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Marcgravia Pittieri
''Marcgravia pittieri'' is a species of flowering plant in the family '' Marcgraviaceae''. It is visited by Thomas's nectar bat. References {{Ericales-stub pittieri Plants described in 1908 Taxa named by Ernest Friedrich Gilg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Friedrich Gilg
Ernest (or Ernst) Friedrich Gilg (12 January 1867 in Baden-Württemberg, Germany – 11 October 1933 in Berlin) was a German botanist. Life Gilg was curator of the Botanical Museum in Berlin. With fellow botanist Adolf Engler, he co-authored and published a syllabus on botanical families, ''Syllabus der Pflanzenfamilien'' (8th edition 1919). He also made contributions to Engler's "''Das Pflanzenreich''", (e.g. the section on the family Monimiaceae). The Poaceae grass genus, ''Gilgiochloa ''Gilgiochloa'' is a genus of African plants in the grass family. The genus is named after German botanist Ernest Friedrich Gilg (1867–1933) by Robert Knud Friedrich Pilger. The only known species is ''Gilgiochloa indurata'', native to Rw ...'', was posthumously named after him. His spouse, Charlotte Gilg-Benedict (1872–1936), was co-author in some of his publications, and has the author abbreviation Gilg-Ben. Work * ''Pharmazeutische Warenkunde'', published 1911 * ''Grund ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flowering Plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. They include all forbs (flowering plants without a woody stem), grasses and grass-like plants, a vast majority of broad-leaved trees, shrubs and vines, and most aquatic plants. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ἀγγεῖον / ('container, vessel') and σπέρμα / ('seed'), meaning that the seeds are enclosed within a fruit. They are by far the most diverse group of land plants with 64 orders, 416 families, approximately 13,000 known genera and 300,000 known species. Angiosperms were formerly called Magnoliophyta (). Angiosperms are distinguished from the other seed-producing plants, 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 common ance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcgraviaceae
The Marcgraviaceae are a neotropical angiosperm family in the order Ericales. The members of the family are shrubs, woody epiphytes, and lianas, with alternate, pinnately nerved leaves. The flowers are arranged in racemes. The flowers are accompanied by modified, fleshy, saccate bracts which produce nectar. The flowers are pentamerous. The fruits are capsules. General *'' Marcgravia'' - (ca. 65 spp.): S Mexico, Mesoamerica, South America, Antilles *'' Marcgraviastrum'' - (15 spp.): S Nicaragua to Peru, Bolivia plus 2 spp. in E Brazil *'' Norantea'' - (2 spp.): Caribbean and Amazonian basin of NE South America *'' Ruyschia'' - (9 spp.): Mesoamerica, N Andes, Lesser Antilles *'' Sarcopera'' - (ca. 10 spp.): Honduras to N Bolivia, Guyayana Highlands *'' Schwartzia'' - (ca. 15 spp.): Costa Rica through the Andes south to Bolivia, in the Caribbean basin and 1 sp. in E Brazil *'' Souroubea'' - (19 spp.): Mexico to Bolivia (absent from the Antilles) There are 2 known subfamilies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas's Nectar Bat
Thomas's nectar bat (''Lonchophylla thomasi'') is a bat species from South and Central America Central America ( es, América Central or ) is a subregion of the Americas. Its boundaries are defined as bordering the United States to the north, Colombia to the south, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. .... Thomas's nectar bat pollinates the vine '' Marcgravia''. References Bats of South America Lonchophylla Bats of Brazil Mammals of Colombia Mammals described in 1904 Taxa named by Joel Asaph Allen {{leafnosed-bat-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcgravia
''Marcgravia'' is a genus of plants in the Marcgraviaceae family commonly eaten by the dwarf little fruit bat. The genus is native to the Caribbean Islands, Central America, and South America, and genus is named in memory of the German naturalist Georg Marcgraf. The plant is visited by Thomas's nectar bat. General information ''Marcgravia'' is a genus of terrestrial vines. It was named after George Marcgraf who first saw it on a voyage to Brazil. ''Marcgravia'' is classified as a sub-parasitical shrub. ''Marcgravia'' is pollinated by Thomas's nectar bat. ''Marcgravia rectiflora'', ''Marcgravia sintenisill'', ''Marcgravia tobagensis'' and '' Marcgravi trinitatis'' are species of ''Marcgravia''. Locations *Belize, *Bolivia, *Brazil North, *Brazil Northeast, *Brazil South, *Brazil Southeast, *Brazil West-Central, *Central American Pac, * Colombia, * Costa Rica, *Cuba, *Dominican Republic, *Ecuador, *French Guiana, * Guatemala, * Guyana, *Haiti, * Honduras, *J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plants Described In 1908
Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclude the fungi and some algae, as well as the prokaryotes (the archaea and bacteria). By one definition, plants form the clade Viridiplantae (Latin name for "green plants") which is sister of the Glaucophyta, and consists of the green algae and Embryophyta (land plants). The latter includes the flowering plants, conifers and other gymnosperms, ferns and their allies, hornworts, liverworts, and mosses. Most plants are multicellular organisms. Green plants obtain most of their energy from sunlight via photosynthesis by primary chloroplasts that are derived from endosymbiosis with cyanobacteria. Their chloroplasts contain chlorophylls a and b, which gives them their green color. Some plants are parasitic or mycotrophic and have lost the abili ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
