Siphonochilus Kilimanensis

	Siphonochilus Kilimanensis ''Siphonochilus kilimanensis'' is a species of plant in the ginger family, Zingiberaceae. It was first described by François Gagnepain and renamed by Brian Laurence Burtt Brian Laurence "Bill" Burtt FRSE FLS (27 August 1913 – 30 May 2008), was an English botanist and taxonomist who is noted for his contributions to the family Gesneriaceae. In a career that spanned 74 years, he worked first at the Royal Botanic .... References B.L.Burtt, 1982 ''In: Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 40: 372'' kilimanensis Taxa named by François Gagnepain {{Zingiberales-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	François Gagnepain François Gagnepain (23 September 1866 – 25 January 1952) was a French botanist. The standard botanical author abbreviation Gagnep. is applied to plants described by Gagnepain. With Achille Eugène Finet, he named a number of species within the botanical family Annonaceae. The genus ''Gagnepainia'' (family Zingiberaceae) was named in his honor by Karl Moritz Schumann. The French Academy of Sciences awarded Gagnepain the ''Prix de Coincy'' for the year 1907. Selected publications * ''Topographie botanique des environs de Cercy-la-Tour (Nièvre)'', Société d'histoire naturelle d'Autun, 1900 - Botanical topography involving the environs of Cercy-la-Tour (Nièvre). * ''Contributions à la flore de l'Asie orientale'', 1905, (in collaboration with Achille Eugène Finet) - Contributions to the flora of eastern Asia. * ''Contribution à l'étude géo-botanique de l'Indo-Chine'', 1926 - Contribution to the geobotanical study of Indochina Mainland Southeast Asia, also kn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	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]
	Brian Laurence Burtt Brian Laurence "Bill" Burtt FRSE FLS (27 August 1913 – 30 May 2008), was an English botanist and taxonomist who is noted for his contributions to the family Gesneriaceae. In a career that spanned 74 years, he worked first at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and then at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE). He made numerous field trips to South Africa and Sarawak and described a total of 637 new plant species. Burtt is denoted by the author abbreviation when citing a botanical name. Education and career Brian Laurence Burtt, known to colleagues as Bill, was born 27 August 1913 in Claygate, Surrey, to Mabel Johnston and Laurence Buckley Burtt. He was educated at Dulwich College, excelling in Latin. After Dulwich he was employed at Kew as herbarium assistant to Arthur William Hill, the Director. Here he learnt to work with dried plant material from all over the world, painstakingly dissecting and classifying. Burtt wrote his first paper in 1932 with the assistance of Joh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Siphonochilus ''Siphonochilus'' is a genus of plants native to sub-Saharan Africa.Govaerts, R. (2004). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-54382. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. * ''Siphonochilus aethiopicus'' (Schweinf.) B.L.Burtt - widespread from Ethiopia west to Sierra Leone and south to South Africa * ''Siphonochilus bambutiorum'' A.D.Poulsen & Lock - Zaïre * ''Siphonochilus brachystemon'' (K.Schum.) B.L.Burtt - eastern Africa from Sudan to Mozambique * ''Siphonochilus kilimanensis'' (Gagnep.) B.L.Burtt - Mozambique * ''Siphonochilus kirkii'' (Hook.f.) B.L.Burtt - eastern and central Africa from Sudan and Central African Republic south to South Africa * ''Siphonochilus longitubus'' Lock - Zambia * ''Siphonochilus nigericus'' (Hutch. ex Hepper) B.L.Burtt - Nigeria, Ghana * ''Siphonochilus parvus'' Lock - Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi * ''Siphonochilus pleianthus'' (K.Schum.) Lock - Zaïre, Angola, Zambia * ''Siphonochilus puncticulatus'' (Gagnep.) Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]