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Stelechocarpus
''Stelechocarpus'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Annonaceae. Its native range is Indo-China to Western and Central Malesia Malesia is a biogeographical region straddling the Equator and the boundaries of the Indomalayan and Australasian realms, and also a phytogeographical floristic region in the Paleotropical Kingdom. It has been given different definitions. The .... Species ''Plants of the World Online'' includes: # '' Stelechocarpus burahol'' (Blume) Hook.f. & Thomson # '' Stelechocarpus cauliflorus'' (Scheff.) R.E.Fr. # '' Stelechocarpus expansus'' (Chaowasku) I.M.Turner References {{Taxonbar, from=Q9079749 Annonaceae Annonaceae genera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stelechocarpus Burahol
''Stelechocarpus burahol'', known as the burahol (loanword from Sundanese), kepel, kepel fruit, keppel fruit, or kepel apple, is an annonaceous plant from the humid evergreen forests of Southeast Asia,''Tropical & Subtropical Trees: an encyclopedia'', Margaret Barwick, Timber Press (C) 2004, p. 381 known for producing an edible fruit. The fruit is grown only in central Java, Indonesia. The plant is an evergreen, with stiff, elliptical, glossy leaves.''Encyclopaedia of Food Science, Food Technology, and Nutrition: Eating habits-gelatine'', R. Macrae, Richard Kenneth Robinson, Michèle J. Sadler, Academic Press, 1993, pp. 2, 126. The fruits of ''S. burahol'' grow on the lower part of the trunk, on the larger branches. They have a spicy flavor akin to that of the mango. They are greenish-yellow and oval, long. The new growth is bright pink or burgundy, known for producing an edible fruit. One can propagate ''S. burahol'' from the seeds of ripe fruit. The fruit of this species ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stelechocarpus Cauliflorus
''Stelechocarpus'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Annonaceae. Its native range is Indo-China to Western and Central Malesia. Species ''Plants of the World Online'' includes: # ''Stelechocarpus burahol ''Stelechocarpus burahol'', known as the burahol (loanword from Sundanese), kepel, kepel fruit, keppel fruit, or kepel apple, is an annonaceous plant from the humid evergreen forests of Southeast Asia,''Tropical & Subtropical Trees: an encyclope ...'' (Blume) Hook.f. & Thomson # '' Stelechocarpus cauliflorus'' (Scheff.) R.E.Fr. # '' Stelechocarpus expansus'' (Chaowasku) I.M.Turner References {{Taxonbar, from=Q9079749 Annonaceae Annonaceae genera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stelechocarpus Expansus
''Stelechocarpus'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Annonaceae. Its native range is Indo-China to Western and Central Malesia. Species ''Plants of the World Online'' includes: # ''Stelechocarpus burahol'' (Blume) Hook.f. & Thomson # ''Stelechocarpus cauliflorus ''Stelechocarpus'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Annonaceae. Its native range is Indo-China to Western and Central Malesia. Species ''Plants of the World Online'' includes: # ''Stelechocarpus burahol ''Stelechocarpus ...'' (Scheff.) R.E.Fr. # '' Stelechocarpus expansus'' (Chaowasku) I.M.Turner References {{Taxonbar, from=Q9079749 Annonaceae Annonaceae genera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annonaceae
The Annonaceae are a Family (biology), family of flowering plants consisting of trees, shrubs, or rarely lianas commonly known as the custard apple family or soursop family. With 108 accepted genera and about 2400 known species, it is the largest family in the Magnoliales. Several genera produce edible fruit, most notably ''Annona'', ''Anonidium'', ''Asimina'', ''Rollinia'', and ''Uvaria''. Its type genus is ''Annona''. The family is concentrated in the tropics, with few species found in temperate regions. About 900 species are Neotropical, 450 are Afrotropical, and the remaining are Indomalayan. Description The species are mostly tropical, some are mid-latitude, deciduous or evergreen trees and shrubs, with some lianas, with aromatic bark, leaves, and flowers. ; Stems, stalks and leaves: Bark is fibrous and aromatic. Pith septate (fine tangential bands divided by partitions) to diaphragmed (divided by thin partitions with openings in them). Branching distichous (arranged in two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (30 June 1817 – 10 December 1911) was a British botanist and explorer in the 19th century. He was a founder of geographical botany and Charles Darwin's closest friend. For twenty years he served as director of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, succeeding his father, William Jackson Hooker, and was awarded the highest honours of British science. Biography Early years Hooker was born in Halesworth, Suffolk, England. He was the second son of the famous botanist Sir William Jackson Hooker, Regius Professor of Botany, and Maria Sarah Turner, eldest daughter of the banker Dawson Turner and sister-in-law of Francis Palgrave. From age seven, Hooker attended his father's lectures at Glasgow University, taking an early interest in plant distribution and the voyages of explorers like Captain James Cook. He was educated at the Glasgow High School and went on to study medicine at Glasgow University, graduating M.D. in 1839. This degree qualified him for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Thomson (botanist)
