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Genera Palmarum
''Genera Palmarum'' is a botany reference book that gives a detailed overview of the systematic biology of the palm family (Arecaceae). The first edition of ''Genera Palmarum'' was published in 1987. The second edition was published in 2008, with a reprint published in 2014. ''Genera Palmarum'' is currently the most detailed monograph on palm taxonomy and systematics. History Beginnings When Liberty Hyde Bailey, an American horticulturist and botanist who founded the L. H. Bailey Hortorium at Cornell University, began studying palms in the early 1900s, about 700 species had been identified. The number reached 1,000 by 1946, the rise due in large part to his intensive study of the family. Ill health finally forced Bailey to discontinue collecting abroad in 1949, at the age of 91. He continued to study, compare, and write about his palm specimens. His ultimate goal was to produce an authoritative guide to all palms, titled ''Genera Palmarum''. Harold E. Moore, Jr. (1917–1980), a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Botany
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 word (''botanē'') meaning " pasture", " herbs" "grass", or " fodder"; is in turn derived from (), "to feed" or "to graze". Traditionally, botany has also included the study of fungi and algae by mycologists and phycologists respectively, with the study of these three groups of organisms remaining within the sphere of interest of the International Botanical Congress. Nowadays, botanists (in the strict sense) study approximately 410,000 species of land plants of which some 391,000 species are vascular plants (including approximately 369,000 species of flowering plants), and approximately 20,000 are bryophytes. Botany originated in prehistory as herbalism with the efforts of early humans to identify – and later cultivate – ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manjekia
''Manjekia'' is a monotypic genus of palm for a species of palm native to Biak island, Indonesia, off the northwest coast of New Guinea. The genus was proposed in 2014. Its sole species is ''Manjekia maturbongsii'', which was first described in 2012 as ''Adonidia maturbongsii''. The specific epithet honours Rudi Maturbongs for his contributions to the study of palms in Biak. In 2014, the original authors decided that it was sufficiently distinct to be transferred from ''Adonidia'' to its own genus, ''Manjekia''. The transfer has been accepted by sources such as 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 .... References {{Taxonbar, from=Q21399788, from2=Q52181807, from3=Q15726596 Monotypic Arecaceae genera Ptychospermatinae Biak–Numfoor rain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 Non-fiction Books
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Historia Naturalis Palmarum
''Historia naturalis palmarum: opus tripartitum'' ("Natural History of Palms, a work in three volumes") is a highly illustrated, three-volume botany, botanical book of Arecaceae, palms (Arecaceae) by German botanist Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius. The work is in Latin and was published in Book size, imperial folio formatExcerpts from ''An account of travels in Brazil at the command of his Majesty, Maximilian Joseph I, King of Bavaria, in the years 1817 to 1820 by Dr. J.B von Spix and Dr. C.F.P. von Martius'' www.bluemacaws.org in Leipzig (''Lipsiae'') by T.O. Weigel, volume one in 1823 and the final volume in 1850. It includes more than 550 pages of text and 240 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Arecaceae Genera
This is a list of all the genus, genera in the botanical family Arecaceae, the palm family, based on Baker & Dransfield (2016), which is a revised listing of genera given in the 2008 edition of ''Genera Palmarum''. Taxonomy This is a list of all the genus, genera in the botanical family Arecaceae, the palm family, arranged by tribe (biology), tribes and subtribes within the family. ''Genera Palmarum'' (2008) lists 183 genera. ''Lanonia'', ''Saribus'', and the monotypic genera ''Jailoloa'', ''Wallaceodoxa'', ''Manjekia'', and ''Sabinaria'', which were described after 2008, have also been included below. ''Ceratolobus'', ''Daemonorops'', ''Pogonotium'', ''Wallichia'', ''Lytocaryum'', and the monotypic genera ''Retispatha'', ''Pritchardiopsis'', and ''Solfia'' have since been removed from ''Genera Palmarum'' (2008) as obsolete genera. This brings the total number of genera to 181 as of 2016. Subfamily Calamoideae *Tribe Eugeissoneae **''Eugeissona'' – Borneo, Malay Peninsula *Tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solfia
''Balaka insularis'' is a rare species of flowering plant in the palm family endemic to Samoa. It was formerly placed in the monotypic genus ''Solfia'' with the species name ''Solfia samoensis''. It was placed in the genus '' Balaka'' in 2014.Zona S, Baker WJ. 2014Solfia transferred to Balaka ''Palms'' 58: 191–192. Description The trunk is solitary and ringed, colored brown, no more than 8 cm wide. The sheath of the pinnate leaf is extended, wrapping around the trunk to form a tall, slender crownshaft. The petiole is short, the thin rachis bears regularly spaced, reduplicate leaflets with a prominent midrib and jagged ends. The inflorescence emerges below the crownshaft, initially enclosed by a prophyll, with a single peduncular bract. Monoecious, there are staminate and pistillate flowers present in each plant, borne on the rachillae as triads of two males surrounding one female. Fleshy and red when ripe, the fruit becomes wrinkled when dry, carrying one seed with hom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pritchardiopsis
