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Coral Necklace
''Illecebrum'' is a monotypic taxon, monotypic genus in the family Caryophyllaceae. It contains the single species ''Illecebrum verticillatum'', which is a trailing annual plant native to Europe, with whorls of small white flowers borne in the axils of the paired leaves. Distribution ''Illecebrum verticillatum'' is native to much of Europe, from the western Iberian Peninsula to Poland; it is rare in Great Britain, and its northernmost station is in Denmark. It has also been introduced species to at least one site in New Zealand and one site in Western Australia. Description ''Illecebrum verticillatum'' produces procumbent or decumbent (trailing) plant stem, stems that may be up to high. It has ovate leaves arranged in opposite pairs along the stem. The small flowers are clustered in the leaf axil, axils of the leaves; their petals are much smaller than the white sepals. Taxonomy ''Illecebrum verticillatum'' was alpha taxonomy, first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1753 ''Spec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy". Many of his writings were in Latin; his name is rendered in Latin as and, after his 1761 ennoblement, as . Linnaeus was born in Råshult, the countryside of Småland, in southern Sweden. He received most of his higher education at Uppsala University and began giving lectures in botany there in 1730. He lived abroad between 1735 and 1738, where he studied and also published the first edition of his ' in the Netherlands. He then returned to Sweden where he became professor of medicine and botany at Uppsala. In the 1740s, he was sent on several journeys through Sweden to find and classify plants and animals. In the 1750s and 1760s, he continued to collect an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
