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Cynorkis Angustipetala
''Cynorkis angustipetala'' is an orchid species in the genus '' Cynorkis'' found in Madagascar. Taxonomy and nomenclature ''Cynorkis angustipetala'' was originally described in 1885. However, the name has been applied incorrectly to another species, which is now known as ''C. speciosa''. In 2007, Hermans and Cribb realized that two distinct species were distributed as ''C. uncinata'', which is a synonym of ''C. calanthoides'', and described a new species ''C. guttata''. Subsequently, Hermans and Cribb (2014) realized that ''C. guttata'' actually corresponds to what Ridley described as ''C. angustipetala'', and what we have been calling ''C. angustipetala'' is ''C. speciosa''. They speculated that this confusion was originated from the type specimen folder of ''C. anugustipetala'', which contained a herbarium sheet that had both ''C. angustipetala'' and ''C. speciosa'' in a single sheet as well as another sheet that had ''C. speciosa''. Subsequent researchers looked at the type s ... [...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] |
Cynorkis
''Cynorkis'' is a genus of orchids in the subtribe Orchidinae. Species in this genus are native to mainland Africa, the Comoro Islands, the Mascarene Islands, and Madagascar. Species , Plants of the World Online accepted the following species: *'' Cynorkis aconitiflora'' Hermans, Andriant. & Sieder *'' Cynorkis alborubra'' Schltr. *'' Cynorkis ambondrombensis'' Boiteau *'' Cynorkis ampullacea'' H.Perrier ex Hermans *'' Cynorkis ampullifera'' H.Perrier *'' Cynorkis anacamptoides'' Kraenzl. *'' Cynorkis andohahelensis'' H.Perrier *'' Cynorkis andringitrana'' Schltr. *'' Cynorkis angustipetala'' Ridl. *'' Cynorkis anisoloba'' Summerh. *'' Cynorkis ankaranensis'' Hervouet *'' Cynorkis aphylla'' Schltr. *'' Cynorkis aristei'' (J.-B.Castillon) P.J.Cribb & Hermans *'' Cynorkis aurantiaca'' Ridl. *'' Cynorkis australis'' (Boiteau) Hermans & P.J.Cribb *'' Cynorkis bardotiana'' Bosser *'' Cynorkis baronii'' Rolfe *'' Cynorkis bathiei'' Schltr. *'' Cynorkis betsileensis'' Kraenzl. *'' Cy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johan Hermans
Johan Hermans (born 1956) is a British botanist specialising in orchids, and an Honorary Research Associate of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. An internationally important botanical research and education institution, it employs 1,10 .... His ''The Orchids of Madagascar'', described as "a now classic work", was published in a second edition in 2007. The species '' Gastrodia agnicellus'', which he described in 2020, has been called "the ugliest orchid in the world" and named by Kew as one of the "Top 10 species new to science in 2020". Selected publications * References 1956 births Living people Orchidologists 21st-century British botanists Botanists active in Kew Gardens Botanists active in Africa {{UK-botanist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TROPICOS
Tropicos is an online botanical database containing taxonomic information on plants, mainly from the Neotropical realm ( Central, and South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It can also be described as the southern Subregion#Americas, subregion o ...). It is maintained by the Missouri Botanical Garden and was established in 1982. The database contains images and taxonomical and bibliographical data on more than 4.2 million herbarium specimens. In addition, it contains data on over 49,000 scientific publications. The database can be queried in English, French, and Spanish. The oldest records in the database go back to 1703. Establishment Tropicos was developed by Garden botanist Dr. Robert Magill in the early 1980s, initially on a tiny Osborne 01 microcomputer. He is currently working as Tropicos’ research staff. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antsiranana
Antsiranana ( ), named Diego-Suarez prior to 1975, is a city in the far north of Madagascar. Antsiranana is the capital of Diana Region. It had an estimated population of 115,015 in 2013. History At the beginning of the 16th century, a Portuguese squadron of 13 ships crisscrossed the Indian Ocean; One of these ships went adrift, and its captain, Diogo Dias, was therefore the first European to discover the island on August 10, 1500, which he named Isle of Saint Lawrence. In February 1506, Admiral Fernão Soares recognized the place and so Antomabokala, former capital of Ankarana, acquired its name of Diego Suarez (Diogo Soares, in Portuguese), which comes from the junction of the first name of the captain and the surname of the Admiral. In 1635, the bay was mentioned for the first time under this name by the French pilot Berthelot, author of an oriental map of Africa and Madagascar. In 1824, the bay was explored by the English hydrographer Owen, then in 1833, Captain Bigeault, com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Global Biodiversity Information Facility
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) is an international organisation that focuses on making scientific data on biodiversity available via the Internet using web services. The data are provided by many institutions from around the world; GBIF's information architecture makes these data accessible and searchable through a single portal. Data available through the GBIF portal are primarily distribution data on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes for the world, and scientific names data. The mission of the GBIF is to facilitate free and open access to biodiversity data worldwide to underpin sustainable development. Priorities, with an emphasis on promoting participation and working through partners, include mobilising biodiversity data, developing protocols and standards to ensure scientific integrity and interoperability, building an informatics architecture to allow the interlinking of diverse data types from disparate sources, promoting capacity building and cat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orchideae
Orchideae is a tribe of orchids in the subfamily Orchidoideae. Historically, it was divided into 2 subtribes, Orchidinae and Habenariinae. The subtribe Orchidinae alone contains about 1,800 species. However, although some phylogenetic studies have established the monophyly of the subtribes, the generic boundaries are unclear, with many genera as traditionally circumscribed being paraphyletic or even polyphyletic. Species of genera such as '' Habenaria'' and ''Platanthera'' have been placed into both subtribes. A 2017 molecular phylogenetic study found that both subtribes did form clades, but did not formally recognize Habenariinae, because of missing genera and uncertainty over generic boundaries. The Asian species of Orchideae, in particular, have been subject to repeated changes of generic placement from 2012 onwards. As of 2017, Orchideae is divided into 6 subtribes: Brownleeinae, Pachitinae, Huttonaeinae, Orchidinae, Coryciinae, and Disinae. Subtribes Once divided int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orchids Of Madagascar
Orchids are plants that belong to the family Orchidaceae (), a diverse and widespread group of flowering plants with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant. Orchids are cosmopolitan plants that are found in almost every habitat on Earth except glaciers. The world's richest diversity of orchid genera and species is in the tropics. Orchidaceae is one of the two largest families of flowering plants, the other being the Asteraceae. It contains about 28,000 currently accepted species in 702 genera. The Orchidaceae family encompasses about 6–11% of all species of seed plants. The largest genera are ''Bulbophyllum'' (2,000 species), ''Epidendrum'' (1,500 species), ''Dendrobium'' (1,400 species) and ''Pleurothallis'' (1,000 species). It also includes ''Vanilla'' (the genus of the vanilla plant), the type genus ''Orchis'', and many commonly cultivated plants such as ''Phalaenopsis'' and ''Cattleya''. Moreover, since the introduction of tropical species into cultivation in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
