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Melica Rigida
''Melica rigida'' is a species of Poaceae, grass found in Argentina, Brazil (Santa Catarina (state), Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul), and Uruguay. Description The species is perennial plant, perennial with short rhizomes. It culm (botany), culms are erected and long while the plant stem is smooth. The leaf-sheaths are scabrous, tubular, closed on one end and are glabrousness, glabrous on surface. The leaf-blades are flat, stiff, and are long by wide. They also have scabrous margins and surface, the later one of which is rough. The eciliate membrane have a ligule which is long and have a pubescent surface. The panicle is open, linear, and is long by wide. The main panicle branches are appressed with scaberulous and dominant axis. It spikelets are elliptic, solitary and are long. Fertile spikelets have pedicel (botany), pedicels which are curved filiform, and scabrous. They also have 2 fertile florets which are diminished at the apex with its Rachilla (floral axis), rhach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio José Cavanilles
Antonio José Cavanilles (16 January 1745 – 5 May 1804) was a leading Spanish taxonomic botanist of the 18th century. He named many plants, particularly from Oceania. He named at least 100 genera, about 54 of which were still used in 2004, including ''Dahlia'', '' Calycera'', ''Cobaea'', '' Galphimia'', and ''Oleandra''. Biography Cavanilles was born in Valencia. He lived in Paris from 1777 to 1781, where he followed careers as a clergyman and a botanist, thanks to André Thouin and Antoine Laurent de Jussieu. He was one of the first Spanish scientists to use the classification method invented by Carl Linnaeus. From Paris he moved to Madrid, where he was director of the Royal Botanical Garden and Professor of botany from 1801 to 1804. In 1804, Cavanilles was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia. He died in Madrid in 1804. Selected publications * ''Icones et descriptiones plantarum, quae aut sponte in Hispania crescunt, aut in hortis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
