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Larreoideae
Larreoideae is a subfamily of the flowering plant family Zygophyllaceae. Genera * ''Bulnesia'' Gay * ''Guaiacum'' L. * ''Larrea'' Cav. * '' Pintoa'' Gay * ''Porlieria'' Ruiz The Spanish surname Ruiz originates from the Germanic personal name " Hrodric" which is composed of the elements "Hrōd", meaning "renown", and "rīc", meaning "power(ful)", thus "famous ruler". Ruiz is a patronymic from the personal name Ruy, a sh ... & Pav. References Rosid subfamilies {{rosid-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larreoideae
Larreoideae is a subfamily of the flowering plant family Zygophyllaceae. Genera * ''Bulnesia'' Gay * ''Guaiacum'' L. * ''Larrea'' Cav. * '' Pintoa'' Gay * ''Porlieria'' Ruiz The Spanish surname Ruiz originates from the Germanic personal name " Hrodric" which is composed of the elements "Hrōd", meaning "renown", and "rīc", meaning "power(ful)", thus "famous ruler". Ruiz is a patronymic from the personal name Ruy, a sh ... & Pav. References Rosid subfamilies {{rosid-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zygophyllaceae
Zygophyllaceae is a family of flowering plants that contains the bean-caper and caltrop. The family includes around 285 species in 22 genera. Plants in the family Zygophyllaceae may be trees, shrubs, or herbs. They are often found in dry habitats. The leaves are usually opposite, often with stipules and spines. Some are cultivated as ornamental plants, such as species of the ''Guaiacum'', ''Zygophyllum'', ''Tribulus'', and ''Larrea'' genera. i L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards). The families of flowering plants: descriptions, illustrations, identification, information retrieval. |
Guaiacum Officinale
''Guaiacum officinale'', commonly known as roughbark lignum-vitae, guaiacwood or gaïacwood, is a species of tree in the caltrop family, Zygophyllaceae, that is native to the Caribbean and the northern coast of South America. Description This small tree is very slow growing, reaching about in height with a trunk diameter of . The tree is essentially evergreen throughout most of its native range. The leaves are compound, in length, and wide. The blue flowers have five petals that yield a bright-yellow-orange fruit with red flesh and black seeds. Symbolism ''Guaiacum officinale'' is the national flower of Jamaica. Uses ''Guaiacum officinale'' is one of two species yielding the true lignum vitae, the other being ''Guaiacum sanctum''. Guaiac, a natural resin extracted from the wood, is a colorless compound that turns blue when placed in contact with substances that have peroxidase activity and then are exposed to hydrogen peroxide. Guaiac cards are impregnated with the resi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulnesia
''Bulnesia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the caltrop family, Zygophyllaceae. The wood of some – particularly '' B. arborea'' and '' B. sarmientoi'' – is traded as verawood (colloquially "vera") or ''"lignum vitae"''. They are close relatives of the "true" ''lignum vitae'' trees of genus ''Guaiacum''. Species * ''Bulnesia arborea'' – Maracaibo ''lignum vitae''; 'True' Verawood * ''Bulnesia bonariensis'' Griseb. * '' Bulnesia carrapo'' Killip & Dugand * ''Bulnesia chilensis'' Gay * ''Bulnesia foliosa'' Griseb. * ''Bulnesia loraniensis'' Griseb. * ''Bulnesia macrocarpa'' Phil. * ''Bulnesia rivas-martinezii'' G.Navarro * ''Bulnesia retama'' (Gillies ex Hook. & Arn.) Griseb * ''Bulnesia sarmientoi'' – Argentine ''lignum vitae'', Paraguay ''lignum vitae'', ''"palo santo"'', ''ibiocaí'' * ''Bulnesia schickendantzii ''Bulnesia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the caltrop family, Zygophyllaceae. The wood of some – particularly '' B. arborea'' a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guaiacum
''Guaiacum'' (''OED'' 2nd edition, 1989.Entry "guaiacum" in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary ', retrieved 2013-04-30.), sometimes spelled ''Guajacum'', is a of s in the family |
Larrea
''Larrea'' is a genus of flowering plants in the caltrop family, Zygophyllaceae. It contains five species of evergreen shrubs that are native to the Americas. The generic name honours Bishop Juan Antonio Hernández Pérez de Larrea, a patron of science."Larrea" is itself a Basque surname, where ''larrea'' stands for a village in Álava (Spain), ultimatelmeaning 'meadow'(plus article -a). South American members of this genus are known as ''jarillas'' and can produce fertile interspecific hybrids. One of the more notable species is the creosote bush ('' L. tridentata'') of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. The King Clone ring in the Mojave Desert is a creosote bush clonal colony estimated to be about 11,700 years old. Species *''Larrea ameghinoi'' *''Larrea cuneifolia'' *''Larrea divaricata'' Cav. *''Larrea nitida'' *''Larrea tridentata'' (DC.) Coville – creosote bush References * T. J. Mabry, J. H. Hunziker, and D. R. Di Feo, D. R. (Eds.). ''Creo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pintoa (plant)
