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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 surr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lemnoideae
Lemnoideae is a subfamily of flowering aquatic plants, known as duckweeds, water lentils, or water lenses. They float on or just beneath the surface of still or slow-moving bodies of fresh water and wetlands. Also known as bayroot, they arose from within the arum or aroid family (Araceae), so often are classified as the subfamily Lemnoideae within the family Araceae. Other classifications, particularly those created prior to the end of the twentieth century, place them as a separate family, Lemnaceae. These plants have a simple structure, lacking an obvious stem or leaves. The greater part of each plant is a small organized "thallus" or "frond" structure only a few cells thick, often with air pockets (aerenchyma) that allow it to float on or just under the water surface. Depending on the species, each plant may have no root or may have one or more simple rootlets. Reproduction is mostly by asexual budding (vegetative reproduction), which occurs from a meristem enclosed at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xanthosoma Sagittifolium At Kadavoor
''Xanthosoma'' is a genus of flowering plants in the arum family, Araceae. The genus is native to tropical America but widely cultivated and naturalized in other tropical regions. Several are grown for their starchy corms, an important food staple of tropical regions, known variously as ''malanga'', ''otoy'', ''otoe'', cocoyam (or new cocoyam), ''tannia'', ''tannier'', ''yautía'', ''macabo'', ''ocumo'', ''macal'', ''taioba'', ''dasheen'', ''quequisque'', ''ʻape'' and (in Papua New Guinea) as Singapore taro (''taro kongkong''). Many other species, including especially ''Xanthosoma roseum'', are used as ornamental plants; in popular horticultural literature these species may be known as ‘ape due to resemblance to the true Polynesian ʻape, ''Alocasia macrorrhizos'', or as elephant ear from visual resemblance of the leaf to an elephant's ear. Sometimes the latter name is also applied to members in the closely related genera ''Caladium'', ''Colocasia'' (taro), and ''Alocasia''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aroideae
Aroideae is a subfamily of flowering plants in the family Araceae. It is the largest subfamily in Araceae and consists of about 72 different genera, and 2,300 species. Many Aroideae have spiny pollen grains without a sporopollenin outer exine layer and lacking an aperture. Genera Taxonomy May be subdivided into a series of twenty five tribes: * Aglaonemateae * Anubiadeae * Areae * Arisaemateae * Arisareae * Arophyteae * Caladieae * Callopsideae * Colocasieae * Cryptocoryneae * Culcasieae * Homalomeneae * Nephthytideae * Peltandreae * Philodendreae * Philonotieae * Pistieae * Schismatoglottideae * Spathicarpeae * Stylochaetoneae * Thomsonieae * Zantedeschieae ''Zantedeschia'' is a genus of eight species of herbaceous, perennial plant, perennial, flowering plants in the family (biology), family Araceae, native plant, native to southern Africa from South Africa north to Malawi. The genus has been intr ... References * Bown, Deni (2000). ''Aroids: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gymnostachydoideae
''Gymnostachys'' is a monotypic genus, of the monocotyledon plant family Araceae. The sole known species ''Gymnostachys anceps'', commonly named settler's twine or boorgay, grows naturally in rainforests and humid Eucalypt forests of eastern New South Wales and eastern Queensland ) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , established_ ..., Australia. ''Gymnostachys'' is kept to its own subfamily Gymnostachydoideae due to its unique characteristics that include an unusually structured flowering shoot and linear leaves with parallel venation. References *Mayo, S.J., Bogner, J., and Boyce, J.C. (1998) ''The genera of Araceae project'', Acta Botanica Yunnanica. *Bown, Deni (2000). ''Aroids: Plants of the Arum Family LLUSTRATED'. Timber Press. Monotypic Araceae genera Flora of New Sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zamioculcadoideae
Zamioculcadoideae is a subfamily of flowering plants in the family Araceae that consists of two genera, ''Zamioculcas'' and '' Gonatopus''. It was proposed in 2005 by Bogner and Hesse after molecular studies indicated the need for the subfamily. There are also some genetic indications that ''Stylochaeton ''Stylochaeton'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae that is endemic to Africa. ''Stylochaeton'' are rhizomatous with hastate Hastata, a Latin word meaning hastate or spear-shaped, may refer to : * a pointed leaf shape with b ...'' should be included in the subfamily. References * J. Bogner and M. Hesse (2005). ''Zamioculcadoideae, a new subfamily of Araceae''. Aroideana Volume 28. * Lidia I. Cabrera, Gerardo A. Salazar, Mark W. Chase, Simon J. Mayo, Josef Bogner and Patricia Dávila, ''Phylogenetic relationships of aroids and duckweeds (Araceae) inferred from coding and noncoding plastid DNA'', American Journal of Botany, 95:1153-1165 Araceae Alisma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monocotyledon
