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Maranhão Mangroves
The Maranhão mangroves (in Portuguese: ''Reentrâncias Maranhenses'') is a mangrove ecoregion of northern Brazil. It supports half of the shorebird population of the country. The combination of flat land, heavy rainfall and high tides causes the mangroves to extend up to inland, where they are interspersed with other rainforest species. Location The ecoregion covers and area of on the Atlantic coast of Maranhão state. The ecoregion is part of the Guianan-Amazon Mangroves global ecoregion, which also contains the Guianan mangroves, Amapá mangroves and Pará mangroves ecoregions. The land is flat and tides may be as high as in same places, so salt water may reach inland along the many estuaries and rivers for as far as . The ecoregion may be divided into eastern and western parts. The western part extends from the Pará boundary along the coast of western Maranhão state to the Baía de São Marcos. Here the coastline is made up of hundreds of islands and mudflats, made u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neotropical Realm
The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropics, tropical Ecoregion#Terrestrial, terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate climate, temperate zone. Definition In biogeography, the Neotropic or Neotropical realm is one of the eight terrestrial realms. This realm includes South America, Central America, the Caribbean Islands, and southern North America. In Mexico, the Yucatán Peninsula and southern lowlands, and most of the east and west coastlines, including the southern tip of the Baja California Peninsula are Neotropical. In the United States southern Florida and coastal Central Florida are considered Neotropical. The realm also includes temperate southern South America. In contrast, the Neotropical Phytochorion, Floristic Kingdom excludes southernmost South America, which instead is placed in the Antarctic Floristic Kingdom, Antarctic kingdom. The Neo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avicennia Schaueriana
''Avicennia schaueriana'' is a species of tropical mangrove in the Family (biology), family Acanthaceae. It grows in coastal and estuarine locations along the Atlantic coast of northeastern South America, from Venezuela and the Leeward Islands through Trinidad and Tobago, the Windward Islands, the Guianas, and Brazil to Uruguay. ''Avicennia schaueriana'' is self-compatible and insect-pollinated (bees and wasps, butterflies and moths, and flies).SILVA, RM da e CONSOLARO, HN, 2015. Polinização e sistema reprodutivo de Acanthaceae Juss. no Brasil: uma revisão. Revista de Biociências [online], vol. 31, não. 3, pp. [Accessed 27 January 2025]. DOI: 10.14393/BJ-v31n3a2015-23979. Available athttps://seer.ufu.br/index.php/biosciencejournal/article/view/23979 References {{Taxonbar, from= Q9640741 Avicennia, schaueriana Mangroves Tropical Atlantic flora Flora of the Neotropical realm Plants described in 1939 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Attalea Speciosa
''Attalea speciosa'', the babassu, babassu palm, ''babaçu, or cusi'', is a palm native to the Amazon Rainforest region in South America. The babassu palm is the predominant species in the Maranhão Babaçu forests of Maranhão and Piauí states. This plant has commercial value because its seeds produce an edible oil called babassu oil, which is also used in cleaners and skin-care products. The fruit is used to produce products such as medicines, beauty aids, and beverages. Traditional communities of the Maranhão region also produce a flour from the fruit, and this is commercialized as a nutritional supplement. The leaves are also used to provide thatch for houses and can be woven into mats for constructing house walls. The stems are used for timbers. The babassu palm is considered a weed in pasture areas of Cerrado vegetation in Brazil. Taxonomy In his 1995 ''The Palms of the Amazon'', Andrew Henderson recognised ''A. speciosa'' and '' A. spectabilis'' as valid spec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Açaí Palm
