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Hemithrinax Rivularis
''Hemithrinax'' is a genus of palms that is endemic to eastern Cuba. It comprises three species and one variety and was previously included within the genus ''Thrinax''. * ''Hemithrinax compacta'' (Griseb. & H.Wendl.) M.Gómez - Sierra de Nipe in Holguin Province * ''Hemithrinax ekmaniana'' Burret - Las Villas in Granma Province * ''Hemithrinax rivularis ''Hemithrinax'' is a genus of palms that is endemic to eastern Cuba. It comprises three species and one variety and was previously included within the genus ''Thrinax''. * '' Hemithrinax compacta'' (Griseb. & H.Wendl.) M.Gómez - Sierra de Nipe ...'' León - Sierra de Moa in Holguin Province ** ''Hemithrinax rivularis'' var. ''savannarum'' (León) O.Muñiz - Oriente and Sierra de Moa in Holguin Province. References Endemic flora of Cuba Trees of Cuba Arecaceae genera Taxa named by William Jackson Hooker {{Arecaceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Dalton Hooker
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 the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, succeeding his father, William Jackson Hooker, and was awarded the highest honours of British science. Biography Early years Hooker was born in Halesworth, Suffolk, England. He was the second son of the famous botanist Sir William Jackson Hooker, Regius Professor of Botany, and Maria Sarah Turner, eldest daughter of the banker Dawson Turner and sister-in-law of Francis Palgrave. From age seven, Hooker attended his father's lectures at Glasgow University, taking an early interest in plant distribution and the voyages of explorers like Captain James Cook. He was educated at the Glasgow High School and went on to study medicine at Glasgow University, graduating M.D. in 1839. This degree qualified him for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thrinax
''Thrinax'' is a genus in the palm family, native to the Caribbean. It is closely related to the genera ''Coccothrinax'', ''Hemithrinax'' and ''Zombia''. Flowers are small, bisexual and are borne on small stalks. Taxonomy In the first edition of ''Genera Palmarum'' (1987), Natalie Uhl and John Dransfield placed the genus ''Thrinax'' in subfamily Coryphoideae, tribe Corypheae and subtribe Thrinacinae. Subsequent phylogenetic analyses showed that the Old World and New World members of Thrinacinae are not closely related and as a consequence, ''Thrinax'' and related genera were transferred into their own tribe, Cryosophileae. In 2008, '' Leucothrinax morrisii'' (formerly ''T. morrisii'') was split from ''Thrinax'' after phylogenetic studies showed that its inclusion in ''Thrinax'' would render that genus paraphyletic In taxonomy (general), taxonomy, a group is paraphyletic if it consists of the group's most recent common ancestor, last common ancestor and most of its desce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trees Of Cuba
In botany, a tree is a perennial plant with an elongated stem, or trunk, usually supporting branches and leaves. In some usages, the definition of a tree may be narrower, including only woody plants with secondary growth, plants that are usable as lumber or plants above a specified height. In wider definitions, the taller palms, tree ferns, bananas, and bamboos are also trees. Trees are not a taxonomic group but include a variety of plant species that have independently evolved a trunk and branches as a way to tower above other plants to compete for sunlight. The majority of tree species are angiosperms or hardwoods; of the rest, many are gymnosperms or softwoods. Trees tend to be long-lived, some reaching several thousand years old. Trees have been in existence for 370 million years. It is estimated that there are some three trillion mature trees in the world. A tree typically has many secondary branches supported clear of the ground by the trunk. This trunk typically co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Endemic Flora Of Cuba
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 s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hemithrinax
''Hemithrinax'' is a genus of palms that is endemic to eastern Cuba. It comprises three species and one variety and was previously included within the genus ''Thrinax''. * ''Hemithrinax compacta'' (Griseb. & H.Wendl.) M.Gómez - Sierra de Nipe in Holguin Province * ''Hemithrinax ekmaniana'' Burret - Las Villas in Granma Province * ''Hemithrinax rivularis ''Hemithrinax'' is a genus of palms that is endemic to eastern Cuba. It comprises three species and one variety and was previously included within the genus ''Thrinax''. * ''Hemithrinax compacta'' (Griseb. & H.Wendl.) M.Gómez - Sierra de Nipe ...'' León - Sierra de Moa in Holguin Province ** ''Hemithrinax rivularis'' var. ''savannarum'' (León) O.Muñiz - Oriente and Sierra de Moa in Holguin Province. References Endemic flora of Cuba Trees of Cuba Arecaceae genera Taxa named by William Jackson Hooker {{Arecaceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holguín Province
Holguín () is one of the provinces of Cuba, the third most populous after Havana and Santiago de Cuba. It lies in the southeast of the country. Its major cities include Holguín (the capital), Banes, Antilla, Mayarí, and Moa. The province has a population of slightly over one million people. Its territory exceeds , 25 percent of which is covered by forest. History Christopher Columbus landed in what is believed to have been today's Holguín province on October 27, 1492. He declared that it was "the most beautiful land human eyes had ever seen". The Holguín province was established in 1978, when it was split from the Oriente region. Economy Like much of Cuba, Holguín's economy is based around sugarcane, though other crops such as corn and coffee, as well as mining, are also large earners for the province. A large nickel plus cobalt processing plant with shipping facilities was built in Moa, using foreign investment, much of it from Canada. Chromium, iron and steel plant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hemithrinax Rivularis
