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Hortonia (plant)
''Hortonia'' is a genus of trees and shrubs of the family Monimiaceae. It is endemic to Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ... and comprises three species. Species * '' Hortonia angustifolia'' Trimen. * '' Hortonia floribunda'' Wight. ex Arn. * '' Hortonia ovalifolia'' Wight. References * * * * * http://www.theplantlist.org/1.1/browse/A/Monimiaceae/Hortonia/ Monimiaceae genera {{Laurales-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hortonia Angustifolia
''Hortonia angustifolia'' is a species of plant in the Monimiaceae family. It is endemic to Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an .... Leaves Linear-lanceolate, pointed ends, faintly 3-veined at base. Trunk Branches slender. Flowers Pale yellow, slender, drooping; Inflorescence - racemes with few flowers. Fruits Dark crimson, ovoid, compressed, obliquely pointed, pulpy. Ecology Rain forests near waterways. References Flora of Sri Lanka Monimiaceae Critically endangered plants Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Laurales-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Wight
Robert Wight Doctor of Medicine, MD Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS Linnean Society of London, FLS (6 July 1796 – 26 May 1872) was a Scottish surgeon in the East India Company, whose professional career was spent entirely in southern India, where his greatest achievements were in botany – as an economic botanist and leading taxonomist in south India. He contributed to the introduction of Gossypium barbadense, American cotton. As a taxonomist he described 110 new genera and 1267 new species of flowering plants. He employed Indian botanical artists to illustrate many plants collected by himself and Indian collectors he trained. Some of these illustrations were published by William Jackson Hooker, William Hooker in Britain, but from 1838 he published a series of illustrated works in Madras including the uncoloured, six-volume ''Icones Plantarum Indiae Orientalis'' (1838–53) and two hand-coloured, two-volume works, the ''Illustrations of Indian Botany'' (1838–50) and ''Spic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Arnott Walker-Arnott
George Arnott Walker Arnott of Arlary (6 February 1799 – 17 April 1868) was a Scottish botanist. Early life George Arnott Walker Arnott was born in Edinburgh in 1799, the son of David Walker Arnott of Arlary. He attended Milnathort Parish School then the High School of Edinburgh. He studied law in Edinburgh. Career Walker Arnott became a botanist, holding the position of Regius Professor of Botany in the University of Glasgow from 1845 to 1868. He studied the botany of North America with Sir William Hooker and collaborated with Robert Wight in studies of Indian botany. He and William J. Hooker went through the Australian collected plant material of Alexander Collie, which was sent back to the UK after his death.Ray Desmond (Editor) He was a member of the Societe de Histoire Naturelle in Paris and the Moscow Imperial Society of Natural History. Personal life and death Walker Arnott married Mary Hay Barclay in 1831. He died in Glasgow Glasgow ( ; sco, Glesca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family (taxonomy), family. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus. :E.g. ''Panthera leo'' (lion) and ''Panthera onca'' (jaguar) are two species within the genus ''Panthera''. ''Panthera'' is a genus within the family Felidae. The composition of a genus is determined by taxonomy (biology), taxonomists. The standards for genus classification are not strictly codified, so different authorities often produce different classifications for genera. There are some general practices used, however, including the idea that a newly defined genus should fulfill these three criteria to be descriptively useful: # monophyly – all descendants ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monimiaceae
The Monimiaceae is a family (biology), family of flowering plants in the magnoliid Order (biology), order Laurales.Peter F. Stevens (2001 onwards). "Monimiaceae" At: Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. At: Botanical Databases At: Missouri Botanical Garden Website. (see ''External links'' below) It is closely Phylogenetic tree, related to the families Hernandiaceae and Lauraceae.Susanne S. Renner and Andre S. Chanderbali. 2000. "What is the relationship among Hernandiaceae, Lauraceae and Monimiaceae, and why is this question so difficult to answer?" ''International Journal of Plant Sciences'' 161(6 supplement):S109-119. It consists of shrubs, small trees, and a few lianas of the tropics and subtropics, mostly in the southern hemisphere.Vernon H. Heywood, Richard K. Brummitt, Ole Seberg, and Alastair Culham. ''Flowering Plant Families of the World''. Firefly Books: Ontario, Canada. (2007). . The largest center of Biodiversity, diversity is New Guinea, with about 75 species. Lesser centres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, and southeast of the Arabian Sea; it is separated from the Indian subcontinent by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait. Sri Lanka shares a maritime border with India and Maldives. Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is its legislative capital, and Colombo is its largest city and financial centre. Sri Lanka has a population of around 22 million (2020) and is a multinational state, home to diverse cultures, languages, and ethnicities. The Sinhalese are the majority of the nation's population. The Tamils, who are a large minority group, have also played an influential role in the island's history. Other long established groups include the Moors, the Burghers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hortonia Floribunda
''Hortonia floribunda'' is a species of plant in the Monimiaceae family. It is endemic to Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an .... Culture Known as "වෑවිය - wewiya" in Sinhala. References * https://web.archive.org/web/20140903134959/http://www.pdn.ac.lk/cjsbs/cjsps/text/text31.2.pdf * http://www.clarinsusa.com/en/hortonia_floribunda.html * http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-2853686 Flora of Sri Lanka Monimiaceae {{Laurales-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hortonia Ovalifolia
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Hortonia may refer to: Places United States *Hortonia, Vermont *Hortonia, Wisconsin Plants * ''Hortonia'', a genus including the following species: **'' H. angustifolia'' **'' H. floribunda'' **'' H. ovalifolia'' See also *Horton (other) *Hortonville (other) Hortonville may refer to: *Hortonville, Nova Scotia * Hortonville, Indiana * Hortonville, Massachusetts * Hortonville Historic District, Massachusetts * Hortonville, New Mexico *Hortonville, New York *Hortonville, Vermont *Hortonville, Wisconsin *Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
