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Anchomanes Giganteus
''Anchomanes'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae. The genus is native to tropical Africa. ''Anchomanes'' is quite similar to species in the genera ''Dracontium'' and ''Amorphophallus ''Amorphophallus'' is a large genus of some 200 tropical and subtropical tuberous herbaceous plants from the arum family (Araceae), native to Asia, Africa, Australia and various oceanic islands. The genus includes the Titan arum (''A. titanum'') ...,'' but there are a few apparent differences. One such difference is that the roots are perennial. Also, the stalks are spiny and the tuberous rhizomes have eyes.Brown, Deni (2000). ''Aroids: Plants of the Arum Family''. Timber Press. . Species #''Anchomanes abbreviatus'' Engl. - Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique #''Anchomanes boehmii'' Engl. - Kigoma region of western Tanzania #''Anchomanes dalzielii'' N.E.Br. - Benin, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Cameroon, Sudan, Zambia, Zimbabwe #''Anchomanes difformis'' (Blume) Engl. - much of tropic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus. :E.g. ''Panthera leo'' (lion) and ''Panthera onca'' (jaguar) are two species within the genus ''Panthera''. ''Panthera'' is a genus within the family Felidae. The composition of a genus is determined by taxonomy (biology), taxonomists. The standards for genus classification are not strictly codified, so different authorities often produce different classifications for genera. There are some general practices used, however, including the idea that a newly defined genus should fulfill these three criteria to be descriptively useful: # monophyly – all descendants of an ancestral taxon are grouped together (i.e. Phylogeneti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Family (biology)
Family (, : ) is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified between order and genus. A family may be divided into subfamilies, which are intermediate ranks between the ranks of family and genus. The official family names are Latin in origin; however, popular names are often used: for example, walnut trees and hickory trees belong to the family Juglandaceae, but that family is commonly referred to as the "walnut family". The delineation of what constitutes a family—or whether a described family should be acknowledged—is established and decided upon by active taxonomists. There are not strict regulations for outlining or acknowledging a family, yet in the realm of plants, these classifications often rely on both the vegetative and reproductive characteristics of plant species. Taxonomists frequently hold varying perspectives on these descriptions, leading to a lack of widespread consensus within the scientific community ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Araceae
The Araceae are a family of monocotyledonous flowering plants in which flowers are borne on a type of inflorescence called a spadix. The spadix is usually accompanied by, and sometimes partially enclosed in, a spathe (or leaf-like bract). Also known as the arum family, members are often colloquially known as aroids. This family of 114 genera and about 3,750 known species is most diverse in the New World tropics, although also distributed in the Old World tropics and northern temperate regions. Description Within the Araceae, species are often rhizomatous or tuberous; many are epiphytic, creeping lianas or vining plants, and the leaves and tissues of the entire plant nearly always contains irritating calcium oxalate crystals or raphides, in varying degrees. The foliage can vary considerably from species to species. The majority of species produce an inflorescence consisting of a spadix (which some compare to a corn cob, in appearance), which is nearly always surrounded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dracontium
''Dracontium'' is a genus of flowering plants similar to those of '' Amorphophallus''. Unlike ''Amorphophallus'' which is found in the Old World, this genus has a New World distribution and is native to South America, Central America, southern Mexico, and the West Indies. ''Dracontium'' species can be distinguished from related genera by their inflorescence, which is smaller and unisexual. The plant has a large ''caudex''like tuber similar to that of '' Amorphophallus'', but rounder, and with no central and circular scar mark. When ''Dracontium'' plants begin to flower, the tuber swells and smoothens.Zhu, G. h. & T. B. Croat. 2004. Revision of ''Dracontium'' (Araceae). Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 91(4): 593–667 Species More than 20 ''Dracontium'' species have been described: * '' Dracontium amazonense'' G.H.Zhu & Croat - Venezuela, Peru, northwestern Brazil * '' Dracontium angustispathum'' G.H.Zhu & Croat - Colombia, Peru * '' Dracontium asperispathum'' G.H.Zhu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amorphophallus
