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Primulina Linearicalyx
''Primulina'' is a genus of flowering plants in the African violet family Gesneriaceae. It includes 232 species native to southern and north-central China and northern Vietnam. The species are mostly calciphilous, and typically grow in the extensive limestone karst regions of China and Vietnam.Luu HT, Hsieh C-L, Chuang C-R, Chen C- W, Tran NT, Vu NL, et al. (2023) ''Langbiangia'', a new genus of Gesneriaceae endemic to Langbiang Plateau, southern Vietnam and a taxonomic endeavor to achieve key targets of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework. ''PLoS ONE'' 18(5): e0284650. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pone.0284650 In 2011 the genus was expanded with the transfer of many species that had previously been placed in the genus '' Chirita''. In 2016 five species were moved to the genus ''Deinostigma'', which was merged into '' Metapetrocosmea'' in 2022. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Fletcher Hance
Henry Fletcher Hance (4 August 1827 – 22 June 1886) was a British diplomat who devoted his spare time to the study of Chinese plants. Born in Brompton, London, his first appointment was to Hong Kong in 1844. In May 1852 in Exeter he married his first wife Anne Edith Baylis, who accompanied him on his return to Hong Kong. He later became vice-consul (1861–1878) to Huangpu District, Guangzhou, Whampoa, consul (1878–1881) to Guangzhou, Canton, and finally consul to Xiamen, where he died in 1886. In 1873, Hance published a supplement to George Bentham's 1861 He graduated as Philosophiae Doctor from the University of Giessen on 24 November 1849, during which time he was in China. He found, named and described (in Latin) ''Iris speculatrix'' in 1875. He was the taxonomic authority, taxonomic author of many plants. In 1857 Berthold Carl Seemann named the genus ''Hancea'' (family Euphorbiaceae) in his honour. In 1878 Hance was elected a fellow of the Linnean Society of London. Spe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Primulina Atropurpurea
''Primulina'' is a genus of flowering plants in the African violet family Gesneriaceae. It includes 232 species native to southern and north-central China and northern Vietnam. The species are mostly calciphilous, and typically grow in the extensive limestone karst regions of China and Vietnam.Luu HT, Hsieh C-L, Chuang C-R, Chen C- W, Tran NT, Vu NL, et al. (2023) ''Langbiangia'', a new genus of Gesneriaceae endemic to Langbiang Plateau, southern Vietnam and a taxonomic endeavor to achieve key targets of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework. ''PLoS ONE'' 18(5): e0284650. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pone.0284650 In 2011 the genus was expanded with the transfer of many species that had previously been placed in the genus '' Chirita''. In 2016 five species were moved to the genus ''Deinostigma'', which was merged into '' Metapetrocosmea'' in 2022. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
