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Paul Irwin Forster
Paul Irwin Forster (born 1961) is an Australian botanist. He obtained his doctorate from the University of Queensland in 2004 with his thesis ''The pursuit of plants : studies on the systematics, ecology and chemistry of the vascular flora of Australia and related regions''. He has worked at the Queensland Herbarium since 1991 as a plant taxonomist and has been editor of ''Austrobaileya'' since 2005. His research interests are the systematics of vascular plants and reproductive and conservation biology of cycads. He has also published extensively on plant-insect interactions. See, e.g., Plants named in his honour * '' Aristida forsteri'' B.K.Simon * '' Boronia forsteri'' Duretto * '' Hibiscus forsteri'' F.D.Wilson * ''Medicosma forsteri'' T.G.Hartley * '' Marsdenia forsteri'' I.M.Turner * '' Micromyrtus forsteri'' A.R.Bean * '' Parmotrema forsteri'' Elix & R.W.Rogers * '' Parsonsia paulforsteri'' J.B.Williams * '' Prolixus forsteri'' J.J.Beard * ''Psydrax forsteri'' S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christchurch
Christchurch ( ; mi, Ōtautahi) is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand and the seat of the Canterbury Region. Christchurch lies on the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula on Pegasus Bay. The Avon River / Ōtākaro flows through the centre of the city, with an urban park along its banks. The city's territorial authority population is people, and includes a number of smaller urban areas as well as rural areas. The population of the urban area is people. Christchurch is the second-largest city by urban area population in New Zealand, after Auckland. It is the major urban area of an emerging sub-region known informally as Greater Christchurch. Notable smaller urban areas within this sub-region include Rangiora and Kaiapoi in Waimakariri District, north of the Waimakariri River, and Rolleston and Lincoln in Selwyn District to the south. The first inhabitants migrated to the area sometime between 1000 and 1250 AD. They hunted moa, which led ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Alan Elix
John Alan (Jack) Elix (born 1941) emeritus professor in chemistry at the Australian National University, is an organic chemist who has contributed in many fields: lichenology, lichen chemotaxonomy, plant physiology and biodiversity and natural product chemistry. He has authored 2282 species names, and 67 genera in the field of mycology. Education His first degree, B.Sc., and his Ph.D were both in organic chemistry from the University of Adelaide. This was followed by post-doctoral years at the University of Cambridge and then a D.Sc. in natural products chemistry from the Australian National University. Career Elix spent a post doctoral year in 1966 at Cambridge, returning to Australia in 1967 to a lectureship in chemistry at the ANU. He retired as professor of chemistry in 2002, becoming professor emeritus. By 1975 he had already published several papers on the organic chemistry of lichens, and ultimately leading to work on the evolution, taxonomy and phylogeny of liche ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1961 Births
Events January * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba ( Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 (Koivulahti air disaster): Douglas DC-3C OH-LCC of Finnish airline Aero crashes near Kvevlax (Koivulahti), on approach to Vaasa Airport in Finland, killing all 25 on board, due to pilot error: an investigation finds that the captain and first officer were both exhausted for lack of sleep, and had consumed excessive amounts of alcohol at the time of the crash. It remains the deadliest air disaster to occur in the country. * January 5 ** Italian sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti marches into the U.S. Consulate in Rome, and confesses that he was part of the team that forged the Etruscan terracotta warriors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ** After the 1960 military coup, General Cemal Gürsel forms the new government of Turkey (25th gove ... [...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] |
:Category:Taxa Named By Paul Irwin Forster
* Paul Irwin Forster (1961–), an IPNI 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 inclu ... standard form: P.I.Forst. {{CatAutoTOC Forster, Paul Irwin Forst. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marco Duretto