''Saribus jeanneneyi'' is a very rare species of palm tree in the genus ''Saribus''. It is endemic to southern New Caledonia, where only one mature specimen, surrounded by a few seedlings, survived in its native habitat as of 1997. The cause of its rarity in the wild is because its meristem is edible. Taxonomy In 1910 ''Saribus jeanneneyi'' was first described as a new species by the Italian palm specialist Odoardo Beccari. He placed it in the genus '' Pritchardiopsis'', but phylogenetic studies based on DNA led to its transfer into ''Saribus'' in 2011. The specific epithet commemorates Ambroise Jeanneney, an agronomist in New Caledonia, who collected the holotype specimen in Prony District. The holotype is housed at the herbarium at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Description The fruit are some 4cm in diameter. Compared to other species of ''Saribus'', ''S. jeanneneyi'' has relatively large fruit, although it shares this characteristic with ''S. surru'' and ''S. tothur''. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Retispatha
''Retispatha'' is a rare, monotypic genus of flowering plant in the palm family endemic to Borneo, where the sole species, ''Retispatha dumetosa'', is known as (dialectal: ) or 'the bear's sugar cane'. The name combines Latin and Greek words meaning 'network' and 'spathe', and the species epithet means 'bushy'.Riffle, Robert L. and Craft, Paul (2003) ''An Encyclopedia of Cultivated Palms''. Portland: Timber Press. / While classified with other rattans, they retain only superficial climbing organs; they sprawl and lean but are not true climbers. Taxonomy Despite bearing strong resemblance to members of the Plectocomiinae, in preparing illustrations for the palm survey ''Genera Palmarum'', Marion Sheehan discovered a single sterile, staminate flower among the pistillate members. The absence of such a flower previously obscured its relationship with the Calaminae, which it also closely resembles. This find, despite its rarity, seems to confirm its placement in the Calaminae s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lytocaryum
''Lytocaryum'' is a monoecious genus of flowering plant in the palm family endemic to the Atlantic coast of Brazil, where 4 species are known. Palms once classified as ''Microcoelum'' are herein included; the genus is closely related to '' Syagrus'', from which it is differentiated only by abundant tomentum, strongly versatile anthers, and slight epicarp, mesocarp, and endocarp differences.Uhl, Natalie W. and Dransfield, John (1987) ''Genera Palmarum - A classification of palms based on the work of Harold E. Moore''. Lawrence, Kansas: Allen Press. / The name is Greek for "loose" and "nut".Riffle, Robert L. and Craft, Paul (2003) ''An Encyclopedia of Cultivated Palms''. Portland: Timber Press. / Species accepted: * '' Lytocaryum hoehnei'' (Burret) Toledo - São Paulo * '' Lytocaryum insigne'' (Rob.) Toledo - Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro * '' Lytocaryum itapebiense'' Noblick & Lorenzi - Bahia * ''Lytocaryum weddellianum'' (H.Wendl.) Toledo - Rio de Janeiro Description B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wallichia
''Wallichia'' was a genus of seven species of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae. Its species are now included within the genus ''Arenga''. Species The genus is distributed in the Eastern Himalayas, northern Indochina, and southern China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, most populous country, with a Population of China, population exceeding 1.4 billion, slig ....Barfod, A.S. & Dransfield, J. (2013). Flora of Thailand 11(3): 323-498. The Forest Herbarium, National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department, Bangkok. References Arecaceae genera Flora of tropical Asia Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{palm-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pogonotium
''Pogonotium'' was a dioecious genus of flowering plant in the palm family found in Malaysia and Borneo. Its species are now included within the genus ''Calamus''. Its close relatives are climbing rattans and while partially armed with climbing apparatus, its habit is sprawling and leaning but not effective climbing. The reduced inflorescence nestled between the auricles is unusual and distinguishes it from similar relatives like ''Calamus'', ''Daemonorops'' and '' Ceratolobus''.Uhl, Natalie W. and Dransfield, John (1987) ''Genera Palmarum - A classification of palms based on the work of Harold E. Moore''. Lawrence, Kansas: Allen Press. / The name is Greek meaning "bearded".Riffle, Robert L. and Craft, Paul (2003) ''An Encyclopedia of Cultivated Palms''. Portland: Timber Press. / Description The trunks are both solitary and clustering with short internodes, usually covered in spiny, persistent leaf sheaths. The pinnate leaf has a tubular sheath with whorls and scatters of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daemonorops
''Daemonorops'' was a genus of rattan palms in the family Arecaceae. Its species are now included within the genus ''Calamus''. Species found primarily in the tropics and subtropics of southeastern Asia with a few species extending into southern China and the Himalayas. ''Daemonorops'' species are dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate individuals. Polysaccharides found in some ''Daemonorops'' species are known for their medicinal anticoagulant properties. Former species * ''Daemonorops acamptostachys'' Becc. – Sarawak * ''Daemonorops acehensis'' Rustiami – Sumatra * ''Daemonorops affinis'' Becc. – Mindanao * ''Daemonorops angustifolia'' (Griff.) Mart. – Thailand, Malaysia * ''Daemonorops aruensis'' Becc. – Aru Islands * ''Daemonorops asteracantha'' Becc. – Borneo * ''Daemonorops atra'' J.Dransf. – Borneo * ''Daemonorops aurea'' Renuka & Vijayak. – Andaman Islands * ''Daemonorops banggiensis'' J.Dransf. – Sabah * ''Daemonorops beguinii'' Bur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
