thomas Andrew Knight. One extant species, '' K. excelsa'' (rewarewa) is found in New Zealand. Two further ''Knightia'' species are found in New Caledonia, although they were placed in the genus ''Eucarpha'' by Lawrie Johnson and Barbara Briggs in their influential 1975 monograph "On the Proteaceae: the evolution and classification of a southern family", a placement supported in a 2006 classification of the Proteaceae. A fossil species from upper Miocene deposits in Kaikorai has been described as '' Knightia oblonga''. ''Knightia'' has been placed in the tribe Roupaleae of the subfamily Grevilleoideae. Species , Plants of the World Online accepted three extant species. Other sources place the two species from New Caledonia in the genus ''Eucarpha ''Eucarpha'' is a genus of flowering plant of the family Proteaceae, endemic to New Caledonia. Two species are recognised. Up to 19 ...
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Eucarpha Deplanchei
''Eucarpha deplanchei'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae, native to New Caledonia. It was first described in 1865 as ''Knightia deplanchei''. Taxonomy The species was placed within the genus ''Knightia'' until 1975, when Lawrence Johnson and Barbara G. Briggs recognized the distinctness of two New Caledonian species of ''Knightia'', particularly their prominent bracts, and transferred both to ''Eucarpha'', a transfer supported in 2006. The nomenclatural combination for the species in the genus ''Eucarpha'' was only published in 2022. Other sources, including Plants of the World Online , treat ''Eucarpha'' as a synonym A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. For example, in the English language, the words ''begin'', ''start'', ''commence'', and ''initiate'' are all ... of ''Knightia''. References Roupaleae Endemic flora of New Caledonia Plants desc ...
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Eucarpha Strobilina
''Eucarpha strobilina'', synonym ''Knightia strobilina'', is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae, native to New Caledonia. Taxonomy The taxonomic history of the species is somewhat tangled, as some names have been used that were not formally published. The species was first described as ''Embothrium strobilinum'' by Jacques Labillardière in 1806. In 1830, Robert Brown wrote that it seemed to belong to ''Knightia'', but did not actually make the combination, so the name "''Knightia strobilina'' R.Br." is invalid. In 1856, Carl Meissner Carl Daniel Friedrich Meissner (1 November 1800 – 2 May 1874) was a Swiss botanist. Biography Born in Bern, Switzerland on 1 November 1800, he was christened Meisner but later changed the spelling of his name to Meissner. For most of his 40 ... listed "''K.? strobilina''" under ''Knightia'', referring to Brown, and excluded it from ''Embothrium''; the combination ''Knightia strobilina'' was also used in 1968. Followin ...
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Proteaceae
The Proteaceae form a family of flowering plants predominantly distributed in the Southern Hemisphere. The family comprises 83 genera with about 1,660 known species. Together with the Platanaceae and Nelumbonaceae, they make up the order Proteales. Well-known genera include ''Protea'', ''Banksia'', ''Embothrium'', ''Grevillea'', ''Hakea'' and ''Macadamia''. Species such as the New South Wales waratah (''Telopea speciosissima''), king protea (''Protea cynaroides''), and various species of ''Banksia'', ''soman'', and ''Leucadendron'' are popular cut flowers. The nuts of ''Macadamia integrifolia'' are widely grown commercially and consumed, as are those of Gevuina avellana on a smaller scale. Australia and South Africa have the greatest concentrations of diversity. Etymology The name Proteaceae was adapted by Robert Brown from the name Proteae coined in 1789 for the family by Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, based on the genus ''Protea'', which in 1767 Carl Linnaeus derived from t ...
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Roupaleae
The Grevilleoideae are a subfamily of the plant family Proteaceae. Mainly restricted to the Southern Hemisphere, it contains around 46 genera and about 950 species. Genera include ''Banksia'', ''Grevillea'', and ''Macadamia''. Description The Grevilleoideae grow as trees, shrubs, or subshrubs. They are highly variable, making a simple, diagnostic identification key for the subfamily essentially impossible to provide. One common and fairly diagnostic characteristic is the occurrence of flowers in pairs that share a common bract. However, a few Grevilleoideae taxa do not have this property, having solitary flowers or inflorescences of unpaired flowers. In most taxa, the flowers occur in densely packed heads or spikes, and the fruit is a follicle. Distribution and habitat Grevilleoideae are mainly a Southern Hemisphere family. The main centre of diversity is Australia, with around 700 of 950 species occurring there, and South America also contains taxa. However, the Grevilleoidea ...
