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Xiphidium Pontederiiflorum
''Xiphidium'' is a genus of herbs in the family Haemodoraceae first described as a genus in 1775. It is native to tropical Americas, from southern Mexico through the Caribbean, Central America, and northern South America to Bolivia and central Brazil. species Two species are accepted. * '' Xiphidium caeruleum'' Aubl. - Mexico (Veracruz, Oaxaca, Chiapas, Tabasco, Puebla, Yucatán), Central America (all 7 countries), West Indies, South America (Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil (Acre, Amazonas, Roraima, Pará, Maranhão, Amapá), Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia) *'' Xiphidium pontederiiflorum'' – Panama, Colombia, and Ecuador formerly placed here * '' Schiekia orinocensis'' (as ''Xiphidium angustifolium'' ) * ''Cubanicula xanthorrhizos ''Cubanicula xanthorrhizos'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Haemodoraceae. It is the sole species in genus ''Cubanicula''. It is a perennial native to western Cuba, including the Isle of Youth Isla de l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet
Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet (November 4, 1720 – May 6, 1778) was a French pharmacist, botanist and one of the earliest botanical explorers in South America.JSTOR He was one of the first botanists to study ethnobotany in the Neotropics. Born in Salon-de-Provence, Aublet left home early and traveled to Grenada, then a French colony, where he became an apothecary's assistant and learned about medicinal plants. A year later he returned to France and continued his studies in natural history, chemistry, and pharmacology. One of his mentors was Bernard de Jussieu, a French naturalist who would later help him with plant identification.Mori He joined the French Indies Company, French East India Company and in 1752 was sent to Mauritius (then known as ''l'Île de France'') to establish a pharmacy and a botanical garden. He became involved in an intense rivalry with Pierre Poivre, a fellow botanist at the Chateau de Mon Plaisir , Mon Plaisir garden, and eventually left to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dilatris
''Dilatris'' is a genus of four species of evergreen Perennial plant, perennial herbaceous plants of up to high, that are assigned to the Haemodoraceae, bloodroot family. The plants have hairless, line- to lance-shaped leaves set in a fan that emerges from a red or orange coloured rootstock. Six free tepals with some gland dots near their tips are present on the mauve or dirty yellow flowers' six free petals. The other two stamens are longer and spreading with smaller scarlet anthers, while the one stamen is short, upright, and has a large, yellow anther. The style is diverted from the centre opposite both longer stamens. The species only occur in the Western Cape and Northern Cape provinces of South Africa. Description The species of ''Dilatris'' are evergreen, Perennial plants, perennial herbaceous plants with a short underground rootstock that is bright red or orange inside. From the rootstock emerge several hairless, line- to oblong lance-shaped leaves that are laterally fl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Commelinales Genera
Commelinales is an order of flowering plants. It comprises five families: Commelinaceae, Haemodoraceae, Hanguanaceae, Philydraceae, and Pontederiaceae. All the families combined contain over 885 species in about 70 genera; the majority of species are in the Commelinaceae. Plants in the order share a number of synapomorphies that tie them together, such as a lack of mycorrhizal associations and tapetal raphides. Estimates differ as to when the Commelinales evolved, but most suggest an origin and diversification sometime during the mid- to late Cretaceous. Depending on the methods used, studies suggest a range of origin between 123 and 73 million years, with diversification occurring within the group 110 to 66 million years ago. The order's closest relatives are in the Zingiberales, which includes ginger, bananas, cardamom, and others.Stevens, P. F. (2001 onwards). Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 9, November 2011. Taxonomy According to the most recent classification scheme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schiekia
''Schiekia'' is a monotypic genus of herbs belonging to the family Haemodoraceae and first described as a genus in 1957. The sole recognised species, ''S. orinocensis'' is native to South America (Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana French Guiana, or Guyane in French, is an Overseas departments and regions of France, overseas department and region of France located on the northern coast of South America in the Guianas and the West Indies. Bordered by Suriname to the west ...). This plant grasped the minds of many scientists who tried fruitlessly to discover its purpose in the natural order. ; Subspecies * ''Schiekia orinocensis'' subsp. ''orinocensis'' - Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname * ''Schiekia orinocensis'' subsp. ''silvestris'' Maas & Stoel - N Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana Phylogeny Comparison of homologous DNA has increased the insight in the phylogenetic relationships betw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wachendorfia
