Search results

• Podocarpaceae
  ...'', here included in Podocarpaceae on genetic evidence, is treated by some botanists in its own family ''Phyllocladaceae''.
  3 KB (341 words) - 14:33, 27 March 2007
• Mahernia glabrata
  ...is doubtful whether the plant cult, under this name is the M. glabrata of botanists.
  1 KB (176 words) - 10:30, 29 December 2009
• Berberidaceae
  ''Mahonia'' is very closely related to ''Berberis'', and some botanists include it within ''Berberis''. Species in the two genera can be [[hybrid]]
  3 KB (374 words) - 17:18, 10 October 2007
• Cicerbita macrophylla
  ...yed heads of size of chicory; involucre sparsely hispid.—Said by the older botanists to come from N. Amer., but probably European.
  1 KB (175 words) - 22:30, 7 January 2010
• Neottopteris
  ...means bird's-nest fern). Asplenium Nidus, of which N. australasicum is by botanists considered to be a synonym, although by others kept distinct. A. Nidus is w
  1 KB (175 words) - 19:47, 10 January 2010
• Bog-rosemary
  3 KB (321 words) - 20:58, 6 October 2007
• Nageia
  ...out from ''N. nagi''. The podocarp genera have been reshuffled by various botanists; most recently, several species formerly classed as ''Nageia'' were moved t
  3 KB (370 words) - 16:59, 31 October 2007
• Pyrus halliana
  it was described by botanists. The first naming of it in Pyrus in such a way as to gain nomencla- torial standing with botanists seems to have
  4 KB (553 words) - 10:54, 11 December 2009
• Lemna
  ...reason of the place where it is borne and by homology with related plants. Botanists now consider the 2 stamens as 2 flowers. and the pistil a third flower. ''L
  5 KB (813 words) - 18:17, 11 July 2009
• Cryptogams
  ...las, lycopods or club mosses. The word cryptogam is now mostly given up by botanists as representing a taxonomic group, as the name is founded on imperfect or f
  4 KB (572 words) - 16:52, 11 August 2009
• Garlic chives
  ...'A. odorum'' but that is now considered a synonym of ''A. ramosum''. Some botanists would place both wild and cultivated forms in ''A. ramosum'' since many int
  3 KB (369 words) - 05:06, 16 October 2007
• Podocarpus lawrencei
  2 KB (374 words) - 18:12, 31 October 2007
• Matteuccia struthiopteris
  .... Amer. — Willdenow regarded the American species as distinct, but by most botanists it is considered identical with the European species.
  1 KB (203 words) - 12:05, 4 January 2010
• Loxoscaphe
  ...l group of low southern hemisphere ferns of doubtful relationship; by some botanists referred to Asplenium, by others to Davallia. Indusium forming a compressed
  2 KB (233 words) - 17:57, 13 December 2009
• Alsine
  ...e in the market, mostly for rock-gardening. There is much difference among botanists as to the standing of the genus Alsine. Some persons refer it to Arenaria,
  2 KB (233 words) - 11:54, 12 January 2010
• Chinese Willow
  Many botanists treat ''Salix matsudana'' as a [[Synonymy|synonym]] of the [[Peking Willow]
  3 KB (425 words) - 05:35, 18 November 2007
• Polygalaceae
  ...(from the genus Polygala, an old Greek name applied later to this genus by botanists because of the supposed stimulative action of the plant on the lactation of
  3 KB (416 words) - 05:23, 12 May 2009
• Commelinaceae
  ...elinaceae (from the genus Commelina dedicated to J. and G. Commelin, Dutch botanists of the early 18th century). Spiderwort Family. Fig. 10. Herbs with knotty s
  3 KB (391 words) - 01:00, 5 May 2009
• Holcus
  ...Sorgum by Adanson (Sorghum, Moench). The name Holcus was accepted by some botanists while by others the genus was united with Andropogon. It seems best, howeve ...rusalem corn, milo maize or milo, durra, and so on, are considered by some botanists to have been derived from the wild species, U. haiep&nsis. Linn. (Andropogo
  4 KB (593 words) - 18:09, 24 November 2009
• Long pepper
  ...knew of both and often referred to either as just ''piper''; many ancient botanists erroneously believed dried black pepper and long pepper came from the same
  3 KB (453 words) - 06:48, 20 October 2007

View (previous 20 | next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)