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Quisqueya (plant)
''Quisqueya'' is a genus of orchids, (family Orchidaceae), consisting of four species endemic to the island of Hispaniola (split between the Dominican Republic and Haiti) of the Greater Antilles. The genus was established in 1979 by Donald Dungan Dod. Its name is derived from the Taíno The Taíno were a historic indigenous people of the Caribbean whose culture has been continued today by Taíno descendant communities and Taíno revivalist communities. At the time of European contact in the late 15th century, they were the pri ... name for Hispaniola. References * Nir, M. Orchidaceae Antillanae, 334–336, 2000. Laeliinae genera Flora of Haiti Flora of the Dominican Republic Laeliinae {{Laeliinae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Dungan Dod
The Reverend Donald Dungan Dod (October 10, 1912, Kansas City, Missouri – April 1, 2008, West Virginia), was an American missionary and orchidologist. Life He went to Long Beach Junior College and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a major in Chemistry. After a stint in the oil industry he entered San Francisco Theological Seminary in San Anselmo, CA, where he met his future wife, Annabelle Jean Stockton (aka Tudy). They graduated with a master's degree in Divinity and a Master in Christian Education respectively. In 1946 the Dods established a Presbyterian ministry in El Guacio in western Puerto Rico, which included among many other activities, a health clinic, a social work program and public health efforts. During their 17-year stay in Puerto Rico, they “became enamored of the flora and fauna of Puerto Rico”. While Tudy became interested in birds, Donald became an extremely well versed amateur orchidologist, having discovered well over f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quisqueya Ekmanii
Quisqueya (or Kiskeya or Kiskella) may refer to: *Hispaniola * ''Quisqueya'' (plant), a genus of Laeliinae *Quisqueya, Dominican Republic, a municipality of the San Pedro de Macorís province *Quisqueya, Distrito Nacional, a neighbourhood in the city of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic * Quisqueya Henríquez (born 1966), Cuban-born Dominican Republic visual artist *Estadio Quisqueya, a baseball stadium in Santo Domingo *Tele Quisqueya, a television station located in Saint-Marc, Haiti *Quisqueya University Quisqueya University (french: Université Quisqueya) founded in 1988, is a private Haitian university located in Port-au-Prince. The coordinator of the university's establishment and its first rector, from 1990 to 1995, was Jacques-Édouard Alex ..., a university in Port-au-Prince, Haiti See also * Aerovías Quisqueyana, or simply Quisqueyana, an airline from the Dominican Republic *Quisqueyano, a person of Dominican descent; see {{disambiguation, given name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quisqueya Fuertesii
Quisqueya (or Kiskeya or Kiskella) may refer to: *Hispaniola * ''Quisqueya'' (plant), a genus of Laeliinae *Quisqueya, Dominican Republic, a municipality of the San Pedro de Macorís province *Quisqueya, Distrito Nacional, a neighbourhood in the city of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic * Quisqueya Henríquez (born 1966), Cuban-born Dominican Republic visual artist *Estadio Quisqueya, a baseball stadium in Santo Domingo *Tele Quisqueya, a television station located in Saint-Marc, Haiti *Quisqueya University Quisqueya University (french: Université Quisqueya) founded in 1988, is a private Haitian university located in Port-au-Prince. The coordinator of the university's establishment and its first rector, from 1990 to 1995, was Jacques-Édouard Alex ..., a university in Port-au-Prince, Haiti See also * Aerovías Quisqueyana, or simply Quisqueyana, an airline from the Dominican Republic *Quisqueyano, a person of Dominican descent; see {{disambiguation, given name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quisqueya Holdridgei
Quisqueya (or Kiskeya or Kiskella) may refer to: *Hispaniola * ''Quisqueya'' (plant), a genus of Laeliinae *Quisqueya, Dominican Republic, a municipality of the San Pedro de Macorís province *Quisqueya, Distrito Nacional, a neighbourhood in the city of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic * Quisqueya Henríquez (born 1966), Cuban-born Dominican Republic visual artist *Estadio Quisqueya, a baseball stadium in Santo Domingo *Tele Quisqueya, a television station located in Saint-Marc, Haiti *Quisqueya University Quisqueya University (french: Université Quisqueya) founded in 1988, is a private Haitian university located in Port-au-Prince. The coordinator of the university's establishment and its first rector, from 1990 to 1995, was Jacques-Édouard Alex ..., a university in Port-au-Prince, Haiti See also * Aerovías Quisqueyana, or simply Quisqueyana, an airline from the Dominican Republic *Quisqueyano, a person of Dominican descent; see {{disambiguation, given name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quisqueya Karstii
Quisqueya (or Kiskeya or Kiskella) may refer to: *Hispaniola * ''Quisqueya'' (plant), a genus of Laeliinae *Quisqueya, Dominican Republic, a municipality of the San Pedro de Macorís province *Quisqueya, Distrito Nacional, a neighbourhood in the city of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic * Quisqueya Henríquez (born 1966), Cuban-born Dominican Republic visual artist *Estadio Quisqueya, a baseball stadium in Santo Domingo *Tele Quisqueya, a television station located in Saint-Marc, Haiti *Quisqueya University Quisqueya University (french: Université Quisqueya) founded in 1988, is a private Haitian university located in Port-au-Prince. The coordinator of the university's establishment and its first rector, from 1990 to 1995, was Jacques-Édouard Alex ..., a university in Port-au-Prince, Haiti See also * Aerovías Quisqueyana, or simply Quisqueyana, an airline from the Dominican Republic *Quisqueyano, a person of Dominican descent; see {{disambiguation, given name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family (taxonomy), family. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus. :E.g. ''Panthera leo'' (lion) and ''Panthera onca'' (jaguar) are two species within the genus ''Panthera''. ''Panthera'' is a genus within the family Felidae. The composition of a genus is determined by taxonomy (biology), taxonomists. The standards for genus classification are not strictly codified, so different authorities often produce different classifications for genera. There are some general practices used, however, including the idea that a newly defined genus should fulfill these three criteria to be descriptively useful: # monophyly – all descendants ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orchidaceae
