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Spatholirion Elegans
''Spatholirion'' is a genus of climbing or rosette (botany), rosette monocotyledonous flowering plants in the Commelinaceae, dayflower family. It is distributed from China in the north, south to Thailand, Vietnam, and northern Peninsular Malaysia. It has four to eight seeds per carpel, unlike the closely related ''Streptolirion'', which has only two, and white or purple petals. The inflorescence axis of ''Spatholirion longifolium'' and all of its branches are a bright purple, probably aiding in visual pollinator attraction. The genus was first described in 1896 by Henry Nicholas Ridley, the father of the commercial rubber industry, from plants sent to Kew Gardens from the Malay Peninsula near the border between Thailand and Malaysia. All species have a diploid chromosome number of 20. ; Species * ''Spatholirion calcicola'' K.Larsen & S.S.Larsen - Thailand * ''Spatholirion decumbens'' Fukuoka & N.Kurosaki - Thailand * ''Spatholirion elegans'' (Cherfils) C.Y.Wu - Yunnan, Vietnam * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Nicholas Ridley
Henry Nicholas Ridley CMG (1911), MA (Oxon), FRS, FLS, F.R.H.S. (10 December 1855 – 24 October 1956) was an English botanist, geologist and naturalist who lived much of his life in Singapore. He was instrumental in promoting rubber trees in the Malay Peninsula that led to a level of rapid deforestation, instrumental in the 1926 Great Flood. For the fervour with which he pursued this work he came to be known as "Mad Ridley". Life Henry Ridley was the second son and third child born to Louisa Pole Stuart and Oliver Matthew Ridley in West Harling in Norfolk, where his father was the Rector. At the age of three his mother died and his father moved to Cobham in Kent. He studied at Tonbridge School and then went to Haileybury where his brother Stuart also studied. At Cobham, he had taken to the idea of collecting insects and he continued this at Haileybury where the school encouraged him to publish a "List of the Mammals and Coleoptera of Haileybury". The two brothers left Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |