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Blastobasis Kenya
''Blastobasis kenya'' is a moth in the family Blastobasidae. It is found in Kenya. The habitat consists of coastal lowlands, eastern middle elevations, and the western highlands. The length of the forewings is 6–9.2 mm. Food The larvae feed on a wide range of plants, including: * ''Adenia'' * ''Calophyllum inophyllum'' * ''Cola minor'' * ''Deinbollia borbonica'' * ''Diospyros kabuyeana'' * ''Diphasia'' * ''Donella viridifolia'' * ''Dovyalis macrocalyx'' * ''Dracaena mannii'' * ''Flacourtia indica'' * ''Hirtella zanzibarica, Hirtella zanzibarica zanzibarica'' * ''Inhambanella henriquesii'' * ''Landolphia'' * ''Lecaniodiscus fraxinifolius, Lecaniodiscus fraxinifolius scassellatii'' * ''Lepisanthes senegalensis'' * ''Ludia mauritiana'' * ''Manilkara sansibarensis'' * ''Mimusops aedificatoria'' * ''Olea woodiana, Olea woodiana disjuncta'' * ''Oxyanthus goetzei, Oxyanthus goetzei keniensis'' * ''Rourea minor'' * ''Saba comorensis'' * ''Salacia elegans'' * ''Strychnos madagas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Adamski
David Adamski is an American entomologist working as a research associate at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History and a support scientist in the Systematic Entomology Laboratory (SEL), United States Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C. He obtained a PhD degree from the Mississippi State University, Department of Entomology in 1987 after defending a dissertation, titled "The Morphology and evolution of North American Blastobasidae (Lepidoptera:Gelechioidea)". His research interests focus on alpha taxonomy, life histories and morphology of moths. Over the years, Adamski produced more than 80 scholarly publications, some in collaboration, shedding light on discernible groups of Lepidoptera including Gelechioidea, Tortricoidea, Pyralidoidea, and Noctuoidea. He studied divergent taxa within the Auchenorrhyncha and Sternorrhyncha, and Phytophagous Acari, as well as Gelechioidea and Blastobasidae The Blastobasidae are a family of moths in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lecaniodiscus Fraxinifolius
''Lecaniodiscus'' is a genus of plants in the family Sapindaceae The Sapindaceae are a family of flowering plants in the order Sapindales known as the soapberry family. It contains 138 genera and 1858 accepted species. Examples include horse chestnut, maples, ackee and lychee. The Sapindaceae occur in temp .... It contains three species native to tropical Africa: References Sapindaceae genera Afrotropical realm flora Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{sapindales-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trichilia Emetica
''Trichilia emetica'' is a tree in the family Meliaceae, commonly known as the Natal mahogany. It is an evergreen tree, with handsome glossy dark green leaves and a wide spreading crown. Its sweet-scented flowers attract bees and birds. Subspecies ''Trichilia emetica'' has two subspecies, ''emetica'' and ''suberosa''. ''T. emetica'' ssp. ''emetica'' is restricted to southern Africa, while ''suberosa'' occur northwards of the Zambezi River. Distribution These trees are found in riverine vegetation and open woodland from KwaZulu-Natal KwaZulu-Natal (, also referred to as KZN and known as "the garden province") is a province of South Africa that was created in 1994 when the Zulu bantustan of KwaZulu ("Place of the Zulu" in Zulu) and Natal Province were merged. It is locate ... Province of South Africa to Tropical Africa. Description ''Trichilia emetica'' is an evergreen, medium to large tree, up to 25 m high, with separate male and female plants. It has a dense, spread ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toddalia Asiatica
''Zanthoxylum asiaticum'' is a species of plant in the family Rutaceae. Under its synonym ''Toddalia asiatica'', it was the only species in the monotypic genus ''Toddalia'', now included in ''Zanthoxylum''. It is known by the English name orange climber. Description This is a liana with woody, corky, thorny stems that climb on trees, reaching up to 10 m in length. It has shiny green citrus-scented leaves, yellow-green flowers, and orange fruits about half a cm wide that taste like orange peel. The seeds are dispersed by birds and monkeys that eat the fruits. In particular, the scaly-breasted munia prefers to nest in these trees. Distribution It is native to many countries in Africa and Asia. Examples include South Africa where in Afrikaans it is called ''ranklemoentjie'', and in Venda, ''gwambadzi''. It is very popular among the Kikuyus of Central Kenya, where it is known as ''mururue'', Mauritius, where it is known as patte poule or properly .Kamau, Loice Njeri and Peter Mathi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terminalia Catappa
''Terminalia catappa'' is a large tropical tree in the leadwood tree family, Combretaceae, native to Asia, Australia, the Pacific, Madagascar and Seychelles. Common names in English include country almond, Indian almond, Malabar almond, sea almond, tropical almond, beach almond and false kamani. Description The tree grows to tall, with an upright, symmetrical crown and horizontal branches. The fruit are corky and light, and dispersed by water. As the tree gets older, its crown becomes more flattened to form a spreading, vase shape. Its branches are distinctively arranged in tiers. The leaves are large, long and broad, ovoid, glossy dark green, and leathery. They are dry-season deciduous; before falling, they turn pinkish-reddish or yellow-brown, due to pigments such as violaxanthin, lutein, and zeaxanthin. The trees are monoecious, with distinct male and female flowers on the same tree. Both are in diameter, white to greenish, inconspicuous with no petals; they are produced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strychnos Madagascariensis
''Strychnos madagascariensis'', the black monkey orange, is an African tropical and sub-tropical tree belonging to the Loganiaceae family. It is a tree with characteristically large fruit but can confused with some other species of the genus. Vernacular names It is also known by various other English names. Among southern African languages it is known (among others) as Umkwakwa (North Ndebele), Morapa or Mookwane (Sepedi), Muhwakwa (Shona), umKhwakhwa (Swati), Nkwakwa or Muquaqua (Tsonga), or Mukwakwa (Venda). In West Africa it is known as Nkankoronin (Bambara). Range It is native to KwaZulu-Natal, Mozambique, Transvaal, and further north to Zimbabwe, Botswana, Malawi, Zambia, Tanzania, Tropical Africa and the western side of Madagascar. Description Usually about 6m tall and often multi-stemmed with a spreading, irregular crown, it occurs in open woodland, rocky places, riverine fringes and coastal forest. Bark mostly pale grey with white and dark grey patches, smooth, occasi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salacia Elegans
In ancient Roman mythology, Salacia ( , ) was the female divinity of the sea, worshipped as the goddess of salt water who presided over the depths of the ocean. Neptune was her consort. That Salacia was the consort of Neptune is implied by Varro, and is positively affirmed by Seneca, Augustine and Servius. She is identified with the Greek goddess Amphitrite, consort of Poseidon. The god Neptune wanted to marry Salacia, but she was in great awe of her distinguished suitor, and to preserve her virginity, with grace and celerity she managed to glide out of his sight, and hid from him in the Atlantic Ocean. The grieving Neptune sent a dolphin to look for her and persuade the fair nymph to return and share his throne. Salacia agreed to marry Neptune and the King of the Deep was so overjoyed at these good tidings that the dolphin was awarded a place in the heavens, where he now forms a well known constellation Delphinus. Salacia is represented as a beautiful nymph, crowned with seaw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saba Comorensis
''Saba comorensis'' is a species of flowering plant in the Apocynaceae family. It is commonly called bungo fruit (pl. mabungo), mbungo, or rubber vine and is widespread across most of tropical Africa as well as in Madagascar and Comoros. It grows in Tanzania and Somalia, for example on the islands of Pemba and Zanzibar in the Indian Ocean. The species belongs to the genus ''Saba'' from the family Apocynaceae. The fruit looks similar to an orange with a hard orange peel but when opened it contains a dozen or so pips, which have the same texture as a mango seed with the fibres and juices all locked in these fibres. The fruit also makes a delicious juice drink which has been described as tasting "somewhere between a mango, an orange and a pineapple" The aromatic juice of the bungo fruit is also popular and highly appreciated on Pemba Island and other parts of coastal Tanzania. Not only in the Tanzanian Mahale Mountains National Park Mahale Mountains National Park lies on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rourea Minor
''Rourea minor'' is a large scandent shrub from the family Connaraceae Connaraceae is a pan-tropical plant family of 19 genera and more than 180 species of largely evergreen trees, woody shrubs and climbers. The family was first described by Robert Brown in 1816 and the name has been conserved. Distribution Connar .... Referred therein by synonym ''Tali minor'' It has been recorded from Africa, tropical Asia and the Pacific. References External links Connaraceae Plants described in 1788 {{Oxalidales-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oxyanthus Goetzei
''Oxyanthus'' is a genus of plant in family Rubiaceae. It contains the following species (but this list may be incomplete): # ''Oxyanthus barensis'' K. Krause Catalogue of Life: 22nd March 2017 # '''' J.E. Burrows & S.M. Burrows, 2010 /ref> () [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olea Woodiana
''Olea woodiana'', known commonly as the forest olive or black ironwood ( Afrikaans: ''Bosolienhout''), is an African tree species belonging to the olive family ( Oleaceae). The tree grows in lower altitude hill forests from Kenya, Tanzania, Eswatini, and South Africa. Description ''Olea woodiana'' is a medium-sized to tall tree. The axillary or terminal inflorescences carry small white flowers that are fragrant. . accessed 2.2.2013 Fruit are produced from late summer. They are oval-shaped and ripen to a purple black colour, when they are consumed by birds. Subspecies There are two recognized |
Mimusops Aedificatoria
''Mimusops'' is a genus of plants in the family Sapotaceae described as a genus by Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, t ... in 1753. ''Mimusops'' is native to tropical and subtropical regions of Asia, Africa, Australia, and various oceanic islands. There are about 57 species. Flora of Pakistan. References Sapotaceae genera[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
