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Anacampserotaceae
The Anacampserotaceae are a family of plants proposed in the February 2010 issue of the journal ''Taxon''. The family was described by Urs Eggli and Reto Nyffeler in their analysis of the polyphyly in the suborder Portulacineae (order Caryophyllales). The new family and its circumscription was based on molecular and morphological data. The three recognized genera - '' Anacampseros'', '' Grahamia'', and '' Talinopsis'' - were formerly placed in the PortulacaceaeNyffeler, R., and U. Eggli. 2010. Disintegrating Portulacaceae: A new familial classification of the suborder Portulacineae (Caryophyllales) based on molecular and morphological data. ''Taxon'', 59(1): 227-240. and comprise a total of 36 known species. This family was accepted in the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group's 2009 publication of the APG III system The APG III system of flowering plant classification is the third version of a modern, mostly molecular-based, system of plant taxonomy being developed by the Angiosperm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Talinopsis
''Talinopsis'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Anacampserotaceae The Anacampserotaceae are a family of plants proposed in the February 2010 issue of the journal ''Taxon''. The family was described by Urs Eggli and Reto Nyffeler in their analysis of the polyphyly in the suborder Portulacineae (order Caryophy .... It has only one currently accepted species, ''Talinopsis frutescens'', native to the US states on New Mexico and Texas, and northeast, central and southwest Mexico. A succulent, it uses C3 carbon fixation. References Monotypic Caryophyllales genera Anacampserotaceae Succulent plants Flora of New Mexico Flora of Texas Flora of Northeastern Mexico Flora of Central Mexico Flora of Southwestern Mexico Plants described in 1852 {{Caryophyllales-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anacampseros Rufescens
''Anacampseros'' L. is a genus comprising about a hundred species of small perennial succulent plants native to Southern Africa, Ethiopia and Latin America. The botanical name ''Anacampseros'' is an ancient one for herbs supposed to restore lost love. The Australian species '' Grahamia australiana'' was at one time included in the genus ''Anacampseros'', but the entire genus now is regarded as Southern African, and no longer includes any Australian representatives. Description Plants in the genus ''Anacampseros'' are perennial. In habit they are small undershrubs or sprawling herbs that may form dense mats. Mature plants of many of the species form a small caudex or a tuberous root-stock. The leaves of most species are succulent and may be either lanceolate in shape or rounded.Dyer, R. Allen, The Genera of Southern African Flowering Plants”. , 1975 The arrangement of leaves on a stem is alternate. The leaves in most species are closely spaced, and in some species they are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grahamia (plant)
''Grahamia'' is a genus of succulent plants in the family Anacampserotaceae which contains six species which show a disjunct distribution, three species being found in northern Argentina, two in Mexico and one in Australia. Distribution and taxonomy Three species '' Grahamia bracteata'', '' Grahamia kurtzii'' and '' Grahamia vulcanensis'' are found in northern Argentina, while '' Grahamia coahuilensis'' occurs in central Mexico and '' Grahamia frutescens'' is found in northern Mexico. '' Grahamia australiana'' is endemic to Australia. The genus ''Grahamia'' is divided into two subgenera, subgenus ''Grahamia'' contains ''G. bracteata'' and ''G, fructesecens'' which are low, scrambling small shrubs with stiff branches and cylindrical, rather smooth leaves; while ''Grahamia'' subgenus ''Talinaria'' are succulent, long-lived herbs with distinct succulent leaves on weak fleshy branches with the leaves aggregated near the branch tips. ''G. australiana'' was previously considered to be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
APG III System
The APG III system of flowering plant classification is the third version of a modern, mostly molecular-based, system of plant taxonomy being developed by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG). Published in 2009, it was superseded in 2016 by a further revision, the APG IV system. Along with the publication outlining the new system, there were two accompanying publications in the same issue of the Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society: * The first, by Chase & Reveal, was a formal phylogenetic classification of all land plants (embryophytes), compatible with the APG III classification. As the APG have chosen to eschew ranks above order, this paper was meant to fit the system into the existing Linnaean hierarchy for those that prefer such a classification. The result was that all land plants were placed in the class Equisetopsida, which was then divided into 16 subclasses and a multitude of superorders. * The second, by Haston ''et al.'', was a linear sequence of families fol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portulacineae
