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Anisoptera (plant)
''Anisoptera''Korthals PW (1841) In: ''Verhandelingen over de Natuurlijke Geschiedenis der Ned. Bezitt., Bot.'' 65 is a genus of plants in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It contains ten species distributed from Chittagong in southeast of Bangladesh to New Guinea. Eight out of the ten species are currently listed on the IUCN Red List. Of these, four species are listed as critically endangered and the other four as endangered. The main threat is habitat loss. Taxonomy The name ''Anisoptera'' is derived from Ancient Greek, Greek ' “unequal” and ' “wing” describing the trees' unequal fruit calyx lobes. Characteristics Its bark is flaky and has vertical cracks. Its wood is pale and yellowish, it makes light hardwood timber. Species Ten species are accepted: * ''Anisoptera aurea'' – Philippines * ''Anisoptera costata'' – Indochina, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and Philippines * ''Anisoptera curtisii'' – Myanmar, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pieter Willem Korthals
Pieter Willem Korthals (September 1, 1807, Amsterdam – March 1892, Haarlem) was a Dutch botanist. Korthals was the official botanist with the Dutch East Indies#Government, Dutch East India Service from 1831 to 1836. Among his many discoveries was the medicinal plant Kratom, Kratom (''Mitragyna speciosa''). Korthals wrote the first monograph on the Nepenthes, tropical pitcher plants, "Over het geslacht Nepenthes, Over het geslacht ''Nepenthes''", published in 1839. Carl Ludwig Blume named the botanical genus ''Korthalsia'' (family Arecaceae) after Korthals, and Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem introduced the genus name ''Korthalsella'' (family Santalaceae) in his honor. Hawaiian Mistletoes (Korthalsella Species) Bulbophyllum korthalsii was named after him. References < ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anisoptera Curtisii
''Anisoptera curtisii'' is a species of flowering plant in the family ''Dipterocarpaceae''. It is found in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Mainland Southeast Asia, Indochinese Peninsula. With a population of almost 66 million, it spa .... References curtisii Critically endangered plants Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxa named by George King (botanist) {{Dipterocarpaceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Sulpiz Kurz
Wilhelm Sulpiz Kurz (5 May 1834 – 15 January 1878) was a German botanist and garden director in Bogor, West Java and Kolkata. He worked in India, Indonesia, Burma, Malaysia and Singapore. Life Kurz was born in Augsburg near Munich, and became a pupil of Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius. He studied botany, mineralogy and chemistry at the University of Munich. Family misfortunes in 1854 led him to abandon studies and move to Holland where he worked as an apothecary. He then joined the Dutch Colonial Army medical service and sailed to Java in September 1856. He moved to Banka in March 1857, and in 1859, he joined an expedition to Bori, Sulawesi (Celebes). In September of the same year, he joined the Botanic Garden at Buitenzoorg where he had access to a large library and worked with botanists. In 1864, he was induced by Thomas Anderson, who was visiting the Dutch colonies to examine cinchona cultivation, to return with him to Calcutta as curator of the herbarium, a post he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Roxburgh
William Roxburgh FRSE FRCPE Linnean Society of London, FLS (3/29 June 1751 – 18 February 1815) was a Scottish people, Scottish surgeon and botanist who worked extensively in India, describing species and working on economic botany. He is known as the founding father of Indian botany. He published numerous works on Indian botany, illustrated by careful drawings made by Indian artists and accompanied by taxonomic descriptions of many plant species. Apart from the numerous species that he named, many species were named in his honour by his collaborators. He was the first to document the existence of the Ganges river dolphin. Early life He was born on 3 June 1751 on the Underwood estate near Craigie, South Ayrshire, Craigie in Ayrshire and christened on 29 June 1751 at the nearby church at Symington, South Ayrshire, Symington. His father may have worked in the Underwood estate or he may have been the illegitimate son of a well-connected family. His early education was at Underwood ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anisoptera Scaphula
''Anisoptera scaphula'' is a species of plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is native to Bangladesh, Peninsular Malaysia, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand. Description ''Anisoptera scaphula'' is a tall tree, reaching a height of and a girth of . The trunk is prominently buttressed. It occurs on almost flat areas, on undulating land and in valleys at elevations between sea level and 700 m, and is shade tolerant in youth. Its timber is used for general light construction. Conservation ''Anisoptera scaphula'' has been assessed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data Book, founded in 1964, is an inventory of the global conservation status and extinction risk of biological .... The species is threatened by logging for timber and conversion of forests for agriculture. In Thailand and Malaysia, the species is not found outside of protected areas. Ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Shaw Ashton
