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Knightia (plant)
''Knightia'' is a small genus of the family Proteaceae endemic to New Zealand, named in honor of Thomas Andrew Knight. One extant species, '' K. excelsa'' (rewarewa) is found in New Zealand. Two further ''Knightia'' species are found in New Caledonia, although they were placed in the genus ''Eucarpha'' by Lawrie Johnson and Barbara Briggs in their influential 1975 monograph "On the Proteaceae: the evolution and classification of a southern family", a placement supported in a 2006 classification of the Proteaceae. A fossil species from upper Miocene deposits in Kaikorai has been described as '' Knightia oblonga''. ''Knightia'' has been placed in the tribe Roupaleae of the subfamily Grevilleoideae. Species , Plants of the World Online accepted three extant species. Other sources place the two species from New Caledonia in the genus ''Eucarpha ''Eucarpha'' is a genus of flowering plant of the family Proteaceae, endemic to New Caledonia. Two species are recognised. Up to 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knightia Excelsa
''Knightia excelsa'', commonly called rewarewa (from Māori), is an evergreen tree endemic to the low elevation and valley forests of New Zealand's North Island and Marlborough Sounds (41° S) and the type species for the genus '' Knightia''. Rewarewa grows to 30 m tall, with a slender crown. The leaves are alternate, leathery, narrow oblong, 10 – 15 cm long and 2.5 - 3.5 cm wide, and without stipules. The flowers are 2 - 3.5 cm long, bright red, and borne in racemes 10 cm long. Produces dry woody follicles. It was called New Zealand honeysuckle by early European settlers but the name has fallen into disuse in preference for the Māori name. Rewarewa flowers are a great source for honey Honey is a sweet and viscous substance made by several bees, the best-known of which are honey bees. Honey is made and stored to nourish bee colonies. Bees produce honey by gathering and then refining the sugary secretions of plants (primar ... production. The rew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson
Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson FAA, (26 June 1925 – 1 August 1997) known as Lawrie Johnson, was an Australian taxonomic botanist. He worked at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, for the whole of his professional career, as a botanist (1948–1972), Director (1972–1985) and Honorary Research Associate (1986–1997). - originally published in ''Historical Records of Australian Science'', vol.13, no.4, 2001. Alone or in collaboration with colleagues, he distinguished and described four new families of vascular plants, 33 new genera, 286 new species (including posthumous publications), and reclassified another 395 species. Of the families he described, Rhynchocalycaceae (with B. G. Briggs, 1985) is accepted by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG). Hopkinsiaceae and Lyginiaceae, (which he and B. G. Briggs proposed in 2000 be carved out of Anarthriaceae), have not been accepted by the APG. Lawrie Johnson died of cancer in 1997. He received many honours and awards, inclu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eucarpha Strobilina
''Eucarpha strobilina'', synonym ''Knightia strobilina'', is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae, native to New Caledonia. Taxonomy The taxonomic history of the species is somewhat tangled, as some names have been used that were not formally published. The species was first described as ''Embothrium strobilinum'' by Jacques Labillardière in 1806. In 1830, Robert Brown wrote that it seemed to belong to ''Knightia'', but did not actually make the combination, so the name "''Knightia strobilina'' R.Br." is invalid. In 1856, Carl Meissner listed "''K.? strobilina''" under ''Knightia'', referring to Brown, and excluded it from ''Embothrium''; the combination ''Knightia strobilina'' was also used in 1968. Following Meissner, the species continued to be placed in ''Knightia'' until 1975, when Lawrence Johnson and Barbara G. Briggs recognized the distinctness of two New Caledonian species of ''Knightia'', particularly their prominent bract In botany, a bract is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Plant Names Index
The International Plant Names Index (IPNI) describes itself as "a database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of seed plants, ferns and lycophytes." Coverage of plant names is best at the rank of species and genus. It includes basic bibliographical details associated with the names. Its goals include eliminating the need for repeated reference to primary sources for basic bibliographic information about plant names. The IPNI also maintains a list of standardized author abbreviations. These were initially based on Brummitt & Powell (1992), but new names and abbreviations are continually added. Description IPNI is the product of a collaboration between The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew ( Index Kewensis), The Harvard University Herbaria (Gray Herbarium Index), and the Australian National Herbarium ( APNI). The IPNI database is a collection of the names registered by the three cooperating institutions and they work towards standardizing the information. The st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eucarpha Deplanchei
''Eucarpha deplanchei'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae, native to New Caledonia. It was first described in 1865 as ''Knightia deplanchei''. Taxonomy The species was placed within the genus '' Knightia'' until 1975, when Lawrence Johnson and Barbara G. Briggs recognized the distinctness of two New Caledonian species of ''Knightia'', particularly their prominent bracts, and transferred both to ''Eucarpha'', a transfer supported in 2006. The nomenclatural combination for the species in the genus ''Eucarpha'' was only published in 2022. Other sources, including Plants of the World Online , treat ''Eucarpha'' as a synonym A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. For example, in the English language, the words ''begin'', ''start'', ''commence'', and ''initiate'' are al ... of ''Knightia''. References Roupaleae Endemic flora of New Caledonia Plants des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 2020". The initial focus was on tropical African Floras, particularly Flora Zambesiaca, Flora of West Tropical Africa and Flora of Tropical East Africa. The database uses the same taxonomical source as Kew's World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, which is the International Plant Names Index, and the World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP). POWO contains 1,234,000 global plant names and 367,600 images. See also *Australian Plant Name Index The Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) is an online database of all published names of Australian vascular plants. It covers all names, whether current names, synonyms or invalid names. It includes bibliographic and typification details, informati ... * Convention on Biological Diversity * Wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grevilleoideae