''Pintoa'' is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Zygophyllaceae. It only contains one known species, ''Pintoa chilensis'' Gay Its native range is northern Chile. The genus name of ''Pintoa'' is in honour of Francisco Antonio Pinto (1785–1858), a Chilean politician who served as President of Chile between 1827 and 1829. The Latin specific epithet In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ... of ''chilensis'' means "coming from Chile", where the plant was found. Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Fl. Chil. Vol.1 on page 479 in 1846. References {{Taxonbar, from=Q10349887, from2=Q15541688 Zygophyllaceae Rosid genera Plants described in 1846 Flora of Chile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porlieria
''Porlieria'' is a genus of flowering plants in the caltrop family, Zygophyllaceae. Species within this genus are shrubs or small trees of dry subtropical regions. The generic name honours Spanish ambassador Don Antonio Porlier de Baxamar. Species * '' Porlieria angustifolia'' (Engelm.) A. Gray * '' Porlieria arida'' Rusby * ''Porlieria chilensis'' I.M.Johnst. (endemic to Chile) * '' Porlieria microphylla'' (Baill.) Descole et al. * '' Porlieria hygrometra'' Ruiz & Pav. Formerly placed here * ''Guaiacum angustifolium'' Engelm. (as ''P. angustifolia'' (Engelm.) A.Gray Asa Gray (November 18, 1810 – January 30, 1888) is considered the most important American botanist of the 19th century. His '' Darwiniana'' was considered an important explanation of how religion and science were not necessarily mutually exc ...) References External links The Plant List Rosid genera {{rosid-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Family (biology)
Family ( la, familia, plural ') is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified between order and genus. A family may be divided into subfamilies, which are intermediate ranks between the ranks of family and genus. The official family names are Latin in origin; however, popular names are often used: for example, walnut trees and hickory trees belong to the family Juglandaceae, but that family is commonly referred to as the "walnut family". What belongs to a family—or if a described family should be recognized at all—are proposed and determined by practicing taxonomists. There are no hard rules for describing or recognizing a family, but in plants, they can be characterized on the basis of both vegetative and reproductive features of plant species. Taxonomists often take different positions about descriptions, and there may be no broad consensus across the scientific community for some time. The publishing of new data and opini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flowering Plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ('container, vessel') and ('seed'), and refers to those plants that produce their seeds enclosed within a fruit. They are by far the most diverse group of land plants with 64 orders, 416 families, approximately 13,000 known genera and 300,000 known species. Angiosperms were formerly called Magnoliophyta (). Like gymnosperms, angiosperms are seed-producing plants. They are distinguished from gymnosperms by characteristics including flowers, endosperm within their seeds, and the production of fruits that contain the seeds. The ancestors of flowering plants diverged from the common ancestor of all living gymnosperms before the end of the Carboniferous, over 300 million years ago. The closest fossil relatives of flowering plants are uncertain and contentious. The earliest angiosperm fossils ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Gay
Claude Gay, often named Claudio Gay in Spanish texts, (March 18, 1800 – November 29, 1873), was a French botanist, naturalist and illustrator. This explorer carried out some of the first investigations about Chilean flora, fauna, geology and geography. The ''Cordillera Claudio Gay'' in the Atacama Region of Chile is named after him. He founded the Chilean National Museum of Natural History, its first director was another Frenchman Jean-François Dauxion-Lavaysse. Research and travels He first went to Paris to study medicine, but he quickly abandoned this idea to become a researcher in natural history. In 1828, he went to Chile to teach physics and natural history at a college in Santiago. In 1829, he accepted a position as a researcher for the Chilean government to carry out a scientific survey of the country. He returned to France in 1832, and gave his collections to the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris. He returned to Chile in 1834 and explored the country ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy". Many of his writings were in Latin; his name is rendered in Latin as and, after his 1761 ennoblement, as . Linnaeus was born in Råshult, the countryside of Småland, in southern Sweden. He received most of his higher education at Uppsala University and began giving lectures in botany there in 1730. He lived abroad between 1735 and 1738, where he studied and also published the first edition of his ' in the Netherlands. He then returned to Sweden where he became professor of medicine and botany at Uppsala. In the 1740s, he was sent on several journeys through Sweden to find and classify plants and animals. In the 1750s and 1760s, he continued to collect an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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