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Turnera Subulata
''Turnera subulata'' is a species of flowering plant in the passionflower family known by the common names white buttercup, sulphur alder, politician's flower, dark-eyed turnera,Yim, EWhat’s up, buttercup?''New Straits Times'' (Malaysia). April 28, 2012. and white alder. US Forest Service. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER) Despite its names, it is not related to the or the s. It is native to Central and South America, from south to |
Passifloraceae
The Passifloraceae are a family of flowering plants, containing about 750 species classified in around 27 genera. They include trees, shrubs, lianas, and climbing plants, and are mostly found in tropical regions. The family takes its name from the passion flower genus (''Passiflora'') which includes the edible passion fruit (''Passiflora edulis''), as well as garden plants such as maypop and running pop. ''Passiflora'' vines and ''Dryas iulia'' (among other heliconian butterflies) have demonstrated evidence of coevolution, in which the plants attempted to stop their destruction from larval feeding by the butterflies, while the butterflies tried to gain better survival for their eggs. The former Cronquist system of classification placed this family in the order Violales, but under more modern classifications systems such as that proposed by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, this is absorbed into the Malpighiales and the family has been expanded to include the former Malesherbiac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pollination
Pollination is the transfer of pollen from an anther of a plant to the stigma of a plant, later enabling fertilisation and the production of seeds, most often by an animal or by wind. Pollinating agents can be animals such as insects, birds, and bats; water; wind; and even plants themselves, when self-pollination occurs within a closed flower. Pollination often occurs within a species. When pollination occurs between species, it can produce hybrid offspring in nature and in plant breeding work. In angiosperms, after the pollen grain (gametophyte) has landed on the stigma, it germinates and develops a pollen tube which grows down the style until it reaches an ovary. Its two gametes travel down the tube to where the gametophyte(s) containing the female gametes are held within the carpel. After entering an ovum cell through the micropyle, one male nucleus fuses with the polar bodies to produce the endosperm tissues, while the other fuses with the ovule to produce the embr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polymorphism (biology)
In biology, polymorphism is the occurrence of two or more clearly different morphs or forms, also referred to as alternative ''phenotypes'', in the population of a species. To be classified as such, morphs must occupy the same habitat at the same time and belong to a panmictic population (one with random mating). Ford E.B. 1965. ''Genetic polymorphism''. Faber & Faber, London. Put simply, polymorphism is when there are two or more possibilities of a trait on a gene. For example, there is more than one possible trait in terms of a jaguar's skin colouring; they can be light morph or dark morph. Due to having more than one possible variation for this gene, it is termed 'polymorphism'. However, if the jaguar has only one possible trait for that gene, it would be termed "monomorphic". For example, if there was only one possible skin colour that a jaguar could have, it would be termed monomorphic. The term polyphenism can be used to clarify that the different forms arise from the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heterostyly
Heterostyly is a unique form of polymorphism and herkogamy in flowers. In a heterostylous species, two or three morphological types of flowers, termed "morphs", exist in the population. On each individual plant, all flowers share the same morph. The flower morphs differ in the lengths of the pistil and stamens, and these traits are not continuous. The morph phenotype is genetically linked to genes responsible for a unique system of self-incompatibility, termed heteromorphic self-incompatibility, that is, the pollen from a flower on one morph cannot fertilize another flower of the same morph. Heterostylous plants having two flower morphs are termed " distylous". In one morph (termed "pin", "longistylous", or "long-styled" flower) the stamens are short and the pistils are long; in the second morph (termed "thrum", "brevistylous", or "short-styled" flower) the stamens are long and the pistils are short; the length of the pistil in one morph equals the length of the stamens in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turnera Subulata Parts
''Turnera'' is a genus of flowering plants in the passionflower family, Passifloraceae. It contains more than 100 species native to tropical and subtropical America. The name honours English naturalist William Turner (1508–1568). It was previously placed in the family Turneraceae. Species The following species are currently recognized: A * '' Turnera acangatinga Costa-Lima & E.C.O.Chagas'' * '' Turnera acaulis1Griseb.'' * '' Turnera acuta2 Willd.'' * '' Turnera amapaensis R.S.Cowan'' * '' Turnera amazonica1?Arbo'' * '' Turnera angelicae Arbo'' * '' Turnera annectens2 Arbo'' * ''Turnera arcuata2 Urb.'' * '' Turnera arenaria (Spruce ex Urb.) Arbo'' * '' Turnera argentea2 Arbo'' * '' Turnera aromatica2Arbo'' * ''Turnera asymmetrica2Arbo'' * ''Turnera aurantiaca2 Benth.'' * ''Turnera aurelioi1 Arbo'' B * ''Turnera bahiensis Urb.'' ** var. ''bahiensis2'' ** var. ''truncata2 Arbo.'' * ''Turnera benthamiana2 M.R.Schomb.'' * ''Turnera blanchetiana Urb.'' ** var. ''blanchetiana2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beetle
Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 described species, is the largest of all orders, constituting almost 40% of described insects and 25% of all known animal life-forms; new species are discovered frequently, with estimates suggesting that there are between 0.9 and 2.1 million total species. Found in almost every habitat except the sea and the polar regions, they interact with their ecosystems in several ways: beetles often feed on plants and fungi, break down animal and plant debris, and eat other invertebrates. Some species are serious agricultural pests, such as the Colorado potato beetle, while others such as Coccinellidae (ladybirds or ladybugs) eat aphids, scale insects, thrips, and other plant-sucking insects that damage crops. Beetles typically have a particularly hard e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urbanus Dorantes
''Cecropterus dorantes'', the lilac-banded longtail or Dorantes longtail, is a species of butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found from Argentina, north through Central America, Mexico, and the West Indies to southern Texas and peninsular Florida. Strays can be found as far north as northern California, southern Arizona, southern Missouri and North Carolina. The wingspan is 37–51 mm. There are three to four generations throughout the year in southern Florida and southern Texas. The larvae feed on various legumes, including wild and cultivated ''Phaseolus'' species, '' Desmodium'' and blue peas ''Clitoria''. Adults feed on flower nectar from various plants, including shepherd's needle, lantana, trilisa, ironweed, and bougainvillea ''Bougainvillea'' ( , ) is a genus of thorny ornamental vines, bushes, and trees belonging to the four o' clock family, Nyctaginaceae. It is native to eastern South America, found from Brazil, west to Peru, and south to souther ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nisoniades Macarius
''Nisoniades'' is a genus of tufted skippers in the family Hesperiidae Skippers are a family of the Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies) named the Hesperiidae. Being diurnal, they are generally called butterflies. They were previously placed in a separate superfamily, Hesperioidea; however, the most recent taxonomy .... ReferencesNatural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database Carcharodini Hesperiidae genera Taxa named by Jacob Hübner {{Pyrginae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Butterfly
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprises the large superfamily (zoology), superfamily Papilionoidea, which contains at least one former group, the skippers (formerly the superfamily "Hesperioidea"), and the most recent analyses suggest it also contains the moth-butterflies (formerly the superfamily "Hedyloidea"). Butterfly fossils date to the Paleocene, about 56 million years ago. Butterflies have a four-stage life cycle, as like most insects they undergo Holometabolism, complete metamorphosis. Winged adults lay eggs on the food plant on which their larvae, known as caterpillars, will feed. The caterpillars grow, sometimes very rapidly, and when fully developed, pupate in a chrysalis. When metamorphosis is complete, the pupal skin splits, the adult insect climbs o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plebeia Flavocinta
''Plebeia'' is a genus of mostly small-bodied stingless bees, formerly included in the genus '' Trigona''. Most of the ~45 species are placed in the subgenus ''(Plebeia)'' (''s.s.''), but there also are four species in the subgenus ''(Scaura)''. They differ in only minor structural details, primarily of the hind leg, from other genera that were formerly treated as constituents of ''Trigona''. In some classifications, the genus ''Schwarziana ''Schwarziana'' is a relatively small genus of South American Meliponini, stingless bees. Like other stingless bees, ''Schwarziana'' are eusociality, eusocial, with large colonies primarily composed of workers and one queen. Unusually for stingle ...'' is treated as a subgenus within ''Plebeia'', but recent morphological analyses indicate that ''Schwarziana'' is a distinct lineage, while ''Plebeia'' is paraphyletic. Due to their small sizes, in Brazil many species are known as ''abelha-mirim'' (literally "small bee") in Portuguese. Range ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frieseomelitta Doederleinii
''Frieseomelitta'' is a stingless bee ( Meliponini) genus in the family Apidae. It currently contains about 16 described species: * ''Frieseomelitta dispar'' * ''Frieseomelitta doederleini'' * ''Frieseomelitta flavicornis'' * ''Frieseomelitta francoi'' * ''Frieseomelitta freiremaiai'' * ''Frieseomelitta languida ''Frieseomelitta'' is a stingless bee (Meliponini) genus in the family Apidae. It currently contains about 16 described species: * ''Frieseomelitta dispar'' * ''Frieseomelitta doederleini'' * ''Frieseomelitta flavicornis'' * ''Frieseomelitta f ...'' * '' Frieseomelitta lehmanni'' * '' Frieseomelitta longipes'' * '' Frieseomelitta meadewaldoi'' * '' Frieseomelitta nigra'' * '' Frieseomelitta paranigra'' * '' Frieseomelitta paupera'' * '' Frieseomelitta portoi'' * '' Frieseomelitta silvestrii'' * '' Frieseomelitta trichocerata'' * '' Frieseomelitta varia''Enrico de LazaroScientists Sequence Genome of Brazilian Stingless Bee on: sci-news, Sep 1, 2020.Flà ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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