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Molineria
''Molineria'' is a genus of flowering plants. In the APG III classification system, it is placed in the family Hypoxidaceae. It is native to Southeast Asia, China, the Indian Subcontinent, Papuasia, and Queensland., search for "Molineria" ;Species # ''Molineria capitulata'' (Lour.) Herb. - China, Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, Papuasia, Queensland; naturalized in Mexico, Central America, West Indies, Argentina, Mauritius, Réunion # ''Molineria crassifolia'' Baker - Nepal, Assam, Bhutan, Sikkim, Yunnan, Arunachal Pradesh # ''Molineria gracilis'' Kurz - southern China, Assam, Bhutan, Nepal, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam # ''Molineria latifolia'' (Dryand. ex W.T.Aiton) Herb. ex Kurz - China, Bangladesh, Indochina, Philippines, western Indonesia, Borneo # ''Molineria oligantha'' C.E.C.Fisch. - Assam # ''Molineria prainiana'' Deb - Assam, Bhutan # ''Molineria trichocarpa ''Molineria'' is a genus of flowering plants. In the APG III classification system, it is placed in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Molineria Capitulata
''Molineria capitulata'' is a stout herb belong to the genus ''Molineria''. It is also known as palm grass. It can be found widespread in the tropics and other warmer temperate places. The plant has yellow flowers and oblong, papery pleated leaves with very short stems. In China and India, the plant has traditional uses as medicine to treat diseases such as hemorrhoids, asthma, and consumptive cough. In the Southeast Asia, the plant is also used as food wrapping and the fibres are used to make fishing nets, ropes and false hair. However, in recent years ''Molineria capitulata'' is more often used as ornamental plants in gardens. In recent studies, ''M. capitulata'' was also found to have potential in treating several chronic diseases due to its high antifungal, antioxidant, cytotoxic, thrombolytic, anti-inflammatory, and analgesic activities. Description/Appearance ''Molineria capitulata'' is a tuberous evergreen herb with thick rhizomes and thin stolons. In adverse conditions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Molineria Trichocarpa
''Molineria'' is a genus of flowering plants. In the APG III classification system, it is placed in the family Hypoxidaceae. It is native to Southeast Asia, China, the Indian Subcontinent, Papuasia, and Queensland., search for "Molineria" ;Species # ''Molineria capitulata ''Molineria capitulata'' is a stout herb belong to the genus ''Molineria''. It is also known as palm grass. It can be found widespread in the tropics and other warmer temperate places. The plant has yellow flowers and oblong, papery pleated leav ...'' (Lour.) Herb. - China, Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, Papuasia, Queensland; naturalized in Mexico, Central America, West Indies, Argentina, Mauritius, Réunion # '' Molineria crassifolia'' Baker - Nepal, Assam, Bhutan, Sikkim, Yunnan, Arunachal Pradesh # '' Molineria gracilis'' Kurz - southern China, Assam, Bhutan, Nepal, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam # '' Molineria latifolia'' (Dryand. ex W.T.Aiton) Herb. ex Kurz - China, Bangladesh, Indochina, Philippine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Molineria Latifolia
''Molineria latifolia'', also known as tambaka, lamba and lemba babi, is a species of flowering plant, a stemless perennial herb in the Hypoxidaceae family, that is native to Southeast Asia and produces edible fruits. Description The plant grows as a clump of 7–10 erect leaves, up to 1 m high in open areas and 2 m in forest shade. The leaves are 60–150 cm long by 8–25 cm wide. The inflorescences grow from the base of the leaves up 10 cm in height, forming compact 8 cm panicles of green bracts and yellow flowers. The fruits are oval berries, 2–3 cm by 1.2–1.7 cm in diameter, ripening white tinged pink, enclosing small black seeds in edible white pulp, with a taste similar to that of dragon fruit. Distribution and habitat The species is found throughout Malesia in lowland and hill mixed dipterocarp, lower montane and heath forests, as well as in secondary forest A secondary forest (or second-growth forest) is a forest or wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hypoxidaceae
Hypoxidaceae is a family of flowering plants, placed in the order Asparagales of the monocots. The APG IV system of 2016 (unchanged from the 1998, 2003, and 2009 versions) recognizes this family. The family consists of four genera totalling some 160 species. The members of the family are small to medium herbs, with grass-like leaves and an invisible stem, modified into a corm or a rhizome. The flowers are born on leafless shoots, also called scapes. The flowers are trimerous, radially symmetric. The ovary is inferior, developing into a capsule or a berry. Uses Curculin is a taste modifying sweet protein Proteins are large biomolecules and macromolecules that comprise one or more long chains of amino acid residues. Proteins perform a vast array of functions within organisms, including catalysing metabolic reactions, DNA replication, respon ... that was discovered and from the fruit of a plant in this family ('' Curculigo latifolia''). Consuming it causes wate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. An internationally important botanical research and education institution, it employs 1,100 staff. Its board of trustees is chaired by Dame Amelia Fawcett. The organisation manages botanic gardens at Kew in Richmond upon Thames in south-west London, and at Wakehurst, a National Trust property in Sussex which is home to the internationally important Millennium Seed Bank, whose scientists work with partner organisations in more than 95 countries. Kew, jointly with the Forestry Commission, founded Bedgebury National Pinetum in Kent in 1923, specialising in growing conifers. In 1994, the Castle Howard Arboretum Trust, which runs the Yorkshire Arboretum, was formed as a partnership between Kew and the Castle Howard Estate. In 2019, the organisation had 2,316,699 public visitors at Kew, and 312,813 at Wakehurst. Its site ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luigi Aloysius Colla
Luigi Aloysius Colla (30 April 1766 – 23 December 1848) was an Italian botanist of the late 18th and early 19th Centuries. He was a member of the Provisional Government of Savoy from December 12, 1798, to April 2, 1799, taking his turn as chairman of the government in rotation for a ten-day term. In 1820 Colla described two species, ''Musa balbisiana'' and ''Musa acuminata'', that are the basis for almost all cultivated banana A banana is an elongated, edible fruit – botanically a berry (botany), berry – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus ''Musa (genus), Musa''. In some countries, Cooking banana, bananas used for ...s. Colla was a member of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. Bibliography * ''L'antolegista botanico'' - Turin - Volume 1, Volume 5, Volume 6 * ''Memoria sul genere Musa e monografia del medesimo'' - Turin * ''Observations sur le Limodorum purpureum de M. de Lamarck et création d'un nouveau gen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queensland
) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , established_date = Colony of Queensland , established_title2 = Separation from New South Wales , established_date2 = 6 June 1859 , established_title3 = Federation of Australia, Federation , established_date3 = 1 January 1901 , named_for = Queen Victoria , demonym = , capital = Brisbane , largest_city = capital , coordinates = , admin_center_type = Administration , admin_center = Local government areas of Queensland, 77 local government areas , leader_title1 = Monarchy of Australia, Monarch , leader_name1 = Charles III , leader_title2 = Governor of Queensland, Governor , leader_name2 = Jeannette Young , leader_title3 = Premier of Queensland, Premier , leader_name3 = Annastacia Palaszczuk (Australian Labor Party (Queensland Branch), AL ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
