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Hordeum Capense
''Hordeum capense'' is a species of wild barley ''Hordeum spontaneum'', commonly known as wild barley or spontaneous barley, is the wild form of the grass in the family Poaceae that gave rise to the cereal barley (''Hordeum vulgare''). Domestication is thought to have occurred on two occasion ... native to South Africa and Lesotho. An allotetraploid, it arose from ancestors with the Xa and I ''Hordeum'' genomes. References {{Taxonbar, from=Q12218904 capense Plants described in 1794 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thunb
Carl Peter Thunberg, also known as Karl Peter von Thunberg, Carl Pehr Thunberg, or Carl Per Thunberg (11 November 1743 – 8 August 1828), was a Swedish naturalist and an "apostle" of Carl Linnaeus. After studying under Linnaeus at Uppsala University, he spent seven years travelling in southern Italy and Asia, collecting and describing people and animals new to European science, and observing local cultures. He has been called "the father of South African botany", "pioneer of Occidental Medicine in Japan", and the "Japanese Linnaeus". Early life Thunberg was born and grew up in Jönköping, Sweden. At the age of 18, he entered Uppsala University where he was taught by Carl Linnaeus, regarded as the "father of modern taxonomy". Thunberg graduated in 1767 after 6 years of studying. To deepen his knowledge in botany, medicine and natural history, he was encouraged by Linnaeus in 1770 to travel to Paris and Amsterdam. In Amsterdam and Leiden Thunberg met the Dutch botanist and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hordeum
''Hordeum'' is a genus of annual and perennial plants in the grass family. The species are native throughout the temperate regions of Africa, Eurasia, and the Americas. Taxonomy Species Species include: * '' Hordeum aegiceras'' – Mongolia, China including Tibet * '' Hordeum arizonicum'' US (CA AZ NV NM), Mexico (Baja California, Sonora, Durango) * '' Hordeum bogdanii'' – from Turkey and European Russia to Mongolia * '' Hordeum brachyantherum'' – Russia (Kuril, Kamchatka), Alaska, Canada including Yukon, US (mostly in the West but also scattered locales in the East), Baja California * '' Hordeum brachyatherum'' – Chile * '' Hordeum brevisubulatum'' – European Russia; temperate and subarctic Asia from Turkey and the Urals to China and Magadan * '' Hordeum bulbosum'' – Mediterranean, Central Asia * '' Hordeum californicum'' – US (CA; OR; NV) * '' Hordeum capense'' – South Africa, Lesotho * '' Hordeum chilense'' – Argentina, Chile (including Juan Fernández ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
