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Stenomesson Pearcei
''Stenomesson'' is a genus of bulbous plants in the family Amaryllidaceae. All the species are native to western South America (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and northern Chile).Meerow, Alan W. 2000. Phylogeny of the American Amaryllidaceae based on nrDNA ITS sequences Systematic Botany 25(4):708-726 Taxonomy It was published by William Herbert (botanist), William Herbert in 1821. The lectotype species ''Stenomesson flavum'' was designated by Hamilton Paul Traub in 1963. Etymology The generic name ''Stenomesson'' references the floral morphology. It is composed of the Greek words ''stenos'', meaning narrow, and ''meso'', meaning "in the middle".Weber, O., & Wilkin, P. (2007). 588. ''STENOMESSON PEARCEI'': Amaryllidaceae. Curtis's Botanical Magazine, 24(2), 114-120. Species , Plants of the World Online accepted the following species: *''Stenomesson aurantiacum'' (Carl Sigismund Kunth, Kunth) William Herbert (botanist), Herb. - Colombia, Ecuador, Peru *''Stenomesson breviflorum'' Herb. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Department Of Pasco
Pasco () is a department and region in central Peru. Its capital is Cerro de Pasco. Political division The region is divided into 3 provinces (, singular: ), which are composed of 28 districts (''distritos'', singular: ''distrito''). Provinces The provinces, with their capitals in parentheses, are: * Daniel Alcídes Carrión ( Yanahuanca) * Oxapampa ( Oxapampa) * Pasco (Cerro de Pasco Cerro de Pasco is a city in central Peru, located at the top of the Andean Mountains. It is the capital of both the Pasco Province and the Department of Pasco, and an important mining center of silver, copper, zinc and lead. At an elevation of ...) Places of interest * Cerro de la Sal * El Sira Communal Reserve * Gran Pajonal * San Matías–San Carlos Protection Forest * Yanachaga–Chemillén National Park * Yanesha Communal Reserve External links Gobierno Regional Pasco – Pasco Regional Government official website Pasco Pasco {{Pasco-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hipólito Ruiz López
Hipólito Ruiz López (August 8, 1754 in Belorado, Burgos, Spain – 1816 in Madrid), or Hipólito Ruiz, was a Spanish botanist known for researching the floras of Peru and Chile during an expedition under Charles III of Spain, Carlos III from 1777 to 1788. During the reign of Carlos III, three major botanical expeditions were sent to the New World; Ruiz and José Antonio Pavón Jiménez were the botanists for the first of these expeditions, to Peru and Chile. Background After studying Latin with an uncle who was a priest, at the age of 14 Ruiz López went to Madrid to study logic, physics, chemistry and pharmacology. He also studied botany at the Migas Calientes Botanical Gardens (now the Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid), under the supervision of Casimiro Gómez Ortega (1741–1818) and Antonio Palau Verdera (1734–1793). Ruiz had not yet completed his pharmacology studies when he was named the head botanist of the expedition. The French physician Joseph Dombey was named as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stenomesson Ecuadorense
''Stenomesson'' is a genus of bulbous plants in the family Amaryllidaceae. All the species are native to western South America (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and northern Chile).Meerow, Alan W. 2000. Phylogeny of the American Amaryllidaceae based on nrDNA ITS sequences Systematic Botany 25(4):708-726 Taxonomy It was published by William Herbert in 1821. The lectotype species ''Stenomesson flavum'' was designated by Hamilton Paul Traub in 1963. Etymology The generic name ''Stenomesson'' references the floral morphology. It is composed of the Greek words ''stenos'', meaning narrow, and ''meso'', meaning "in the middle".Weber, O., & Wilkin, P. (2007). 588. ''STENOMESSON PEARCEI'': Amaryllidaceae. Curtis's Botanical Magazine, 24(2), 114-120. Species , Plants of the World Online accepted the following species: *'' Stenomesson aurantiacum'' (Kunth) Herb. - Colombia, Ecuador, Peru *'' Stenomesson breviflorum'' Herb. - Peru ( Junín, Lima) *''Stenomesson campanulatum'' Alan Meerow - Peru ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Department Of Amazonas, Peru
Amazonas () is a department and region in northern Peru bordered by Ecuador on the north and west, Cajamarca on the west, La Libertad on the south, and Loreto and San Martín on the east. Its capital is the city of Chachapoyas. With a landscape of steep river gorges and mountains, Amazonas is the location of Kuelap, a huge stone fortress enclosing more than 400 stone structures; it was built on a mountain about 3,000 meters high, starting about 500 AD and was occupied to the mid-16th century. It is one of Peru's major archeological sites. Geography The department of Amazonas consists of regions covered by rainforests and mountain ranges. The rainforest zone predominates (72.93%) and it extends to the north over its oriental slope, up to the border with Ecuador in the summits of the Cordillera del Cóndor. The mountain range zone is located in the southern provinces of the Amazonas Region and it only includes 27.07% of its whole territorial surface. One of the factors th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henk Van Der Werff
