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Prockia Oaxacana
''Prockia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Salicaceae. It consists of approximately six species of shrubs and small trees native to the West Indies, Mexico, Central America, and South America. Its type species, ''Prockia crucis'', is highly polymorphic and has a broad distribution, from Mexico and the West Indies to Uruguay and northern Argentina. The genus name of ''Prockia'' is in honour of Christian Leberecht von Prøck (1718–1780), a Danish baron. He served as Governor-General of the Danish West Indies colonies from 1756 to 1766. It was first described and published in Syst. Nat. edition.10, Vol.2 on page 1074 in 1759. Historically, ''Prockia'' was characterized by having pseudo-axile placentation (i.e., parietal placentae that intrude into the center of the ovary and eventually fuse, appearing axile) and 3-merous flowers and lacking nectaries.Sleumer, H.O. 1980. Flacourtiaceae. ''Flora Neotropica'' 22: 1-499. However, discoveries of new species have confounded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Browne (physician)
Patrick Browne (1720–1790) was an Irish physician and botanist. Career Browne was born in Woodstock, County Mayo in 1720, sent to relatives on Antigua in 1737 and returned to Europe due to ill health after two years. He studied medicine, natural history and especially botany at Reims, Paris, and Leyden, qualifying in 1743. He worked as a physician at St. Thomas's Hospital, London, visited Barbados, Montserrat, Antigua, and St. Kitts in the West Indies and settled as physician in Jamaica in 1746. He corresponded with the botanist Carl Linnaeus, among whose papers were found fragments of articles on venereal diseases and yaws by Browne. His major work, ''The Civil and Natural History of Jamaica'' (1756), illustrated by the botanic artist Georg Dionysius Ehret, contains new names for 104 genera.Patrick Browne author, 1756 - Climatoloy, Medical - 503 pages He retired to Rushbrook, near Claremorris, County Mayo in 1771. References Other sources * Nelson, E. C. ''Huntia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nectar
Nectar is a sugar-rich liquid produced by plants in glands called nectaries or nectarines, either within the flowers with which it attracts pollinating animals, or by extrafloral nectaries, which provide a nutrient source to animal mutualists, which in turn provide herbivore protection. Common nectar-consuming pollinators include mosquitoes, hoverflies, wasps, bees, butterflies and moths, hummingbirds, honeyeaters and bats. Nectar plays a crucial role in the foraging economics and evolution of nectar-eating species; for example, nectar foraging behavior is largely responsible for the divergent evolution of the African honey bee, ''A. m. scutellata'' and the western honey bee. Nectar is an economically important substance as it is the sugar source for honey. It is also useful in agriculture and horticulture because the adult stages of some predatory insects feed on nectar. For example, a number of parasitoid wasps (e.g. the social wasp species '' Apoica flavissima' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prockia Krusei
''Prockia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Salicaceae. It consists of approximately six species of shrubs and small trees native to the West Indies, Mexico, Central America, and South America. Its type species, ''Prockia crucis'', is highly polymorphic and has a broad distribution, from Mexico and the West Indies to Uruguay and northern Argentina. The genus name of ''Prockia'' is in honour of Christian Leberecht von Prøck (1718–1780), a Danish baron. He served as Governor-General of the Danish West Indies colonies from 1756 to 1766. It was first described and published in Syst. Nat. edition.10, Vol.2 on page 1074 in 1759. Historically, ''Prockia'' was characterized by having pseudo-axile placentation (i.e., parietal placentae that intrude into the center of the ovary and eventually fuse, appearing axile) and 3-merous flowers and lacking nectaries.Sleumer, H.O. 1980. Flacourtiaceae. ''Flora Neotropica'' 22: 1-499. However, discoveries of new species have confounded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten
Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten (6 November 1817, in Stralsund – 10 July 1908, in Zoppot) was a German botanist and geologist. Born in Stralsund, he followed the example of Alexander von Humboldt and traveled 1844-56 the northern part of South America ( Venezuela, Ecuador and Colombia). From 1856 to 1868, he was a professor at the agricultural college in Berlin, afterwards serving as a professor of plant physiology at the University of Vienna (1868–72). In 1881, at the suggestion of David Friedrich Weinland, Karsten became convinced of the correctness of Otto Hahn's organic theory of the chondrites and, as a result, wrote an essay entitled "Die Meteorite und ihre Organismen" in which he declared his support for Hahn's theory. He died 1908 in Berlin- Grunewald. As a taxonomist, he was the binomial author of many botanical species. Selected bibliography * ''Florae Columbiae ...'' 1859–1869. (Vol. 1Digital edition/ Vol. 2Digital editionby the University and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prockia Flava