''Amorphophallus'' is a large genus of some 200 tropical and subtropical tuberous herbaceous plants from the arum family (Araceae), native to Asia, Africa, Australia and various oceanic islands. The genus includes the Titan arum (''A. titanum'') of Indonesia, which has the largest inflorescence in the genus, and is known as the 'corpse flower' for the pungent odour it produces during its flowering period, which can take up to seven years of growth before it occurs. A few species are edible as "famine foods" after careful preparation to remove irritating chemicals. History The oldest systematic record of the plants was in 1692, when Van Rheede tot Drakenstein published descriptions of two plants. The name "''Amorphophallus''" was first mentioned in 1834 by the Dutch botanist Blume from Ancient Greek "without form, misshapen" and "penis", referring to the shape of the prominent spadix. Between 1876 and 1911, Engler merged a number of other genera into ''Amorphophallus'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhizome
In botany and dendrology, a rhizome ( ) is a modified subterranean plant stem that sends out roots and Shoot (botany), shoots from its Node (botany), nodes. Rhizomes are also called creeping rootstalks or just rootstalks. Rhizomes develop from axillary buds and grow horizontally. The rhizome also retains the ability to allow new shoots to grow upwards. A rhizome is the main stem of the plant that runs typically underground and horizontally to the soil surface. Rhizomes have nodes and internodes and auxiliary buds. Roots do not have nodes and internodes and have a root cap terminating their ends. In general, rhizomes have short internodes, send out roots from the bottom of the nodes, and generate new upward-growing shoots from the top of the nodes. A stolon is similar to a rhizome, but stolon sprouts from an existing stem having long internodes and generating new shoots at the ends, they are often also called runners such as in the strawberry plant. A stem tuber is a thickene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anchomanes Abbreviatus
''Anchomanes'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae. The genus is native to tropical Africa. ''Anchomanes'' is quite similar to species in the genera ''Dracontium'' and ''Amorphophallus,'' but there are a few apparent differences. One such difference is that the roots are perennial. Also, the stalks are spiny and the tuberous rhizome In botany and dendrology, a rhizome ( ) is a modified subterranean plant stem that sends out roots and Shoot (botany), shoots from its Node (botany), nodes. Rhizomes are also called creeping rootstalks or just rootstalks. Rhizomes develop from ...s have eyes.Brown, Deni (2000). ''Aroids: Plants of the Arum Family''. Timber Press. . Species #'' Anchomanes abbreviatus'' Engl. - Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique #'' Anchomanes boehmii'' Engl. - Kigoma region of western Tanzania #'' Anchomanes dalzielii'' N.E.Br. - Benin, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Cameroon, Sudan, Zambia, Zimbabwe #'' Anchomanes difformis'' (Blume) Engl. - much of tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anchomanes Difformis
''Anchomanes difformis'' is a plant found in much of subsaharan Africa and is a member of the arum family, the Araceae. Description It is a perennial plant with a very large tuberous rhizome up to wide and extending along the surface for several metres, up from which spring a cluster of prickly leaves on stout stalks ( petioles) more than in height, with three major divisions of the blade (lamina) bearing many squared-off leaflets. Emerging from this same rhizome are pink spathes high atop a peduncle up to in height. The rhizome is exceeded in size only by ''Nypa fruticans'' and ''Dendrocalamus ''Dendrocalamus'' is a tropical Asian genus of giant clumping bamboos in the grass family. It is found in the Indian subcontinent, China, and Southeast Asia Southeast Asia is the geographical United Nations geoscheme for Asia#South-eastern ...'' species. References Tubers Aroideae Flora of Africa Plants described in 1837 Taxa named by Carl Ludwig Blume {{ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anchomanes Giganteus
''Anchomanes'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae. The genus is native to tropical Africa. ''Anchomanes'' is quite similar to species in the genera ''Dracontium'' and ''Amorphophallus ''Amorphophallus'' is a large genus of some 200 tropical and subtropical tuberous herbaceous plants from the arum family (Araceae), native to Asia, Africa, Australia and various oceanic islands. The genus includes the Titan arum (''A. titanum'') ...,'' but there are a few apparent differences. One such difference is that the roots are perennial. Also, the stalks are spiny and the tuberous rhizomes have eyes.Brown, Deni (2000). ''Aroids: Plants of the Arum Family''. Timber Press. . Species #''Anchomanes abbreviatus'' Engl. - Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique #''Anchomanes boehmii'' Engl. - Kigoma region of western Tanzania #''Anchomanes dalzielii'' N.E.Br. - Benin, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Cameroon, Sudan, Zambia, Zimbabwe #''Anchomanes difformis'' (Blume) Engl. - much of tropic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