Henk is a Dutch male given name, originally a short form of Hendrik. It influenced " Hank" which is used in English-speaking countries (mainly in the US) as a form of "Henry". Academics *Henk Aertsen (born 1943), Dutch Anglo-Saxon linguist *Henk Barendregt (born 1947), Dutch logician *Henk Jaap Beentje (born 1951), Dutch botanist *Henk Blezer (born 1961), Dutch Tibetologist, Indologist, and scholar of Buddhist studies *Henk Bodewitz (1939–2022), Dutch Sanskrit scholar *Henk J. M. Bos (born 1940), Dutch historian of mathematics *Henk Braakhuis (born 1939), Dutch historian of philosophy *Henk Buck (1930–2023), Dutch organic chemist * Henk van Dongen (1936–2011), Dutch organizational theorist and policy advisor * Henk Dorgelo (1894–1961), Dutch physicist and academic *Henk van der Flier (born 1945), Dutch psychologist * Henk A. M. J. ten Have (born 1951), Dutch medical ethicist * Henk van de Hulst (1918–2000), Dutch astronomer and mathematician * Henk Lombaers (1920–2007 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stenomesson Chloranthum
''Stenomesson chloranthum'' is a species of flowering plant in the amaryllis family, Amaryllidaceae. It is endemic to Peru. Alan Meerow and Henk van der Werff the botanists who first formally described the species, named it after its green (Latinized form of Greek , khlōrós) flowers (Latinized form of Greek , ánthos). Description It is a perennial herb with a round bulb that is 2.5-4 centimeters in diameter. It has 2-3 dull, olive green leaves that are 25-29 by 2-2.5 centimeters with blunt tips. Its inflorescences are on a stem-like stalk that is 30-40 centimeters long. The flowering stalk is 7-8 millimeters in diameter at its base tapering to 5 millimeters at its apex. The flowering stalk is circular and solid in cross section. Its flowers occur in clusters of 5-10 at the top of the stalk. The cluster of flowers is subtended by 2 pale green bracts that are 2.5-3 by 1-1.5 centimeters and come to a point at their tips. The pale green, bell-shaped flowers are 5.8-6.7 centime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarapacá Region
The Tarapacá Region (, ) is one of Chile's 16 first-order Administrative divisions of Chile, administrative divisions. It comprises two provinces, Iquique Province, Iquique and Tamarugal Province, Tamarugal. It borders the Chilean Arica y Parinacota Region to the north, Bolivia's Oruro Department and Potosí Department on the east, Chile's Antofagasta Region to the south and the Pacific Ocean to the west. The port city of Iquique is the region's capital. Much of the region was once the Tarapacá Province (Peru), Tarapacá Province of Peru, which was annexed by Chile under the 1883 Treaty of Ancón at the close of the War of the Pacific. The region was important economically as a site of intense Chile saltpeter, saltpeter mining, before synthetic nitrate manufacturing became possible. A number of abandoned mining towns can still be found in the region. The present day Tarapacá Region was created in 2007 by subdividing the former Tarapacá Region under Law No. 20,175, which w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierfelice Ravenna
Pierfelice (Pedro Félix, Pierre Félice) Ravenna (1938–2022) was a Chilean botanist of Italian Jewish origin. His research interests were mainly in the field of South American Amaryllidaceae, Alstromeriaceae and Iridaceae. Selected publications * 1970a. ''Nuevas especies de Amaryllidaceae''. Notic. Mens. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. Santiago 269 : 1-7 * 1970b. ''Contributions to South American Amaryllidaceae III''. Pl. Life 37: 73–103, figs. 18-25 * * 1972. ''Latin American Amaryllidis 1971''. Pl. Life 28: 119–127, figs. 28-30 * 1974. ''Contributions to South American Amaryllidaceae VI''. Pl. Life 30: 29-79 * 1978. ''Studies in the Alliaceae‑II (error tip. "Alliae”)''. Pl. Life 34 (2): 3-10 * * 1983. '' Catila and Onira, two new genera of South American Iridaceae''. Nordic Journal of Botany 3 ( 2): 197-205 * 1988. ''New species of South American Habranthus and Zephyranthes (Amaryllidaceae)''. Onira 1 (8): 53-56 * 2000a. ''New or noteworthy Leucocoryne species (Alliaceae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stenomesson Chilense
''Stenomesson'' is a genus of bulbous plants in the family Amaryllidaceae. All the species are native to western South America (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and northern Chile).Meerow, Alan W. 2000. Phylogeny of the American Amaryllidaceae based on nrDNA ITS sequences Systematic Botany 25(4):708-726 Taxonomy It was published by William Herbert in 1821. The lectotype species ''Stenomesson flavum'' was designated by Hamilton Paul Traub in 1963. Etymology The generic name ''Stenomesson'' references the floral morphology. It is composed of the Greek words ''stenos'', meaning narrow, and ''meso'', meaning "in the middle".Weber, O., & Wilkin, P. (2007). 588. ''STENOMESSON PEARCEI'': Amaryllidaceae. Curtis's Botanical Magazine, 24(2), 114-120. Species , Plants of the World Online accepted the following species: *'' Stenomesson aurantiacum'' (Kunth) Herb. - Colombia, Ecuador, Peru *'' Stenomesson breviflorum'' Herb. - Peru ( Junín, Lima) *''Stenomesson campanulatum'' Alan Meerow - Peru ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
