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Chromolaena Misella
''Chromolaena'' is a genus of about 165 species of perennials and shrubs in the family Asteraceae. The name is derived from the Greek language, Greek words (), meaning "color", and () or () meaning "cloak". It refers to the colored phyllaries of some species. Members of the genus are native to the Americas, from the southern United States to South America (especially Brazil). One species, ''Chromolaena odorata'', has been Introduced species, introduced to many parts of the world where it is considered a weed. The plants of this genus were earlier taxonomically classified under the genus ''Eupatorium'', but are now considered to be more closely related to other genera in the tribe Eupatorieae. Species There are about 165 species, including: * ''Chromolaena bigelovii'' (Asa Gray, A.Gray) Robert Merrill King, R.M.King & Harold E. Robinson, H.Rob. – Bigelow's thoroughwort * ''Chromolaena borinquensis'' (Britt.) R.M.King & H.Rob. – limestone thoroughwort * ''Chromolae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chromolaena Odorata
''Chromolaena odorata'' is also known as Jack in the Bush. It is a tropical and subtropical species of Flowering plant, flowering shrub in the family Asteraceae. It is native to the Americas, from Florida and Texas in the United States south through Mexico and the Caribbean to South America. It has been Introduced species, introduced to tropical Asia, West Africa, and parts of Australia. Common names include Siam weed, rouge plant, Christmas bush, jack in the box, devil weed, common floss flower, hagunoy (Cebuano language), rompe saragüey (Spanish language, Spanish), Abani di egwu or Nsiibilibe (Igbo language), ewé Akíntọ́lá (Yoruba language, Yorùbá) and triffid.Lalith Gunasekera, ''Invasive Plants: A guide to the identification of the most invasive plants of Sri Lanka'', Colombo 2009, p. 116–117. Description ''Chromolaena odorata'' is a rapidly growing perennial herb. It is a multi-stemmed shrub which grows up to 2.5 m (100 inches) tall in open areas. It has s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Merrill King
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' () "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown, godlike" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin.Reaney & Wilson, 1997. ''Dictionary of English Surnames''. Oxford University Press. It is also in use as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe, the name entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto. Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including Eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chromolaena Misella
''Chromolaena'' is a genus of about 165 species of perennials and shrubs in the family Asteraceae. The name is derived from the Greek language, Greek words (), meaning "color", and () or () meaning "cloak". It refers to the colored phyllaries of some species. Members of the genus are native to the Americas, from the southern United States to South America (especially Brazil). One species, ''Chromolaena odorata'', has been Introduced species, introduced to many parts of the world where it is considered a weed. The plants of this genus were earlier taxonomically classified under the genus ''Eupatorium'', but are now considered to be more closely related to other genera in the tribe Eupatorieae. Species There are about 165 species, including: * ''Chromolaena bigelovii'' (Asa Gray, A.Gray) Robert Merrill King, R.M.King & Harold E. Robinson, H.Rob. – Bigelow's thoroughwort * ''Chromolaena borinquensis'' (Britt.) R.M.King & H.Rob. – limestone thoroughwort * ''Chromolae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chromolaena Macrodon
''Chromolaena macrodon'' is a rare Caribbean species of flowering shrub in the family Asteraceae. It is found only the Island of Dominica in the Lesser Antilles.Candolle, Augustin Pyramus de 1836. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 5: 145 in /ref> ''Chromolaena macrodon'' is a shrub lacking hairs on its herbage. It has opposite leaves with distinct petioles but withou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chromolaena Ivifolia
''Chromolaena ivifolia'' called ivy-leaf false thoroughwort, or ivyleaf thoroughwort, is a species of flowering shrub in the family Asteraceae. It is native to North America and South America, from the south-eastern United States (eastern Texas, Louisiana, southern Mississippi, southern Alabama, and Florida) to Argentina.Wood, J. R. I., F. Mamani M., P. Pozo, J. D. Soto & D. Villarroel Segarra. (eds.) 2011. Guía Darwin de las plantas de los cerrados de la Chiquitania 1–212. Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Santa Cruz. ''Chromolaena ivifolia'' is a perennial herb or subshrub up to 150 cm (5 feet) tall. Flower heads are produced in groups at the ends of branches. The heads contain red, purple, or blue disc florets but no ray florets Asteraceae () is a large family of flowering plants that consists of over 32,000 known species in over 1,900 genera within the order Asterales. The number of species in Asteraceae is rivaled only by the Orchidaceae, and which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chromolaena Integrifolia
''Chromolaena integrifolia'' is a Caribbean species of flowering shrub in the family Asteraceae. It is found on the Islands of Dominica, Guadeloupe, La Desirade, Les Saintes, Marie Galante, Montserrat, and St. Kitts in the Lesser Antilles The Lesser Antilles is a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea, forming part of the West Indies in Caribbean, Caribbean region of the Americas. They are distinguished from the larger islands of the Greater Antilles to the west. They form an arc w .... References {{Taxonbar, from=Q15593421 integrifolia Flora of the Leeward Islands Plants described in 1826 Flora without expected TNC conservation status ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chromolaena Impetiolaris
