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Philotheca
''Philotheca'' is a genus of about fifty species of flowering plants in the family Rutaceae. Plants in this genus are shrubs with simple leaves arranged alternately along the stems, flowers that usually have five sepals, five petals and ten stamens that curve inwards over the ovary. All species are endemic to Australia and there are species in every state, but not the Northern Territory. Description Plants in the genus ''Philotheca'' are shrubs that are either glabrous or have tiny, simple hairs. The leaves are arranged alternately along the stems, narrow oblong to almost cylindrical and sessile or on a very short petiole. From a single to many flowers are arranged in leaf axils or on the ends of the branchlets. The flowers have five sepals and five petals (except in '' P. virgata'' which has four). The sepals are free from each other and the petals usually overlap at their bases. There are ten stamens that curve inwards over the ovary with anthers that have an appendage ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philotheca Scabra Latifolia
''Philotheca'' is a genus of about fifty species of flowering plants in the family Rutaceae. Plants in this genus are shrubs with simple leaves arranged alternately along the stems, flowers that usually have five sepals, five petals and ten stamens that curve inwards over the ovary. All species are endemic to Australia and there are species in every state, but not the Northern Territory. Description Plants in the genus ''Philotheca'' are shrubs that are either glabrous or have tiny, simple hairs. The leaves are arranged alternately along the stems, narrow oblong to almost cylindrical and sessile or on a very short petiole. From a single to many flowers are arranged in leaf axils or on the ends of the branchlets. The flowers have five sepals and five petals (except in '' P. virgata'' which has four). The sepals are free from each other and the petals usually overlap at their bases. There are ten stamens that curve inwards over the ovary with anthers that have an appendage called ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philotheca Myoporoides Myoporoides
''Philotheca'' is a genus of about fifty species of flowering plants in the family Rutaceae. Plants in this genus are shrubs with simple leaves arranged alternately along the stems, flowers that usually have five sepals, five petals and ten stamens that curve inwards over the ovary. All species are endemic to Australia and there are species in every state, but not the Northern Territory. Description Plants in the genus ''Philotheca'' are shrubs that are either glabrous or have tiny, simple hairs. The leaves are arranged alternately along the stems, narrow oblong to almost cylindrical and sessile or on a very short petiole. From a single to many flowers are arranged in leaf axils or on the ends of the branchlets. The flowers have five sepals and five petals (except in '' P. virgata'' which has four). The sepals are free from each other and the petals usually overlap at their bases. There are ten stamens that curve inwards over the ovary with anthers that have an appendage called ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philotheca Salsolifolia
''Philotheca salsolifolia'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae and is endemic to New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. It is a shrub with crowded, more or less cylindrical leaves and pink to mauve flowers with a dark central stripe and arranged singly or in twos or threes on the ends of branchlets. Description ''Philotheca salsolifolia'' is a shrub that typically grows to a height of and has more or less glabrous branchlets. The leaves are crowded, thick and from cylindrical, long to narrow, pointed and up to long. The flowers are arranged singly or in twos or threes on the ends of branchlets, each flower on a top-shaped pedicel long or a thin pedicel about long. The five sepals are triangular, about long and the five petals are narrow elliptic, long and pink to mauve with a dark central stripe. The ten stamens are glabrous, fused together in the lower half, and densely hairy above. Flowering occurs from September to December and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philotheca Buxifolia
''Philotheca buxifolia'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is a shrub with more or less oblong leaves and solitary white to pink flowers arranged singly on the ends of branchlets. Description ''Philotheca buxifolia'' is a shrub that typically grows to a height of and has branchlets with short, stiff hairs. The leaves are round to broadly elliptical or egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wedge-shaped or heart-shaped near the base. The flowers are borne singly on the ends of branchlets, each flower on a pedicel long. The sepals are broadly triangular and fleshy, long and the petals white to pink, broadly elliptical and long. The ten stamens are free from each other with a prominent appendage on the anther. Flowering occurs from winter to spring and the fruit is about long with a beak about long. Taxonomy This species was first formally described in 1809 by James Edward Smith in '' The C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philotheca Virgata
''Philotheca virgata'', commonly known as Tasmanian wax-flower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a slender, erect shrub with wedge-shaped to oblong leaves and white or pale pink flowers at the ends of branchlets. It is the only philotheca with four sepals and petals. Description ''Philotheca virgata'' is a slender, erect shrub that typically grows to a height of about and has prominently glandular warty branchlets. The leaves are sessile, narrow wedge-shaped to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide and glandular warty on the upper surface. The flowers are arranged singly on the end of branchlets on a thin pedicel long. The four sepals are more or less round, fleshy and about long. The four petals are white or pale pink, broadly elliptic and about long and the eight stamens are about long and hairy. Flowering occurs from May to December and the fruit is about long with a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philotheca Conduplicata
