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Protea Intonsa
''Protea intonsa'', also known as the tufted sugarbush, is a flowering plant of the genus Protea within the Family (taxonomy), family Proteaceae, endemic to South Africa, where it is distributed from the eastern Swartberg and Kammanassie Mountains to the Baviaanskloof mountains. In Afrikaans it is known as ''klossie-suikerbos''. Taxonomy ''Protea intonsa'' has only been known to exist for half a century or so, it was first Species description, described as new to science by the South Africa, South African botanist John Patrick Rourke in 1971. He had first collected the species in 1967 in the Oudtshoorn Local Municipality on the rocky southeastern slopes of the Mannetjiesberg at elevation (collector #860). An Isotype (biology), isotype of Rourke's original collection is housed at the herbarium at Kew Botanical Gardens, Kew. ''P. intonsa'' was classified in ''Protea'' Section (botany), section ''Crinitae'' by Tony Rebelo in 1995, what he calls the "eastern ground sugarbushes", a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inflorescence
An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed on the axis of a plant. The modifications can involve the length and the nature of the internodes and the phyllotaxis, as well as variations in the proportions, compressions, swellings, adnations, connations and reduction of main and secondary axes. One can also define an inflorescence as the reproductive portion of a plant that bears a cluster of flowers in a specific pattern. The stem holding the whole inflorescence is called a peduncle. The major axis (incorrectly referred to as the main stem) above the peduncle bearing the flowers or secondary branches is called the rachis. The stalk of each flower in the inflorescence is called a pedicel. A flower that is not part of an inflorescence is called a solitary flower and its stalk is al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
