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Pandanus Sphaeroides
''Pandanus sphaeroides'' is a species of plant in the family Pandanaceae, endemic to Mauritius. Description A very variable species depending on habitat. It is usually a low (5-7m), slender, branched tree. The leaves are stiff, ascending, yellow-green and have white or brown leaf spines on the margins and on the apical half of the leaf midrib. Some older leaves can bend and droop down though. The leaves are also reduplicate and have a blunt tip. It has numerous stilt-roots, along the trunk and also along the branches, even as far as the tips. This species is most easily distinguished by its fruit-head, which has pale blue-green drupes that each have a corky tip. Habitat It is Endemism, endemic to Mauritius, and still common in some of the highland wetlands and thickets.Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds. (2018). ''Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Lif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plant
Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclude the fungi and some algae, as well as the prokaryotes (the archaea and bacteria). By one definition, plants form the clade Viridiplantae (Latin name for "green plants") which is sister of the Glaucophyta, and consists of the green algae and Embryophyta (land plants). The latter includes the flowering plants, conifers and other gymnosperms, ferns and their allies, hornworts, liverworts, and mosses. Most plants are multicellular organisms. Green plants obtain most of their energy from sunlight via photosynthesis by primary chloroplasts that are derived from endosymbiosis with cyanobacteria. Their chloroplasts contain chlorophylls a and b, which gives them their green color. Some plants are parasitic or mycotrophic and have lost the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