Orchids are plants that belong to the family Orchidaceae (), a diverse and widespread group of flowering plants with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant. Along with the Asteraceae, they are one of the two largest families of flowering plants. The Orchidaceae have about 28,000 currently accepted species, distributed in about 763 genera. (See ''External links'' below). The determination of which family is larger is still under debate, because verified data on the members of such enormous families are continually in flux. Regardless, the number of orchid species is nearly equal to the number of bony fishes, more than twice the number of bird species, and about four times the number of mammal species. The family encompasses about 6–11% of all species of seed plants. The largest genera are ''Bulbophyllum'' (2,000 species), ''Epidendrum'' (1,500 species), ''Dendrobium'' (1,400 species) and ''Pleurothallis'' (1,000 species). It also includes ''Vanilla'' (the genus of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hispaniola
Hispaniola (, also ; es, La Española; Latin and french: Hispaniola; ht, Ispayola; tnq, Ayiti or Quisqueya) is an island in the Caribbean that is part of the Greater Antilles. Hispaniola is the most populous island in the West Indies, and the region's second largest in area, after the island of Cuba. The island is divided into two separate nations: the Spanish-speaking Dominican Republic (48,445 km2, 18,705 sq mi) to the east and the French/ Haitian Creole-speaking Haiti (27,750 km2, 10,710 sq mi) to the west. The only other divided island in the Caribbean is Saint Martin, which is shared between France ( Saint Martin) and the Netherlands (Sint Maarten). Hispaniola is the site of one of the first European settlements in the Americas, La Navidad (1492–1493), as well as the first proper town, La Isabela (1493–1500), and the first permanent settlement, the current capital of the Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo (est. 1498). These settlements were founded succe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic ( ; es, República Dominicana, ) is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares with Haiti, making Hispaniola one of only two Caribbean islands, along with Saint Martin, that is shared by two sovereign states. The Dominican Republic is the second-largest nation in the Antilles by area (after Cuba) at , and third-largest by population, with approximately 10.7 million people (2022 est.), down from 10.8 million in 2020, of whom approximately 3.3 million live in the metropolitan area of Santo Domingo, the capital city. The official language of the country is Spanish. The native Taíno people had inhabited Hispaniola before the arrival of Europeans, dividing it into five chiefdoms. They had constructed an advanced farming and hunting society, and were in the process of becoming an organized civilization. The Taínos also in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haiti
Haiti (; ht, Ayiti ; French: ), officially the Republic of Haiti (); ) and formerly known as Hayti, is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island which it shares with the Dominican Republic. To its south-west lies the small Navassa Island, which is claimed by Haiti but is disputed as a United States territory under federal administration."Haiti" ''Encyclopædia Britannica''. Haiti is in size, the third largest country in the Caribbean by area, and has an estimated population of 11.4 million, making it the most populous country in the Caribb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greater Antilles
The Greater Antilles ( es, Grandes Antillas or Antillas Mayores; french: Grandes Antilles; ht, Gwo Zantiy; jam, Grieta hAntiliiz) is a grouping of the larger islands in the Caribbean Sea, including Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, and the Cayman Islands. Six island states share the region of the Greater Antilles, with Haiti and the Dominican Republic sharing the island of Hispaniola. Together with the Lesser Antilles, they make up the Antilles. While most of the Greater Antilles consists of independent countries, Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territory of the United States, while the Cayman Islands are a British Overseas Territory. The largest island by area is Cuba, which extends to the western end of the island group. Puerto Rico lies on the eastern end, and the island of Hispaniola, the largest island by population, is located in the middle. Jamaica lies to the south of Cuba, while the Cayman Islands are located to the west. The state of Florida is the closes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taíno
The Taíno were a historic Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean, indigenous people of the Caribbean whose culture has been continued today by Taíno descendant communities and Taíno revivalist communities. At the time of European contact in the late 15th century, they were the principal inhabitants of most of what is now Cuba, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Haiti, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, and the northern Lesser Antilles. The Lucayan people, Lucayan branch of the Taíno were the first New World peoples encountered by Christopher Columbus, in the Lucayan Archipelago, Bahama Archipelago on October 12, 1492. The Taíno spoke a dialect of the Arawakan languages, Arawakan language group. They lived in agricultural societies ruled by Cacique, caciques with fixed settlements and a matrilineal system of kinship and inheritance. Taíno religion centered on the worship of zemis. Some anthropologists and historians have claimed that the Taíno were exterminated centuries ago or they gradual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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