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Sesamothamnus Lugardii
''Sesamothamnus'' is a genus of plant in the family Pedaliaceae. The genus is found from Ethiopia to South Africa. Taxonomy ''Sesamothamnus'' was first named and described in 1869 by Friedrich Welwitsch. Species As of June 2024, Plants of the World Online accepts six species for this genus: *''Sesamothamnus benguellensis'' Welw. *'' Sesamothamnus busseanus'' Engl. *''Sesamothamnus guerichii ''Sesamothamnus'' is a genus of plant in the family Pedaliaceae. The genus is found from Ethiopia to South Africa. Taxonomy ''Sesamothamnus'' was first named and described in 1869 by Friedrich Welwitsch. Species As of June 2024, Plants of t ...'' (Engl.) E.A.Bruce *'' Sesamothamnus leistnari'' P.Craven ex Swanepoel & A.E.van Wyk *'' Sesamothamnus lugardii'' N.E.Br. *'' Sesamothamnus rivae'' Engl. References Lamiales genera Pedaliaceae Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Lamiales-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Welwitsch
Friedrich Martin Josef Welwitsch (25 February 1806 – 20 October 1872) was an Austrian Empire, Austrian exploration, explorer and botany, botanist who in Angola was the first European to describe the plant ''Welwitschia, Welwitschia mirabilis''. His report received wide attention among the botanists and general public, comparable only to the discovery of two other plants in the 19th century, namely ''Victoria amazonica'' and ''Rafflesia arnoldii''.Strlič, Matija. "Dr. Friderik Velbič, 1806–1872". ''Proteus, the journal of the Natural Sciences Society of Slovenia''. Year 61, No. 9/10 (pp. 396-404). ISSN 0033-1805. In Angola, Welwitsch also discovered ''Rhipsalis baccifera'', the only cactus species naturally occurring outside the New World. It was found a few years later in Sri Lanka too, which reignited the now already one-and-a-half-century-old debate on the origin of cacti in Africa and Asia. At the time, the debate concluded with the conviction of numerous authors that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plant
Plants are the eukaryotes that form the Kingdom (biology), kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly Photosynthesis, photosynthetic. This means that they obtain their energy from sunlight, using chloroplasts derived from endosymbiosis with cyanobacteria to produce sugars from carbon dioxide and water, using the green pigment chlorophyll. Exceptions are parasitic plants that have lost the genes for chlorophyll and photosynthesis, and obtain their energy from other plants or fungi. Most plants are multicellular organism, multicellular, except for some green algae. Historically, as in Aristotle's biology, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi. Definitions have narrowed since then; current definitions exclude fungi and some of the algae. By the definition used in this article, plants form the clade Viridiplantae (green plants), which consists of the green algae and the embryophytes or land plants (hornworts, liverworts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedaliaceae
Pedaliaceae, the pedalium family or sesame family, is a flowering plant family classified in the order (biology), order Lamiales. The family includes sesame (''Sesamum indicum''), the source of sesame seeds. It comprises 13 genera and approximately 70 species. Eight genera are native to the African continent and one genus (''Uncarina'') is endemic to Madagascar. Four genera (''Sesamum'', ''Josephinia'', ''Pedalium'' and ''Dicerocaryum'') are mainly African natives but they also include regions to the east (including Madagascar, India, Sri Lanka, Malayan Islands and northern Australia).Ib Friis and Olof Ryding (Editors) The family has a diverse range of seed and fruit dispersal throughout the various species. Including; animal dispersal via burrs, carried by feet (in ''Dicerocaryum'', ''Harpagophytum'' and ''Josephinia'') or caught in the fur of passing animals (''Uncarina''), winged fruits using the wind for dispersal (''Holubia'' and ''Pterodiscus''), or even winged seeds ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plants Of The World Online
Plants of the World Online (POWO) is an online taxonomic database published by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. History Following the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew launched Plants of the World Online in March 2017 with the goal of creating an exhaustive online database of all seed-bearing plants worldwide. (Govaerts wrongly speaks of "Convention for Botanical Diversity (CBD)). The initial focus was on tropical African flora, particularly flora ''Zambesiaca'', flora of West and East Tropical Africa. Since March 2024, the website has displayed AI-generated predictions of the extinction risk for each plant. Description The database uses the same taxonomical source as the International Plant Names Index, which is the World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP). The database contains information on the world's flora gathered from 250 years of botanical research. It aims to make available data from projects that no longer have an online ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sesamothamnus Benguellensis
''Sesamothamnus'' is a genus of plant in the family Pedaliaceae. The genus is found from Ethiopia to South Africa. Taxonomy ''Sesamothamnus'' was first named and described in 1869 by Friedrich Welwitsch. Species As of June 2024, Plants of the World Online accepts six species for this genus: *'' Sesamothamnus benguellensis'' Welw. *'' Sesamothamnus busseanus'' Engl. *''Sesamothamnus guerichii ''Sesamothamnus'' is a genus of plant in the family Pedaliaceae. The genus is found from Ethiopia to South Africa. Taxonomy ''Sesamothamnus'' was first named and described in 1869 by Friedrich Welwitsch. Species As of June 2024, Plants of t ...'' (Engl.) E.A.Bruce *'' Sesamothamnus leistnari'' P.Craven ex Swanepoel & A.E.van Wyk *'' Sesamothamnus lugardii'' N.E.Br. *'' Sesamothamnus rivae'' Engl. References Lamiales genera Pedaliaceae Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Lamiales-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lamiales Genera
The Lamiales (also known as the mint order) are an order (biology), order of flowering plants in the asterids clade of the Eudicots. Under the APG IV system of flowering plant classification the order consists of 24 families, and includes about 23,810 species and 1,059 genera with representatives found all over the world. Well-known or economically important members of this order include aromatic, culinary, and medicinal herbs such as basil (herb), basil, mentha, mint, rosemary, Salvia officinalis, sage, savory (herb), savory, marjoram, oregano, Hyssopus officinalis, hyssop, thyme, lavender, perilla, Aloysia citrodora, lemon verbena, catnip, Monarda, bee balm, Leonotis leonurus, wild dagga, and Leonurus japonicus, oriental motherwort, as well as olives, Fraxinus, ash trees, teak, Digitalis, foxgloves, lilacs, jasmine, Antirrhinum, snapdragons, Streptocarpus_sect._Saintpaulia, African violets, Jacarandas, Paulownias, Buddleja, butterfly bushes, sesame, and psyllium. Description Pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
