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Justicia Austroguangxiensis
''Justicia austroguangxiensis'' is a plant in the family Acanthaceae Acanthaceae is a family (the acanthus family) of dicotyledonous flowering plants containing almost 250 genera and about 2500 species. Most are tropical herbs, shrubs, or twining vines; some are epiphytes. Only a few species are distributed in tem .... References austroguangxiensis {{Acanthaceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hsien Shui Lo
Xi'an or Xian (西安) is the capital of Shaanxi province, China. Xian or Xi'an may also refer to: Places *Counties of China, known in Chinese as ''xiàn'' (县/縣) * Xian (state) (弦), a minor state during the Zhou dynasty * Xian County (献县/獻縣), a county in the Cangzhou prefecture, Hebei province, China *Xi'an District, Mudanjiang (西安区), in Heilongjiang, China *Xi'an District, Liaoyuan (西安区), formerly Xi'an County, in Jilin, China People *Xian (surname) (咸; 冼), a Chinese surname *Xian (video game player) or Ho Kun Xian (born 1990), Singaporean fighting games player * Emperor Xian (other), posthumous name of several Chinese rulers *Ashina Xian, a Western Turk khagan also appointed general by the Tang dynasty *Bi Xian (802–864), official of the Chinese dynasty Tang Dynasty *Dong Xian (23 BCE(?) – 1 BCE), Han Dynasty politician *Dou Xian (died 92 AD), Chinese general and consort kin of the Eastern Han Dynasty *Luo Xian (died 270), military g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ding Fang
Ding Fang (); born 1956 in Wugong County, Shaanxi) is a Chinese painter and curator. He graduated from the Nanjing Fine Arts Academy in 1986, with a Masters in oil painting, where he later taught for several years. After working both as a professional artist and on the editorial staff of Fine Arts in China Magazine, he moved in 2000 to the Institute of Fine Arts at Nanjing University, where he currently teaches. His work appeared in several prominent shows in China in the early 1980s. When political circumstances made it difficult for him to continue working as an independent artist, he began to exhibit in galleries in Sweden, Vienna, Los Angeles, London, Oxford, Sydney, and Rotterdam. In recent years his work has featured in many major Chinese exhibitions, including the Beijing Biennale in 2003 and ''The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art''. He was the subject of a retrospective at the National Art Museum of China in 2002. The Yuan Center gallery in Beijing included several ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheng Yih Wu
Wu Zhengyi (; June 13, 1916 – June 20, 2013) was a Chinese botanist and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Wu specialized in Botanical Geography and Medicinal Botany. He is also known by the alternative spellings of 'Wu Cheng-yih', 'Wu Zheng Yi' and 'Cheng Yih Wu'. Wu was born in Jiujiang, Jiangxi, and grew up in Yangzhou, Jiangsu. He graduated from Tsinghua University in 1937. From 1940 to 1942, he pursued his postgraduate study at Peking University, under supervision of Zhang Jingyue, then chair of the department of Biology at PKU. In 1950, Wu became a research fellow and vice director of the Botanical Institute of CAS. He was elected an academician of CAS in 1955. Wu was appointed as the director of Kunming Botanical Institute of CAS in 1958. International Cosmos Prize prizewinner 1999, On January 8, 2008, Wu received the prestigious State Preeminent Science and Technology Award The Highest Science and Technology Award () also known as the State Pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chia Chi Hu
Chia may refer to: Plants * ''Salvia hispanica'', flowering plant in the sage family ** Chia seed, edible seeds of ''Salvia hispanica'' * ''Salvia columbariae'', an annual plant that is commonly called chia, chia sage, golden chia or desert chia * '' Salvia polystachya'', a herbaceous perennial plant native to Mexico, Guatemala and Panama Places * Chía, Aragon, a municipality in Spain * Chía, Cundinamarca, a town and municipality in Colombia * Chia (Sardinia), a coastal area and village in Sardinia, Italy * , a frazione in Soriano nel Cimino, central Italy Personal names * Chia (surname), a surname in various cultures ** Xie (surname), a Chinese surname often spelled Chia in Singapore and Malaysia ** Jia (surname), a Chinese surname often spelled Chia in Taiwan or in the early 20th century * A Spanish variant of the name Lucia Other uses * Chia (cryptocurrency), a proof-of-space-and-time (Storage provided over amount of time) cryptocurrency * Chía (goddess), a de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acanthaceae
Acanthaceae is a family (the acanthus family) of dicotyledonous flowering plants containing almost 250 genera and about 2500 species. Most are tropical herbs, shrubs, or twining vines; some are epiphytes. Only a few species are distributed in temperate regions. The four main centres of distribution are Indonesia and Malaysia, Africa, Brazil, and Central America. Representatives of the family can be found in nearly every habitat, including dense or open forests, scrublands, wet fields and valleys, sea coast and marine areas, swamps, and mangrove forests. Description Plants in this family have simple, opposite, decussated leaves with entire (or sometimes toothed, lobed, or spiny) margins, and without stipules. The leaves may contain cystoliths, calcium carbonate concretions, seen as streaks on the surface. The flowers are perfect, zygomorphic to nearly actinomorphic, and arranged in an inflorescence that is either a spike, raceme, or cyme. Typically, a colorful bract subtends ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Plant List
The Plant List was a list of botanical names of species of plants created by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Missouri Botanical Garden and launched in 2010. It was intended to be a comprehensive record of all known names of plant species over time, and was produced in response to Target 1 of the 2002-2010 Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSP C), to produce "An online flora of all known plants.” It has not been updated since 2013, and has been superseded by World Flora Online. World Flora Online In October 2012, the follow-up project World Flora Online was launched with the aim to publish an online flora of all known plants by 2020. This is a project of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, with the aim of halting the loss of plant species worldwide by 2020. It is developed by a collaborative group of institutions around the world response to the 2011-2020 GSPC's updated Target 1. This aims to achieve an online Flora of all known plants by 2020. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
