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Pittosporaceae
Pittosporaceae is a family of flowering plants that consists of 200–240 species of trees, shrubs, and lianas in 9 genera. Habitats range from tropical to temperate climates of the Afrotropical, Indomalayan, Oceanian, and Australasian realms. The type genus is '' Pittosporum'' Banks ex Gaertn. Description Pittosporaceae are dioecious trees, shrubs, or twining vines, with leaves having pinnate venation, no stipules, and margins that are smooth. Ovaries are superior, often with parietal placentation. The style is undivided and straight, and the stigma is often lobed. The fruit is a capsule or berry with the calyx being shed from the fruit. The seeds are surrounded by sticky pulp that comes from secretions of the placental hairs. The flowers have equal numbers of sepals, petals and stamens. Genera , the following nine genera are placed within this family as accepted by Plants of the World Online: * '' Auranticarpa'' L.W.Cayzer, Crisp & I.Telford * '' Bentleya'' E.M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marianthus
''Marianthus'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Pittosporaceae and is endemic to Australia. Plants in the genus ''Marianthus'' are shrubs with twining branches, simple leaves arranged alternately along the stems. The flowers are pendent, arranged singly or in small groups in upper leaf axils or on the ends of branches with small bracts and bracteoles at the base, but that fall as the flowers open. The sepals are free from each other, and the petals are also sometimes free from each, otherwise joined at the base, forming a tube with spreading lobes. Plants in this genus were previously included in '' Billardiera'', but have a stalked ovary and a long, usually curved style. The fruit is a dehiscent capsule containing many seeds. The genus ''Marianthus'' was first originally established in 1837 by Stephan Endlicher in his '' Enumeratio plantarum quas in Novae Hollandiae ora austro-occidentali ad fluvium Cygnorum et in sinu Regis Georgii collegit Carolus Liber Baro de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hymenosporum
''Hymenosporum'' is a monotypic genus of trees in the family Pittosporaceae. The sole included species is ''Hymenosporum flavum'', commonly known as native frangipani, found in the rainforests and wet sclerophyll forests of New Guinea, Queensland and New South Wales. Despite its common name, it is not closely related to the frangipani, but is related to the widespread genus ''Pittosporum''. Description ''Hymenosporum flavum'' is a semi-deciduous tree up to high and a trunk diameter ( DBH) to . The obovate leaves are simple, alternate, glossy green above and lighter below. They measure up to long by wide. and are clustered towards the ends of the branches in pseudo-whorls. The very fragrant flowers are quite large, about diameter with a floral tube up to long. They are initially functionally male, and coloured white with lemon tinges. Over a period of about 5 days the stigma begins to develop and the stamens curl away. At the same time the colour deepens until the fully ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bentleya
''Bentleya'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Pittosporaceae Pittosporaceae is a family of flowering plants that consists of 200–240 species of trees, shrubs, and lianas in 9 genera. Habitats range from tropical to temperate climates of the Afrotropical, Indomalayan, Oceanian, and Australasian r .... Its native range is Western Australia. Species: *'' Bentleya spinescens'' References {{Taxonbar, from=Q16389869 Pittosporaceae Apiales genera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheiranthera
''Cheiranthera'' is a genus of ten species of flowering plants in the family Pittosporaceae and are all endemic to Australia. The following is a list of species accepted by the Australian Plant Census as at April 2020: * '' Cheiranthera alternifolia'' E.M.Benn. – S.A., (presumed extinct in Vic.) * '' Cheiranthera borealis'' (E.M.Benn.) L.Cayzer & Crisp – Qld., N.S.W. * '' Cheiranthera brevifolia'' F.Muell. – W.A. * '' Cheiranthera filifolia'' Turcz. – W.A. * '' Cheiranthera linearis'' A.Cunn. ex Lindl. – N.S.W., A.C.T., Vic. * '' Cheiranthera parviflora'' Benth. George Bentham (22 September 1800 – 10 September 1884) was an English botanist, described by the weed botanist Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century". Born into a distinguished family, he initially studie ... – W.A. * '' Cheiranthera preissiana'' Putt. – W.A. * '' Cheiranthera simplicifolia'' (E.M.Benn.) L.Cayzer & Crisp – W.A. * '' Cheiranthera telfor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bursaria
''Bursaria'' is a genus of eight species of flowering plants in the family Pittosporaceae and is endemic to Australia. They are shrubs or slender trees, often with spiny branches and have Leaf#Divisions of the blade, simple leaves, relatively small flowers with five sepals, five petals and five stamens, and fruit that is a flattened, thin-walled Capsule (fruit), capsule. Description Plants in the genus ''Bursaria'' range from low shrubs to small, slender trees and have branches that are often spiny. The leaves are arranged alternately along the branches or clustered and are linear to lance-shaped, egg-shaped or wedge-shaped, sometimes with toothed edges or a notched tip. The flowers are relatively small, arranged singly in racemes or panicles at the ends of branchlets or in leaf axils. There are five sepals that are free from each other, five narrow oblong, spreading white petals, and five stamens that are free from each other. The fruit is a flattened, thin-walled capsule conta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billardiera
