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Entada Chrysostachys
''Entada'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, in the mimosoid clade of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae. It consists of some 30 species of trees, shrubs and tropical lianas. About 21 species are known from Africa, six from Asia, two from the American tropics and one with a pantropical distribution. They have compound leaves and produce exceptionally large seedpods of up to long. Their seeds are buoyant and survive lengthy journeys via rivers and ocean currents, to eventually wash up on tropical beaches. According to Menninger the liana species of ''Entada'' can grow up to longer in eighteen months. According to Dr. Bruno Kremer of the University of Cologne, ''Entada'' spp. "beats all records for longitudinal growth" reaching lengths "between ". Species 40 species are accepted. * '' Entada abyssinica'' Steud. ex A.Rich. * ''Entada africana'' Guill. & Perr. * '' Entada arenaria'' Schinz * '' Entada bacillaris'' F.White * '' Entada borneensis'' Ridl. * '' Ent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Entada Africana
''Entada'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, in the Mimosoideae, mimosoid clade of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae. It consists of some 30 species of trees, shrubs and tropical lianas. About 21 species are known from Africa, six from Asia, two from the Neotropical realm, American tropics and one with a pantropical distribution. They have compound leaves and produce exceptionally large seedpods of up to long. Their seeds are buoyant and survive lengthy journeys via rivers and ocean currents, to eventually wash up on tropical beaches. According to Menninger the liana species of ''Entada'' can grow up to longer in eighteen months. According to Dr. Bruno Kremer of the University of Cologne, ''Entada'' spp. "beats all records for longitudinal growth" reaching lengths "between ". Species 40 species are accepted. * ''Entada abyssinica'' Steud. ex A.Rich. * ''Entada africana'' Guill. & Perr. * ''Entada arenaria'' Schinz * ''Entada bacillaris'' F.White * ''Entada b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asia
Asia ( , ) is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population. It covers an area of more than 44 million square kilometres, about 30% of Earth's total land area and 8% of Earth's total surface area. The continent, which has long been home to the majority of the human population, was the site of many of the first civilisations. Its 4.7 billion people constitute roughly 60% of the world's population. Asia shares the landmass of Eurasia with Europe, and of Afro-Eurasia with both Europe and Africa. In general terms, it is bounded on the east by the Pacific Ocean, on the south by the Indian Ocean, and on the north by the Arctic Ocean. The border of Asia with Europe is a social constructionism, historical and cultural construct, as there is no clear physical and geographical separation between them. A commonly accepted division places Asia to the east of the Suez Canal separating it from Africa; and to the east of the Turkish straits, the Ural Mountains an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Fawcett (botanist)
William Fawcett (1851–1926) was a British botanist and coauthor of the ''Flora of Jamaica''. He was born in Arklow, County Wicklow, on 13 February 1851. He studied at the University of London, obtaining a BSc in 1879. He became a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1881 and was an assistant in the Department of Botany in the British Museum from 1880 to 1886. Fawcett was Director of Public Gardens and Plantations in Jamaica from 1887 to 1908. He then returned to Britain where he worked with Alfred Barton Rendle to produce the first few volumes of the ''Flora of Jamaica'', (illustrated by Beatrice O. Corfe and Helen Adelaide Wood).BHL: Metadata for ''Flora of Jamaica, containing descriptions of the flowering plants known from the isla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Entada Gigas
''Entada gigas'', commonly known as the monkey-ladder, sea bean, cœur de la mer or sea heart, is a species of flowering liana in the pea family, Fabaceae of the Mimosa subfamily, which is often raised to family rank (Mimosaceae). They are native to Central America, the Caribbean, northern South America, and Africa. It is notable for having the family's largest seedpods. Description Generative characteristics The fruit measures across and can reach in length. There have been reports of pods up to in length. This pod, like all legumes, is a single carpel, the largest carpel of any known plant. Inside the pods are ten to fifteen seeds, each of which have a diameter of and a thickness of . The seeds contain a hollow cavity, which gives them buoyancy. After being washed by rain into rivers and then the ocean, the seeds of ''E. gigas'' drift long distances on ocean currents. Seed buoyancy and vitality lasts at least two years. Use In Gabon it is used to make ropes and nets ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Entada Elephantina
