Hortia Superba

	Hortia Superba ''Hortia superba'' is a mid-story rainforest tree in the family Rutaceae. It is native to the Amazon Basin The Amazon basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries. The Amazon drainage basin covers an area of about , or about 35.5 percent of the South American continent. It is located in the countries of Bolivi .... Description The tree grows to about in height by about thick. It is unbranched or rarely branched; the branches being vertical or nearly vertical (reiterations), the trunk and each reiteration topped by a cluster of very large leaves up to long by up to in width. The inflorescence is a terminal thyrse up to in diameter. The fruit is a globular berry up to long and almost as wide containing several seeds. Reference {{Taxonbar, from=Q15393372 Zanthoxyloideae Taxa named by Adolpho Ducke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Adolpho Ducke Adolpho Ducke (October 19, 1876 – January 5, 1959), (also referred to as Adolfo Ducke and occasionally misspelled "Duque"), was a notable entomologist, botanist and ethnographer specializing in Amazonia. According to family records, he was an ethnic German with roots in Trieste Austro-Hungary (now in Italy). German was his first language; that is, the German commonly spoken in Trieste in the 19th century. Most of his books were written in German. Recruited by Emílio Goeldi, Ducke began his work in Amazônia as an entomologist for the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, but due to the influence of botanists Jacques Hüber and Paul Le Cointe, he switched to botany. He traveled throughout Amazônia to study the complicated tree system of the rainforest. He published 180 articles and monographs, primarily on the Leguminosae, and he described 900 species and 50 new genera. In 1918, while continuing his work for the Paraense Museum, he collaborated with the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Gard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Rutaceae The Rutaceae is a family, commonly known as the rueRUTACEAE in BoDD – Botanical Dermatology Database or citrus family, of flowering plant s, usually placed in the order Sapindales . Species of the family generally have flower s that divide into four or five parts, usually w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Amazon Basin The Amazon basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries. The Amazon drainage basin covers an area of about , or about 35.5 percent of the South American continent. It is located in the countries of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. Most of the basin is covered by the Amazon rainforest, also known as Amazonia. With a area of dense tropical forest, this is the largest rainforest in the world. Geography The Amazon River begins in the Andes Mountains at the west of the basin with its main tributary the Marañón River and Apurimac River in Peru. The highest point in the watershed of the Amazon is the second biggest peak of Yerupajá at . With a length of about before it drains into the Atlantic Ocean, it is one of the two longest rivers in the world. A team of scientists has claimed that the Amazon is longer than the Nile, but debate about its exact length continues. The Amazon system ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Thyrse A thyrse is a type of inflorescence in which the main axis grows indeterminately, and the subaxes (branches) have determinate growth.{{cite book , author1=Hickey, M., author2=King, C. , year=2001 , title=The Cambridge Illustrated Glossary of Botanical Terms , publisher=Cambridge University Press Gallery File:Syringa Leipzig 2011.jpg, ''Syringa'', lilac File:Banana Maria Sibylla Merian 1705 plate XII.png, The thyrse of a banana plant has side branches which become hands of bananas File:Vitex agnus-castus 002.JPG, The inflorescence of ''Vitex agnus-castus ''Vitex agnus-castus'', also called vitex, chaste tree (or chastetree), chasteberry, Abraham's balm, lilac chastetree, or monk's pepper, is a native of the Mediterranean region. It is one of the few temperate-zone species of '' Vitex'', which is ...'' has branches, each of which is a thyrse References Plant morphology ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Zanthoxyloideae ''Zanthoxyloideae'' is a subfamily of the family Rutaceae. Genera The division of the subfamily into genera varied, . Genera accepted in a 2021 classification of Rutaceae into subfamilies were: '' Acmadenia'' Bartl. & H.L.Wendl. '' Acradenia'' Kippist ''Acronychia'' J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. '' Adenandra'' Willd. '' Adiscanthus'' Ducke ''Agathosma'' Willd. '' Andreadoxa'' Kallunki ''Angostura'' Roem. & Schult. '' Apocaulon'' R.S.Cowan '' Asterolasia'' F.Muell. '' Balfourodendron'' Mello ex Oliv. ''Boronia'' Sm. ''Bosistoa'' F.Muell. ex Benth. '' Bouchardatia'' Baill. '' Brombya'' F.Muell. ''Calodendrum'' Thunb. ''Casimiroa'' La Llave ''Choisya'' Kunth '' Chorilaena'' Endl. '' Coatesia'' F.Muell., syn. ''Geijera'' Schott '' Coleonema'' Bartl. & H.L.Wendl. '' Comptonella'' Baker f. '' Conchocarpus'' J.C.Mikan '' Correa'' Andrews '' Crossosperma'' T.G.Hartley '' Crowea'' Sm. '' Cyanothamnus'' Lindl. '' Decagonocarpus'' Engl. '' Decatropis'' Hook.f. '' Decazyx ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]