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Morindeae
Morindeae is a tribe of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. The tribe contains about 165 species in 5 genera Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial s ..., found mainly in the tropics and subtropics. Genera Currently accepted names * '' Appunia'' Hook.f. (14 sp) * '' Coelospermum'' Blume (11 sp) * '' Gynochthodes'' Blume (97 sp) * '' Morinda'' L. (39 sp) * '' Siphonandrium'' K.Schum. (1 sp) Synonyms * ''Appunettia'' R.D.Good = '' Morinda'' * ''Belicea'' Lundell = '' Morinda'' * ''Bellynkxia'' Müll.Arg. = '' Appunia'' * ''Figuierea'' Montrouz. = '' Coelospermum'' * ''Guttenbergia'' Zoll. & Moritzi = '' Gynochthodes'' * ''Holostyla'' Endl. = '' Coelospermum'' * ''Holostylis'' Rchb. = '' Coelospermum'' * ''Imantina'' Hook.f. = '' Gynochthodes'' * ''Merism ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rubioideae Tribes
''Rubioideae'' is a subfamily of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae and contains about 7600 species in 27 tribes. Tribes * Anthospermeae Cham. & Schltdl. ex DC. * Argostemmateae Bremek. ex Verdc. * Clarkelleae Deb * Colletoecemateae Rydin & B.Bremer * Coussareeae Hook.f. * Craterispermeae Verdc. * Cyanoneuroneae Razafim. & B.Bremer * Danaideae B.Bremer & Manen * Dunnieae Rydin & B.Bremer * Gaertnereae Bremek. ex S.P.Darwin * Knoxieae Hook.f. * Lasiantheae B.Bremer & Manen * Mitchelleae Razafim. & B.Bremer & Manen * Morindeae Miq. * Ophiorrhizeae Bremek. ex Verdc. * Paederieae DC. * Palicoureeae Robbr. & Manen * Perameae Bremek. ex S.P.Darwin * Prismatomerideae Y.Z.Ruan * Psychotrieae Cham. & Schltdl. * Putorieae * Rubieae Baill. * Schizocoleeae Rydin & B.Bremer * Schradereae Bremek. * Seychelleeae * Spermacoceae Cham. & Schltdl. Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal (27 November 1794, Xanten – 12 October 1866, Halle an de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rubiaceae
Rubiaceae () is a family (biology), family of flowering plants, commonly known as the coffee, madder, or bedstraw family. It consists of terrestrial trees, shrubs, lianas, or herbs that are recognizable by simple, opposite leaves with Petiole (botany), interpetiolar stipules and sympetalous actinomorphic flowers. The family contains about 14,100 species in about 580 genera, which makes it the fourth-largest angiosperm family. Rubiaceae has a cosmopolitan distribution; however, the largest species diversity is concentrated in the tropics and subtropics. Economically important genera include ''Coffea'', the source of coffee; ''Cinchona'', the source of the antimalarial alkaloid quinine; ornamental cultivars (''e.g.'', ''Gardenia'', ''Ixora'', ''Pentas''); and historically some dye plants (''e.g.'', ''Rubia''). Description The Rubiaceae are morphologically easily recognizable as a coherent group by a combination of characters: opposite or whorled leaves that are simple and entire, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Appunia
''Appunia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It was described by Joseph Dalton Hooker in 1873. The genus is found from southern Mexico, Central America, and northern South America. Species * '' Appunia aurantiaca'' ( K.Krause) Sandwith - Roraima * '' Appunia brachycalyx'' ( Bremek.) Steyerm. - Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana * '' Appunia calycina'' (Benth.) Sandwith - Guyana * '' Appunia debilis'' Sandwith - Guyana * '' Appunia guatemalensis'' Donn. - Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Chiapas, Tabasco, Veracruz * '' Appunia longipedunculata'' (Steyerm.) Delprete - Colombia, Venezuela * '' Appunia megalantha'' C.M.Taylor & Lorence - Colombia, Perú * '' Appunia odontocalyx'' Sandwith - Bolivia * '' Appunia peduncularis'' (Kunth) Delprete - Venezuela, Brazil * '' Appunia seibertii'' Standl. - Panamá, Colombia Ecuador * '' Appunia surinamensis'' ( Bremek.) Steyerm. - Suriname * '' Appunia tenuiflora'' (Benth.) B.D.Jacks. - French Guiana, S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coelospermum
''Coelospermum'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. The natural range of the genus is parts of southern China, Malesia, Papuasia, Australia and New Caledonia. Species The following is a list of all species in this genus that are accepted by Plants of the World Online * '' Coelospermum balansanum'' Baill. * '' Coelospermum crassifolium'' J.T.Johanss. * '' Coelospermum dasylobum'' Halford & A.J.Ford * '' Coelospermum decipiens'' Baill. * '' Coelospermum fragrans'' ( Montrouz.) Baill. ex Guillaumin * '' Coelospermum nomac'' Mouly & Fleurot * '' Coelospermum paniculatum'' F.Muell. * '' Coelospermum purpureum'' Halford & A.J.Ford * '' Coelospermum reticulatum'' (F.Muell.) Benth. * '' Coelospermum salomoniense'' (Engl.) J.T.Johanss. * '' Coelospermum truncatum'' (Wall.) Baill. ex K.Schum. * '' Coelospermum volubile'' (Merr. Elmer Drew Merrill (October 15, 1876 – February 25, 1956) was an American botanist and taxonomist. He spent more than twen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyrus Longworth Lundell
Cyrus Longworth Lundell (November 5, 1907 – March 28, 1994) was an American botanist. Education Lundell did his undergraduate studies at Columbia University and Southern Methodist University. He completed his BA at the later in 1932. He then entered New York University's graduate school of business administration, but seems not to have completed course work there. He received an M.A. from the University of Michigan in 1934 and a Ph.D. from the same institution in 1936. It appears based on his later professorship that his Ph.D. was in botany. Early achievement At the age of 21, in 1928, Lundell was a sophomore at Southern Methodist University (SMU). He was appointed assistant physiologist at the Tropical Plant Research Foundation in Washington, D.C. He was to assist in British Honduras, with experiments on the sapodilla tree (''Achras zapota''), which yields chicle, for the U.S. chewing gum industry. Chicle Chicle is the natural gum from trees of the genus ''Manilkara'', tropic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
João De Loureiro