Marco Duretto (born 1964) is a manager and senior research scientist at the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney in Australia. His primary research interests are systematics and conservation of Rutaceae, Rubiaceae, Orchidaceae, Stylidiaceae and evolution of Australasian flora. Duretto's projects have included "Phylogeny and biogeography of ''Boronia'' (Rutaceae)", "Mutual pollination system involving ''Boronia'' (Rutaceae) and moths of the Heliozelidae", "A molecular and morphological phylogeny of the '' Phebalium'' Group (Rutaceae)", and "East coast species limits in '' Stylidium''". Marco Duretto was previously a research scientist with the University of Tasmania. Standard author abbreviation Selected published names *'' Asterolasia exasperata'' P.R.Alvarez & Duretto *'' Asterolasia sola'' Duretto & P.R.Alvarez *'' Boronia amplectens'' Duretto *'' Cyanothamnus acanthocladus'' ( PaulG.Wilson)Duretto & Heslewood *'' Drummondita borealis'' Duretto *'' Leionema bilobum subsp. thac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zieria Vagans
''Zieria vagans'', commonly known as Gurgeena stink bush, is a plant in the citrus family Rutaceae and endemic to a small area near Binjour in south-eastern Queensland. It is an open, straggly shrub with densely hairy branches, three-part leaves and groups of up to fifteen flowers with four creamy-white petals and four stamens. Description ''Zieria vagans'' is an open, straggly shrub which grows to a height of and has thin branches covered with soft hairs when young. The leaves are composed of three narrow elliptic leaflets, the central leaflet long and wide. The leaves have a petiole long. The lower surface of the leaflets is more or less glabrous and the upper surface is rough and has a dense covering of hairs. The flowers are arranged in groups of three to fifteen in leaf axils, the groups shorter than the leaves. The groups are on a hairy stalk long. The flowers are surrounded by scale-like bracts long which remain during flowering. The sepals are triangular, about lon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borya Inopinata
''Borya'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Boryaceae, endemic to Australia. , the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families accepted 11 species:Search for "Borya", The Western Australia Flora lists nine current taxa. * ''Borya constricta'' Churchill - Western Australia * '' Borya laciniata'' Churchill - Western Australia * '' Borya longiscapa'' Churchill - Western Australia * '' Borya nitida'' Labill. - Recherche Archipelago, Western Australia * ''Borya scirpoidea'' Lindl. - Western Australia * ''Borya'' sp. Wheatbelt (A.S. George 16470) * '' Borya sphaerocephala'' R.Br. - Western Australia * '' Borya stenophylla'' M.D.Barrett - Western Australia * '' Borya subulata'' G.A.Gardner - Western Australia * '' Borya jabirabela'' Churchill - Northern Territory * '' Borya septentrionalis'' F.Muell. - Queensland * '' Borya inopinata'' P.I.Forst. & E.J.Thomps. - Queensland * ''Borya mirabilis ''Borya'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Boryaceae, endem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aloe Bruynsii
''Aloe bruynsii'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Asphodelaceae. It is endemic to 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 .... References {{Taxonbar, from=Q2649879 bruynsii Endemic flora of Madagascar Taxa named by Paul Irwin Forster ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Psydrax Forsteri
''Psydrax'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It consists of trees, shrubs, and a few lianas in the paleotropics. Taxonomy The genus was named by Joseph Gaertner in 1788 in his book, ''De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum''. ''Psydrax'' is a Greek word meaning a blister or bump. Gaertner may have chosen this name to refer to the warty fruit or the pimply seeds of some species. The name was hardly ever used after Gaertner proposed it because most authors placed these species in '' Canthium''. ''Psydrax'' was reinstated in 1985 and 37 African species were transferred to it from '' Canthium''. The monospecific genus ''Mesoptera'' was also sunk into ''Psydrax''. ''Psydrax'' was shown to be monophyletic in a molecular phylogenetic study. It is closely related to ''Afrocanthium'', '' Cyclophyllum'' and '' Keetia'', genera that have been segregated from '' Canthium''. Species * '' Psydrax acutiflora'' (Hiern) Bridson * '' Psydrax ammophila'' S.T.Reynolds & R. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