''Chromolaena impetiolaris'' is a rare Caribbean species of flowering shrub in the family Asteraceae. It is endemic to the island of Dominica. ''Chromolaena impetiolaris'' is a shrub lacking hairs on its herbage. It has opposite leaves with no petioles but with numerous small glands on the blades. Flower heads A pseudanthium (; : pseudanthia) is an inflorescence that resembles a flower. The word is sometimes used for other structures that are neither a true flower nor a true inflorescence. Examples of pseudanthia include flower heads, composite flowers ... are displayed in a flat-topped array. References {{Taxonbar, from=Q15593156 impetiolaris Flora of Dominica Plants described in 1861 Taxa named by August Grisebach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chromolaena Hirsuta
''Chromolaena hirsuta'' is a South American species of flowering shrub in the family Asteraceae. It is native to Brazil, Bolivia, Uruguay, and Argentina Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America. It covers an area of , making it the List of South American countries by area, second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourt ....Jørgensen, P. M., M. H. Nee & S. G. Beck. (eds.) 2014. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de Bolivia, Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 127(1–2): i–viii, 1–1744. References External links photo of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, collected in Brazilphoto of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, collected in Argentina {{Taxonbar, from=Q20686219 hirsuta Flora of Southern America Plants described in 1835 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puerto Rico
; abbreviated PR), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, is a Government of Puerto Rico, self-governing Caribbean Geography of Puerto Rico, archipelago and island organized as an Territories of the United States, unincorporated territory of the United States under the designation of Commonwealth (U.S. insular area), commonwealth. Located about southeast of Miami, Miami, Florida between the Dominican Republic in the Greater Antilles and the United States Virgin Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands in the Lesser Antilles, it consists of the eponymous main island and numerous smaller islands, including Vieques, Puerto Rico, Vieques, Culebra, Puerto Rico, Culebra, and Isla de Mona, Mona. With approximately 3.2 million Puerto Ricans, residents, it is divided into Municipalities of Puerto Rico, 78 municipalities, of which the most populous is the Capital city, capital municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico, San Juan, followed by those within the San Juan–Bayamón–Caguas metro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chromolaena Geraniifolia
''Chromolaena geraniifolia'', the geraniumleaf thoroughwort, is a West Indian species of flowering shrub in the family Asteraceae. It is native to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, part of the United States.Urban, Ignatz 1899. Symbolae Antillanae seu Fundamenta Florae Indiae Occidentalis 1: 458 in /ref> ''Chromolaena geraniifolia'' is a shrub up to 150 cm (5 feet) high. It produces ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Lincoln Robinson
Benjamin Lincoln Robinson (November 8, 1864 – July 27, 1935) was an American botanist. Biography Robinson was born on November 8, 1864, in Bloomington, Illinois. In 1887, he received an A.B. from Harvard. He married Margaret Louise Casson on June 29, 1887, and couple traveled to Europe. He studied plant anatomy with H. Solms-Laubach and completed his Dr.phil. at University of Strasbourg in 1889. They returned to the United States in the fall of 1890. Most of his career was Gray Herbarium curator and he died at his summer home in Jaffrey, New Hampshire on July 27, 1935. Career In 1891, Robinson became an assistant to Sereno Watson Sereno Watson (December 1, 1826 – March 9, 1892) was an American botanist. Life Watson was born on December 1, 1826, in East Windsor Hill, Connecticut. Graduating from Yale in 1847 in biology, he drifted through various occupations unt ..., the curator of Gray Herbarium at Harvard University. Upon Watson's death in 1892, Robinson was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chromolaena Frustrata
''Chromolaena frustrata'' called Cape Sable false thoroughwort or Cape Sable thoroughwort, is a rare North American species of flowering shrub in the family Asteraceae. It is found only in southern Florida, on the Florida Keys, inside Everglades National Park, and other nearby low-lying areas. It grows on coastal rock outcrops, the edges of hammocks, and other undisturbed sites at elevations less than 10 meters (33 feet) above sea level. ''Chromolaena frustrata'' is a perennial herb rarely more than 25 cm (10 inches) tall. Flower heads are produced in groups of 2–6. The heads contain blue or lavender disc florets but no ray florets Asteraceae () is a large family of flowering plants that consists of over 32,000 known species in over 1,900 genera within the order Asterales. The number of species in Asteraceae is rivaled only by the Orchidaceae, and which is the larger fa .... References External links photo by Keith BradleyAtlas of Florida Vascular Plants {{Taxonba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