''Hemithrinax'' is a genus of palms that is endemic to eastern Cuba. It comprises three species and one variety and was previously included within the genus ''Thrinax''. * ''Hemithrinax compacta'' (Griseb. & H.Wendl.) M.Gómez - Sierra de Nipe in Holguin Province * ''Hemithrinax ekmaniana'' Burret - Las Villas in Granma Province * ''Hemithrinax rivularis ''Hemithrinax'' is a genus of palms that is endemic to eastern Cuba. It comprises three species and one variety and was previously included within the genus ''Thrinax''. * '' Hemithrinax compacta'' (Griseb. & H.Wendl.) M.Gómez - Sierra de Nipe ...'' León - Sierra de Moa in Holguin Province ** ''Hemithrinax rivularis'' var. ''savannarum'' (León) O.Muñiz - Oriente and Sierra de Moa in Holguin Province. References Endemic flora of Cuba Trees of Cuba Arecaceae genera Taxa named by William Jackson Hooker {{Arecaceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Granma Province
Granma is one of the provinces of Cuba. Its capital is Bayamo. Other towns include Manzanillo (a port on the Gulf of Guacanayabo) and Pilón. History The province takes its name from the yacht '' Granma'', used by Che Guevara and Fidel Castro to land in Cuba with 82 guerrillas on December 2, 1956; until 1976 the area formed part of Santiago de Cuba larger province " Oriente Province". The American who sold the guerillas the secondhand yacht in Mexico apparently had named it "Granma" ("Granma", more usually "Grandma", is an affectionate term for a grandmother) after his grandmother. The name of the vessel became an icon for Cuban communism. The province is full of reminders of the Cuban Revolution, and of the Cuban Wars of Independence; plaques in the mountain commemorate the 1959 struggle against Fulgencio Batista. Other sites, unmarked, include archaeological digs, the sites of several palenques, and the fortified hamlets of escaped slaves. In 2005 Hurricane Dennis destroye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hemithrinax Ekmaniana
''Hemithrinax ekmaniana'' is a palm which is endemic to Cuba. Only a single population of less than 100 mature individuals remains in the wild. Distribution and habitat It is an endemic palm of Mogotes de Jumagua in northern Cuba. This palm survives only on three of the small mogote A mogote () is a generally-isolated steep-sided residual hill in the tropics composed of either limestone, marble, or dolomite. Mogotes are surrounded by nearly flat alluvial plains. The hills typically have a rounded, tower-like form. Overvie ...s where it was rediscovered in 1978 by a group of paleontologists and naturalists looking for fossils in the caverns and cataloging the fauna and flora of the small mountains ( Sabaneque Speleological Group). A small number under 100 individuals cling to the steep cliffs. Description The Jumagua palm has a gray trunk about 5 cm in diameter holding a spherical and very dense crown of stiff, spiky light green leaves that have almost no stalks and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Variety (botany)
In botanical nomenclature, variety (abbreviated var.; in la, varietas) is a taxonomic rank below that of species and subspecies, but above that of form. As such, it gets a three-part infraspecific name. It is sometimes recommended that the subspecies rank should be used to recognize geographic distinctiveness, whereas the variety rank is appropriate if the taxon is seen throughout the geographic range of the species. Example The pincushion cactus, ''Escobaria vivipara'' (Nutt.) Buxb., is a wide-ranging variable species occurring from Canada to Mexico, and found throughout New Mexico below about . Nine varieties have been described. Where the varieties of the pincushion cactus meet, they intergrade. The variety ''Escobaria vivipara'' var. ''arizonica'' is from Arizona, while ''Escobaria vivipara'' var. ''neo-mexicana'' is from New Mexico. See also '' Capsicum annuum var. glabriusculum'' Definitions The term is defined in different ways by different authors. However, the I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hemithrinax Compacta
''Hemithrinax compacta'' is a species of palm that is endemic to Cuba. Distribution and habitat ''Hemithrinax compacta'' flourishes on the mogotes of Cuba. Mogotes are dome-shaped hills in Cuba made up of coral rock. ''Hemithrinax compacta'' is the only species in its genus in Cuba that grows in the highlands, at an elevation of . ''Hemithrinax compacta'' needs to have more than per year of rainfall and a mean temperature of . Description The leaves of the palm have an average length of and the inflorescence of the palm is tightly clustered, giving rise to the species name. A mature ''H. compacta'' can have a massive trunk of up to thick and more than in height. The genus ''Thrinax'' has been grown in gardens. In addition, in ''Thrinax'' the fruits are dispersed and eaten by West Indian woodpecker The West Indian woodpecker (''Melanerpes superciliaris'') is a species of bird in subfamily Picinae of the woodpecker family Picidae. It is found in the Bahamas, the Cayman Is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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