''Entada elephantina'', commonly known as the eland's wattle or elephant's root, is a subshrub in the mimosoid clade of legumes. They occur widely and in several bioregions of southern Africa in Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa, Eswatini, and Lesotho. Considerable size variation has been noted, and polyploidy Polyploidy is a condition in which the cells of an organism have more than two paired sets of ( homologous) chromosomes. Most species whose cells have nuclei (eukaryotes) are diploid, meaning they have two complete sets of chromosomes, one fro ... was suspected. Description They have a suffrutescent habit typical of their genus. They produce unbranched and unarmed aerial stems of less than a metre tall. The various populations show considerable variation in terms of the number of pinnae pairs and the number, size and shape of the leaflets. They flower from September to November and are pollinated mainly by the African honeybee. The flowering racem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Entada Dolichorrhachis
''Entada'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, in the mimosoid clade of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae. It consists of some 30 species of trees, shrubs and tropical lianas. About 21 species are known from Africa, six from Asia, two from the American tropics and one with a pantropical distribution. They have compound leaves and produce exceptionally large seedpods of up to long. Their seeds are buoyant and survive lengthy journeys via rivers and ocean currents, to eventually wash up on tropical beaches. According to Menninger the liana species of ''Entada'' can grow up to longer in eighteen months. According to Dr. Bruno Kremer of the University of Cologne, ''Entada'' spp. "beats all records for longitudinal growth" reaching lengths "between ". Species 40 species are accepted. * '' Entada abyssinica'' Steud. ex A.Rich. * ''Entada africana'' Guill. & Perr. * '' Entada arenaria'' Schinz * '' Entada bacillaris'' F.White * '' Entada borneensis'' Ridl. * '' Ent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Entada Burkei
''Entada burkei'' (synonym ''Elephantorrhiza burkei''), commonly known as the elephant root or sumach bean, is a deciduous shrub or small tree in the mimosoid clade of legume Legumes are plants in the pea family Fabaceae (or Leguminosae), or the fruit or seeds of such plants. When used as a dry grain for human consumption, the seeds are also called pulses. Legumes are grown agriculturally, primarily for human consum ...s. It is native to southern Africa, in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and the Northern Provinces of South Africa. It grows on rocky slopes or ridges, in either woodland, grassland or scrubland. The species is named after the botanist Joseph Burke. Description The shrub or small tree has a dense rounded crown, and usually reaches between 1 and 3 metres in height. The grey bark turns brown and eventually blackish as the tree ages. The bipinnately compound leaves measure some 25 cm long, and bear 4 to 8 pinnae with 12 to 23 pairs of leaflets each. Their fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Entada Borneensis
''Entada'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, in the mimosoid clade of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae. It consists of some 30 species of trees, shrubs and tropical lianas. About 21 species are known from Africa, six from Asia, two from the American tropics and one with a pantropical distribution. They have compound leaves and produce exceptionally large seedpods of up to long. Their seeds are buoyant and survive lengthy journeys via rivers and ocean currents, to eventually wash up on tropical beaches. According to Menninger the liana species of ''Entada'' can grow up to longer in eighteen months. According to Dr. Bruno Kremer of the University of Cologne, ''Entada'' spp. "beats all records for longitudinal growth" reaching lengths "between ". Species 40 species are accepted. * '' Entada abyssinica'' Steud. ex A.Rich. * ''Entada africana'' Guill. & Perr. * '' Entada arenaria'' Schinz * '' Entada bacillaris'' F.White * '' Entada borneensis'' Ridl. * ''Enta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
