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Streblus Mitis
''Streblus'' is a genus of flowering plants in the mulberry family, Moraceae. It includes five species native to the Indian subcontinent, Indochina, southern China, and Malesia. Species Five species are currently accepted. *'' Streblus asper'' Lour. – Siamese rough bush *'' Streblus celebensis'' *'' Streblus mitis'' *'' Streblus vidalii'' *'' Streblus monoicus'' Formerly placed here *'' Paratrophis banksii'' – large-leaved milk tree (as ''Streblus banksii'' ) *'' Paratrophis microphylla'' – small-leaved milk tree (as ''Streblus heterophyllus'' ) * ''Paratrophis pendulina'' – ''aiai'' (Eastern Australia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia) (as ''Streblus pendulinus'' (Endl.) F.Muell and '' Streblus brunonianus'' ) *'' Paratrophis sclerophylla'' (as ''Streblus sclerophyllus'' Corner) *'' Paratrophis smithii'' – Three Kings milk tree (as ''Streblus smithii'' ) *'' Sloetia elongata'' (as ''Streblus elongatus'' ) *''Taxotrophis ilicifolia'' (as ''Streblus ilicifo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Streblus Asper
''Streblus asper'' is a tree known by several common names, including Siamese rough bush, khoi, serut, and toothbrush tree. It is a medium-sized tree native to dry regions in Indonesia, Cambodia, Thailand, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, and Vietnam. In the Philippines, it is commonly known as "bogta-e","bogtalay", and "Kalyos". In Cambodia, it is known as Snay. Several rural communes in Cambodia were named after the tree such as Snay Pol village (Poisonous Snay) of Prey Veng and Krang Snay (Hill of Snay) of Kampot Province. In Malaysia, it is known as "kesinai". Description The leaves are approximately long, rigid, oval-shaped, irregularly toothed, and borne on small petioles. Staminate flower heads are spherical with minute flowers; pistillate flowers have longer peduncles. Common Names *English: Sand Paper Tree, Siamese rough bush, Toothbrush tree *Hindi: Daheyā/Dahiā (दहेया/दहिया) , Karchannā (करचन्ना) , Rusa (रु ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paratrophis Pendulina
''Paratrophis pendulina'' is a species of flowering plant in the mulberry family, Moraceae. In Australia it is commonly known as whalebone tree, and other common names include the white handlewood, axe-handle wood, grey handlewood and prickly fig. In Hawaii it is known as Hawai'i roughbush or ''aiai'' in Hawaiian. It is native to New South Wales and Queensland in eastern Australia, and to New Guinea, the Caroline Islands, Mariana Islands, Norfolk Island, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji, the Tubuai Islands, and the Hawaiian Islands. It is usually a small tree or shrub, reaching a height of with a trunk diameter of .''Streblus brunonianus'' NSW Flora Online. Retrieved 23 April 2024. Description [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taxotrophis Taxoides
''Taxotrophis taxoides''Kurz WS (1877) In: ''For. Fl. Burm. 2: 465'' is a species of plant in the family Moraceae, tribe Moreae. It is a medium-sized, spiny bush (as in its Vietnamese name ''duối gai'') found in the sub-canopy layer of Asian tropical forests. This species can be found in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Indo-China, Hainan, Peninsular Malaysia, the Philippines, Java, the Maluku Islands, and the Lesser Sunda Islands. No subspecies are listed in the Catalogue of Life. It is dioecious Dioecy ( ; ; adj. dioecious, ) is a characteristic of certain species that have distinct unisexual individuals, each producing either male or female gametes, either directly (in animals) or indirectly (in seed plants). Dioecious reproduction is ..., with male and female flowers borne on separate plants. References {{Taxonbar, from=Q125573751 Moraceae Flora of Bangladesh Flora of Hainan Flora of India (region) Flora of Indo-China Flora of Malesia Flora of Sri Lanka Dioe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taxotrophis Ilicifolia
''Taxotrophis ilicifolia'' is a species of flowering plant belonging to the family Moraceae. Its native range is China (Southern Yunnan, Guangxi Guangxi,; officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the China, People's Republic of China, located in South China and bordering Vietnam (Hà Giang Province, Hà Giang, Cao Bằn ..., and Hainan) to Indochina, eastern India and Bangladesh, Malesia, and New Guinea. References Moraceae Flora of Assam (region) Flora of Bangladesh Flora of South-Central China Flora of Southeast China Flora of Indo-China Flora of Malesia Flora of New Guinea Plants described in 1873 Taxa named by Wilhelm Sulpiz Kurz {{Moraceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sloetia Elongata
''Sloetia'' is a monotypic genus (i.e. a genus that contains just one species) of plants in the mulberry family, Moraceae. The sole species is ''Sloetia elongata'', a tree native to southeastern Asia, ranging from the Nicobar Islands to Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, and Sulawesi. It has been described a number of times by different botanists, and thus has several synonyms. The plant produces white latex wherever it is cut. It is commonly known as "tampines tree" in Singapore, which is used as place names – Sungei Tampines river and Tampines Town are named after it. In Kuala Lumpur, the streets of a neighbourhood in Bangsar Bangsar is a residential suburb on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, lying about south-west of the city centre. It is part of the Lembah Pantai parliamentary constituency. Bangsar is administered by Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur (DBKL), unlike ... suburb are named, for example, Jalan Tempinis, Jalan Tempinis Kanan/Kiri and Lorong Tempinis Kiri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paratrophis Smithii
''Paratrophis smithii'' (also known as Smith's milkwood and the Three Kings milk tree) is a species of plant in the family Moraceae. It is endemic to Three Kings Islands, New Zealand. The bark exudes a thick white (often referred to as a milk-like) sap when cut. The flowers are small and unisexual and the fruit is either achene or drupe In botany, a drupe (or stone fruit) is a type of fruit in which an outer fleshy part (exocarp, or skin, and mesocarp, or flesh) surrounds a single shell (the ''pip'' (UK), ''pit'' (US), ''stone'', or ''pyrena'') of hardened endocarp with a seed .... Gallery References Moraceae Endemic flora of New Zealand Flora of the North Island Plants described in 1888 Taxa named by Thomas Frederic Cheeseman {{Moraceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paratrophis Sclerophylla
