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Galvezia Rupicola
''Galvezia'' is a genus of perennial plants which are native to western South America and the Galapagos Islands. The genus is currently placed in the family Plantaginaceae, having been formerly classified under Scrophulariaceae. It is named in honour of José de Gálvez, a colonial official in New Spain during the 1700s. Taxonomy Species accepted by Kew include: *'' Galvezia elisensii'' M.O.Dillon & Quip. – Native to Peru. *'' Galvezia fruticosa'' J.F. Gmel. – Native to Ecuador and Peru. *''Galvezia grandiflora'' (Benth.) Wettst. – Native to northwest Peru. *'' Galvezia lanceolata'' Pennell – Native to Ecuador. *''Galvezia leucantha'' Wiggins – Native to Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands. Two North American species were formerly placed in ''Galvezia'', but are now recognized as distinct and placed in the genus '' Gambelia'': * ''Gambelia juncea'' (Benth.) D.A.Sutton syn. ''Galvezia juncea'' (Benth.) Ball">Synonym_(taxonomy).html" ;"title="nowiki/>Synonym (tax ...
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Joseph Dombey
Joseph Dombey (Mâcon, France, 20 February 1742 – Montserrat, West Indies, May 1794) was a French botanist. He was involved in the "Dombey affair" which was precipitated by British seizure of a vessel his collections were on and diversion of the collections to the British Museum. Biography He ran away from home and acquired a thorough knowledge of botany in Montpellier, where in 1768 he graduated in medicine. In 1772 he went to Paris, where he became assistant to the botanist Bernard de Jussieu, and in 1776 was appointed by Turgot botanist of the Jardin des Plantes. A year later he was sent on an expedition to visit South America and collect such useful plants as could be cultivated in France. He arrived in Callao in January 1778, and soon gathered a large herbarium of the Peruvian flora, also accumulating much valuable information concerning the cinchona tree. In 1780 he sent a portion of his collection home, but the vessel containing them was captured by the British, and th ...
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Galvezia Grandiflora
''Galvezia'' is a genus of perennial plants which are native to western South America and the Galapagos Islands. The genus is currently placed in the family Plantaginaceae, having been formerly classified under Scrophulariaceae. It is named in honour of José de Gálvez, a colonial official in New Spain during the 1700s. Taxonomy Species accepted by Kew include: *'' Galvezia elisensii'' M.O.Dillon & Quip. – Native to Peru. *'' Galvezia fruticosa'' J.F. Gmel. – Native to Ecuador and Peru. *'' Galvezia grandiflora'' (Benth.) Wettst. – Native to northwest Peru. *'' Galvezia lanceolata'' Pennell – Native to Ecuador. *'' Galvezia leucantha'' Wiggins – Native to Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands. Two North American species were formerly placed in ''Galvezia'', but are now recognized as distinct and placed in the genus '' Gambelia'': * ''Gambelia juncea'' (Benth.) D.A.Sutton syn. ''Galvezia juncea'' (Benth.) Ball">Synonym_(taxonomy).html" ;"title="nowiki/>Synonym (t ...
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Sonora
Sonora (), officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Sonora ( en, Free and Sovereign State of Sonora), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the Administrative divisions of Mexico, Federal Entities of Mexico. The state is divided into Municipalities of Sonora, 72 municipalities; the capital (and largest) city of which being Hermosillo, located in the center of the state. Other large cities include Ciudad Obregón, Nogales, Sonora, Nogales (on the Mexico–United States border, Mexico-United States border), San Luis Río Colorado, and Navojoa. Sonora is bordered by the states of Chihuahua (state), Chihuahua to the east, Baja California to the northwest and Sinaloa to the south. To the north, it shares the Mexico–United States border, U.S.–Mexico border primarily with the state of Arizona with a small length with New Mexico, and on the west has a significant share of the coastline of the Gulf of California. Sonora's natural geography is divided into three ...
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Synonym (taxonomy)
The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently. * In botanical nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linnaeus was the first to give a scientific name (under the currently used system of scientific nomenclature) to the Norway spruce, which he called ''Pinus abies''. This name is no longer in use, so it is now a synonym of the current scientific name, ''Picea abies''. * In zoology, moving a species from one genus to another results in a different binomen, but the name is considered an alternative combination rather than a synonym. The concept of synonymy in zoology is reserved for two names at the same rank that refers to a taxon at that rank - for example, the name ''Papilio prorsa'' Linnaeus, 1758 is a junior synonym of ''Papilio levana'' Linnaeus, 1758, being names for different seasonal forms of the species now referred to as ''Araschnia le ...
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Gambelia Juncea
''Gambelia juncea'' is a species of flowering shrub in the Plantaginaceae, plantain family commonly known as the Baja California bush snapdragon or Baja bush snapdragon. ''Gambelia juncea'' is a highly variable woody Perennial plant, perennial to characterized by long, arching, reed-like stems and showy, bright red, two-lipped tubular flowers. Native to the Baja California peninsula and coastal Sonora, this species is widespread in the region across numerous habitats and has several Variety (botany), varieties. It was formerly placed in the primarily South American genus ''Galvezia'', but taxonomic studies have supported the reclassification of the two North American species (the other is ''Gambelia speciosa'') into ''Gambelia (plant), Gambelia''. This species, with a number of cultivars, is widely used as an Ornamental plant, ornamental shrub for xeriscaping, erosion control, Natural landscaping, native plant gardens, and Wildlife garden, wildlife gardens. Description Charact ...