Portulacineae is a suborder of flowering plants in the order Caryophyllales comprising the families Anacampserotaceae, Basellaceae, Cactaceae (cacti), Didiereaceae, Halophytaceae, Montiaceae, Portulacaceae, and Talinaceae. All three major kinds of succulent plant — stem succulents, leaf succulents, and caudiciform plants — are represented within this suborder. Today, there were only four families including: Basellaceae, Cactaceae, Didiereaceae, and Portulacaceae The Portulacaceae are a family of flowering plants, comprising 115 species in a single genus '' Portulaca''. Formerly some 20 genera with about 500 species, were placed there, but it is now restricted to encompass only one genus, the other genera .... References * * Caryophyllales Suborders Taxa named by Adolf Engler Taxa described in 1898 {{caryophyllales-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caryophyllales
Caryophyllales ( ) is a diverse and heterogeneous order of flowering plants with well-known members including cacti, carnations, beets, quinoa, spinach, amaranths, pigfaces and ice plants, oraches and saltbushes, goosefoots, sundews, Venus flytraps, monkey cup pitcher plants, Malabar spinach, bougainvilleas, four o'clock flowers, buckwheat, knotweeds, rhubarb, sorrel, portulacas, jojoba, and tamarisks. Many members are succulent, having fleshy stems or leaves. The betalain pigments are unique in plants of this order and occur in all its core families with the exception of Caryophyllaceae and Molluginaceae. Noncore families, such as Nepenthaceae, instead produce anthocyanins. In its modern definition, the order encompasses a whole new group of families (formerly included in the order Polygonales) that never synthesize betalains, among which several families are carnivorous (like Nepenthaceae and Droseraceae). According to molecular clock calculations, the line ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portulacaceae
The Portulacaceae are a family of flowering plants, comprising 115 species in a single genus '' Portulaca''. Formerly some 20 genera with about 500 species, were placed there, but it is now restricted to encompass only one genus, the other genera being placed elsewhere. The family has been recognised by most taxonomists, and is also known as the purslane family. It has a cosmopolitan distribution, with the highest diversity in semiarid regions of the Southern Hemisphere in Africa, Australia, and South America, but with a few species also extending north into Arctic regions. The family is very similar to the Caryophyllaceae, differing in the calyx, which has only two sepals. The APG II system (2003; unchanged from the APG system of 1998) assigns it to the order Caryophyllales in the clade core eudicots. In the APG III system, several genera were moved to the Montiaceae, Didiereaceae, Anacampserotaceae and Talinaceae, thus making the family monotypic and only containing the genus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urs Eggli
Urs (from ''‘Urs'') or Urus (literal meaning wedding), is the death anniversary of a Sufi saint, usually held at the saint's dargah (shrine or tomb). In most Sufi orders such as Naqshbandiyyah, Suhrawardiyya, Chishtiyya, Qadiriyya, etc. the concept of Urs exists and is celebrated with enthusiasm. The devotees refer to their saints as lovers of God, the beloved. Urs rituals are generally performed by the custodians of the shrine or the existing Shaikh of the silsila. The celebration of Urs ranges from Hamd to Naat and in many cases includes the singing of religious music such as qawwali. The celebration also features food samples, bazaar, and various kinds of shops. The Urs of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti at Dargah Sharif in Ajmer attracts more than 400,000 devotees each year and is regarded as one of the most famous urs festivals around the world. See also * Erwadi * Tirupparankunram * Manamadurai * Pir Mangho Urs * Urs (Ajmer) * Madurai Maqbara * Mela Chiraghan * Beemapa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reto Nyffeler
Reto is a masculine given name, commonly used in Switzerland only. Origin and meaning The name means "coming from / related to Rhaetia, Rhaetian Alps, Rhaetian people or Rhaeto-Romance languages". Notable people *Reto Berra Reto Berra (born 3 January 1987) is a Swiss professional ice hockey goaltender who is currently playing for HC Fribourg-Gottéron of the National League (ice hockey), National League (NL). Berra played seven seasons in Switzerland's National Leag ... - Swiss ice hockey player * Reto Capadrutt - Swiss bobsledder * Reto Götschi - Swiss bobsledder * Reto Grütter - Swiss sidecarcross passenger * Reto Salimbeni - Swiss film-maker * Reto Schenkel - Swiss sprinter * Reto Schmidiger – Swiss alpine ski racer * Reto Stiffler - businessman * Reto Suri - Swiss ice hockey player * Reto Ziegler - Swiss footballer Other uses * Reto-Moto - Danish videogame developer {{given name Swiss masculine given names Masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy". Many of his writings were in Latin; his name is rendered in Latin as and, after his 1761 ennoblement, as . Linnaeus was the son of a curate and was born in Råshult, in the countryside of Småland, southern Sweden. He received most of his higher education at Uppsala University and began giving lectures in botany there in 1730. He lived abroad between 1735 and 1738, where he studied and also published the first edition of his ' in the Netherlands. He then returned to Sweden where he became professor of medicine and botany at Uppsala. In the 1740s, he was sent on several journeys through Sweden to find and classify plants and animals. In the 1750s and 1760s, he co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