''Prockia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Salicaceae. It consists of approximately six species of shrubs and small trees native to the West Indies, Mexico, Central America, and South America. Its type species, ''Prockia crucis'', is highly polymorphic and has a broad distribution, from Mexico and the West Indies to Uruguay and northern Argentina. The genus name of ''Prockia'' is in honour of Christian Leberecht von Prøck (1718–1780), a Danish baron. He served as Governor-General of the Danish West Indies colonies from 1756 to 1766. It was first described and published in Syst. Nat. edition.10, Vol.2 on page 1074 in 1759. Historically, ''Prockia'' was characterized by having pseudo-axile placentation (i.e., parietal placentae that intrude into the center of the ovary and eventually fuse, appearing axile) and 3-merous flowers and lacking nectaries.Sleumer, H.O. 1980. Flacourtiaceae. ''Flora Neotropica'' 22: 1-499. However, discoveries of new species have confounded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Carpenter Standley
Paul Carpenter Standley (March 21, 1884 – June 2, 1963) was an American botanist known for his work on neotropical plants. __TOC__ Standley was born on March 21, 1884 in Avalon, Missouri. He attended Drury College in Springfield, Missouri and New Mexico State College, where he received a bachelor's degree in 1907, and received a master's degree from New Mexico State College in 1908. He remained at New Mexico State College as an assistant from 1908–1909. He was the Assistant Curator of the Division of Plants at the United States National Museum from 1909 to 1922. In spring, 1928, he took a position at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, where worked until 1950. While at the Field Museum he did fieldwork in Guatemala between 1938 and 1941. After his retirement in 1950, he moved to the '' Escuela Agricola Panamericana,'' where he worked in the library and herbarium and did field work until 1956, when he stopped doing botanical work. In 1957 he moved to Tegucig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prockia Costaricensis
''Prockia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Salicaceae. It consists of approximately six species of shrubs and small trees native to the West Indies, Mexico, Central America, and South America. Its type species, ''Prockia crucis'', is highly polymorphic and has a broad distribution, from Mexico and the West Indies to Uruguay and northern Argentina. The genus name of ''Prockia'' is in honour of Christian Leberecht von Prøck (1718–1780), a Danish baron. He served as Governor-General of the Danish West Indies colonies from 1756 to 1766. It was first described and published in Syst. Nat. edition.10, Vol.2 on page 1074 in 1759. Historically, ''Prockia'' was characterized by having pseudo-axile placentation (i.e., parietal placentae that intrude into the center of the ovary and eventually fuse, appearing axile) and 3-merous flowers and lacking nectaries.Sleumer, H.O. 1980. Flacourtiaceae. ''Flora Neotropica'' 22: 1-499. However, discoveries of new species have confounded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bolivia
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Neosprucea
''Neosprucea'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Salicaceae. There are nine species native to Panama and northern South America.Alford, M.H. 2008Revision of ''Neosprucea ''(Salicaceae).''Systematic Botany Monographs'' 85: 1-62. Species include: * '' Neosprucea grandiflora'' * '' Neosprucea melastomatoides'' * '' Neosprucea montana'' * '' Neosprucea paterna'' * '' Neosprucea pedicellata'' * '' Neosprucea rimachii'' * '' Neosprucea sararensis'' * '' Neosprucea tenuisepala'' * '' Neosprucea wilburiana'' References Salicaceae Salicaceae genera Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxa named by Hermann Otto Sleumer {{Salicaceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pineda (plant)
''Pineda'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Salicaceae. It contains two species of shrubs: ''Pineda incana'', which is native to the Andes of Ecuador and Peru, and '' Pineda ovata'', which is native to the Andes of Bolivia.Alford, M.H. 2006. A taxonomic revision of the Andean genus ''Pineda'' (Salicaceae). ''Kew Bulletin'' 61: 205-214. ''Pineda'' is unique among Salicaceae in that the species have 4-5 sepals and petals, hermaphroditic flowers, receptacular disk glands (=nectaries), and outer filamentous staminodes. It is one of few genera of Salicaceae that occur at high elevations. Formerly placed in the heterogeneous family Flacourtiaceae,Sleumer, H.O. 1980. Flacourtiaceae. ''Flora Neotropica'' 22: 1-499. ''Pineda'' is now classified in tribe Prockieae of Salicaceae, along with close relatives ''Prockia'', ''Banara'', ''Hasseltiopsis'', and ''Neosprucea''. ''Pineda'' was named in honor of Antonio Pineda, a Guatemalan botanist who was coordinator of the naturalists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hasseltiopsis
''Hasseltiopsis'' is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Salicaceae. It consists of one species of trees: ''Hasseltiopsis dioica'', which is native to Central America. Formerly placed in the heterogeneous family Flacourtiaceae,Sleumer, H.O. 1980. Flacourtiaceae. ''Flora Neotropica'' 22: 1-499. ''Hasseltiopsis'' is now classified in Salicaceae, along with close relatives ''Prockia'', '' Pineda'', ''Neosprucea'', and ''Banara ''Banara'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Salicaceae (formerly in Flacourtiaceae). Species accepted by the Plants of the World Online as of October 2022: *'' Banara acunae'' *'' Banara arguta'' *'' Banara axilliflora'' *'' Ba ...''.Alford, M.H. 2008. Revision of ''Neosprucea'' (Salicaceae). ''Systematic Botany Monographs'' 85: 1-62. References Monotypic Malpighiales genera Salicaceae Salicaceae genera {{Salicaceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
