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Aria (plant)
''Aria'' is a genus of plant in the rose family Rosaceae. It includes some of the deciduous species commonly known as whitebeams, and is native to Europe, the north African mountains and western Asia. Via hybridisation with related genera, it is a main contributor to the genesis of a complex of apomicts of intergeneric hybrid origin, which are also commonly referred to as whitebeams. Description Whitebeams of the genus ''Aria'' are small to medium-sized bushes or trees. The leaves are simple and almost white on the underside. The leaf margins are often serrated. While some species such as common whitebeam ('' Aria edulis'') may grow into sizeable trees of up to height, many species (such as rock whitebeam, '' Aria rupicola'') stay bushy. They bear corymbs of white flowers in spring, and the small, colourful pome fruits ripen in late summer. Whitebeam apomicts Hybridisation events between at least one member of genus ''Aria'' and at least one member of at least one differ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aria Edulis
''Aria edulis'', the whitebeam or common whitebeam, is a species of deciduous tree in the family ''Rosaceae''. The tree often forms new shoots around the trunk. Typically compact and domed, the plant has a few upswept branches and the leaves have an almost-white underside. The plant sexuality, hermaphrodite cream-white flowers appear in May, are insect pollinated, and go on to produce scarlet berries, which are often eaten by birds. It is native to most of Europe as well as North Africa (Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia) and temperate Asia (Eastern Anatolia Region, Eastern Turkey, Armenia, Georgia). It generally favours dry limestone and chalk soils. The cultivars ''A. edulis'' 'Lutescens', with very whitish-green early leaves, and ''A. edulis'' 'Majestica', with large leaves, have both gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. The berries are edible when overripe (Bletting, bletted). File:Weilburg - Tiergarten - Mehlbeere.jpg, Tree References Sorbus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Majovskya
''Majovskya'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Rosaceae. They are shrubs or small trees, they appear to have arisen via hybridization events between the clades ''Aria'' (Pers.) Host and '' Chamaemespilus'' (L.) Crantz. It is native to Europe and found in Austria, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Poland, Spain and Switzerland. ''Majovskya sudetica'' has also be found in Ukraine in 2020. The genus name of ''Majovskya'' is in honour of Jozef Májovský (1920–2012), who was a Slovakian botanist and Professor of Botany in Bratislava. This was due to "the development of the taxonomy of hybridogenous Sorbus taxa in Slovakia". It was first described and published by Alexander Nikolaevitsch Sennikov and Arto Kurtto in Memoranda Soc. Fauna Fl. Fenn. vol.93 on page 63 in 2017. The US Germplasm Resources Information Network calls ''Majovskya'' a synonym of ×''Chamaearia'' , as while the name is legitimate, ''Majovskya'' is incorrect because ''×Chamaearia'' should h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aria Collina
In music, an aria (, ; : , ; ''arias'' in common usage; diminutive form: arietta, ; : ariette; in English simply air) is a self-contained piece for one voice, with or without instrumental or orchestral accompaniment, normally part of a larger work. The typical context for arias is opera, but vocal arias also feature in oratorios and cantatas, or they can be stand-alone concert arias. The term was originally used to refer to any expressive melody, usually, but not always, performed by a singer. Etymology The Italian term ''aria'', which derives from the Greek ἀήρ and Latin ''aer'' (air), first appeared in relation to music in the 14th century when it simply signified a manner or style of singing or playing. By the end of the 16th century, the term 'aria' refers to an instrumental form (cf. Santino Garsi da Parma lute works, ('Aria del Gran Duca'). By the early 16th century, it was in common use as meaning a simple setting of strophic poetry; melodic madrigals, free of compl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aria Arvonicola
''Aria arvonicola'', called the Menai Strait whitebeam or Cerddin Menai, is a whitebeam species in the rose family. It is native to a restricted area along the shore of the Menai Strait in North Wales. The species was first described by Peter Sell in 2014 and has been assessed by the IUCN as critically endangered. Ecology ''Aria arvonicola'' is found preferentially growing in areas with limestone bedrock along the southern shore of Menai Strait most often in open woodland or high woodlands habitats. The native range along the strait is restricted to a wide strip along the shore encompassing no more than . Some individual plants grow along the beach line, with roots exposed to the air or growing down into the beach shingle and immersed in saltwater during high tides. History and classification The earliest record of the species is an herbarium specimen collected by William Hunt Painter in 1879. It was noted as a distinct species by Rich (2010) who listed it as "''Sorbus'' un- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plants Of The World Online
Plants of the World Online (POWO) is an online taxonomic database published by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. History Following the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew launched Plants of the World Online in March 2017 with the goal of creating an exhaustive online database of all seed-bearing plants worldwide. (Govaerts wrongly speaks of "Convention for Botanical Diversity (CBD)). The initial focus was on tropical African flora, particularly flora ''Zambesiaca'', flora of West and East Tropical Africa. Since March 2024, the website has displayed AI-generated predictions of the extinction risk for each plant. Description The database uses the same taxonomical source as the International Plant Names Index, which is the World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP). The database contains information on the world's flora gathered from 250 years of botanical research. It aims to make available data from projects that no longer have an online ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Endemism
Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere. For example, the Cape sugarbird is found exclusively in southwestern South Africa and is therefore said to be ''endemic'' to that particular part of the world. An endemic species can also be referred to as an ''endemism'' or, in scientific literature, as an ''endemite''. Similarly, many species found in the Western ghats of India are examples of endemism. Endemism is an important concept in conservation biology for measuring biodiversity in a particular place and evaluating the risk of extinction for species. Endemism is also of interest in evolutionary biology, because it provides clues about how changes in the environment cause species to undergo range shifts (potentially expanding their range into a larger area or b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