The açaí palm (, , from Nheengatu ''asai''), '' Euterpe oleracea'', is a species of palm tree (Arecaceae) cultivated for its fruit (açaí berries, or simply açaí), hearts of palm (a vegetable), leaves, and trunk wood. Global demand for the fruit has expanded rapidly in the 21st century, and the tree is cultivated for that purpose primarily. The species is native to eastern Amazonia, especially in Brazil, mainly in swamps and floodplains. Açaí palms are tall, slender trees growing to more than tall, with pinnate leaves up to long. The fruit is small, round, and black-purple in color. The fruit became a staple food in floodplain areas around the 18th century, but its consumption in urban areas and promotion as a health food only began in the mid-1990s along with the popularization of other Amazonian fruits outside the region. Name The folk etymology says that chief Itaqui ordered all newborns put to death owing to a period of famine. When his own daughter gave birth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mora Oleifera
''Mora megistosperma'' also called ''Mora oleifera'' is a species of rainforest tree in the bean family Fabaceae, cassia subfamily Caesalpinioideae. It is commonly called Mora or Mangle Nato It is found in Costa Rica, Panama Colombia and Ecuador. It grows in height and up to diameter at breast height. It is noted for producing the largest seeds of any Dicot plant (bean-shaped, typical of the family); and up to long by wide, and up to thick. and can weigh up to , and is exceeded only by ''Lodoicea'' and ''Cocos nucifera''. This seed is in a single-seeded legume which develops from a tiny flower only 1 mm in width. These white flowers are in little spikes about long. The leaves are paripinnate Pinnation (also called pennation) is the arrangement of feather-like or multi-divided features arising from both sides of a common Anatomical terms of location#Axes, axis. Pinnation occurs in biological morphology (biology), morphology, in Crysta ... with just two pairs of ovate or obl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montrichardia Arborescens
''Montrichardia arborescens'', the yautia madera, or moco-moco, is a tropical plant grows along river banks, swamps, or creeks to a maximum height of 9'. They consist of arrow shaped leaves that are food sources for animal species. The plant produces inflorescences which then leave a fruit of ''Montrichardia arborescens'' which is edible and can be cooked. Its fruiting spadices produces large infructescences, which contain about 80 edible yellow fruits. Distribution ''Montrichardia arborescens'' is most commonly found in South America in areas of the Caribbean and Mesoamerica including Puerto Rico, Panama, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela, Brazil, Colombia, and more. ''Montrichardia arborescens'' is native to the tropical Americas and the West Indies. Habitat and ecology ''Montrichardia arborescens'' is a perennial halophytic A halophyte is a salt-tolerant plant that grows in soil or waters of high salinity, coming into contact with saline water through its roots or by salt spra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhabdadenia Biflora
''Rhabdadenia'' is a genus of plant in the family Apocynaceae first described as a genus in 1860. It is native to South America, Central America, southern Mexico, the West Indies, and Florida.Morales, J.F. (2009). Estudios en las Apocynaceae Neotropicales XXXVII: Monografia del género ''Rhabdadenia'' (Apocynaceae: Echiteae). Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas 3: 541-564. ;Species * ''Rhabdadenia biflora'' (Jacq.) Müll.Arg. - widespread from Florida and southern Mexico to Brazil * ''Rhabdadenia madida'' (Vell.) Miers - South America from Colombia + the Guianas to Uruguay + Bolivia * ''Rhabdadenia ragonesei'' Woodson - Mato Grosso do Sul, Paraguay, N Argentina ;formerly included in the genus # ''Rhabdadenia barbata'' (Desv. ex Ham.) Miers = ''Pentalinon luteum'' (L.) B.F.Hansen & Wunderlin # ''Rhabdadenia berteroi'' (A.DC.) Müll.Arg. = ''Angadenia berteroi'' (A.DC.) Miers # ''Rhabdadenia campestris'' (Vell.) Miers = ''Mandevilla hirsuta'' (Rich.) K.Schum. # '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dalbergia Brownei
''Dalbergia'' is a large genus of small to medium-size trees, shrubs and lianas in the pea family, Fabaceae, subfamily Faboideae. It was recently assigned to the informal monophyletic ''Dalbergia'' clade (or tribe): the Dalbergieae. The genus has a wide distribution, native to the tropical regions of Central and South America, Africa, Madagascar and Southern Asia. Fossil record A fossil †''Dalbergia phleboptera'' seed pod has been found in a Chattian deposit, in the municipality of Aix-en-Provence in France. Fossils of †''Dalbergia nostratum'' have been found in rhyodacite tuff of Lower Miocene age in Southern Slovakia near the town of Lučenec. Fossil seed pods of †''Dalbergia mecsekense'' have been found in a Sarmatian deposit in Hungary. †''Dalbergia lucida'' fossils have been described from the Xiaolongtan Formation of late Miocene age in Kaiyuan County, Yunnan Province, China. Uses Many species of ''Dalbergia'' are important timber trees, valued for their de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acrostichum Aureum
