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Pleuranthodium Piundaundensis
''Pleuranthodium piundaundensis'' is a monocotyledonous plant species that was first described by Pieter van Royen, and given its current name by Rosemary Margaret Smith. ''Pleuranthodium piundaundensis'' is part of the genus ''Pleuranthodium'' and the family Zingiberaceae. The species' range is Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country i .... No subspecies are listed in the Catalog of Life. References R.M.Sm., 1991 ''In: Edinburgh J. Bot. 48: 65'' {{Taxonbar, from=Q15332780 piundaundensis Taxa named by Rosemary Margaret Smith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pieter Van Royen
Pieter van Royen (1923-2002) was a Dutch botanist. He is an author of many papers on the flora of New Guinea. Life Pieter van Royen was born in Lahat (town), Lahat, South Sumatra in Dutch East Indies. In 1933, he moved with his family from the Dutch East Indies to the Netherlands. He obtained his doctorate at the University of Utrecht in 1951 with the first volume of a monograph on the Podostemaceae of the Neotropics, the second and third volumes of which he presented in 1953 and 1954, respectively. From 1951 to 1962, he worked at the Rijksherbarium in Leiden, from 1954 to 1955 he undertook his first botanical exploration in New Guinea. From 1962 to 1965, he was employed at the Lae Botanical Garden there and from 1964 to 1965 at the Queensland Herbarium in Brisbane, Australia. In May 1967, he became a curator at the BP Bishop Museum Herbarium in Honolulu, Hawaii; he held this position until his retirement in 1983. During this time he devoted himself continuously to further resear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosemary Margaret Smith
Rosemary Margaret Smith (1933–2004) was a Scottish botanist and illustrator who specialized in the taxonomy of the Zingiberaceae, or ginger family. Many of the species she classified and identified as being placed into improper genera were found in Asian countries, especially in the isolated island of Borneo. '' Elettariopsis smithiae'', a species of ginger native to Malaysia and Thailand, is named in honour of her. In 2001, a genus titled '' Smithatris'' was named after her, the two species in the genus being '' Smithatris supraneanae'' and '' Smithatris myanmarensis''. Career The Malay rose was first described by Henry Nicholas Ridley as ''Hornstedtia venusta'', but Smith determined that it should be placed in the genus '' Etlingera'', becoming '' Etlingera venusta''. The genus '' Paracautleya'' was among the earliest defined by Smith, though it was later determined by Skornickova and Sabu (2005) that there were not enough physically differentiating traits to consider the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pleuranthodium
''Pleuranthodium'' is a genus of plants in the ginger family. Of the 23 known species, 21 are endemic to New Guinea, one to Queensland and one to the Bismarck Archipelago. * '' Pleuranthodium biligulatum'' (Valeton) R.M.Sm. Rosemary Margaret Smith (1933–2004) was a Scottish botanist and illustrator who specialized in the taxonomy of the Zingiberaceae, or ginger family. Many of the species she classified and identified as being placed into improper genera were fou ... - New Guinea * '' Pleuranthodium branderhorstii'' (Valeton) R.M.Sm. - New Guinea * '' Pleuranthodium comptum'' (K.Schum.) R.M.Sm. - New Guinea * '' Pleuranthodium floccosum'' (Valeton) R.M.Sm. - New Guinea * '' Pleuranthodium floribundum'' (K.Schum.) R.M.Sm. - New Guinea * '' Pleuranthodium gjellerupii'' (Valeton) R.M.Sm. - New Guinea * '' Pleuranthodium hellwigii'' (K.Schum.) R.M.Sm. - New Guinea * '' Pleuranthodium iboense'' (Valeton) R.M.Sm. - New Guinea * '' Pleuranthodium macropycnanthum'' (Valeton) R.M.Sm. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zingiberaceae
Zingiberaceae () or the ginger family is a family of flowering plants made up of about 50 genera with a total of about 1600 known species of aromatic perennial herbs with creeping horizontal or tuberous rhizomes distributed throughout tropical Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Many of the family's species are important ornamental, spice, or medicinal plants. Ornamental genera include the shell gingers ('' Alpinia''), Siam or summer tulip ('' Curcuma alismatifolia''), '' Globba'', ginger lily ('' Hedychium''), '' Kaempferia'', torch-ginger '' Etlingera elatior'', ''Renealmia'', and ginger (''Zingiber''). Spices include ginger (''Zingiber''), galangal or Thai ginger ('' Alpinia galanga'' and others), melegueta pepper (''Aframomum melegueta''), myoga (''Zingiber mioga''), korarima (''Aframomum corrorima''), turmeric (''Curcuma''), and cardamom ('' Amomum'', '' Elettaria''). Description Members of the family are small to large herbaceous plants with distichous leaves with basal she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia (a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia). Its capital, located along its southeastern coast, is Port Moresby. The country is the world's third largest island country, with an area of . At the national level, after being ruled by three external powers since 1884, including nearly 60 years of Australian administration starting during World War I, Papua New Guinea established its sovereignty in 1975. It became an independent Commonwealth realm in 1975 with Elizabeth II as its queen. It also became a member of the Commonwealth of Nations in its own right. There are 839 known languages of Papua New Guinea, one of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catalog Of Life
The Catalogue of Life is an online database that provides an index of known species of animals, plants, fungi, and microorganisms. It was created in 2001 as a partnership between the global Species 2000 and the American Integrated Taxonomic Information System. The Catalogue is used by research scientists, citizen scientists, educators, and policy makers. The Catalogue is also used by the Biodiversity Heritage Library, the Barcode of Life Data System, Encyclopedia of Life, and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility. The Catalogue currently compiles data fro165 peer-reviewed taxonomic databasesthat are maintained by specialist institutions around the world. , the COL Checklist lists 2,067,951 of the world's 2.2m extant species known to taxonomists on the planet at present time. Structure The Catalogue of Life employs a simple data structure to provide information on synonymy, grouping within a taxonomic hierarchy, common names, distribution and ecological environment. It pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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