João de Loureiro (1717, Lisbon – 18 October 1791) was a Portuguese people, Portuguese Jesuit missionary and botanist. Biography After receiving admission to the Jesuit Order, João de Loureiro served as a missionary in Goa, capital of Portuguese India (3 years) and Portuguese Macau, Macau (4 years). In 1742 he traveled to Đàng Trong (known to the Europeans as Cochinchina), remaining there for 35 years. Here he worked as a mathematician and naturalist for the king of Đàng Trong, acquiring knowledge on the properties and uses of native medicinal plants. In 1777, he journeyed to Guangzhou, Canton, in Bengal, returning to Lisbon four years later. During this period, Captain Thomas Riddel gave Loureiro the books ''Systema Naturae'', ''Genera Plantarum'' and ''Philosophia Botanica'' by Carl Linnaeus, which greatly influenced the Portuguese botanist. João de Loureiro stayed in Vietnam forty years inventorying indigenous herbal remedies. His local garden contained 1,000 unique ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Adanson
Michel Adanson (7 April 17273 August 1806) was an 18th-century French botanist and naturalist who traveled to Senegal to study flora and fauna. He proposed a "natural system" of taxonomy distinct from the binomial system forwarded by Linnaeus. Personal history Adanson was born at Aix-en-Provence. His family moved to Paris in 1730. After leaving the Collège Sainte-Barbe, he was employed in the cabinets of R. A. F. Réaumur and Bernard de Jussieu, as well as in the Jardin des Plantes, Paris. He attended lectures at the Jardin du Roi and the Collège Royal in Paris from 1741 to 1746. At the end of 1748, funded by a director of the Compagnie des Indes, he left France on an exploring expedition to Senegal. He remained there for five years, collecting and describing numerous animals and plants. He also collected specimens of every object of commerce, delineated maps of the country, made systematic meteorological and astronomical observations, and prepared grammars and dictionarie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferdinand Von Mueller
Baron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller, (; 30 June 1825 – 10 October 1896) was a German-Australian physician, geographer, and most notably, a botanist. He was appointed government botanist for the then colony of Victoria, Australia by Governor Charles La Trobe in 1853, and later director of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne. He also founded the National Herbarium of Victoria. He named many Australian plants. Early life Mueller was born at Rostock, in the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. After the early death of his parents, Frederick and Louisa, his grandparents gave him a good education in Tönning, Schleswig. Apprenticed to a chemist at the age of 15, he passed his pharmaceutical examinations and studied botany under Professor Ernst Ferdinand Nolte (1791–1875) at Kiel University. In 1847, he received his degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Kiel for a thesis on the plants of the southern regions of Schleswig. Mueller's sister Bertha had been advi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augustin Pyramus De Candolle
Augustin Pyramus (or Pyrame) de Candolle (, , ; 4 February 17789 September 1841) was a Swiss people, Swiss botany, botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched de Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at a herbarium. Within a couple of years de Candolle had established a new genus, and he went on to document hundreds of plant families and create a new natural plant classification system. Although de Candolle's main focus was botany, he also contributed to related fields such as phytogeography, agronomy, paleontology, medical botany, and economic botany. De Candolle originated the idea of "Nature's war", which influenced Charles Darwin and the principle of natural selection. De Candolle recognized that multiple species may develop similar characteristics that did not appear in a common evolutionary ancestor; a phenomenon now known as convergent evolution. During his work with plants, de Candolle noticed that plant leaf movements follow a near-24-hour cycle in constant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spencer Le Marchant Moore
Spencer Le Marchant Moore (1 November 1850 – 14 March 1931) was an English botanist. Biography Moore was born in Hampstead. He worked at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, from about 1870 to 1879, wrote a number of botanical papers, and then worked in an unofficial capacity at the Natural History Museum from 1896 until his death. He was involved in an expedition to remote parts of Western Australia Western Australia (WA) is the westernmost state of Australia. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east, and South Australia to the south-east. Western Aust ... from December 1894 to October 1895, travelling from Goldfields–Esperance to places like Siberia Soak—near Waverley—and Goongarrie. Moore is commemorated in the plant genus '' Spenceria''. References External links * 1850 births 1931 deaths Botanists active in Kew Gardens English botanists English explorers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach
Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach (8 January 1793 – 17 March 1879) was a German botanist, ornithologist and illustrator. It was he who first requested Leopold Blaschka to make a set of glass marine invertebrate models for scientific education and museum showcasing, the successful commission giving rise to the creation of the Blaschkas' Glass sea creatures and, subsequently and indirectly, the more famous Glass Flowers. Early life Born in Leipzig and the son of Johann Friedrich Jakob Reichenbach (the author in 1818 of the first Greek-German dictionary) Reichenbach studied medicine and natural science at the University of Leipzig in 1810, becoming a professor and, eight years later in 1818, an instructor. In 1820, he was appointed the director of the Dresden natural history museum and a professor at the Surgical-Medical Academy in Dresden, where he remained for many years. Together with Carl Friedrich Heinrich Schubert he started in 1822 to edit and distribute his first exsicca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