''Acrostichum'' is a fern genus in the Parkerioideae subfamily of the Pteridaceae. It was one of the original pteridophyte genera delineated by Linnaeus. It was originally drawn very broadly, including all ferns that had sori apparently "acrostichoid", or distributed in a uniform mass across the back of the frond, rather than organized in discrete sori. This led Linnaeus to include such species as '' Asplenium platyneuron'' in the genus, because the specimen he received had sori so crowded that it appeared acrostichoid. Since '' Acrostichum aureum'' is regarded as the type for the genus, it is now narrowly circumscribed only to the natural genus of three species, that are allied to the genus '' Ceratopteris''. They are collectively known as the leather ferns or leather swamp ferns, genus members commonly being found in swamps. The species of ''Acrostichum'' are massive ferns, with fronds up to tall, that depend on a semi-aquatic existence. They do not withstand prolonged imm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hibiscus Tiliaceus
''Hibiscus tiliaceus'', commonly known as the sea hibiscus or coast cottonwood, is a species of flowering tree in the mallow family, Malvaceae, with a pantropical distribution along coastlines. It has also been introduced to Florida and New Zealand. It has been debated whether this species is native or introduced to Hawaii. Names Common names include sea hibiscus, beach hibiscus, coastal (or coast) hibiscus, coastal (or coast) cottonwood, green cottonwood, native hibiscus, native rosella, cottonwood hibiscus, kurrajong, sea rosemallow and dhigga ( Maldivian). The plant was introduced by Austronesian peoples that voyaged across Southeast Asia and Oceania as a source of wood and fibre. This is reflected in the names of the plant as spoken in many related languages spoken in those regions including ''balibago'' ( Tagalog), ''malobago'' ( Bikol), ''malabago'' or ''malbago'' ( Cebuano – Southern), ''maribago'' ( Cebuano – Northern), ''lambago'' (Cebuano - Cagayan de Oro), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spartina Alterniflora
''Sporobolus alterniflorus'', or synonymously known as ''Spartina alterniflora'', the smooth cordgrass, saltmarsh cordgrass, or salt-water cordgrass, is a perennial deciduous grass which is found in intertidal wetlands, especially estuarine salt marshes. It has been reclassified as ''Sporobolus alterniflorus'' after a taxonomic revision in 2014, but it is still common to see ''Spartina alterniflora'' and in 2019 an interdisciplinary team of experts coauthored a report published in the journal ''Ecology'' supporting ''Spartina'' as a genus. It grows tall and has smooth, hollow stems that bear leaves up to long and wide at their base, which are sharply tapered and bend down at their tips. Like its relative saltmeadow cordgrass ''S. patens'', it produces flowers and seeds on only one side of the stalk. The flowers are a yellowish-green, turning brown by the winter. It has Rhizome, rhizomes, which, when broken off, can result in vegetative asexual growth. The Rhizome, rhizomes are a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conocarpus Erectus
''Conocarpus erectus'', commonly called buttonwood or button mangrove, is a hardy species of mangrove shrub in the family Combretaceae. Taxonomy These two varieties are not accepted as distinct by all authorities: *''C. e.'' var. ''erectus'' - green buttonwood, leaves thinly hairy or hairless *''C. e.'' var. ''sericeus'' - silver buttonwood, leaves densely silvery-hairy Distribution and habitat It grows on shorelines in tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas and west Africa. It is generally found growing in brackish water in tidal lagoons and bays, but can grow in inland habitats, with records at up to altitude in Costa Rica. Locations it is known from include Florida, Bermuda, the West Indies, Central and South America from Mexico to Brazil on the Atlantic Coast and Mexico to Peru on the Pacific Coast, as well as the western African coast. It was introduced in Kuwait and Western Australia due to its propensity to thrive in high temperatures and absorbing brackis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