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Gambelia (plant)
''Gambelia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the Antirrhineae tribe of the plantain family commonly known as bush snapdragons. This genus is native to northwestern Mexico, particularly the Baja California Peninsula, but species are also found on the coast of Sonora, Guadalupe Island, and the Channel Islands of California. The genus is named in honor of William Gambel (1823–1849), an American naturalist, ornithologist, and botanist. Species Two species are commonly accepted: * ''Gambelia juncea'' (Benth.) D.A.Sutton * '' Gambelia speciosa'' Nutt. Two other species, originally described by Townshend Stith Brandegee from the Cape region of Baja California Sur, are recognized by Kew's Plants of the World Online Plants of the World Online (POWO) is an online database published by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. It was launched in March 2017 with the ultimate aim being "to enable users to access information on all the world's known seed-bearing plants by ... as of 2022, but tr ...
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North America
North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Caribbean Sea, and to the west and south by the Pacific Ocean. Because it is on the North American Plate, North American Tectonic Plate, Greenland is included as a part of North America geographically. North America covers an area of about , about 16.5% of Earth's land area and about 4.8% of its total surface. North America is the third-largest continent by area, following Asia and Africa, and the list of continents and continental subregions by population, fourth by population after Asia, Africa, and Europe. In 2013, its population was estimated at nearly 579 million people in List of sovereign states and dependent territories in North America, 23 independent states, or about 7.5% of the world's population. In Americas (terminology)#Human ge ...
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Galápagos Islands
The Galápagos Islands (Spanish: , , ) are an archipelago of volcanic islands. They are distributed on each side of the equator in the Pacific Ocean, surrounding the centre of the Western Hemisphere, and are part of the Republic of Ecuador. Located west of continental Ecuador, the islands are known for their large number of endemic species that were studied by Charles Darwin during the second voyage of HMS ''Beagle''. His observations and collections contributed to the inception of Darwin's theory of evolution by means of natural selection. The Galápagos Islands and their surrounding waters form the Galápagos Province of Ecuador, the Galápagos National Park, and the Galápagos Marine Reserve. The principal language on the islands is Spanish. The islands have a population of slightly over 25,000. The first recorded visit to the islands happened by chance in 1535, when Fray Tomás de Berlanga, the Bishop of Panamá, was surprised to find this undiscovered land on a vo ...
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Ira Loren Wiggins
Ira Loren Wiggins (1 January 1899 – 28 November 1987) was an American botanist, Curator of the Dudley Herbarium, and Director of the Natural History Museum (1940–1962) at Stanford University. He was a Stanford faculty member from 1929 until his retirement in 1964. He was the first recipient of the Fellow's Medal of the California Academy of Sciences. His ''Flora of Baja California'' is a standard work on the botany of the Baja peninsula and on the many islands of the Gulf of California. Wiggins attended Occidental College as an undergraduate and received his M.A. at Stanford, studying with LeRoy Abrams, and where he won a university fellowship in botany in 1927. He earned his PhD in 1930 with a thesis on the flora of San Diego County. Wiggins made several botanical collecting trips to the Sonoran Desert, collaborating with Forrest Shreve in a description of the vegetation and flora of the North American Sonoran Desert including portions of Arizona, New Mexico, California, Sono ...
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Galvezia Leucantha
''Galvezia'' is a genus of perennial plants which are native to western South America and the Galapagos Islands. The genus is currently placed in the family Plantaginaceae, having been formerly classified under Scrophulariaceae. It is named in honour of José de Gálvez, a colonial official in New Spain during the 1700s. Taxonomy Species accepted by Kew include: *'' Galvezia elisensii'' M.O.Dillon & Quip. – Native to Peru. *'' Galvezia fruticosa'' J.F. Gmel. – Native to Ecuador and Peru. *''Galvezia grandiflora'' (Benth.) Wettst. – Native to northwest Peru. *'' Galvezia lanceolata'' Pennell – Native to Ecuador. *'' Galvezia leucantha'' Wiggins – Native to Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands. Two North American species were formerly placed in ''Galvezia'', but are now recognized as distinct and placed in the genus '' Gambelia'': * ''Gambelia juncea'' (Benth.) D.A.Sutton syn. ''Galvezia juncea'' (Benth.) Ball">Synonym_(taxonomy).html" ;"title="nowiki/>Synonym (ta ...
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Francis W
Francis may refer to: People *Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State and Bishop of Rome *Francis (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters *Francis (surname) Places * Rural Municipality of Francis No. 127, Saskatchewan, Canada * Francis, Saskatchewan, Canada **Francis (electoral district) *Francis, Nebraska *Francis Township, Holt County, Nebraska * Francis, Oklahoma *Francis, Utah Other uses * ''Francis'' (film), the first of a series of comedies featuring Francis the Talking Mule, voiced by Chill Wills *''Francis'', a 1983 play by Julian Mitchell *FRANCIS, a bibliographic database * ''Francis'' (1793), a colonial schooner in Australia *Francis turbine, a type of water turbine *Francis (band), a Sweden-based folk band * Francis, a character played by YouTuber Boogie2988 See also *Saint Francis (other) *Francies, a surname, including a list of people with the name *Francisco (other) *Francis ...
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