''Wachendorfia'' is a genus of perennial herbaceous plants that is assigned to the bloodroot family. The plants have a perennial rootstock with red sap. From the rootstock emerge lance- or line-shaped, sometime sickle-shaped, pleated, simple leaves set in a fan, that are flattened to create a left and right surface rather than an upper and lower surface. The leaves die when the seeds are shed in three of the species, and are perennial in one species. The rootstock also produces flowering stems annually that carry a panicle of zygomorphic, yellow or yellowish flowers in two distinct forms, one with the style and one stamen bent to the right and two stamens to the left, and the other vice versa. The fruit opens with three valves and each contains a single, hairy seed. All species only occur in the fynbos biome in the Cape Provinces of South Africa. Description ''Wachendorfia'' is a genus of perennial herbaceous plants of high when flowering, which emerge from a fleshy, brigh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barberetta
''Barberetta'' is a genus of herbaceous perennial plants in the family Haemodoraceae. It contains only one known species, ''Barberetta aurea''. Description ''Barberetta aurea'' grows to up to high from a tuberous rootstock and develops about 3 leaves that are arranged like a fan, flattened sideways and so creating a left and right surface rather than an upper and lower surface. The leaves lack a leafstalk, are lance-shaped in outline, hairless, up to long and wide at midlength, narrowing gradually to the foot and the tip, and have five distinct vertical ribs and several finer ribs in between. The stem is weak, long, with some hairs towards the top, and carries its many flowers in a simple raceme, of long. The stalks of the individual flower are inclined upwards, the lower flower stalks are long. Wrapped around the foot of each flower stalk is a persistent lance-shaped bract of up to long. The star-symmetric perianth consists of six tepals of about long and wide, that a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haemodorum
''Haemodorum'' is a genus of herbs in the family Haemodoraceae, first described as a genus in 1798 by James Edward Smiith.Smith, James Edward. 1798. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 4: 213-214 in LatinTropicos, Haemodorum Sm. /ref> The genus is native to and . [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lachnanthes
''Lachnanthes'' is a genus of monocotyledonous plants in the bloodwort family containing only one species, i.e., ''Lachnanthes caroliana'' (''caroliniana''), commonly known as Carolina redroot or bloodroot. The plant is native to eastern North America, from southeastern Nova Scotia (especially the Molega Lake area) and Massachusetts in the north, south to Florida and Cuba, and west along the Gulf of Mexico to Louisiana. It has also been reported from an island in the western Caribbean off the coast of Honduras. It prefers wet, acidic, usually sandy soils, restricting it to various wetland habitats such as bogs, pinelands, hammocks and pocosins, among others. The plant's common name is based on its red roots and rhizomes. Its flowers, consisting of six pale yellow tepals, emerge from mid to late summer. The plant is sometimes a significant weed in commercial cranberry Cranberries are a group of evergreen dwarf shrubs or trailing vines in the subgenus ''Oxycoccus'' of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cubanicula Xanthorrhizos
''Cubanicula xanthorrhizos'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Haemodoraceae. It is the sole species in genus ''Cubanicula''. It is a perennial native to western Cuba, including the Isle of Youth Isla de la Juventud (; ) is the second-largest Cuban island (after Cuba's mainland) and the seventh-largest island in the West Indies (after mainland Cuba itself, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, and Andros Island). The island wa .... References {{Taxonbar, from = Q108075877, from2=Q122578171 Haemodoraceae Endemic flora of Cuba Plants described in 1866 Monotypic Commelinales genera Taxa named by August Grisebach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schiekia Orinocensis
''Schiekia'' is a monotypic genus of herbs belonging to the family Haemodoraceae and first described as a genus in 1957. The sole recognised species, ''S. orinocensis'' is native to South America (Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana French Guiana, or Guyane in French, is an Overseas departments and regions of France, overseas department and region of France located on the northern coast of South America in the Guianas and the West Indies. Bordered by Suriname to the west ...). This plant grasped the minds of many scientists who tried fruitlessly to discover its purpose in the natural order. ; Subspecies * ''Schiekia orinocensis'' subsp. ''orinocensis'' - Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname * ''Schiekia orinocensis'' subsp. ''silvestris'' Maas & Stoel - N Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana Phylogeny Comparison of homologous DNA has increased the insight in the phylogenetic relationships betw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haemodoraceae
Haemodoraceae is a family of perennial herbaceous angiosperms (flowering plants) containing 15 genera and 102 known species, sometimes known as the "bloodroots", found throughout the Southern Hemisphere, from Australia and New Guinea to South Africa, as well as the Americas (from extreme southeastern USA through tropical South America). Perhaps the best-known (and most popular in cultivation) genera from the family are the unusual ''Anigozanthos'' and '' Macropidia'', both commonly called "kangaroo-paw" or "kangaroo's paw" due to their fuzzy flowers. These genera are hugely popular in both private gardens and public landscaping projects in Mediterranean climate regions, such as in Chile, northwestern Mexico (Baja California), Southern California (and the Bay Area) and Western Australia, among other locations; the kangaroo-paws are valued for their hardiness, adaptability and low irrigation requirements, once established. Taxonomy The Haemodoraceae were first described by Robe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
