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Odontonema Strictum
''Odontonema strictum'' is a species of plant in the family Acanthaceae which is endemic to South America. The plant grows to a height of two metres or half that if it grown in a container. The waxy flowers grow in twelve inch spikes and in their native country they attract hummingbirds and butterflies when they bloom in the autumn. , plantoftheweek.org, accessed August 2012 Position : Plant them where they receive bright light to ensure it flowers well. Preferably no harsh afternoon sun. They tolerate shade for half of the day but rather no more. Pests : not a garden plant prone to many pests, thus low maintenance in that regard. Propagation : Roots easily from semi-soft cuttings. Tip the growing tips a few times to promote a compact plant before you allow it to mature. Growth habit : Multi-branched plant, straight fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Kuntze
Carl Ernst Otto Kuntze (23 June 1843 – 27 January 1907) was a German botanist. Biography Otto Kuntze was born in Leipzig. An apothecary in his early career, he published an essay entitled ''Pocket Fauna of Leipzig''. Between 1863 and 1866 he worked as tradesman in Berlin and traveled through central Europe and Italy. From 1868 to 1873 he had his own factory for essential oils and attained a comfortable standard of living. Between 1874 and 1876, he traveled around the world: the Caribbean, United States, Japan, China, South East Asia, Arabian peninsula and Egypt. The journal of these travels was published as "Around the World" (1881). From 1876 to 1878 he studied Natural Science in Berlin and Leipzig and gained his doctorate in Freiburg with a monography of the genus '' Cinchona''. He edited the botanical collection from his world voyage encompassing 7,700 specimens in Berlin and Kew Gardens. The publication came as a shock to botany, since Kuntze had entirely revised ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acanthaceae
Acanthaceae is a family (the acanthus family) of dicotyledonous flowering plants containing almost 250 genera and about 2500 species. Most are tropical herbs, shrubs, or twining vines; some are epiphytes. Only a few species are distributed in temperate regions. The four main centres of distribution are Indonesia and Malaysia, Africa, Brazil, and Central America. Representatives of the family can be found in nearly every habitat, including dense or open forests, scrublands, wet fields and valleys, sea coast and marine areas, swamps, and mangrove forests. Description Plants in this family have simple, opposite, decussated leaves with entire (or sometimes toothed, lobed, or spiny) margins, and without stipules. The leaves may contain cystoliths, calcium carbonate concretions, seen as streaks on the surface. The flowers are perfect, zygomorphic to nearly actinomorphic, and arranged in an inflorescence that is either a spike, raceme, or cyme. Typically, a colorful brac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Endemism
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere. For example, the Cape sugarbird is found exclusively in southwestern South Africa and is therefore said to be ''endemic'' to that particular part of the world. An endemic species can be also be referred to as an ''endemism'' or in scientific literature as an ''endemite''. For example ''Cytisus aeolicus'' is an endemite of the Italian flora. ''Adzharia renschi'' was once believed to be an endemite of the Caucasus, but it was later discovered to be a non-indigenous species from South America belonging to a different genus. The extreme opposite of an endemic species is one with a cosmopolitan distribution, having a global or widespread range. A rare alternative term for a species that is endemic is "precinctive", which applies t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the southern Subregion#Americas, subregion of a single continent called Americas, America. South America is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east by the Atlantic Ocean; North America and the Caribbean Sea lie to the northwest. The continent generally includes twelve sovereign states: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, and Venezuela; two dependent territory, dependent territories: the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands; and one administrative division, internal territory: French Guiana. In addition, the ABC islands (Leeward Antilles), ABC islands of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Ascension Island (dependency of Saint Helena, Asce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odontonema
''Odontonema'', the toothedthreads, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae. It is native to Central America. Species * ''Odontonema albiflorum'' Leonard * ''Odontonema album'' V.M.Baum * ''Odontonema amplexicaule'' Nees * ''Odontonema auriculatum'' (Rose) T.F. Daniel * ''Odontonema bracteolatum'' (Jacq.) Kuntze * ''Odontonema brevipes'' Urb. * ''Odontonema callistachyum'' (Schltdl. & Cham.) Kuntze * ''Odontonema cuspidatum'' (Nees) Kuntze – Mottled toothedthread * ''Odontonema foliaceobracteatus'' (Oerst.) Kuntze * ''Odontonema glaberrimum'' (M.E. Jones) V.M. Baum * ''Odontonema glabrum'' Brandegee * ''Odontonema hondurensis'' (Lindau) D.N.Gibson * ''Odontonema laxum'' Baum, V.M. * ''Odontonema liesneri'' Wassh. * ''Odontonema mazarunensis'' Wassh. * ''Odontonema microphyllus'' Durkee * ''Odontonema mortonii'' V.M. Baum * ''Odontonema nitidum'' (Jacq.) Kuntze – Shrubby toothedthread * ''Odontonema rubrum'' (Vahl) Kuntze * ''Odontonema rutilans'' (Pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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