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Myagrum
''Myagrum'', muskweed or musk weed, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae. It has only one species, ''Myagrum perfoliatum'', native to Europe and the Middle East, and an introduced weed in North America, South America, Australia and other places in Asia. It is sister to '' Isatis''. Species Presently only one species is considered valid, ''Myagrum perfoliatum''. A large number of species names have been previously associated with ''Myagrum''. *''Myagrum aegyptiacum'' Panz. *''Myagrum aegyptium'' L. *''Myagrum alpinum'' Lapeyr. *''Myagrum alyssum'' Mill. *''Myagrum americanum'' Larrañaga *''Myagrum amphibium'' (L.) Loisel. *''Myagrum amplexicaule'' Moench *''Myagrum aquaticum'' Lam. *''Myagrum arborescens'' Jacq. *''Myagrum argenteum'' Pursh *''Myagrum armeniacum'' Steud. *''Myagrum asperum'' Poir. *''Myagrum auriculatum'' DC. *''Myagrum austriacum'' (Crantz) Jacq. *''Myagrum balearicum'' (L.) Lam. *''Myagrum bauhinii'' C.C.Gmel. *''Myagrum biarticulatum'' ... [...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] |
Brassicaceae
Brassicaceae () or (the older) Cruciferae () is a medium-sized and economically important family of flowering plants commonly known as the mustards, the crucifers, or the cabbage family. Most are herbaceous plants, while some are shrubs. The leaves are simple (although are sometimes deeply incised), lack stipules, and appear alternately on stems or in rosettes. The inflorescences are terminal and lack bracts. The flowers have four free sepals, four free alternating petals, two shorter free stamens and four longer free stamens. The fruit has seeds in rows, divided by a thin wall (or septum). The family contains 372 genera and 4,060 accepted species. The largest genera are ''Draba'' (440 species), ''Erysimum'' (261 species), ''Lepidium'' (234 species), ''Cardamine'' (233 species), and ''Alyssum'' (207 species). The family contains the cruciferous vegetables, including species such as ''Brassica oleracea'' (cultivated as cabbage, kale, cauliflower, broccoli and collards), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isatis
''Isatis'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae, native to the Mediterranean region east to central Asia. Its genus name, Isatis, derives from the ancient Greek word for the plant, ἰσάτις. The genus includes woad (''Isatis tinctoria''). Due to their extremely variable morphology, the Asian species in particular are difficult to determine; the only reliable diagnostic feature is the ripe fruit. They are (usually) biennial plant, biennial or perennial herbaceous plants, often bluish and hairless or downy hairy with the upright stem branched. Description They are annual, biennial or perennial, branched herbs, usually Glabrousness (botany), glabrous and glaucous except silique. Basal leaves generally elliptic-oblong, sessility (botany), sessile; sessile caulinary, rounded to oval-oblong. The hermaphrodite flowers are fourfold double perianth. The four sepals are ascending to upright. The four yellow to off-white or Lilac (color), lilac-white petals are at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dámaso Antonio Larrañaga
Dámaso Antonio Larrañaga (Montevideo, 9 December 1771 – Montevideo, 16 February 1848) was a Uruguayan priest, naturalist and botanist. He was one of those principally responsible for the founding of the National Library of Uruguay and the National University of Uruguay. The private Universidad Católica del Uruguay Dámaso Antonio Larrañaga Catholic University of Uruguay (in Spanish: Universidad Católica del Uruguay, acronym UCU) is a private university in Uruguay opened in 1985 (from various previous Catholic teaching institutions). It was the only private university in the count ... (founded 1985) is named after him. References 1771 births 1848 deaths Uruguayan people of Basque descent Uruguayan botanists Uruguayan naturalists 19th-century Uruguayan Roman Catholic priests Catholic clergy scientists Uruguayan politicians Uruguayan librarians People from Montevideo Apostolic vicars of Uruguay Burials at Montevideo Metropolitan Cathedral {{Urug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Pierre Bergeret
Jean-Pierre Bergeret (1751–1813) was a French botanist. He was born on 25 November 1751, in Lasseube (Béarn The Béarn (; ; oc, Bearn or ''Biarn''; eu, Bearno or ''Biarno''; or ''Bearnia'') is one of the traditional provinces of France, located in the Pyrenees mountains and in the plain at their feet, in southwest France. Along with the three Bas ...), and died on 28 March 1813, in Paris. He was the author of the following: * ''Phytonomatotechnie universelle, c'est-à-dire, l'art de donner aux plantes des noms tirés de leurs caractères'', 1783–84. * ''Flore des Basses-Pyrénées'', 1803 (with Eugène Bergeret; Gaston Bergeret) – Flora of Basses-Pyrénées. Biodiversity Heritage Library References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monotypic Brassicaceae Genera
In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unispecific" or "monospecific" is sometimes preferred. In botanical nomenclature, a monotypic genus is a genus in the special case where a genus and a single species are simultaneously described. In contrast, an oligotypic taxon contains more than one but only a very few subordinate taxa. Examples Just as the term ''monotypic'' is used to describe a taxon including only one subdivision, the contained taxon can also be referred to as monotypic within the higher-level taxon, e.g. a genus monotypic within a family. Some examples of monotypic groups are: Plants * In the order Amborellales, there is only one family, Amborellaceae and there is only one genus, '' Amborella'', and in this genus there is only one species, namely ''Amborella trichopoda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plants Described In 1753
Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the 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 Glaucophyta, and consists of the green algae and Embryophyta (land plants). The latter includes the flowering plants, conifers and other gymnosperms, ferns and 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 color. Some plants are parasitic or mycotrophic and have lost the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