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Triunia
''Triunia'' is a genus of medium to tall shrubs or small trees found as understorey plants in rainforests of eastern Australia. Members of the plant family Proteaceae, they are notable for their poisonous fleshy fruits or drupes. Only one species, ''T. youngiana'', is commonly seen in cultivation. Taxonomy Lawrie Johnson and Barbara G. Briggs described the genus ''Triunia'' in their 1975 monograph " On the Proteaceae: the evolution and classification of a southern family". The group of species in this genus was previously recognised as a subgenus, ''Macadamiopsis'', of ''Helicia'' by Hermann Sleumer in 1955. ''T. youngiana'' was made the type species. This plant had originally been described in 1864 as ''Helicia youngiana'' before being transferred to the genus ''Macadamia''. They initially placed the genus in its own subtribe, Triuniinae, within the tribe Helicieae. More recently, the genus has been placed in the tribe Roupaleae, Its closest relative is ''Eucarpha'',Sauquet, H ...
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Proteaceae Genera
The Proteaceae form a family of flowering plants predominantly distributed in the Southern Hemisphere. The family comprises 83 genera with about 1,660 known species. Together with the Platanaceae and Nelumbonaceae, they make up the order Proteales. Well-known genera include ''Protea'', ''Banksia'', ''Embothrium'', ''Grevillea'', ''Hakea'' and ''Macadamia''. Species such as the New South Wales waratah (''Telopea speciosissima''), king protea (''Protea cynaroides''), and various species of ''Banksia'', ''soman'', and ''Leucadendron'' are popular cut flowers. The nuts of ''Macadamia integrifolia'' are widely grown commercially and consumed, as are those of Gevuina avellana on a smaller scale. Australia and South Africa have the greatest concentrations of diversity. Etymology The name Proteaceae was adapted by Robert Brown from the name Proteae coined in 1789 for the family by Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, based on the genus ''Protea'', which in 1767 Carl Linnaeus derived from the n ...
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Endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere. For example, the Cape sugarbird is found exclusively in southwestern South Africa and is therefore said to be ''endemic'' to that particular part of the world. An endemic species can be also be referred to as an ''endemism'' or in scientific literature as an ''endemite''. For example '' Cytisus aeolicus'' is an endemite of the Italian flora. '' Adzharia renschi'' was once believed to be an endemite of the Caucasus, but it was later discovered to be a non-indigenous species from South America belonging to a different genus. The extreme opposite of an endemic species is one with a cosmopolitan distribution, having a global or widespread range. A rare alternative term for a species that is endemic is "precinctive", which applies to ...
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New Caledonia
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Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson
Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson FAA, (26 June 1925 – 1 August 1997) known as Lawrie Johnson, was an Australian taxonomic botanist. He worked at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, for the whole of his professional career, as a botanist (1948–1972), Director (1972–1985) and Honorary Research Associate (1986–1997). - originally published in ''Historical Records of Australian Science'', vol.13, no.4, 2001. Alone or in collaboration with colleagues, he distinguished and described four new families of vascular plants, 33 new genera, 286 new species (including posthumous publications), and reclassified another 395 species. Of the families he described, Rhynchocalycaceae (with B. G. Briggs, 1985) is accepted by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG). Hopkinsiaceae and Lyginiaceae, (which he and B. G. Briggs proposed in 2000 be carved out of Anarthriaceae), have not been accepted by the APG. Lawrie Johnson died of cancer in 1997. He received many honours and awards, including ...
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Barbara G
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Bract
In botany, a bract is a modified or specialized leaf, especially one associated with a reproductive structure such as a flower, inflorescence axis or cone scale. Bracts are usually different from foliage leaves. They may be smaller, larger, or of a different color, shape, or texture. Typically, they also look different from the parts of the flower, such as the petals or sepals. A plant having bracts is referred to as bracteate or bracteolate, while one that lacks them is referred to as ebracteate and ebracteolate, without bracts. Variants Some bracts are brightly-coloured and serve the function of attracting pollinators, either together with the perianth or instead of it. Examples of this type of bract include those of ''Euphorbia pulcherrima'' (poinsettia) and ''Bougainvillea'': both of these have large colourful bracts surrounding much smaller, less colourful flowers. In grasses, each floret (flower) is enclosed in a pair of papery bracts, called the lemma (lower bract) and p ...
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