Monocotyledons (), commonly referred to as monocots, ( Lilianae ''sensu'' Chase & Reveal) are grass and grass-like flowering plants (angiosperms), the seeds of which typically contain only one embryonic leaf, or cotyledon. They constitute one of the major groups into which the flowering plants have traditionally been divided; the rest of the flowering plants have two cotyledons and are classified as dicotyledons, or dicots. Monocotyledons have almost always been recognized as a group, but with various taxonomic ranks and under several different names. The APG III system of 2009 recognises a clade called "monocots" but does not assign it to a taxonomic rank. The monocotyledons include about 60,000 species, about a quarter of all angiosperms. The largest family in this group (and in the flowering plants as a whole) by number of species are the orchids (family Orchidaceae), with more than 20,000 species. About half as many species belong to the true grasses ( Poaceae), which are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leaf
A leaf (plural, : leaves) is any of the principal appendages of a vascular plant plant stem, stem, usually borne laterally aboveground and specialized for photosynthesis. Leaves are collectively called foliage, as in "autumn foliage", while the leaves, stem, flower, and fruit collectively form the shoot system. In most leaves, the primary photosynthesis, photosynthetic tissue is the palisade mesophyll and is located on the upper side of the blade or lamina of the leaf but in some species, including the mature foliage of ''Eucalyptus'', palisade mesophyll is present on both sides and the leaves are said to be isobilateral. Most leaves are flattened and have distinct upper (Glossary of botanical terms#adaxial, adaxial) and lower (Glossary of botanical terms#abaxial, abaxial) surfaces that differ in color, hairiness, the number of stomata (pores that intake and output gases), the amount and structure of epicuticular wax and other features. Leaves are mostly green in color due ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orontioideae
Orontioideae is a subfamily of flowering plants in the family Araceae. The subfamily consists of three genera namely, ''Lysichiton ''Lysichiton'' is a genus in the family Araceae. These plants are known commonly as skunk cabbage or less often as swamp lantern. The spelling ''Lysichitum'' is also found. The genus has two species, one found in north-east Asia ( Japan and Russi ...'' (one to two species of skunk cabbage from North America and Asia), '' Orontium'' (golden club, one living species from eastern North America and two extinct species known from fossils), and '' Symplocarpus'' (several species of skunk cabbage from North America and Asia). Characteristics of Orontioideae include medium sized pollen grains and subterranean stems. Species in the subfamily have a base chromosome number of X=13. References * Mayo, S.J., Bogner, J., and Boyce, J.C. (1998) ''The genera of Araceae project'', Acta Botanica Yunnanica. * Bown, Deni (2000). ''Aroids: Plants of the Arum Family LL ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pothoideae
Pothoideae is a subfamily of flowering plants in the family (biology), family Araceae. The species in the subfamily are true aroids. Tribes and genera The subfamily consists of two tribes: ;Anthurieae # ''Anthurium'' Schott Pothoeae # ''Pothos (plant), Pothos'' L. # ''Pedicellarum'' M.Hotta (monotypic) # ''Pothoidium'' Schott (monotypic) References * Mayo, S.J., Bogner, J., and Boyce, J.C. (1998) ''The genera of Araceae project'', Acta Botanica Yunnanica. * Bown, Deni (2000). ''Aroids: Plants of the Arum Family [ILLUSTRATED]''. Timber Press. {{Taxonbar, from=Q867724 Pothoideae, Alismatales subfamilies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spadix (botany)
In botany, a spadix ( ; plural spadices , ) is a type of inflorescence having small flowers borne on a fleshy stem. Spadices are typical of the family Araceae, the arums or aroids. The spadix is typically surrounded by a leaf-like curved bract known as a spathe. For example, the "flower" of the well known '' Anthurium'' spp. is a typical spadix with a large colorful spathe. CollinsDictionary.com. Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 11th Edition. Retrieved October 18, 2012. In this type of , is thick, long and fleshy, having small sessile |
Lasioideae
Lasioideae is a subfamily of flowering plants in the family Araceae. It contains 10 genera: ''Anaphyllopsis'', ''Anaphyllum'', ''Cyrtosperma'', ''Dracontioides'', ''Dracontium'', ''Lasia'', ''Lasimorpha'', ''Podolasia'', ''Pycnospatha'', and ''Urospatha ''Urospatha'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae that consists of approximately 10 known species. They are found growing in South America and Central America in swamps, wet savannahs, and brackish water. The leaves of the spe ...''. References *Bown, Demi (2000). ''Aroids: Plants of the Arum Family''. Timber Press. . Alismatales subfamilies {{Araceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spathiphyllum Cochlearispathum
''Spathiphyllum cochlearispathum'' is a plant species in the family Araceae. It is native to southern Mexico and often cultivated. When cultivated as a houseplant, ''Spathiphyllum cochlearispathum'' is commonly called peace lily. Taxonomic history The species was originally described by Frederik Michael Liebmann Frederik Michael Liebmann (10 October 1813 – 29 October 1856) was a Danish botanist. Liebmann studied botany at the University of Copenhagen, although he never obtained a formal qualification. He went on study tours of Germany and Norway before b ... in a separate genus ''Hydnostachyon'', which he described as having a concave (spoon-like) spathe ''Spatha foliacea persistens cochleariformis'', from which he formed the species epithet ''cochlearispathum''. The species was moved to the genus ''Spathiphyllum'' by Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler. Image:Spathiphyllum cochlearispathum1.jpg Image:Peace lily -- Spathiphyllum.jpg Image:Peace lily.jpg Image:Peace lily .jpg Car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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