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Geonoma

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Geonoma is a genus of small to medium-sized palms native to the forest understorey of tropical Central and South America. [1]

47 relations: Alwyn Howard Gentry, Antilles, Arecaceae, Arecales, Auguste François Marie Glaziou, Bolivia, Brazil, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, Carl Georg Oscar Drude, Carl Lebrecht Udo Dammer, Carl Ludwig Willdenow, Carl Sigismund Kunth, Commelinids, Flowering plant, Genus, Geonoma irena, Geonoma maxima, Geonoma undata, Geonomeae, Gloria Galeano Garcés, Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten, Gynoecium, Haiti, Harold E. Moore, Herbarium, Hermann Wendland, Hipólito Ruiz López, Jan Gerard Wessels Boer, João Barbosa Rodrigues, Johann Friedrich Klotzsch, José Antonio Pavón Jiménez, Lesser Antilles, Max Burret, Mexico, Monocotyledon, Montane ecosystems, Neotropical realm, Nevers, Paraguay, Pierre Antoine Poiteau, Plant, Richard Spruce, Rodrigo Bernal, Species, Synapomorphy and apomorphy, Tropics, Understory.

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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Antilles

The Antilles (Antilles in French; Antillas in Spanish; Antillen in Dutch and Antilhas in Portuguese) is an archipelago bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the south and west, the Gulf of Mexico to the northwest, and the Atlantic Ocean to the north and east.

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Arecaceae

The Arecaceae are a botanical family of perennial trees, climbers, shrubs, and acaules commonly known as palm trees (owing to historical usage, the family is alternatively called Palmae).

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Arecales

Arecales is an order of flowering plants.

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Auguste François Marie Glaziou

Auguste François Marie Glaziou (30 August 1828 – 30 March 1906) was a French landscape designer and botanist born in Lannion, Brittany.

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Bolivia

Bolivia (Mborivia; Buliwya; Wuliwya), officially known as the Plurinational State of Bolivia (Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia), is a landlocked country located in western-central South America.

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Brazil

Brazil (Brasil), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (República Federativa do Brasil), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America.

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Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius

Carl Friedrich Philipp (Karl Friedrich Philipp) von Martius (April 17th, 1794 – December 13th, 1868) was a German botanist and explorer.

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Carl Georg Oscar Drude

Carl Georg Oscar Drude (June 5, 1852 in Braunschweig – February 1, 1933 in Dresden) was a German botanist.

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Carl Lebrecht Udo Dammer

Carl Lebrecht Udo Dammer (born 8 January 1860 in Apolda, died 15 November 1920 in Großrambin near Kołobrzeg) was a German botanist.

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Carl Ludwig Willdenow

Carl Ludwig Willdenow (22 August 1765 – 10 July 1812) was a German botanist, pharmacist, and plant taxonomist.

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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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Commelinids

In plant taxonomy, commelinids (originally commelinoids) (plural, not capitalised) is a name used by the APG IV system for a clade within the monocots, which in its turn is a clade within the angiosperms.

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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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Geonoma irena

Geonoma irena is a species of palm tree.

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Geonoma maxima

Geonoma maxima is a species of palm tree native to South America.

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Geonoma undata

Geonoma undata is a species of palm tree native to North and South America.

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Geonomeae

Geonomeaa is a palm tribe in the subfamily Arecoideae.

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Gloria Galeano Garcés

Gloria Amparo Galeano Garcés (1958 – 2016) was a Colombian botanist and agronomist specializing in the palm family.

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Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten

Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten (6 November 1817, in Stralsund – 10 July 1908, in Zoppot) was a German botanist and geologist.

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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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Haiti

Haiti (Haïti; Ayiti), officially the Republic of Haiti and formerly called Hayti, is a sovereign state located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea.

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Harold E. Moore

Harold Emery Moore, Jr.

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Herbarium

A herbarium (plural: herbaria) is a collection of preserved plant specimens and associated data used for scientific study.

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Hermann Wendland

Hermann Wendland (1825 in Herrenhausen – 1903) was a German botanist and gardener.

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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 Carlos III from 1777 to 1788.

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Jan Gerard Wessels Boer

Jan Gerard Wessels Boer (born 10 August 1936, Haren, Groningen) is a Dutch plant taxonomist best known for his work on palms.

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João Barbosa Rodrigues

João Barbosa Rodrigues (June 22, 1842 – March 6, 1909) was considered one of Brazil's greatest botanists, known especially for his work on orchids and palms.

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Johann Friedrich Klotzsch

Johann Friedrich Klotzsch (9 June 1805, Wittenberg – 5 November 1860) was a German pharmacist and botanist.

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José Antonio Pavón Jiménez

José Antonio Pavón Jiménez or José Antonio Pavón (April 22, 1754 in Casatejada, Cáceres, Spain – 1840 in Madrid) was a Spanish botanist known for researching the flora of Peru and Chile.

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Lesser Antilles

The Lesser Antilles are a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea.

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Max Burret

Karl Ewald Maximilian Burret, commonly known as Max Burret (6 June 1883 – 19 September 1964) was a German botanist.

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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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Monocotyledon

Monocotyledons, commonly referred to as monocots, (Lilianae sensu Chase & Reveal) are flowering plants (angiosperms) whose seeds typically contain only one embryonic leaf, or cotyledon.

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Montane ecosystems

Montane ecosystems refers to any ecosystem found in mountains.

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Neotropical realm

The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting the Earth's land surface.

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Nevers

Nevers (Latin: Noviodunum, later Nevirnum and Nebirnum) is the prefecture of the Nièvre department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in central France.

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Paraguay

Paraguay (Paraguái), officially the Republic of Paraguay (República del Paraguay; Tetã Paraguái), is a landlocked country in central South America, bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest.

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Pierre Antoine Poiteau

Pierre-Antoine Poiteau (23 March 1766 Âmbleny – 27 February 1854) was a French botanist, gardener and botanical artist.

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Plant

Plants are mainly multicellular, predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae.

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Richard Spruce

Richard Spruce (10 September 1817 – 28 December 1893) was an English botanist specializing in bryology.

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Rodrigo Bernal

Rodrigo Bernal González (born 1959) is a Colombian botanist who specialises in the palm family.

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Species

In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank, as well as a unit of biodiversity, but it has proven difficult to find a satisfactory definition.

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Synapomorphy and apomorphy

In phylogenetics, apomorphy and synapomorphy refer to derived characters of a clade – characters or traits that are derived from ancestral characters over evolutionary history.

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Tropics

The tropics are a region of the Earth surrounding the Equator.

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Understory

In forestry and ecology, understory (or understorey, underbrush, undergrowth) comprises plant life growing beneath the forest canopy without penetrating it to any great extent, but above the forest floor.

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Gynestum, Kalbreyera, Roebelia, Taenianthera, Vouay.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geonoma

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