Peter Shaw Ashton (born 27 June 1934) is a British botanist. He is Charles Bullard Professor of Forestry at Harvard University, and director of the Arnold Arboretum there from 1978 to 1987. Born in Boscombe, Bournemouth, England, Ashton received his B.A. in Biology (1956), M.A. in Biology (1960) and Ph.D. Botany (1962) from the University of Cambridge. He has worked for many years on research projects to promote the conservation and sustainable use of tropical forests, and was instrumental in the project by the Center for Tropical Forest Science to formulate a network of Forest Dynamic Plots which are surveyed regularly to sample the health of the forest; he won the Japan Prize for this in 2007. In 1983, Ashton was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (The Academy) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States. It was founded in 1780 during the American Revolution by John Adams, John Hancock ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anisoptera Reticulata
''Anisoptera reticulata'' is a tree in the family Dipterocarpaceae. The specific epithet ''reticulata'' means "netted", referring to the leaf veins. Description ''Anisoptera reticulata'' grows up to tall, with a trunk diameter of up to . It has buttresses. The bark is fissured and flaky. The leathery leaves are elliptic to obovate and measure up to long. The inflorescences measure up to long and bear cream flowers. Distribution and habitat ''Anisoptera reticulata'' is endemic to Borneo. Its habitat is mixed dipterocarp forests, at altitudes to . Conservation ''Anisoptera reticulata'' has been assessed as endangered on the IUCN Red List The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data Book, founded in 1964, is an inventory of the global conservation status and extinction risk of biological .... It is threatened by agricultural plantations and by logging for its timber. The species is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dirk Fok Van Slooten
Dirk Fok van Slooten (1891, Amersfoort, the Netherlands – 1953, Amsterdam, the Netherlands) was a Dutch botanist. He obtained a doctorate from Utrecht University in 1919. In 1948 he became acting director of the Buitenzorg Botanical Gardens (now Bogor Botanical Gardens) in Java. Van Slooten named over 130 plant species, including species such as ''Dipterocarpus borneensis ''Dipterocarpus borneensis'' is a species of tree in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is native to Borneo, Sumatra and Java Java is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the south and the Java Se ...''. The species '' Shorea slootenii'' is named for him. Selected bibliography * ''The Flacourtiaceae of the Dutch East Indies'', 1925 * ''The Dipterocarpaceae of the Dutch East Indies'', 1926 * ''Ridley and the Flora of the Netherlands Indies'', 1935 References 1891 births 1953 deaths 20th-century Dutch botanists Utrecht University alumni People from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anisoptera Megistocarpa
''Anisoptera megistocarpa'' is a species of plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is found in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in Southeast Asia. The country's territory comprises one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet. It is about one degree .... References megistocarpa Critically endangered plants Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Dipterocarpaceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anisoptera Marginata
''Anisoptera marginata'' is a tree in the family Dipterocarpaceae. The Binomial nomenclature, specific epithet ''marginata'' means "bordered", referring to the leaf veins. Description ''Anisoptera marginata'' grows up to tall, with a trunk diameter of up to . It has Buttress root, buttresses. The bark is fissured and flaky. The leaves are Glossary of leaf morphology#oblong, oblong to Glossary of leaf morphology#obovate, obovate and measure up to long. The Glossary of botanical terms#inflorescence, inflorescences measure up to long and bear yellow flowers. Distribution and habitat ''Anisoptera marginata'' is native to Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo. Its habitat is Peat swamp forest, peat swamp and heath forests, to altitudes of . Conservation ''Anisoptera marginata'' has been assessed as Vulnerable species, vulnerable on the IUCN Red List. It is threatened by logging for its timber and by fires. The species is found in some protected areas. References Anisopt ... [...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] |
Anisoptera Laevis
''Anisoptera laevis'' is a tree in the family Dipterocarpaceae. The specific epithet ''laevis'' means "smooth", referring to the leaves. Description ''Anisoptera laevis'' grows as an emergent tree up to tall, with a trunk diameter of up to . It has buttresses up to tall and up to wide. The bark is fissured and flaky. The leaves are oblong to obovate and measure up to long. The inflorescences measure up to long and bear yellow flowers. Distribution and habitat ''Anisoptera laevis'' is native to Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra and Borneo. Its habitat is dipterocarp and hill forests, at altitudes of . Conservation ''Anisoptera laevis'' has been assessed as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data Book, founded in 1964, is an inventory of the global conservation status and extinction risk of biological .... It is threatened b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