''Billardiera'', commonly known as appleberries, snot berries, or bluebell creepers, is a genus of flowering plants in the family, ''Pittosporaceae'' and is endemic to Australia. Plants in the genus ''Billardiera'' are woody scramblers, climbers or twiners with elliptic, lance-shaped or linear leaves arranged alternately along the stems, the flowers with petals that are joined to form a tube at the base with spreading lobes, and succulent or fleshy fruit. Description Plants in the genus ''Billardiera'' are woody scramblers, climbers or undershrubs with twining branches up to several metres long. The leaves are simple, elliptic, lance-shaped or linear and arranged alternately along the stems. The flowers are arranged singly or in cymes on the ends of branches and are greenish-yellow to cream-coloured, purple or blue, the sepals free from each other. The five petals are much longer than the sepals, sometimes free from each other, or joined at the base to form a tube with spread ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auranticarpa
''Auranticarpa'' is a genus of trees in the family Pittosporaceae. All six species occur in monsoonal forest and rainforest margins in Northern Australia. The species, all formerly included in the genus ''Pittosporum ''Pittosporum'' ( or The first pronunciation is that expected for traditional English pronunciation of Latin, Anglo-Latin; the second is common in nurseries. ''Sunset Western Garden Book,'' 1995:606–607) is a genus of about 250 species of flow ...'', are as follows: *'' Auranticarpa edentata'' L.Cayzer, Crisp & I.Telford *'' Auranticarpa ilicifolia'' L.Cayzer, Crisp & I.Telford *'' Auranticarpa melanosperma'' (F.Muell.) L.Cayzer, Crisp & I.Telford *'' Auranticarpa papyracea'' L.Cayzer, Crisp & I.Telford *'' Auranticarpa resinosa'' (Domin) L.Cayzer, Crisp & I.Telford *'' Auranticarpa rhombifolia'' (A.Cunn. ex Hook.) L.Cayzer, Crisp & I.Telford - Hollywood or diamond-leaf pittosporum References Apiales of Australia Pittosporaceae Apiales genera Taxa n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pittosporum
''Pittosporum'' ( or The first pronunciation is that expected for traditional English pronunciation of Latin, Anglo-Latin; the second is common in nurseries. ''Sunset Western Garden Book,'' 1995:606–607) is a genus of about 250 species of flowering plants in the family Pittosporaceae. Plants in the genus ''Pittosporum'' are shrubs or trees with leaves arranged alternately along the stems. The flowers are arranged singly or in Cyme (botany), cymes, with white to yellow petals fused at the base forming a short tube, with stamens that are free from each other. The fruit is a Capsule (fruit), capsule with a single locule that opens to reveal angular seeds. Description Plants in the genus ''Pittosporum'' are shrubs or trees, occasionally spiny, with smooth-edged linear to lance-shaped or egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, on a Petiole (botany), petiole. The flowers are borne on the ends of branches or in leaf axils, in cymes or clusters with sepals that are f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afrotropical Realm
The Afrotropical realm is one of the Earth's eight biogeographic realms. It includes Sub-Saharan Africa, the southern Arabian Peninsula, the island of Madagascar, and the islands of the western Indian Ocean. It was formerly known as the Ethiopian Zone or Ethiopian Region. Major ecological regions Most of the Afrotropical realm, except for Africa's southern tip, has a tropics, tropical climate. A broad belt of deserts, including the Atlantic coastal desert, Atlantic and Sahara deserts of northern Africa and the Arabian Desert of the Arabian Peninsula, separates the Afrotropic from the Palearctic realm, which includes northern Africa and temperate Eurasia. Sahel and Sudan South of the Sahara, two belts of tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands, tropical grassland and savanna run east and west across the continent, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Ethiopian Highlands. Immediately south of the Sahara lies the Sahel belt, a transitional zone of semi-arid sho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eleanor Marion Bennett
Eleanor Marion Bennett (born 4 February 1942) (née Scrymgeour) is an Australian botanist who was employed by the Western Australian Herbarium from 1965 to 1970. She collected ''Eucalyptus'' species in the south-west 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 ... and published a revision of the genus '' Hybanthus'' in 1972. She is the author of two books: ''Bushland Plants of Kings Park, Western Australia'' and ''Common and aboriginal names of Western Australian plant species''. Bennett was also one of the authors of ''Flora of the Perth region.'' References 1942 births 20th-century Australian botanists Botanists active in Australia Botanists with author abbreviations Australian women botanists 20th-century Australian women scientists Living ... [...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] |
Flowering Plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (). The term angiosperm is derived from the Ancient Greek, Greek words (; 'container, vessel') and (; 'seed'), meaning that the seeds are enclosed within a fruit. The group was formerly called Magnoliophyta. Angiosperms are by far the most diverse group of Embryophyte, land plants with 64 Order (biology), orders, 416 Family (biology), families, approximately 13,000 known Genus, genera and 300,000 known species. They include all forbs (flowering plants without a woody Plant stem, stem), grasses and grass-like plants, a vast majority of broad-leaved trees, shrubs and vines, and most aquatic plants. Angiosperms are distinguished from the other major seed plant clade, the gymnosperms, by having flowers, xylem consisting of vessel elements instead of tracheids, endosperm within their seeds, and fruits that completely envelop the seeds. The ancestors of flowering plants diverged from the commo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