''Philotheca conduplicata'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a shrub with elliptical leaves clustered near the ends of the branchlets and white flowers arranged singly or in two or threes on the ends of the branchlets. Description ''Philotheca conduplicata'' is a shrub that grows to a height of about and has smooth branchlets. The leaves are more or less clustered near the ends of the branchlets and are elliptical, slightly curved, long and wide and folded lengthwise. The flowers are borne singly or in twos or threes on the ends of the branchlets on a thick peduncle about long, each flower on a thick pedicel long. There are five broadly triangular sepals with a fleshy centre and five elliptical to lance-shaped white petals about long and wide. The ten stamens are moderately hairy. Flowering occurs from July to September and the fruit is long and beaked. Taxonomy and naming This species was first formall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philotheca Coccinea
''Philotheca coccinea'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is a shrub with club-shaped leaves that are warty on the lower surface, and red to pink flowers arranged singly in leaf axils. Description ''Philotheca coccinea'' is an erect or spreading shrub that grows to a height of and has branchlets covered with warty glands. The leaves are clup-shaped, about long and wide, smooth on the upper surface but with prominent warty glands on the lower side. The flowers are borne singly in leaf axils on a drooping pedicel long. There are five fleshy, broadly egg-shaped sepals about long. The five petals are red to pink, rarely white, about long and joined in their lower half. The ten stamens are free from each other and densely woolly-hairy. Taxonomy and naming This species was first formally described in 1939 by Charles Gardner who gave it the name ''Eriostemon coccineus''. The description was published in Hooker's '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philotheca Spicata
''Philotheca spicata'', commonly known as pepper and salt, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a small shrub with linear to narrow elliptical leaves and pink, mauve or blue flowers arranged in a raceme on the ends of branchlets. Description ''Philotheca spicata'' is a shrub that typically grows to a height of and has smooth branchlets. The leaves are linear to narrow elliptical, long and concave on the upper surface. The flowers are arranged in leafless racemes of many flowers up to or more long with broadly elliptical bracts at the base of a thin pedicel long. The five sepals are triangular, about long, the petals are broadly elliptical, about long and the ten stamens are long. Flowering occurs from June to November and the fruit is about long with two teeth on the end. Taxonomy This species was first described in 1834 by French botanist Achille Richard who gave it the name ''Erisotem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capsule (botany)
In botany a capsule is a type of simple, dry, though rarely fleshy dehiscent fruit produced by many species of angiosperms (flowering plants). Origins and structure The capsule (Latin: ''capsula'', small box) is derived from a compound (multicarpeled) ovary. A capsule is a structure composed of two or more carpels. In (flowering plants), the term locule (or cell) is used to refer to a chamber within the fruit. Depending on the number of locules in the ovary, fruit can be classified as uni-locular (unilocular), bi-locular, tri-locular or multi-locular. The number of locules present in a gynoecium may be equal to or less than the number of carpels. The locules contain the ovules or seeds and are separated by septa. Dehiscence In most cases the capsule is dehiscent, i.e. at maturity, it splits apart (dehisces) to release the seeds within. A few capsules are indehiscent, for example those of ''Adansonia digitata'', ''Alphitonia'', and '' Merciera''. Capsules are often classifie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthers
The stamen (plural ''stamina'' or ''stamens'') is the pollen-producing reproductive organ of a flower. Collectively the stamens form the androecium., p. 10 Morphology and terminology A stamen typically consists of a stalk called the filament and an anther which contains ''microsporangia''. Most commonly anthers are two-lobed and are attached to the filament either at the base or in the middle area of the anther. The sterile tissue between the lobes is called the connective, an extension of the filament containing conducting strands. It can be seen as an extension on the dorsal side of the anther. A pollen grain develops from a microspore in the microsporangium and contains the male gametophyte. The stamens in a flower are collectively called the androecium. The androecium can consist of as few as one-half stamen (i.e. a single locule) as in '' Canna'' species or as many as 3,482 stamens which have been counted in the saguaro (''Carnegiea gigantea''). The androecium in var ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gynoecium
Gynoecium (; ) is most commonly used as a collective term for the parts of a flower that produce ovules and ultimately develop into the fruit and seeds. The gynoecium is the innermost whorl of a flower; it consists of (one or more) ''pistils'' and is typically surrounded by the pollen-producing reproductive organs, the stamens, collectively called the androecium. The gynoecium is often referred to as the "female" portion of the flower, although rather than directly producing female gametes (i.e. egg cells), the gynoecium produces megaspores, each of which develops into a female gametophyte which then produces egg cells. The term gynoecium is also used by botanists to refer to a cluster of archegonia and any associated modified leaves or stems present on a gametophyte shoot in mosses, liverworts, and hornworts. The corresponding terms for the male parts of those plants are clusters of antheridia within the androecium. Flowers that bear a gynoecium but no stamens are called ''pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Synonym (taxonomy)
The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently. * In botanical nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linnaeus was the first to give a scientific name (under the currently used system of scientific nomenclature) to the Norway spruce, which he called ''Pinus abies''. This name is no longer in use, so it is now a synonym of the current scientific name, ''Picea abies''. * In zoology, moving a species from one genus to another results in a different binomen, but the name is considered an alternative combination rather than a synonym. The concept of synonymy in zoology is reserved for two names at the same rank that refers to a taxon at that rank - for example, the name ''Papilio prorsa'' Linnaeus, 1758 is a junior synonym of ''Papilio levana'' Linnaeus, 1758, being names for different seasonal forms of the species now referred to as ''Araschnia le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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