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Jerdonia (gastropod)
''Jerdonia'' may refer to: *'' Jerdonia indica'', a species of plant in the family Gesneriaceae Gesneriaceae, the gesneriad family, is a family of flowering plants consisting of about 152 genera and ca. 3,540 species in the tropics and subtropics of the Old World (almost all Didymocarpoideae) and the New World (most Gesnerioideae), wit ... * ''Jerdonia'' (gastropod), a genus of tropical land snails in the family Cyclophoridae {{Genus disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerdonia Indica
''Jerdonia indica'', sometimes referred to as the Indian violet, is an erect shrub endemic to the south Western Ghats of India. It grows to a height of and is found in evergreen forests. It is the sole member of the monotypic genus ''Jerdonia'' within the family Gesneriaceae. It was named after Thomas C. Jerdon by Robert Wight Robert Wight MD FRS FLS (6 July 1796 – 26 May 1872) was a Scottish surgeon in the East India Company, whose professional career was spent entirely in southern India, where his greatest achievements were in botany – as an economic botani ..., who described the plant in 1848. References External links * http://taxonomicon.taxonomy.nl/TaxonTree.aspx?id=673698 Didymocarpoideae Endemic flora of the Western Ghats Plants described in 1848 {{Gesneriaceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gesneriaceae
Gesneriaceae, the gesneriad family, is a family of flowering plants consisting of about 152 genera and ca. 3,540 species in the tropics and subtropics of the Old World (almost all Didymocarpoideae) and the New World (most Gesnerioideae), with a very small number extending to temperate areas. Many species have colorful and showy flowers and are cultivated as ornamental plants. Etymology The family name is based on the genus '' Gesneria'', which honours Swiss naturalist and humanist Conrad Gessner. Description Most species are herbaceous perennials or subshrubs but a few are woody shrubs or small trees. The phyllotaxy is usually opposite and decussate, but leaves have a spiral or alternate arrangement in some groups. As with other members of the Lamiales the flowers have a (usually) zygomorphic corolla whose petals are fused into a tube and there is no one character that separates a gesneriad from any other member of Lamiales. Gesneriads differ from related families o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerdonia (gastropod)
''Jerdonia'' may refer to: *'' Jerdonia indica'', a species of plant in the family Gesneriaceae Gesneriaceae, the gesneriad family, is a family of flowering plants consisting of about 152 genera and ca. 3,540 species in the tropics and subtropics of the Old World (almost all Didymocarpoideae) and the New World (most Gesnerioideae), wit ... * ''Jerdonia'' (gastropod), a genus of tropical land snails in the family Cyclophoridae {{Genus disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