''Paratrophis sclerophylla'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Moraceae. It is a tree endemic to New Caledonia New Caledonia ( ; ) is a group of islands in the southwest Pacific Ocean, southwest of Vanuatu and east of Australia. Located from Metropolitan France, it forms a Overseas France#Sui generis collectivity, ''sui generis'' collectivity of t .... References Moraceae Endemic flora of New Caledonia Vulnerable plants Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Plants described in 1970 Taxa named by E. J. H. Corner {{Moraceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Streblus Brunonianus
''Streblus'' is a genus of flowering plants in the mulberry family, Moraceae. It includes five species native to the Indian subcontinent, Indochina, southern China, and Malesia. Species Five species are currently accepted. *'' Streblus asper'' Lour. – Siamese rough bush *'' Streblus celebensis'' *'' Streblus mitis'' *'' Streblus vidalii'' *'' Streblus monoicus'' Formerly placed here *'' Paratrophis banksii'' – large-leaved milk tree (as ''Streblus banksii'' ) *'' Paratrophis microphylla'' – small-leaved milk tree (as ''Streblus heterophyllus'' ) * '' Paratrophis pendulina'' – ''aiai'' (Eastern Australia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia Polynesia ( , ) is a subregion of Oceania, made up of more than 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean. The indigenous people who inhabit the islands of Polynesia are called Polynesians. They have many things in ...) (as ''Streblus pendulinus'' ( Endl.) F.Muell and '' Streblus brunonianus'' ) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferdinand Von Mueller
Baron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller, (; 30 June 1825 – 10 October 1896) was a German-Australian physician, geographer, and most notably, a botanist. He was appointed government botanist for the then colony of Victoria, Australia by Governor Charles La Trobe in 1853, and later director of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne. He also founded the National Herbarium of Victoria. He named many Australian plants. Early life Mueller was born at Rostock, in the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. After the early death of his parents, Frederick and Louisa, his grandparents gave him a good education in Tönning, Schleswig. Apprenticed to a chemist at the age of 15, he passed his pharmaceutical examinations and studied botany under Professor Ernst Ferdinand Nolte (1791–1875) at Kiel University. In 1847, he received his degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Kiel for a thesis on the plants of the southern regions of Schleswig. Mueller's sister Bertha had been advi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephan Endlicher
Stephan Friedrich Ladislaus Endlicher, also known as Endlicher István László (24 June 1804 – 28 March 1849), was an Austrian Empire, Austrian botanist, numismatist and Sinologist. He was a director of the Botanical Garden of Vienna. Biography Endlicher studied theology and received minor orders. In 1828 he was appointed to the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Austrian National Library to reorganize its manuscript collection. Concurrently he studied natural history, in particular botany, and East-Asian languages. In 1836, Endlicher was appointed keeper of the court cabinet of natural history, and in 1840 he became professor at the University of Vienna and director of its Botanical Garden of the University of Vienna, Botanical Garden. He wrote a comprehensive description of the plant kingdom according to a natural system, at the time its most comprehensive description. As proposed by Endlicher, it contained images with text. It was published together with the reissue of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Forest Service
The United States Forest Service (USFS) is an agency within the United States Department of Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture. It administers the nation's 154 United States National Forest, national forests and 20 United States National Grassland, national grasslands covering of land. The major divisions of the agency are the Chief's Office, National Forest System, State and Private Forestry, Business Operations, as well as Research and Development. The agency manages about 25% of federal lands and is the sole major national land management agency not part of the United States Department of the Interior, U.S. Department of the Interior (which manages the National Park Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Bureau of Land Management). History In 1876, Congress formed the office of Special Agent in the Department of Agriculture to assess the quality and conditions of forests in the United States. Franklin B. Hough was appointed the head of the office. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polynesia
Polynesia ( , ) is a subregion of Oceania, made up of more than 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean. The indigenous people who inhabit the islands of Polynesia are called Polynesians. They have many things in common, including Polynesian languages, linguistic relations, Polynesian culture, cultural practices, and Tradition, traditional beliefs. In centuries past, they had a strong shared tradition of sailing and Polynesian navigation, using stars to navigate at night. The term was first used in 1756 by the French writer Charles de Brosses, who originally applied it to all the list of islands in the Pacific Ocean, islands of the Pacific. In 1831, Jules Dumont d'Urville proposed a narrower definition during a lecture at the Société de Géographie of Paris. By tradition, the islands located in the South Seas, southern Pacific have also often been called the South Sea Islands, and their inhabitants have been called South Sea Islanders. The Hawai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
