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Ottelia Acuminata
''Ottelia acuminata'', is a plant species endemic to Southern China.Wang, Q.F., Guo, Y.H., Haynes, R.R., Hellquist, C.B., 2010. Hydrocharitaceae. In: Wu, Z.Y., Peter, H.R. (Eds.) Flora of China. Volume 23. Science Press and Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing and St. Louis, 91–102.Cook, C.D.K., Urmi-Konig, K., 1984. A revision of the genus ''Ottelia'' (Hydrocharitaceae). 2. The species of Eurasia, Australasia and America. Aquat. Bot. 20, 131–177. Description The whole plant is underwater, except for the showy three-petaled flowers with lobes. ;Varieties # ''Ottelia acuminata'' var. ''acuminata'' - Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Sichuan, Yunnan. # ''Ottelia acuminata'' var. ''crispa'' (Hand.-Mazz.) H. Li - Yunnan (Lugu Hu). # ''Ottelia acuminata'' var. ''jingxiensis'' H. Q. Wang & S. C. Sun - Guangxi (Jingxi). # ''Ottelia acuminata'' var. ''lunanensis'' H. Li - Yunnan (Lugu Hu). References acuminata Flora of Asia {{Monocot-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dali Town
Dali Town () is a township-level division in Dali City, in the northwest of Yunnan province, China. The town contains the historic centre of the county-level city of Dali and is also commonly known as Dali Old Town (). The modern centre of Dali City, however, is 10 km south of the old town at Xiaguan. Being the county seat of Dali City, Xiaguan is often labelled as Dali on maps and is sometimes referred to as Dali New Town () to distinguish it from Dali Town. The old town has become well-known as a tourist site in part thanks to its picturesque location and historic Bai architecture. History Dali has long been a regional centre of commerce, being located at a crossroads of trade routes between Tibet, China, Burma, and Southeast Asia. The Bai people first settled the region 3000 years ago. Dali first emerged as the capital of the Nanzhao Kingdom in the 8th century. Later, the town served as the capital of the Kingdom of Dali until its conquest by the Yuan. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Gagnepain
François Gagnepain (23 September 1866 – 25 January 1952) was a French botanist. The standard botanical author abbreviation Gagnep. is applied to plants described by Gagnepain. With Achille Eugène Finet, he named a number of species within the botanical family Annonaceae. The genus ''Gagnepainia'' (family Zingiberaceae) was named in his honor by Karl Moritz Schumann. The French Academy of Sciences awarded Gagnepain the ''Prix de Coincy'' for the year 1907. Selected publications * ''Topographie botanique des environs de Cercy-la-Tour (Nièvre)'', Société d'histoire naturelle d'Autun, 1900 - Botanical topography involving the environs of Cercy-la-Tour (Nièvre). * ''Contributions à la flore de l'Asie orientale'', 1905, (in collaboration with Achille Eugène Finet) - Contributions to the flora of eastern Asia. * ''Contribution à l'étude géo-botanique de l'Indo-Chine'', 1926 - Contribution to the geobotanical study of Indochina Mainland Southeast Asia, also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Edgar Dandy
James Edgar Dandy (24 September 1903, in Preston, Lancashire – 10 November 1976, in Tring) was a British botanist, Keeper of Botany at the British Museum (Natural History) between 1956 and 1966. He was a world specialist on the plant genus ''Potamogeton'' and the family Magnoliaceae. Life Dandy was educated at Preston Grammar School and after that at Downing College, Cambridge, where he took his B.A. In 1925, he was appointed as an assistant to John Hutchinson at Kew Gardens, who worked on a new Angiosperm 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 br ... classification. He gave Dandy the opportunity to revise three taxa, one of which was Magnoliaceae. He became Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1927. On 11 July the same year, he was appointed Second class Assistant at the B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, most populous country, with a Population of China, population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and Borders of China, borders fourteen countries by land, the List of countries and territories by land borders, most of any country in the world, tied with Russia. Covering an area of approximately , it is the world's third List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country by total land area. The country consists of 22 provinces of China, provinces, five autonomous regions of China, autonomous regions, four direct-administered municipalities of China, municipalities, and two special administrative regions of China, Special Administrative Regions (Hong Kong and Macau). The national capital is Beijing, and the List of cities in China by population, most populous cit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ottelia
''Ottelia'' is a genus of an aquatic plant family Hydrocharitaceae described as a genus in 1805. The genus is native to tropical and subtropical regions of Africa, Asia, South America, and Australia.Cook, C.D.K. and Urmi- Konig, K. (1984A revision of the genus ''Ottelia'' (Hydrocharitaceae). 2. The species of Eurasia, Australasia and America''Aquatic Botany'' 20: 131–177 Description The genus is highly variable, with a variety of features. It contains aquatic herbs with crowded leaves. Some of the leaves are held on short stems. Others float on long stems. The rooting stem is long. The flowers are held in a herbaceous bract that is many nerved and has two to six clear ribs. The tubular spathe is shortly divided into two. Each flower has two rows of a trimerous perianth held above the beak of the ovary. The rigid outer layer is oblong or linear. The larger inner layer is petal-like with a fleshy appendage at the base. There are six or more stamens, often with flattened fila ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