The Grevilleoideae are a subfamily of the plant family Proteaceae. Mainly restricted to the Southern Hemisphere, it contains around 46 genera and about 950 species. Genera include ''Banksia'', ''Grevillea'', and '' Macadamia''. Description The Grevilleoideae grow as trees, shrubs, or subshrubs. They are highly variable, making a simple, diagnostic identification key for the subfamily essentially impossible to provide. One common and fairly diagnostic characteristic is the occurrence of flowers in pairs that share a common bract. However, a few Grevilleoideae taxa do not have this property, having solitary flowers or inflorescences of unpaired flowers. In most taxa, the flowers occur in densely packed heads or spikes, and the fruit is a follicle. Distribution and habitat Grevilleoideae are mainly a Southern Hemisphere family. The main centre of diversity is Australia, with around 700 of 950 species occurring there, and South America also contains taxa. However, the Grevilleoid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roupaleae
The Grevilleoideae are a subfamily of the plant family Proteaceae. Mainly restricted to the Southern Hemisphere, it contains around 46 genera and about 950 species. Genera include ''Banksia'', ''Grevillea'', and ''Macadamia''. Description The Grevilleoideae grow as trees, shrubs, or subshrubs. They are highly variable, making a simple, diagnostic identification key for the subfamily essentially impossible to provide. One common and fairly diagnostic characteristic is the occurrence of flowers in pairs that share a common bract. However, a few Grevilleoideae taxa do not have this property, having solitary flowers or inflorescences of unpaired flowers. In most taxa, the flowers occur in densely packed heads or spikes, and the fruit is a follicle. Distribution and habitat Grevilleoideae are mainly a Southern Hemisphere family. The main centre of diversity is Australia, with around 700 of 950 species occurring there, and South America also contains taxa. However, the Grevilleoide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knightia Oblonga
''Knightia'' is an extinct genus of clupeid bony fish that lived in the freshwater lakes and rivers of North America and Asia during the Eocene epoch. The genus was erected by David Starr Jordan in 1907, in honor of the late University of Wyoming professor Wilbur Clinton Knight, "an indefatigable student of the paleontology of the Rocky Mountains." It is the official state fossil of Wyoming, and the most commonly excavated fossil fish in the world. ''Knightia'' belongs to the same taxonomic family as herring and sardines, and resembled the former closely enough that both ''Knightia alta'' and ''Knightia eocaena'' were originally described as species of true herring in the genus ''Clupea''. As with modern-day clupeids, ''Knightia'' spp. likely fed on algae and diatoms, as well as insects and occasionally smaller fish. Anatomy In ''Knightia'' fish, rows of dorsal and ventral scutes run from the back of the head to the medial fins. They had heavy scales and small conic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaikorai Valley
Kaikorai Valley is a long broad valley which runs through the west of the New Zealand city of Dunedin, to the west of the city centre. It is the valley of a small stream, the Kaikorai Stream, which runs from northeast to southwest down the length of the valley. The valley provides a route into central Dunedin (Kaikorai Valley Road) which avoids the steep climb and descent over Lookout Point into Caversham, instead allowing for a gradual climb to the top of Stuart Street at Roslyn before a steep drop into the heart of the city. The valley contains several suburbs, largely isolated from the city centre by the ridge which forms the valley's eastern edge. This ridge was part of the crater wall of the long-extinct Dunedin Volcano. The valley is largely occupied by light industrial and wholesale businesses. Much of the land to the west of the valley is semi-rural; the eastern wall contains residential properties. The valley is home to three distinct suburbs: Kaikorai, Bradfor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara G
Barbara may refer to: People * Barbara (given name) * Barbara (painter) (1915–2002), pseudonym of Olga Biglieri, Italian futurist painter * Barbara (singer) (1930–1997), French singer * Barbara Popović (born 2000), also known mononymously as Barbara, Macedonian singer * Bárbara (footballer) (born 1988), Brazilian footballer Film and television * ''Barbara'' (1961 film), a West German film * ''Bárbara'' (film), a 1980 Argentine film * ''Barbara'' (1997 film), a Danish film directed by Nils Malmros, based on Jacobsen's novel * ''Barbara'' (2012 film), a German film * ''Barbara'' (2017 film), a French film * ''Barbara'' (TV series), a British sitcom Places * Barbara (Paris Métro), a metro station in Montrouge and Bagneux, France * Barbaria (region), or al-Barbara, an ancient region in Northeast Africa * Barbara, Arkansas, U.S. * Barbara, Gaza, a former Palestinian village near Gaza * Barbara, Marche, a town in Italy * Berbara, or al-Barbara, Lebanon * Berbara, Ak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eucarpha
''Eucarpha'' is a genus of flowering plant of the family Proteaceae, endemic to New Caledonia. Two species are recognised. Up to 1975, these were classified within the genus '' Knightia'' until Lawrence Johnson and Barbara G. Briggs recognised their distinctness, particularly their prominent bracts, in their 1975 monograph " On the Proteaceae: the evolution and classification of a southern family". Nomenclatural combinations for these two species in the genus ''Eucarpha'' were published in 2022. In 2006, the genus was placed in the tribe Roupaleae. Its closest relative is the Australian '' Triunia''.Sauquet, H., P. H. Weston, C. J. Anderson, N. P. Barker, D. J. Cantrill, A. R. Mast, and Savolainen, V. (2009). Contrasted Patterns of Hyperdiversifaction in Mediterranean Hotspots. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 106 (1): 221–25. Species , Plants of the World Online Plants of the World Online (POWO) is an online database published by the Royal Bot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
