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Macledium Pretoriense
''Macledium'' is a genus of flowering plants in the Asteraceae, daisy family. Both ''Macledium'' and ''Dicoma'' are distributed largely in tropical and southern Africa. ''Macledium'' is distinguished from genus ''Dicoma'' by a large number of characters relating to morphology and anatomy of phyllaries, corolla, anthers, style, cypsela and testa. The genus contains some 20 species. In southern Africa it is informally divided into the Cape and grassland groups: *Cape species: **''Macledium latifolium, M. latifolium'' **''Macledium relhanioides, M. relhanioides'' **''Macledium spinosum, M. spinosum'' *Grassland species: **''Macledium pretoriense, M. pretoriense'' **''Macledium sessiliflorum, M. sessiliflorum'' subsp. ''sessiliflorum'' var. ''membranaceum'' **''Macledium speciosum, M. speciosum'' **''Macledium zeyheri, M. zeyheri'' References Asteraceae genera {{Asteraceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plantae
Plants are predominantly Photosynthesis, photosynthetic eukaryotes of the Kingdom (biology), kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclude the fungi and some algae, as well as the prokaryotes (the archaea and bacteria). By one definition, plants form the clade Viridiplantae (Latin name for "green plants") which is sister of the Glaucophyte, Glaucophyta, and consists of the green algae and Embryophyte, Embryophyta (land plants). The latter includes the flowering plants, conifers and other gymnosperms, ferns and Fern ally, their allies, hornworts, liverworts, and mosses. Most plants are multicellular organisms. Green plants obtain most of their energy from sunlight via photosynthesis by primary chloroplasts that are derived from endosymbiosis with cyanobacteria. Their chloroplasts contain chlorophylls a and b, which gives them their green colo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
