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Haemodoraceae
Haemodoraceae is a family of perennial herbaceous flowering plants with 14 genera and 102 known species. It is sometimes known as the "bloodwort family". Primarily a Southern Hemisphere family, they are found in South Africa, Australia and New Guinea, and in the Americas (from SE U.S.A. to tropical South America). Perhaps the best known are the widely cultivated and unusual kangaroo paws from Australia, of the two closely related genera '' Anigozanthos'' and '' Macropidia''. Taxonomy The Haemodoraceae were first described by Robert Brown in 1810, and bear his name as the botanical authority. An alternative name has been Haemodoreae The fourth Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (unchanged from the earlier APG systems of 2009, 2003 and 1998), also recognizes this family and places it in the order Commelinales, in the clade commelinids, in the monocots. The family of the Haemodoraceae then includes about sixteen sub-tropical or tropical genera found in the sout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barberetta
''Barberetta'' is a genus of herbaceous perennial plants in the family Haemodoraceae. It contains only one known species, ''Barberetta aurea''. Description ''Barberetta aurea'' grows to up to high from a tuberous rootstock and develops about 3 leaves that are arranged like a fan, flattened sideways and so creating a left and right surface rather than an upper and lower surface. The leaves lack a leafstalk, are lance-shaped in outline, hairless, up to long and wide at midlength, narrowing gradually to the foot and the tip, and have five distinct vertical ribs and several finer ribs in between. The stem is weak, long, with some hairs towards the top, and carries its many flowers in a simple raceme, of long. The stalks of the individual flower are inclined upwards, the lower flower stalks are long. Wrapped around the foot of each flower stalk is a persistent lance-shaped bract of up to long. The star-symmetric perianth consists of six tepals of about long and wide, that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schiekia
''Schiekia'' is a genus of herbs in the family Haemodoraceae, first described as a genus in 1957. It contains only one recognized species, ''Schiekia orinocensis'', native to South America (Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana French Guiana ( or ; french: link=no, Guyane ; gcr, label=French Guianese Creole, Lagwiyann ) is an overseas department/region and single territorial collectivity of France on the northern Atlantic coast of South America in the Guianas. ...). This plant grasped the minds of many scientists who tried fruitlessly to discover its purpose in the natural order. ; Subspecies * ''Schiekia orinocensis'' subsp. ''orinocensis'' - Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname * ''Schiekia orinocensis'' subsp. ''silvestris'' Maas & Stoel - N Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana Phylogeny Comparison of homologous DNA has increased the insight in the phylogenetic relationships between ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dilatris
''Dilatris'' is a genus of four species of evergreen perennial herbaceous plants of up to high, that are assigned to the bloodroot family. The plants have hairless, line- to lance-shaped leaves set in a fan that emerges from a red or orange coloured rootstock. The mauve or dirty yellow flowers have six free tepals that have some gland dots near their tips. One stamen is short, upright, with a large, yellow anther, the other two are longer, spreading, with smaller scarlet anthers. The style is diverted from the centre opposite both longer stamens. The species only occur in the Western Cape and Northern Cape provinces of South Africa. Description The species of ''Dilatris'' are evergreen, perennial herbaceous plants with a short underground rootstock that is bright red or orange inside. From the rootstock emerge several hairless, line- to oblong lance-shaped leaves that are laterally flattened resulting in a right and left surface rather than an upper and lower surface. The infl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Commelinales
Commelinales is an order of flowering plants. It comprises five families: Commelinaceae, Haemodoraceae, Hanguanaceae, Philydraceae, and Pontederiaceae. All the families combined contain over 885 species in about 70 genera; the majority of species are in the Commelinaceae. Plants in the order share a number of synapomorphies that tie them together, such as a lack of mycorrhizal associations and tapetal raphides. Estimates differ as to when the Commelinales evolved, but most suggest an origin and diversification sometime during the mid- to late Cretaceous. Depending on the methods used, studies suggest a range of origin between 123 and 73 million years, with diversification occurring within the group 110 to 66 million years ago. The order's closest relatives are in the Zingiberales, which includes ginger, bananas, cardamom, and others.Stevens, P. F. (2001 onwards). Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 9, November 2011. Taxonomy According to the most recent classification sch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lachnanthes
