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Protea Convexa
''Protea convexa'', also known as large-leaf sugarbush, is a rare flowering shrub in the genus ''Protea'' of the Family (taxonomy), family Proteaceae, which is endemic to the southwestern Cape Region of South Africa. Taxonomy The first person who is known to have collected ''Protea convexa'' was the German explorer Rudolf Marloth on plains near Matjiesfontein in September 1903. Marloth's collection of a pressed specimen (#3209) was sent to and arrived at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, Kew Herbarium in 1904, where it has been housed ever since. Based on this specimen, in 1910 the South African botanist Edwin Percy Phillips then Species description, described it as a new species. Phillips did not designate holotypes in his paper, but in 1960 the South African botanist Hedley Brian Rycroft designated Marloth's specimen as such. The specific epithet refers to the shape of the Receptacle (botany), receptacle, the bottom of the flower head. Description This is a flat, prostrate shr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Plant Names Index
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 includes basic bibliographical details associated with the names. Its goals include eliminating the need for repeated reference to primary sources for basic bibliographic information about plant names. The IPNI also maintains a list of standardized author abbreviations. These were initially based on Brummitt & Powell (1992), but new names and abbreviations are continually added. Description IPNI is the product of a collaboration between The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew ( Index Kewensis), The Harvard University Herbaria (Gray Herbarium Index), and the Australian National Herbarium ( APNI). The IPNI database is a collection of the names registered by the three cooperating institutions and they work towards standardizing the information. The st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |