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Lasiantheae
Lasiantheae is a tribe of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae and contains 239 species in 3 genera. Its representatives are found in Central America, the Caribbean, tropical Africa, and tropical and subtropical Asia. Genera Currently accepted names * ''Lasianthus'' Jack (203 sp) - distribution of the tribe * '' Saldinia'' A.Rich. ex DC. (22 sp) - Comoros, Madagascar * '' Trichostachys'' Hook.f. (14 sp) - West and West-Central tropical Africa Synonyms * ''Dasus'' Lour. = ''Lasianthus'' * ''Dressleriopsis'' Dwyer = ''Lasianthus'' * ''Litosanthes'' Blume = ''Lasianthus'' * ''Mephitidia'' Reinw. ex Blume = ''Lasianthus'' * ''Octavia'' DC. = ''Lasianthus'' * ''Santia'' Wight & Arn. = ''Lasianthus ''Lasianthus'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. They are tropical subshrubs, shrubs, or rarely, small trees. They inhabit the understory of primary forests. ''Lasianthus'' has about 180 species. The type species for the ...'' References R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lasianthus
''Lasianthus'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. They are tropical subshrubs, shrubs, or rarely, small trees. They inhabit the understory of primary forests. ''Lasianthus'' has about 180 species. The type species for the genus is '' Lasianthus cyanocarpus''. ''Lasianthus'' In: Index Nominum Genericorum. In: Regnum Vegetabile (see ''External links'' below). In 2012, a revision of ''Lasianthus'' in Malesia described 131 species.Hua Zhu, Marco C. Roos, and Colin E. Ridsdale. 2012. "A taxonomic revision of the Malesian species of ''Lasianthus'' (Rubiaceae)". ''Blumea'' 57(1):1-102. Another 30 or so species grow elsewhere in tropical Asia.Debendra B. Deb and Mohan G. Gagnopadhyay. 1991. "Taxonomic study of the genus ''Lasianthus'' Jack (Rubiaceae) in India". ''Journal of Economic and Taxonomic Botany'' 15(2):265-308. Most of these are described in Flora of ChinaHua Zhu and Charlotte M. Taylor. 2011. ''Lasianthus'', pages 185-198. In: Wu Zhengyi, Peter H. R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rubioideae Tribes
Rubioideae Juss., 1789 is a subfamily of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae and contains about 7600 species in 27 tribes. Tribes * Anthospermeae Cham. & Schltdl. ex DC. * Argostemmateae Bremek. ex Verdc. * Clarkelleae Deb * Colletoecemateae Rydin & B.Bremer * Coussareeae Hook.f. * Craterispermeae Verdc. * Cyanoneuroneae Razafim. & B.Bremer * Danaideae B.Bremer & Manen * Dunnieae Rydin & B.Bremer * Gaertnereae Bremek. ex S.P.Darwin * Knoxieae Hook.f. * Lasiantheae B.Bremer & Manen * Mitchelleae Razafim. & B.Bremer & Manen * Morindeae Miq. * Ophiorrhizeae Bremek. ex Verdc. * Paederieae DC. * Palicoureeae Robbr. & Manen * Perameae Bremek. ex S.P.Darwin * Prismatomerideae Y.Z.Ruan * Psychotrieae Cham. & Schltdl. * Putorieae * Rubieae Baill. * Schizocoleeae Rydin & B.Bremer * Schradereae Bremek. * Spermacoceae Cham. & Schltdl. ex DC. * Theligoneae Wunderlich ex S.P.Darwin * Urophylleae Urophylleae is a tribe of flowering plants in the famil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rubiaceae
The Rubiaceae are a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the coffee, madder, or bedstraw family. It consists of terrestrial trees, shrubs, lianas, or herbs that are recognizable by simple, opposite leaves with interpetiolar stipules and sympetalous actinomorphic flowers. The family contains about 13,500 species in about 620 genera, which makes it the fourth-largest angiosperm family. Rubiaceae has a cosmopolitan distribution; however, the largest species diversity is concentrated in the tropics and subtropics. Economically important genera include ''Coffea'', the source of coffee, '' Cinchona'', the source of the antimalarial alkaloid quinine, ornamental cultivars (''e.g.'', '' Gardenia'', ''Ixora'', ''Pentas''), and historically some dye plants (''e.g.'', ''Rubia''). Description The Rubiaceae are morphologically easily recognizable as a coherent group by a combination of characters: opposite or whorled leaves that are simple and entire, interpetiolar stipules, tubu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trichostachys
''Trichostachys'' is a genus of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It contains the following species: * '' Trichostachys interrupta'', K.Schum. Karl Moritz Schumann (17 June 1851 – 22 March 1904) was a German botanist. Schumann was born in Görlitz. He was curator of the Botanisches Museum in Berlin-Dahlem from 1880 until 1894. He also served as the first chairman of the ''Deut ... References Rubiaceae genera Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Rubiaceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madagascar
Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa across the Mozambique Channel. At Madagascar is the world's List of island countries, second-largest island country, after Indonesia. The nation is home to around 30 million inhabitants and consists of the island of Geography of Madagascar, Madagascar (the List of islands by area, fourth-largest island in the world), along with numerous smaller peripheral islands. Following the prehistoric breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana, Madagascar split from the Indian subcontinent around 90 million years ago, allowing native plants and animals to evolve in relative isolation. Consequently, Madagascar is a biodiversity hotspot; over 90% of wildlife of Madagascar, its wildlife is endemic. Human settlement of Madagascar occurred during or befo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Arnott Walker-Arnott
