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Phlebocarya
''Phlebocarya'' is a genus of herbs in the family Haemodoraceae, first described as a genus in 1810. The entire genus is endemic to the southwestern part of Western Australia. ; Species * ''Phlebocarya ciliata'' R.Br. * ''Phlebocarya filifolia'' (F.Muell.) Benth. * ''Phlebocarya pilosissima ''Phlebocarya pilosissima'' is a plant in the Haemodoraceae family, native to Western Australia. Description ''Phlebocarya pilosissima'' has flattened to terete leaves. The leaf blade is 14-35 cm by 0.6-2 mm. Leaf surfaces can be smooth t ...'' (F.Muell.) Benth. References Haemodoraceae Commelinales genera Endemic flora of Australia Flora of Western Australia {{Commelinales-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phlebocarya Filifolia
''Phlebocarya filifolia'' is a plant in the Haemodoraceae family, native to Western Australia. Description ''Phlebocarya filifolia'' has flat leaves (occasionally terete). The leaf blade is 25-40 cm by 0.6-1.8 mm. The leaf margins are fringed but sometimes only on the apical or basal part. The sheath is hairy. The flower head can be slightly shorter to considerably longer than the leaves. The scape, the bracts and the pedicels are glabrous. The style is simple and there is one stigma. It flowers from October to December, and is found on sandy soils in shrublands and eucalypt woodlands. Taxonomy The plant was first described as ''Phlebocarya ciliata'' var ''filifolia'' by Ferdinand von Mueller in 1873, but later in 1873 George Bentham erected it to the species ''Phlebocarya filifolia''. Etymology The species epithet, ''filifolia'', is an adjective derived from the Latin, ''filum'' ("thread) and ''folium'' ("leaf") and thus describes the plant as having thread-like le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phlebocarya Pilosissima
''Phlebocarya pilosissima'' is a plant in the Haemodoraceae family, native to Western Australia. Description ''Phlebocarya pilosissima'' has flattened to terete leaves. The leaf blade is 14-35 cm by 0.6-2 mm. Leaf surfaces can be smooth to densely covered with sharp rigid bristly hairs (and on the margins). The flower heads vary from being about half as long to longer than the leaves. The scape is hairy and the bracts have branched hairs along the margin, while the pedicels are densely hairy. The style is trifid and there are three stigmas. Taxonomy & etymology The plant was first described as ''Phlebocarya ciliata'' var ''pilosissima'' by Ferdinand von Mueller in 1873, but later in 1873 George Bentham erected it to the species ''Phlebocarya pilosissima''. The species epithet, ''pilosissima'', comes from the Latin, ''pilus'' ("hair") which gives the adjective, ''pilosus'', and its superlative, ''pilosissima'', thus describing the plant as being the "hairiest". Referenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phlebocarya Ciliata
''Phlebocarya ciliata'' is a plant in the Haemodoraceae family, native to Western Australia. It was first described by Robert Brown in 1810. Description Phlebocarya ciliata has flat leaves with leaf blades that are 25-65 cm by 1.6-3.7 mm and have fringed margins (though sometimes only towards the apex or the base). The flowerhead is about 1/3 to 2/3 as long as the leaves. The style is simple and there is one stigma. It flowers from September to November and grows in heath and woodland in swampy to well-drained sandy soils. Etymology The species epithet, ''ciliata,'' is a Latin adjective, ''ciliatus'' (from ''cilium'', "eyelash") and thus describes the plant as having fine hairs extending from an edge, like an eyelash. References External links ''Phlebocarya ciliata'' occurrence datafrom Australasian Virtual Herbarium The ''Australasian Virtual Herbarium'' (AVH) is an online resource that allows access to plant specimen data held by various Australian and New Zealan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haemodoraceae
Haemodoraceae is a family of perennial herbaceous flowering plants with 14 genera and 102 known species. It is sometimes known as the "bloodwort family". Primarily a Southern Hemisphere family, they are found in South Africa, Australia and New Guinea, and in the Americas (from SE U.S.A. to tropical South America). Perhaps the best known are the widely cultivated and unusual kangaroo paws from Australia, of the two closely related genera ''Anigozanthos'' and ''Macropidia''. Taxonomy The Haemodoraceae were first described by Robert Brown in 1810, and bear his name as the botanical authority. An alternative name has been Haemodoreae The fourth Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (unchanged from the earlier APG systems of 2009, 2003 and 1998), also recognizes this family and places it in the order Commelinales, in the clade commelinids, in the monocots. The family of the Haemodoraceae then includes about sixteen sub-tropical or tropical genera found in the souther ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus. :E.g. '' Panthera leo'' (lion) and '' Panthera onca'' (jaguar) are two species within the genus ''Panthera''. ''Panthera'' is a genus within the family Felidae. The composition of a genus is determined by taxonomists. The standards for genus classification are not strictly codified, so different authorities often produce different classifications for genera. There are some general practices used, however, including the idea that a newly defined genus should fulfill these three criteria to be descriptively useful: # monophyly – all descendants of an ancestral taxon are grouped together (i.e. phylogenetic analysis should c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Commelinales Genera
Commelinales is an order of flowering plants. It comprises five families: Commelinaceae, Haemodoraceae, Hanguanaceae, Philydraceae, and Pontederiaceae. All the families combined contain over 885 species in about 70 genera; the majority of species are in the Commelinaceae. Plants in the order share a number of synapomorphies that tie them together, such as a lack of mycorrhizal associations and tapetal raphides. Estimates differ as to when the Commelinales evolved, but most suggest an origin and diversification sometime during the mid- to late Cretaceous. Depending on the methods used, studies suggest a range of origin between 123 and 73 million years, with diversification occurring within the group 110 to 66 million years ago. The order's closest relatives are in the Zingiberales, which includes ginger, bananas, cardamom, and others.Stevens, P. F. (2001 onwards). Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 9, November 2011. Taxonomy According to the most recent classification scheme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Endemic Flora Of Australia
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 to s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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