Thomas Thomson (4 December 1817 – 18 April 1878) was a British surgeon with the British East India Company before becoming a botanist. He was a friend of Joseph Dalton Hooker and helped write the first volume of ''Flora Indica''. He was born in Glasgow the son of Thomas Thomson, chemistry professor at Glasgow University. He qualified as an M.D. at Glasgow University in 1839, as was appointed Assistant Surgeon in the Bengal Army 21 December 1839. He served during the campaign in Afghanistan 1839-1842 being present at the capture of Ghazni in 1839 and was taken prisoner at Ghazni in March 1842 but was released 21 September 1842. He served in the Sutlej campaign, 1845–46, being present at Firuzshahr, and in the second Sikh war, 1848–49. During 1847–48, Thomson served on the Kashmir Boundary Commission under the leadership of Alexander Cunningham. ( Henry Strachey was the other commissioner.) Thomson explored the northern frontier of Kashmir, along the Karakoram Range. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flowering Plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ('container, vessel') and ('seed'), and refers to those plants that produce their seeds enclosed within a fruit. They are by far the most diverse group of land plants with 64 orders, 416 families, approximately 13,000 known genera and 300,000 known species. Angiosperms were formerly called Magnoliophyta (). Like gymnosperms, angiosperms are seed-producing plants. They are distinguished from gymnosperms by characteristics including flowers, endosperm within their seeds, and the production of fruits that contain the seeds. The ancestors of flowering plants diverged from the common ancestor of all living gymnosperms before the end of the Carboniferous, over 300 million years ago. The closest fossil relatives of flowering plants are uncertain and contentious. The earliest angiosperm fossils ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indo-China
Mainland Southeast Asia, also known as the Indochinese Peninsula or Indochina, is the continental portion of Southeast Asia. It lies east of the Indian subcontinent and south of Mainland China and is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the west and the Pacific Ocean to the east. It includes the countries of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, with peninsular Malaysia sometimes also being included. The term Indochina (originally Indo-China) was coined in the early nineteenth century, emphasizing the historical cultural influence of Indian and Chinese civilizations on the area. The term was later adopted as the name of the colony of French Indochina (today's Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam). Today, the term, Mainland Southeast Asia, in contrast to Maritime Southeast Asia, is more commonly referenced. Terminology The origins of the name Indo-China are usually attributed jointly to the Danish-French geographer Conrad Malte-Brun, who referred to the area as in 1804, and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malesia
Malesia is a biogeographical region straddling the Equator and the boundaries of the Indomalayan and Australasian realms, and also a phytogeographical floristic region in the Paleotropical Kingdom. It has been given different definitions. The World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions split off Papuasia in its 2001 version. Floristic province Malesia was first identified as a floristic region that included the Malay Peninsula, the Malay Archipelago, New Guinea, and the Bismarck Archipelago, based on a shared tropical flora derived mostly from Asia but also with numerous elements of the Antarctic flora, including many species in the southern conifer families Podocarpaceae and Araucariaceae. The floristic region overlaps four distinct mammalian faunal regions. The first edition of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) used this definition, but in the second edition of 2001, New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago were r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