''Lachnanthes'' is a genus of monocotyledonous plants in the bloodwort family containing only one species, i.e., ''Lachnanthes caroliniana'', commonly known as Carolina redroot or bloodroot. The plant is native to eastern North America, from southeastern Nova Scotia (especially the Molega Lake area) and Massachusetts in the north, south to Florida and Cuba, and west along the Gulf of Mexico to Louisiana. It has also been reported from an island in the western Caribbean off the coast of Honduras. It prefers wet, acidic, usually sandy soils, restricting it to various wetland habitats such as bogs, pinelands, hammocks and pocosins, among others. The plant's common name is based on its red roots and rhizomes. Its flowers, consisting of six pale yellow tepals, emerge from mid to late summer. The plant is sometimes a significant weed in commercial cranberry Cranberries are a group of evergreen dwarf shrubs or trailing vines in the subgenus ''Oxycoccus'' of the genus '' Vaccin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blancoa
''Blancoa'' is a monotypic genus of perennial herbs in the family Haemodoraceae; the single species is ''Blancoa canescens'', commonly known as the winter bell. It is endemic to the southwestern corner of Western Australia. It has nodding red to pink flowers, a clumping habit and grows to be 10 to 40 cm in height. The genus is named in honour of Francisco Manuel Blanco, a Spanish friar and botanist who compiled the first comprehensive flora of the Philippines. Description The winter bell is a clump-forming perennial herb with a rhizomatous rootstock. It sprouts tufts of linear leaves long by wide with entire margins and prominent parallel veins, which are covered with silky hairs when young. The pink or red, nodding flowers are about long, with yellowish interiors, and grow in pairs in a few-flowered spike. The plant flowers between May and September, in the wet season. The outside of the tubular flowers are covered with fine rusty-red hairs while the inside is hairless. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conostylis
''Conostylis'' is a genus of perennial herbs in the Haemodoraceae family, commonly known as cone flowers. All species are endemic to the south west of Western Australia. Taxonomy The genus is the most speciose of the Haemodoraceae family, and one of six genera which only occur in the Southwest Australia bioregion; they are closely related to the well known kangaroo paws, species of '' Anigozanthos'' and '' Macropidia''. ''Conostylis'' was described by Robert Brown, published in his ''Prodromus'' of Australian flora in 1810. No type species was provided by the author. The genus name ''Conostylis'' is derived from Ancient Greek terms for 'cone' and 'column, style', a reference to the conical shape of the style's tip. Description They have leathery, strap-like leaves which arise from the base of the plant, sometimes from underground rhizomes. Flowers which usually occur in clusters (sometimes singly) on stalks which emerge from the bases of the leaves. Individual flowers have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pyrrorhiza
''Pyrrorhiza'' is a genus of herbs in the family Haemodoraceae, first described as a genus in 1957. It contains only one known species, ''Pyrrorhiza neblinae'', endemic to the Sierra de la Neblina in Amazonas State, Venezuela Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ....Hokche, O., Berry, P.E. & Huber, O. (eds.) (2008). Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela: 1-859. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela. References Haemodoraceae Monotypic Commelinales genera Endemic flora of Venezuela {{Commelinales-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phlebocarya
''Phlebocarya'' is a genus of herbs in the family Haemodoraceae Haemodoraceae is a family of perennial herbaceous flowering plants with 14 genera and 102 known species. It is sometimes known as the "bloodwort family". Primarily a Southern Hemisphere family, they are found in South Africa, Australia and New ..., first described as a genus in 1810. The entire genus is endemic to the southwestern part of Western Australia. ; Species * '' Phlebocarya ciliata'' R.Br. * '' Phlebocarya filifolia'' (F.Muell.) Benth. * '' Phlebocarya pilosissima'' (F.Muell.) Benth. References Haemodoraceae Commelinales genera Endemic flora of Australia Flora of Western Australia {{Commelinales-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haemodorum
''Haemodorum'' is a genus of herbs in the family Haemodoraceae, first described as a genus in 1798 by James Edward Smiith.Smith, James Edward. 1798. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 4: 213-214 in LatinTropicos, Haemodorum Sm. /ref> The genus is native to and Australia. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anigozanthos Flavidus
''Anigozanthos flavidus'' is a species of plant found in Southwest Australia. It is member of the Haemodoraceae family. It is commonly known as the tall, yellow, or evergreen, kangaroo paw. The specific epithet, ''flavidus'', refers to the yellow flowers of this plant. A member of the genus '' Anigozanthos'' (kangaroo- and cats-paws) that has an evergreen clump of strap-like leaves, up to 1 metre long and 0.2 m wide, growing from an underground rhizome around 0.5 m in diameter. The rhizome allows the species to regenerate after drought or fire. Each plant may produce over 350 flowers, on up to 10 long stems, these appear during the summer of the region. Pollen is distributed by birds as they plunge into the flowers to reach the nectaries. Flowers are frequently yellow and green, but may present in shades of red, pink, orange, or brown. It is found along roadsides, along creeks, and in forests and swamps, and other unshaded winterwet habitat. The species occurs in a range from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tribonanthes
''Tribonanthes'' a genus of Australian plants endemic to Western AustraliaAustralasian Virtual Herbarium: Occurrence data for the genus ''Tribonanthes''. Retrieved 25 October 2018. in the bloodwort family, . It includes the species: *'' Tribonanthes australis'' Endl. (The type species of the genus) *'' Tribonanthes brachypetala'' Lindl. *'' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
