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Legnephora Philippinensis
''Legnephora'' is a genus of flowering plants, consisting of five climbing species, found in Malesia and Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl .... The name comes from ancient Greek, referring to a feature of the fruit anatomy being “border bearing”.Les Robinson - Field Guide to the Native Plants of Sydney, page 336 Species * '' Legnephora acuta'' * '' Legnephora microcarpa'' * '' Legnephora minutiflora'' * '' Legnephora moorei'' * '' Legnephora philippinensis'' References Menispermaceae Menispermaceae genera Taxa named by John Miers (botanist) {{Menispermaceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Miers (botanist)
John Miers, FRS FLS (25 August 1789 – 17 October 1879. Kensington), knight grand cross of the Order of the Rose, was a British botanist and engineer, best known for his work on the flora of Chile and Argentina. Miers was born in London to a jeweller from Yorkshire, and showed interest in mineralogy and chemistry from an early age. His first published work was a monograph on nitrogen which appeared in the '' Annals of Philosophy'' in 1814. After his marriage in 1818 he travelled to South America to participate in a venture to exploit the mineral resource of Chile, particularly copper. However, after landing in Buenos Aires his wife came down with childbed fever on the trip across country, and he decided not to continue to Chile, instead starting a study of the local flora, which at that time was largely unresearched. In May 1819 Miers arrived in Santiago, Chile, having arranged the clandestine transport of coin presses, and settled at Concón, near Valparaíso. He developed b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legnephora Acuta
''Legnephora'' is a genus of flowering plants, consisting of five climbing species, found in Malesia and Australia. The name comes from ancient Greek, referring to a feature of the fruit anatomy being “border bearing”.Les Robinson - Field Guide to the Native Plants of Sydney, page 336 Species * '' Legnephora acuta'' * '' Legnephora microcarpa'' * '' Legnephora minutiflora'' * '' Legnephora moorei'' * ''Legnephora philippinensis ''Legnephora'' is a genus of flowering plants, consisting of five climbing species, found in Malesia and Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Aust ...'' References Menispermaceae Menispermaceae genera Taxa named by John Miers (botanist) {{Menispermaceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legnephora Moorei
''Legnephora moorei'', the round-leaf vine, is a species of flowering plant in the family Menispermaceae. It is endemic to the rainforests of Queensland and New South Wales, Australia. Round-leaf vine is a tall and large leafed climber usually noticed by fallen leaves on the rainforest floor. The southernmost limit of natural distribution is at Yatteyattah Nature Reserve The Yatteyattah Nature Reserve is a protected sub tropical rainforest in Yatte Yattah on the south coast of New South Wales, Australia. The reserve was formed from landed donated by a local farmer in the 1990s. The estimated elevation of the ... on the south coast of New South Wales. The species is one of the many named after Charles Moore. The stem of the vine can go up to 9 cm. References Menispermaceae Flora of New South Wales Flora of Queensland Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller {{Menispermaceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legnephora Philippinensis
''Legnephora'' is a genus of flowering plants, consisting of five climbing species, found in Malesia and Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl .... The name comes from ancient Greek, referring to a feature of the fruit anatomy being “border bearing”.Les Robinson - Field Guide to the Native Plants of Sydney, page 336 Species * '' Legnephora acuta'' * '' Legnephora microcarpa'' * '' Legnephora minutiflora'' * '' Legnephora moorei'' * '' Legnephora philippinensis'' References Menispermaceae Menispermaceae genera Taxa named by John Miers (botanist) {{Menispermaceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus. :E.g. ''Panthera leo'' (lion) and ''Panthera onca'' (jaguar) are two species within the genus ''Panthera''. ''Panthera'' is a genus within the family Felidae. The composition of a genus is determined by taxonomy (biology), taxonomists. The standards for genus classification are not strictly codified, so different authorities often produce different classifications for genera. There are some general practices used, however, including the idea that a newly defined genus should fulfill these three criteria to be descriptively useful: # monophyly – all descendants of an ancestral taxon are grouped together (i.e. Phylogeneti ... [...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] |
Malesia
Malesia is a biogeographical region straddling the Equator and the boundaries of the Indomalayan and Australasian realms. It is a phytogeographical floristic region in the Paleotropical kingdom. It was first recognized as a distinct region in 1857 by Heinrich Zollinger, a Swiss botanist and explorer. The precise boundaries used to define Malesia vary. The broadly defined area used in '' Flora Malesiana'' consists of the countries of Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Brunei, the Philippines, Timor-Leste and Papua New Guinea. The original definition by the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) covered a similar area, but New Guinea and some offshore islands were split off as Papuasia in its 2001 version. Floristic region Malesia was first recognized as a distinct floristic region in 1857 by Heinrich Zollinger, a Swiss botanist and explorer. In 1948 and 1950, Cornelius G. G. J. van Steenis developed the idea of Malesia, and put forward plans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller islands. It has a total area of , making it the list of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country in the world and the largest in Oceania. Australia is the world's flattest and driest inhabited continent. It is a megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and Climate of Australia, climates including deserts of Australia, deserts in the Outback, interior and forests of Australia, tropical rainforests along the Eastern states of Australia, coast. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south-east Asia 50,000 to 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last glacial period. By the time of British settlement, Aboriginal Australians spoke 250 distinct l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Menispermaceae
Menispermaceae (botanical Latin: 'moonseed family' from Greek ''mene'' 'crescent moon' and ''sperma'' 'seed') is a family (biology), family of flowering plants. The alkaloid tubocurarine, a neuromuscular blocker and the active ingredient in the 'tube curare' form of the dart poison curare, is derived from the South American liana ''Chondrodendron tomentosum'', which belongs to this family. Several other South American genera belonging to the family have been used to prepare the 'pot' and 'calabash' forms of curare. The family contains 78 Genus, genera with some 440 species, which are distributed throughout low-lying tropical areas with some species present in temperate and arid regions. Description * Twining, ever-growing and woody climbing plants, winding anti-clockwise (''Stephania'' winds clockwise) and vines; rarely upright shrubs or small trees. Rarer still herbaceous plants or epiphytes (''Stephania cyanantha''), perennial or deciduous, with simple to uni-serrate hairs. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
