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Ancylobothrys Pumila
''Ancylobothrys'' (sometimes spelled ''Ancylobotrys'') is a genus of plant in the family Apocynaceae found in tropical and southern Africa. , Plants of the World Online accepted the following species: * '' Ancylobothrys amoena'' Hua – W + C + E Africa * '' Ancylobothrys capensis'' ( Oliv.) Pichon – Botswana, South Africa * '' Ancylobothrys petersiana'' (Klotzsch) Pierre – E + C + S Africa, Comoros, Madagascar; naturalized in Mauritius * '' Ancylobothrys pumila'' K.Balkwill & R.A.Reddy – KwaZulu-Natal * ''Ancylobothrys pyriformis ''Ancylobothrys'' (sometimes spelled ''Ancylobotrys'') is a genus of plant in the family Apocynaceae found in tropical and southern Africa. , Plants of the World Online accepted the following species: * '' Ancylobothrys amoena'' Hua – W + C + ...'' Pierre – C Africa * '' Ancylobothrys robusta'' Pierre – C Africa * '' Ancylobothrys scandens'' ( Schumach. & Thonn.) Pichon – W + C Africa * '' Ancylobothrys tayloris'' ( Stapf) Pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Baptiste Louis Pierre
Jean Baptiste Louis Pierre (23 October 1833 – 30 October 1905), also known as J. B. Louis Pierre, was a French Botany, botanist known for his Asian studies. Early life Pierre was born in Saint-André, Réunion, Saint-André, Réunion, and studied in Paris before working in the botanical gardens of Calcutta, India. Career In 1864 he founded the Saigon Zoo and Botanical Gardens, which he directed until 1877. Afterward, he returned to Paris and lived at 63 rue Monge, near the Paris Herbarium. In 1883, he moved to Charenton, then to Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, then (circa 1893) to Saint-Mandé. Finally, he settled at 18 rue Cuvier in Paris, where he resided until his death. Pierre made many scientific explorations in tropical Asia. His publications include the ''Flore forestière de la Cochinchine'' (1880-1907), an article "Sur les plantes à caoutchouc de l'Indochine" (''Revue des cultures coloniales'', 1903) and the section on Sapotaceae in the ''Notes botaniques'' (1890-18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Balkwill
Kevin is the anglicized form of the Irish masculine given name (; ; ; Latinized as ). It is composed of "dear; noble"; Old Irish and ("birth"; Old Irish ). The variant ''Kevan'' is anglicised from , an Irish diminutive form.''A Dictionary of First Names''. Oxford University Press (2007) s.v. "Kevin". The feminine version of the name is (anglicised as ''Keeva'' or ''Kweeva''). History Saint Kevin (d. 618) founded Glendalough abbey in the Kingdom of Leinster in 6th-century Ireland. Canonized in 1903, he is one of the patron saints of the Archdiocese of Dublin. Caomhán of Inisheer, the patron saint of Inisheer, Aran Islands, is properly anglicized ''Cavan'' or ''Kevan'', but often also referred to as "Kevin". The name was rarely given before the 20th century. In Ireland an early bearer of the anglicised name was Kevin Izod O'Doherty (1823–1905) a Young Irelander and politician; it gained popularity from the Gaelic revival of the late nineteenth century, with Kevin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Stapf (botanist)
Otto Stapf FRS (23 April 1857 – 3 August 1933) was an Austrian born botanist and taxonomist, the son of Joseph Stapf, who worked in the Hallstatt salt-mines. He grew up in Hallstatt and later published about the archaeological plant remains from the Late Bronze- and Iron Age mines that had been uncovered by his father. Stapf studied botany in Vienna under Julius Wiesner, where he received his PhD with a dissertation on cristals and cristalloids in plants. 1882 he became assistant professor (''Assistent'') of Anton Kerner. In 1887 he was made ''Privatdozent'' (lecturer without a chair) in Vienna. He published the results of an expedition Jakob Eduard Polak, the personal physician of Nasr al-Din, the Shah of Persia, had conducted in 1882, and plants collected by Felix von Luschan in Lycia and Mesopotamia 1881–1883. In 1885, Polak sponsored Stapf to conduct a botanical expedition of his own to South- and Western Persia, which was to last nine month. This led to the disco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ancylobothrys Tayloris
''Ancylobothrys'' (sometimes spelled ''Ancylobotrys'') is a genus of plant in the family Apocynaceae found in tropical and southern Africa. , Plants of the World Online accepted the following species: * '' Ancylobothrys amoena'' Hua – W + C + E Africa * '' Ancylobothrys capensis'' ( Oliv.) Pichon – Botswana, South Africa * '' Ancylobothrys petersiana'' (Klotzsch) Pierre – E + C + S Africa, Comoros, Madagascar; naturalized in Mauritius * ''Ancylobothrys pumila'' K.Balkwill & R.A.Reddy – KwaZulu-Natal * ''Ancylobothrys pyriformis ''Ancylobothrys'' (sometimes spelled ''Ancylobotrys'') is a genus of plant in the family Apocynaceae found in tropical and southern Africa. , Plants of the World Online accepted the following species: * '' Ancylobothrys amoena'' Hua – W + C + ...'' Pierre – C Africa * '' Ancylobothrys robusta'' Pierre – C Africa * '' Ancylobothrys scandens'' ( Schumach. & Thonn.) Pichon – W + C Africa * '' Ancylobothrys tayloris'' ( Stapf) Pic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Thonning
Peter Thonning (9 October 1775 – 29 January 1848) was a Danish physician and botanist. Biography Peter Thonning was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was the son of Rasmus Andersen Thonning (1740-1817) and Dorothea Spendrup (1755-1835). He became a student in 1794 and studied medicine at the Metropolitanskolen. He was sent to Ghana by the Danish government mainly to study the conditions of plants, especially indigenous plants. He lived there from 1799 to 1803. Thonning had begun systematizing his botanical collections but his herbarium was destroyed during the Battle of Copenhagen (1807), shelling of Copenhagen by the British in 1807. Only the duplicates and manuscripts in the possession of Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher (1757–1830) survived. Today, around 1,050 samples are preserved at the University of Copenhagen Botanical Garden. Thonning tutored Ferdinand, Hereditary Prince of Denmark (1792–1863) from 1804 to 1810. He served as secretary of the General ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher
Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher (15 November 1757 in Glückstadt, Holstein – 9 December 1830) was a Denmark, Danish surgeon, botanist and professor of anatomy at the University of Copenhagen. Schumacher carried out significant research work in malacology, in other words on molluscs, and described several taxon, taxa. Life Early years (1757-1778) He was born to Joachim Christian Schumacher, a sergeant in the infantry of the Duchy of Schleswig, and his wife, Caroline Magdalene in Glückstadt in present-day Germany. In spite of his family's limited means, he received a good upbringing, and was sent to grammar school in Rendsburg. After confirmation became the apprentice of the regiment surgeon, Mehl, a learned and skilled man, who gave his eager student a thorough introduction to both medicine and botany, thereby waking Schumacher's natural gift for science. By 1773, at the age of 16, his keen efforts got him appointed as a military surgeon with his father's battalion in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ancylobothrys Scandens
''Ancylobothrys'' (sometimes spelled ''Ancylobotrys'') is a genus of plant in the family Apocynaceae found in tropical and southern Africa. , Plants of the World Online accepted the following species: * '' Ancylobothrys amoena'' Hua – W + C + E Africa * '' Ancylobothrys capensis'' ( Oliv.) Pichon – Botswana, South Africa * '' Ancylobothrys petersiana'' (Klotzsch) Pierre – E + C + S Africa, Comoros, Madagascar; naturalized in Mauritius * ''Ancylobothrys pumila'' K.Balkwill & R.A.Reddy – KwaZulu-Natal * ''Ancylobothrys pyriformis'' Pierre – C Africa * '' Ancylobothrys robusta'' Pierre – C Africa * '' Ancylobothrys scandens'' ( Schumach. & Thonn.) Pichon – W + C Africa * ''Ancylobothrys tayloris ''Ancylobothrys'' (sometimes spelled ''Ancylobotrys'') is a genus of plant in the family Apocynaceae found in tropical and southern Africa. , Plants of the World Online accepted the following species: * '' Ancylobothrys amoena'' Hua – W + C + ...'' ( Stapf) Pich ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apocynaceae
Apocynaceae (, from '' Apocynum'', Greek for "dog-away") is a family of flowering plants that includes trees, shrubs, herbs, stem succulents, and vines, commonly known as the dogbane family, because some taxa were used as dog poison. Notable members of the family include oleander, dogbanes, milkweeds, and periwinkles. The family is native to the European, Asian, African, Australian, and American tropics or subtropics, with some temperate members as well. The former family Asclepiadaceae (now known as Asclepiadoideae) is considered a subfamily of Apocynaceae and contains 348 genera. A list of Apocynaceae genera may be found here. Many species are tall trees found in tropical forests, but some grow in tropical dry ( xeric) environments. Also perennial herbs from temperate zones occur. Many of these plants have milky latex, and many species are poisonous if ingested, the family being rich in genera containing alkaloids and cardiac glycosides, those containing the latter oft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Friedrich Klotzsch
Johann Friedrich Klotzsch (9 June 1805 – 5 November 1860) was a German pharmacist and botanist. His principal work was in the field of mycology, with the study and description of many species of mushroom. Klotzsch was born in Wittenberg. Originally trained as a pharmacist, he later enrolled in pharmaceutical and botanical studies in Berlin. In 1830–32 he was curator of William Jackson Hooker's herbarium at the University of Glasgow. Beginning in 1834 he collected plants in Saxony, Bohemia, Austria, Styria and possibly Hungary. In 1838 he replaced Adelbert von Chamisso (1781–1838) as curator and director of the Royal Herbarium in Berlin. The plant genus '' Klotzschia'' from the family Apiaceae, and some plant species like '' Eugenia klotzschiana'' or '' Acianthera klotzschiana'' are named in his honour. Selected works *''Mykologische Berichtigungen zu der nachgelassenen Sowerbyschen Sammlung, so wie zu den wenigen in Linneschen Herbarium vorhandenen Pilzen nebst Aufstellun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
