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Egletes Florida
''Egletes'' (tropic daisy) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. It is native to South America, Mesoamerica, and the West Indies, with the range of one species barely crossing the US border into the extreme southern part of Texas. ; Species * '' Egletes domingensis'' Cass. - Hispaniola * '' Egletes floribunda'' Poepp. - Amazonas State in Brazil * '' Egletes florida'' Shinners - Venezuela, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago * '' Egletes humifusa'' Less. - Ecuador * ''Egletes liebmannii'' Sch.Bip. ex Hemsl. - Guatemala, Honduras, Belize, Mexico * ''Egletes obovata'' Benth. ex Oerst. - Colombia * ''Egletes prostrata'' (Sw.) Kuntze - West Indies, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, northern Brazil * ''Egletes repens'' Shinners - Venezuela, Colombia * ''Egletes tenuifolia'' Cuatrec. - Colombia * ''Egletes viscosa'' (L.) Less. - Texas, Mexico, Central America, West Indies, South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Cassini
Viscount Alexandre Henri Gabriel (vicomte) de Cassini (9 May 1781 – 23 April 1832) was a French botanist and naturalist, who specialised in the sunflower family (Asteraceae) (then known as family Compositae). He was the youngest of five children of Jacques Dominique, Comte de Cassini, famous for completing the map of France, who had succeeded his father as the director of the Paris Observatory. He was also the great-great-grandson of famous Italian-French astronomer, Giovanni Domenico Cassini, discoverer of Jupiter's Great Red Spot and the Cassini division in Saturn's rings. The genus '' Cassinia'' was named in his honour by the botanist Robert Brown. He named many 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 with ...s and new genera in the sunflower family (Aste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |