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74 relations: Aimé Bonpland, Alexander von Humboldt, Alwyn Howard Gentry, Antimicrobial, Asterids, Bank (geography), Bignoniaceae, Biologia Centrali-Americana, Botanical name, Carl Sigismund Kunth, Chilopsis, Chloroform, Cinnamic acid, Circumscription (taxonomy), Common name, Cross section (geometry), Cytotoxicity, David Don, DNA, Efficacy, Elution, Ethanol, Eudicots, Flora Neotropica, Flowering plant, Genus, Glossary of botanical terms, Glossary of plant morphology, Glycoside, Guatemala, Gynoecium, Henri Ernest Baillon, Herbalism, High-performance liquid chromatography, Honduras, Incertae sedis, Inflorescence, International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants, International Plant Names Index, Iridoid, Lamiales, Leaf, Mesoamerica, Mexico, Molecular phylogenetics, Monotypic taxon, Nectar, Neoplasm, Nicaragua, Oleanolic acid, ..., Ovary (botany), Panicle, Parallel evolution, Petal, Plant, Polycyclic compound, Rheophyte, Riparian zone, Royal Society of Edinburgh, Sepal, Septum, Species description, Stamen, Stigmasterol, Tecoma, Tecomeae, Treatise, Tribe (biology), Triterpene, Ursolic acid, Whorl (botany), William Hemsley (botanist), Willow, Yellow. Expand index (24 more) »
Aimé Bonpland
Aimé Jacques Alexandre Bonpland (August 1773 – May 1858) was a French explorer and botanist who traveled with Alexander von Humboldt in Latin America from 1799 to 1804.
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Alexander von Humboldt
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 17696 May 1859) was a Prussian polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and influential proponent of Romantic philosophy and science.
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Alwyn Howard Gentry
Alwyn Howard Gentry (6 January 1945 – 3 August 1993) was an American botanist and plant collector, who made major contributions to the understanding of the vegetation of tropical forests.
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Antimicrobial
An antimicrobial is an agent that kills microorganisms or stops their growth.
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Asterids
In the APG IV system (2016) for the classification of flowering plants, the name asterids denotes a clade (a monophyletic group).
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Bank (geography)
In geography, the word bank generally refers to the land alongside a body of water.
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Bignoniaceae
Bignoniaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Lamiales commonly known as the bignonias.
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Biologia Centrali-Americana
The Biologia Centrali-Americana is an encyclopedia of the natural history of Mexico and Central America, privately issued in 215 parts from 1879 to 1915 by the editors Frederick DuCane Godman and Osbert Salvin, of the British Museum (Natural History) in London.
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Botanical name
A botanical name is a formal scientific name conforming to the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (ICN) and, if it concerns a plant cultigen, the additional cultivar or Group epithets must conform to the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants (ICNCP).
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Carl Sigismund Kunth
Carl Sigismund Kunth (18 June 1788 – 22 March 1850), also Karl Sigismund Kunth or anglicized as Charles Sigismund Kunth, was a German botanist.
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Chilopsis
Chilopsis is a monotypic genus of flowering plants containing the single species Chilopsis linearis.
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Chloroform
Chloroform, or trichloromethane, is an organic compound with formula CHCl3.
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Cinnamic acid
Cinnamic acid is an organic compound with the formula C6H5CHCHCO2H.
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Circumscription (taxonomy)
In biological taxonomy, circumscription is the definition of a taxon, that is, a group of organisms.
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Common name
In biology, a common name of a taxon or organism (also known as a vernacular name, English name, colloquial name, trivial name, trivial epithet, country name, popular name, or farmer's name) is a name that is based on the normal language of everyday life; this kind of name is often contrasted with the scientific name for the same organism, which is Latinized.
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Cross section (geometry)
In geometry and science, a cross section is the non-empty intersection of a solid body in three-dimensional space with a plane, or the analog in higher-dimensional spaces.
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Cytotoxicity
Cytotoxicity is the quality of being toxic to cells.
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David Don
David Don (21 December 1799 – 15 December 1841) was a Scottish botanist.
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DNA
Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a thread-like chain of nucleotides carrying the genetic instructions used in the growth, development, functioning and reproduction of all known living organisms and many viruses.
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Efficacy
Efficacy is the ability to get a job done satisfactorily.
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Elution
In analytical and organic chemistry, elution is the process of extracting one material from another by washing with a solvent; as in washing of loaded ion-exchange resins to remove captured ions.
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Ethanol
Ethanol, also called alcohol, ethyl alcohol, grain alcohol, and drinking alcohol, is a chemical compound, a simple alcohol with the chemical formula.
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Eudicots
The eudicots, Eudicotidae or eudicotyledons are a clade of flowering plants that had been called tricolpates or non-magnoliid dicots by previous authors.
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Flora Neotropica
Flora Neotropica is a series of monographs published by the New York Botanical Garden Press, and is the official publication of the Organization for Flora Neotropica.
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Flowering plant
The flowering plants, also known as angiosperms, Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants, with 416 families, approximately 13,164 known genera and c. 295,383 known species.
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Genus
A genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology.
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Glossary of botanical terms
This glossary of botanical terms is a list of terms relevant to botany and plants in general.
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Glossary of plant morphology
This page provides a glossary of plant morphology.
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Glycoside
In chemistry, a glycoside is a molecule in which a sugar is bound to another functional group via a glycosidic bond.
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Guatemala
Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala (República de Guatemala), is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize to the northeast, the Caribbean to the east, Honduras to the east and El Salvador to the southeast.
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Gynoecium
Gynoecium (from Ancient Greek γυνή, gyne, meaning woman, and οἶκος, oikos, meaning house) is most commonly used as a collective term for the parts of a flower that produce ovules and ultimately develop into the fruit and seeds.
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Henri Ernest Baillon
Henri Ernest Baillon was a French botanist and physician.
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Herbalism
Herbalism (also herbal medicine or phytotherapy) is the study of botany and use of plants intended for medicinal purposes or for supplementing a diet.
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High-performance liquid chromatography
High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC; formerly referred to as high-pressure liquid chromatography), is a technique in analytical chemistry used to separate, identify, and quantify each component in a mixture.
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Honduras
Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras (República de Honduras), is a republic in Central America.
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Incertae sedis
Incertae sedis (Latin for "of uncertain placement") is a term used for a taxonomic group where its broader relationships are unknown or undefined.
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Inflorescence
An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches.
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International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants
The International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (ICN) is the set of rules and recommendations dealing with the formal botanical names that are given to plants, fungi and a few other groups of organisms, all those "traditionally treated as algae, fungi, or plants".
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International Plant Names Index
The International Plant Names Index (IPNI) describes itself as "a database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of seed plants, ferns and lycophytes." Coverage of plant names is best at the rank of species and genus.
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Iridoid
Iridoids are a type of monoterpenoids in the general form of cyclopentanopyran, found in a wide variety of plants and some animals.
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Lamiales
The Lamiales are an order in the asterid group of dicotyledonous flowering plants.
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Leaf
A leaf is an organ of a vascular plant and is the principal lateral appendage of the stem.
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Mesoamerica
Mesoamerica is an important historical region and cultural area in the Americas, extending from approximately central Mexico through Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and northern Costa Rica, and within which pre-Columbian societies flourished before the Spanish colonization of the Americas in the 15th and 16th centuries.
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Mexico
Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.
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Molecular phylogenetics
Molecular phylogenetics is the branch of phylogeny that analyzes genetic, hereditary molecular differences, predominately in DNA sequences, to gain information on an organism's evolutionary relationships.
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Monotypic taxon
In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon.
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Nectar
Nectar is a sugar-rich liquid produced by plants in glands called nectaries, 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 antiherbivore protection.
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Neoplasm
Neoplasia is a type of abnormal and excessive growth of tissue.
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Nicaragua
Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is the largest country in the Central American isthmus, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to the east, Costa Rica to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west.
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Oleanolic acid
Oleanolic acid or oleanic acid is a naturally occurring pentacyclic triterpenoid related to betulinic acid.
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Ovary (botany)
In the flowering plants, an ovary is a part of the female reproductive organ of the flower or gynoecium.
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Panicle
A panicle is a much-branched inflorescence.
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Parallel evolution
Parallel evolution is the development of a similar trait in related, but distinct, species descending from the same ancestor, but from different clades.
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Petal
Petals are modified leaves that surround the reproductive parts of flowers.
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Plant
Plants are mainly multicellular, predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae.
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Polycyclic compound
In the field of organic chemistry, a polycyclic compound is an organic chemical featuring several closed rings of atoms, primarily carbon.
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Rheophyte
A rheophyte is an aquatic plant that lives in fast moving water currents in an environment where few other organisms can survive.
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Riparian zone
A riparian zone or riparian area is the interface between land and a river or stream.
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Royal Society of Edinburgh
The Royal Society of Edinburgh is Scotland's national academy of science and letters.
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Sepal
A sepal is a part of the flower of angiosperms (flowering plants).
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Septum
In biology, a septum (Latin for something that encloses; plural septa) is a wall, dividing a cavity or structure into smaller ones.
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Species description
A species description is a formal description of a newly discovered species, usually in the form of a scientific paper.
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Stamen
The stamen (plural stamina or stamens) is the pollen-producing reproductive organ of a flower.
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Stigmasterol
Stigmasterol (also known as Wulzen anti-stiffness factor) is a plant sterol, or phytosterol.
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Tecoma
Tecoma is a genus of 14 species of shrubs or small trees in the trumpet vine family, Bignoniaceae.
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Tecomeae
Tecomeae is a tribe with 44 genera of trees in the family Bignoniaceae.
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Treatise
A treatise is a formal and systematic written discourse on some subject, generally longer and treating it in greater depth than an essay, and more concerned with investigating or exposing the principles of the subject.
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Tribe (biology)
In biology, a tribe is a taxonomic rank above genus, but below family and subfamily.
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Triterpene
Triterpenes are a class of chemical compounds composed of three terpene units with the molecular formula C30H48; they may also be thought of as consisting of six isoprene units.
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Ursolic acid
Ursolic acid (sometimes referred to as urson, prunol, malol, or 3-beta-3-hydroxy-urs-12-ene-28-oic-acid), is a pentacyclic triterpenoid identified in the epicuticular waxes of apples as early as 1920 and widely found in the peels of fruits, as well as in herbs and spices like rosemary and thyme.
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Whorl (botany)
In botany, a whorl or verticil is an arrangement of sepals, petals, leaves, stipules or branches that radiate from a single point and surround or wrap around the stem.
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William Hemsley (botanist)
William Botting Hemsley (East Hoathly 29 December 1843 – 7 October 1924 Kent) was an English botanist and 1909 Victoria Medal of Honour recipient.
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Willow
Willows, also called sallows, and osiers, form the genus Salix, around 400 speciesMabberley, D.J. 1997.
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Yellow
Yellow is the color between orange and green on the spectrum of visible light.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astianthus
