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Muehlbergella
''Muehlbergella'' is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Campanulaceae. It contains a single species, ''Muehlbergella oweriniana''. It is critically endangered Distribution The species is endemic to an area of ~40 km2 in Dagestan, North Caucasus, where it grows between cracks and calcareous rocky ground. Taxonomy The genus and species were both described by Heinrich Feer Heinrich may refer to: People * Heinrich (given name), a given name (including a list of people with the name) * Heinrich (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) *Hetty (given name), a given name (including a list of peo ... and published in ''Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie'' Vol.12 (Issue 5) on pages 615–616 in 1890. The genus name of ''Muehlbergella'' is in honour of Friedrich Mühlberg (1840–1915), a Swiss geologist. The Latin specific epithet of ''oweriniana'' refers to the original collector, Alexande ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Mühlberg
Friedrich (Fritz) Christoph Mühlberg (19 April 1840 in Aarau – 25 May 1915) was a Swiss geologist. Life Mühlberg went to school in Aarau from 1859 and studied botany, geology and chemistry at the Polytechnic School in Zurich and got his diploma in Chemistry in 1861. After he was a teacher at the cantonal school in Zug and, from 1866, in Aarau, where he was also teacher of Albert Einstein. In 1886, he married Emilie Sophie Sutermeister (1858-1922), a daughter of Ernestine Moehrlen and Otto Sutermeister. Mühlberg mapped the eastern Jura and recognized that the Folded Jura was pushed up to the Table Jura. In 1888 he received an honorary degree of the University of Basel. He also dealt with hydrogeology and the geology of the Quaternary (ice ages), and was a defender of nature conservation. His son was the geologist Max Mühlberg, his daughter Lily Mühlberg was a physician. In 1890,he was honoured by botanist Feer who published a monotypic genus of flowering pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Campanulaceae
The family Campanulaceae (also bellflower family), of the order Asterales, contains nearly 2400 species in 84 genera of herbaceous plants, shrubs, and rarely small trees, often with milky sap. Among them are several familiar garden plants belonging to the genera '' Campanula'' (bellflower), ''Lobelia'', and ''Platycodon'' (balloonflower). ''Campanula rapunculus'' (rampion or r. bellflower) and ''Codonopsis lanceolata'' are eaten as vegetables. ''Lobelia inflata'' (indian tobacco), '' L. siphilitica'' and '' L. tupa'' (devil's tobacco) and others have been used as medicinal plants. ''Campanula rapunculoides'' (creeping bellflower) may be a troublesome weed, particularly in gardens, while ''Legousia'' spp. may occur in arable fields. Most current classifications include the segregate family Lobeliaceae in Campanulaceae as subfamily Lobelioideae. A third subfamily, Cyphioideae, includes the genus ''Cyphia'', and sometimes also the genera ''Cyphocarpus'', ''Nemacladus'', ''Parishell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Critically Endangered Plants
As of September 2016, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists 2493 critically endangered plant species, including 145 which are tagged as ''possibly extinct'' or ''possibly extinct in the wild''. 11% of all evaluated plant species are listed as critically endangered. The IUCN also lists 89 subspecies and 70 varieties as critically endangered. Additionally 1674 plant species (7.6% of those evaluated) are listed as ''data deficient'', meaning there is insufficient information for a full assessment of conservation status. As these species typically have small distributions and/or populations, they are intrinsically likely to be threatened, according to the IUCN. While the category of ''data deficient'' indicates that no assessment of extinction risk has been made for the taxa, the IUCN notes that it may be appropriate to give them "the same degree of attention as threatened taxa, at least until their status can be assessed." This is a complete list of cri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
