Orchidantha, the Glossary
Orchidantha is a genus of flowering plants.[1]
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34 relations: APG III system, Borneo, Brunei, Canna (plant), China, Costaceae, Dung beetle, Family (biology), Flower, Flowering plant, Genus, Ginger-families, Guangxi, Hainan, Heliconia, Henry Nicholas Ridley, Laos, Marantaceae, Musaceae, N. E. Brown, Onthophagus, Orchid, Pahang, PeerJ, Peninsular Malaysia, Petal, Phylogenetic tree, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Sabah, Sarawak, Strelitziaceae, World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Zingiberaceae, Zingiberales.
- Zingiberales
- Zingiberales genera
APG III system
The APG III system of flowering plant classification is the third version of a modern, mostly molecular-based, system of plant taxonomy being developed by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG).
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Borneo
Borneo (also known as Kalimantan in the Indonesian language) is the third-largest island in the world, with an area of.
Brunei
Brunei, officially Brunei Darussalam, is a country in Southeast Asia, situated on the northern coast of the island of Borneo.
Canna (plant)
Canna or canna lily is the only genus of flowering plants in the family Cannaceae, consisting of 10 species. Orchidantha and canna (plant) are Zingiberales genera.
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.
Costaceae
Costaceae, known as the Costus family or spiral gingers, is a family of pantropical monocots. Orchidantha and Costaceae are Zingiberales.
Dung beetle
Dung beetles are beetles that feed on feces.
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Family (biology)
Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.
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Flower
A flower, also known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Angiospermae).
Flowering plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae, commonly called angiosperms.
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Genus
Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.
Ginger-families
The ginger-familiesKress, W.J. & Specht, C.D. 2005. Orchidantha and ginger-families are Zingiberales.
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Guangxi
Guangxi, officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China, located in South China and bordering Vietnam (Hà Giang, Cao Bằng, Lạng Sơn, and Quảng Ninh Provinces) and the Gulf of Tonkin.
Hainan
Hainan is an island province of the People's Republic of China (PRC), consisting of the eponymous Hainan Island and various smaller islands in the South China Sea under the province's administration.
Heliconia
Heliconia is a genus of flowering plants in the monotypic family Heliconiaceae. Orchidantha and Heliconia are Zingiberales and Zingiberales genera.
Henry Nicholas Ridley
Henry Nicholas Ridley CMG (1911), MA (Oxon), FRS, FLS, F.R.H.S. (10 December 1855 – 24 October 1956) was an English botanist, geologist and naturalist who lived much of his life in Singapore.
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Laos
Laos, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic (LPDR), is the only landlocked country and one of the two Marxist-Leninist states in Southeast Asia.
Marantaceae
The Marantaceae are a family, the arrowroot family, of flowering plants consisting of 31 genera and around 530 species, defining it as one of the most species-rich families in its order. Orchidantha and Marantaceae are Zingiberales.
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Musaceae
Musaceae is a family of flowering plants composed of three genera with about 91 known species, placed in the order Zingiberales.
N. E. Brown
Nicholas Edward Brown (11 July 1849 in Redhill, Surrey – 25 November 1934 in Kew Gardens, London) was an English plant taxonomist and authority on succulents.
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Onthophagus
Gazella scarab (''Onthophagus gazella'') males; note variation in horn size Onthophagus is a genus of dung beetles in the Onthophagini tribe of the wider scarab beetle family, Scarabaeidae.
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Orchid
Orchids are plants that belong to the family Orchidaceae, a diverse and widespread group of flowering plants with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant.
Pahang
Pahang (Jawi: ڤهڠ, Pahang Hulu Malay: Paha, Pahang Hilir Malay: Pahaeng, Ulu Tembeling Malay: Pahaq), officially Pahang Darul Makmur with the Arabic honorific Darul Makmur (Jawi: دار المعمور, "The Abode of Tranquility") is a sultanate and a federal state of Malaysia.
PeerJ
PeerJ is an open access peer-reviewed scientific mega journal covering research in the biological and medical sciences.
Peninsular Malaysia
Peninsular Malaysia, historically known as Malaya, also known as West Malaysia or the "Malaysian Peninsula", is the western part of Malaysia that comprises the southern part of the Malay Peninsula on Mainland Southeast Asia and the nearby islands.
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Petal
Petals are modified leaves that surround the reproductive parts of flowers.
Phylogenetic tree
A phylogenetic tree, phylogeny or evolutionary tree is a graphical representation which shows the evolutionary history between a set of species or taxa during a specific time.
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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
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Sabah
Sabah, or given nickname Sabah Bumi Di Bawah Bayu (means Sabah Land Below The Wind) is a state of Malaysia located on the northern portion of Borneo, in the region of East Malaysia.
Sarawak
Sarawak is a state of Malaysia.
Strelitziaceae
The Strelitziaceae comprise a family of monocotyledonous flowering plants, very similar in appearance and growth habit to members of the related families Heliconiaceae and Musaceae (banana family). Orchidantha and Strelitziaceae are Zingiberales.
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World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
The World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (usually abbreviated to WCSP) was an "international collaborative programme that provides the latest peer reviewed and published opinions on the accepted scientific names and synonyms of selected plant families." Maintained by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, it was available online, allowing searches for the names of families, genera and species, as well as the ability to create checklists.
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Zingiberaceae
Zingiberaceae or the ginger family is a family of flowering plants made up of about 50 genera with a total of about 1600 known species of aromatic perennial herbs with creeping horizontal or tuberous rhizomes distributed throughout tropical Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Orchidantha and Zingiberaceae are Zingiberales.
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Zingiberales
The Zingiberales are flowering plants forming one of four orders in the commelinids clade of monocots, together with its sister order, Commelinales.
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See also
Zingiberales
- Banana-families
- Cannaceae
- Costaceae
- Ginger-families
- Heliconia
- Marantaceae
- Orchidantha
- Strelitziaceae
- Zingiberaceae
- Zingiberales
Zingiberales genera
- Calathea
- Canna (plant)
- Chamaecostus
- Costus
- Ctenanthe
- Dimerocostus
- Ensete
- Epiamomum
- Halopegia
- Haumania
- Heliconia
- Hellenia
- Hylaeanthe
- Hypselodelphys
- Ischnosiphon
- Maranta (plant)
- Marantochloa
- Megaphrynium
- Monophyllanthe
- Monotagma
- Musa (genus)
- Orchidantha
- Paracostus
- Phrynium
- Pleiostachya
- Saranthe
- Sarcophrynium
- Schumannianthus
- Stachyphrynium
- Strelitzia
- Stromanthe
- Tapeinochilos
- Thalia (plant)
- Thaumatococcus
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchidantha
Also known as Lowia, Lowiaceae, Protamomum.