George Arnott Walker Arnott of Arlary (6 February 1799 – 17 April 1868) was a Scottish botanist. Early life George Arnott Walker Arnott was born in Edinburgh in 1799, the son of David Walker Arnott of Arlary. He attended Milnathort Parish School then the High School of Edinburgh. He studied law in Edinburgh. Career Walker Arnott became a botanist, holding the position of Regius Professor of Botany in the University of Glasgow from 1845 to 1868. He studied the botany of North America with Sir William Hooker and collaborated with Robert Wight in studies of Indian botany. He and William J. Hooker went through the Australian collected plant material of Alexander Collie, which was sent back to the UK after his death.Ray Desmond (Editor) He was a member of the Societe de Histoire Naturelle in Paris and the Moscow Imperial Society of Natural History. Personal life and death Walker Arnott married Mary Hay Barclay in 1831. He died in Glasgow Glasgow ( ; sco, Glesca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Wight
Robert Wight Doctor of Medicine, MD Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS Linnean Society of London, FLS (6 July 1796 – 26 May 1872) was a Scottish surgeon in the East India Company, whose professional career was spent entirely in southern India, where his greatest achievements were in botany – as an economic botanist and leading taxonomist in south India. He contributed to the introduction of Gossypium barbadense, American cotton. As a taxonomist he described 110 new genera and 1267 new species of flowering plants. He employed Indian botanical artists to illustrate many plants collected by himself and Indian collectors he trained. Some of these illustrations were published by William Jackson Hooker, William Hooker in Britain, but from 1838 he published a series of illustrated works in Madras including the uncoloured, six-volume ''Icones Plantarum Indiae Orientalis'' (1838–53) and two hand-coloured, two-volume works, the ''Illustrations of Indian Botany'' (1838–50) and ''Spic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt
Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt (5 June 1773 in Lüttringhausen – 6 March 1854 in Leiden) was a Prussian-born Dutch botanist. He is considered to be the founding father of Bogor Botanical Garden in Indonesia. Biography In 1787 he was apprenticed to an Amsterdam pharmacy where his brother worked. He came in contact with several scientists, including the botanist Gerardus Vrolik (father of Willem Vrolik). He had his education at the Athenaeum Illustre where he successfully engaged in the study chemistry and botany. Under the Batavian Republic and the Kingdom of Holland he served as a professor of natural history at the University of Harderwijk from 1800 to 1808. After a while he became associate professor of chemistry and pharmacy. In 1808 he appealed to king Louis Bonaparte and was offered work as director of the "to be built" botanical and zoological gardens and museums. In 1808 he became a member of the Royal Institute of the Netherlands. And in 1810 just before the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Ludwig Blume
Charles Ludwig de Blume or Karl Ludwig von Blume (9 June 1796, Braunschweig – 3 February 1862, Leiden) was a German-Dutch botanist. He was born at Braunschweig in Germany, but studied at Leiden University and spent his professional life working in the Dutch East Indies and in the Netherlands, where he was Director of the Rijksherbarium (state herbarium) at Leiden. His name is sometimes given in the Dutch language form Karel Lodewijk Blume, but the original German spelling is the one most widely used in botanical texts: even then there is confusion, as he is sometimes referred to as K.L. Blume (from Karl). He carried out extensive studies of the flora of southern Asia, particularly in Java, then a colony of the Netherlands. From 1823 to 1826 Blume was Deputy Director of Agriculture at the botanic garden in Bogor (Buitenzorg) in Java. In 1827 he became correspondent of the Royal Institute of the Netherlands. In 1855, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
João De Loureiro
João de Loureiro (1717, Lisbon – 18 October 1791) was a Portuguese Jesuit missionary and botanist. Biography After receiving admission to the Jesuit Order, João de Loureiro served as a missionary in Goa, capital of Portuguese India (3 years) and Macau (4 years). In 1742 he traveled to Cochinchina, remaining there for 35 years. Here he worked as a mathematician and naturalist for the king of Cochinchina, acquiring knowledge on the properties and uses of native medicinal plants. In 1777, he journeyed to Canton, in Bengal, returning to Lisbon four years later. During this period, the Captain Thomas Riddel gave Loureiro the books ''Systema Naturae'', ''Genera Plantarum'' and ''Philosophia Botanica'' by Carl Linnaeus, which greatly influenced the Portuguese botanist. The first 40 years he stayed in Vietnam, João de Loureiro was inventorying indigenous herbal remedies. His local garden contained 1,000 unique herbal species, making him one of the greatest botanist collectors o ... [...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] |
Birgitta Bremer
Birgitta Bremer (born 17 January 1950), Swedish botanist and academic, is professor at Stockholm University, and director of the Bergius Botanic Garden. Career Professor Bremer obtained her doctorate in botany in 1980 from Stockholm University, with the thesis "Taxonomy of mosses of the genus Schistidium". In 1981 she was appointed docent at Stockholm University; 1983–1990 she was an instructor of systematics. Between 1990 and 2000 she was systematic botany instructor; in 2000–2001 she served as dean of the department of systematics; 2000–2004 – professor of plant molecular systematics. Since 2002 she has been director of the Bergius Fund and director of Botanical Garden. Since 2004 she has been a professor of systematics at Stockholm University. Personal life She is married to Kåre Bremer, and they have two children. Achievements On 11 February 2009 Professor Bremer, Professor Bergianus at the Bergius Foundation, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, was elected a m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
