Protea pruinosa, the Glossary

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1. 87 relations: Achene, African pygmy mouse, Anthesis, Binomial nomenclature, Bract, Cape elephant shrew, Cape Floristic Region, Cape gerbil, Cape spiny mouse, Carmine (color), Chacma baboon, Coevolution, Conservatory and Botanical Garden of the City of Geneva, Crocidura, Diurnality, Elephant shrew, Endangered species, Endemism, Family (biology), Flowering Plants of Africa, Four-striped grass mouse, Fynbos, Genus, Germination, Glossary of botanical terms, Gray climbing mouse, Habitat, Herbarium, Holotype, Honey bee, Indumentum, Inflorescence, Infructescence, International Plant Names Index, John Patrick Rourke, Karoo, Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, Ladismith, Latin, Leaching (agriculture), Meiringspoort, Monoecy, Mountain pass, Namaqua rock rat, Nectar, Outcrossing, Peduncle (botany), Perianth, Personal grooming, Plants of the World Online, ... Expand index (37 more) »

2. Taxa named by John Patrick Rourke

Achene

An achene, also sometimes called akene and occasionally achenium or achenocarp, is a type of simple dry fruit produced by many species of flowering plants.

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African pygmy mouse

The African pygmy mouse (Mus minutoides) is one of the smallest rodents.

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Anthesis

Anthesis is the period during which a flower is fully open and functional.

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Binomial nomenclature

In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin grammatical forms, although they can be based on words from other languages.

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Bract

In botany, a bract is a modified or specialized leaf, especially one associated with a reproductive structure such as a flower, inflorescence axis or cone scale.

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Cape elephant shrew

The Cape elephant shrew (Elephantulus edwardii), also known as the Cape rock elephant-shrewPetra Wester,, Springer-Verlag, November 16, 2010.

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Cape Floristic Region

The Cape Floral Region is a floristic region located near the southern tip of South Africa.

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Cape gerbil

The Cape gerbil (Gerbilliscus afra) is a species of rodent found only in South Africa.

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Cape spiny mouse

The Cape spiny mouse (Acomys subspinosus) is a murid rodent found in the Western Cape province of South Africa.

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Carmine (color)

Carmine color is the general term for some deep red colors that are very slightly purplish but are generally slightly closer to red than the color crimson is.

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Chacma baboon

The chacma baboon (Papio ursinus), also known as the Cape baboon, is, like all other baboons, from the Old World monkey family.

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Coevolution

In biology, coevolution occurs when two or more species reciprocally affect each other's evolution through the process of natural selection.

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Conservatory and Botanical Garden of the City of Geneva

The Conservatory and Botanical Garden of the city of Geneva (Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève) is a museum and an institution of the City of Geneva.

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Crocidura

The genus Crocidura is one of nine genera of the shrew subfamily Crocidurinae.

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Diurnality

Diurnality is a form of plant and animal behavior characterized by activity during daytime, with a period of sleeping or other inactivity at night.

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Elephant shrew

Elephant shrews, also called jumping shrews or sengis, are small insectivorous mammals native to Africa, belonging to the family Macroscelididae, in the order Macroscelidea.

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Endangered species

An endangered species is a species that is very likely to become extinct in the near future, either worldwide or in a particular political jurisdiction.

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Endemism

Endemism is the state of a species only being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.

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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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Flowering Plants of Africa

Flowering Plants of Africa is a series of illustrated botanical magazines akin to Curtis's Botanical Magazine, initiated as Flowering Plants of South Africa by I. B. Pole-Evans in 1920.

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Four-striped grass mouse

The four-striped grass mouse (Rhabdomys pumilio) or four-striped grass rat is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.

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Fynbos

Fynbos is a small belt of natural shrubland or heathland vegetation located in the Western Cape and Eastern Cape provinces of South Africa.

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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.

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Germination

Germination is the process by which an organism grows from a seed or spore.

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Glossary of botanical terms

This glossary of botanical terms is a list of definitions of terms and concepts relevant to botany and plants in general.

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Gray climbing mouse

The gray climbing mouse (Dendromus melanotis) is a species of rodent in the family Nesomyidae.

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Habitat

In ecology, habitat refers to the array of resources, physical and biotic factors that are present in an area, such as to support the survival and reproduction of a particular species.

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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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Holotype

A holotype is a single physical example (or illustration) of an organism used when the species (or lower-ranked taxon) was formally described.

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Honey bee

A honey bee (also spelled honeybee) is a eusocial flying insect within the genus Apis of the bee clade, all native to mainland Afro-Eurasia.

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Indumentum

In biology, an indumentum (Latin, literally: "garment") is a covering of trichomes (fine "hairs") on a plant or of bristles (rarely scales) of an insect.

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Inflorescence

An inflorescence, in a flowering plant, is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a system of branches.

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Infructescence

Infructescence (fruiting head) is defined as the ensemble of fruits derived from the ovaries of an inflorescence.

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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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John Patrick Rourke

John Patrick Rourke FMLS (born 26 March 1942, in Cape Town) is a South African botanist, who worked at the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden and became curator of the Compton Herbarium.

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Karoo

The Karoo (from the Afrikaans borrowing of the South Khoekhoe !Orakobab or Khoemana word ǃ’Aukarob "Hardveld") is a semi-desert natural region of South Africa.

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Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden

Kirstenbosch is an important botanical garden nestled at the eastern foot of Table Mountain in Cape Town.

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Ladismith

Ladismith is a town and agricultural centre in the western Little Karoo region of South Africa's Western Cape province.

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Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Leaching (agriculture)

In agriculture, leaching is the loss of water-soluble plant nutrients from the soil, due to rain and irrigation.

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Meiringspoort

Meiringspoort (Afrikaans for "Meiring's pass") is a South African mountain pass on the N12 national road, where it crosses the Swartberg mountain range.

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Monoecy

Monoecy (adj. monoecious) is a sexual system in seed plants where separate male and female cones or flowers are present on the same plant.

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Mountain pass

A mountain pass is a navigable route through a mountain range or over a ridge.

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Namaqua rock rat

The Namaqua rock rat (Aethomys namaquensis) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.

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Nectar

Nectar is a viscous, 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 herbivore protection.

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Outcrossing

Out-crossing or out-breeding is the technique of crossing between different breeds.

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Peduncle (botany)

In botany, a peduncle is a stalk supporting an inflorescence or a solitary flower, or, after fecundation, an infructescence or a solitary fruit.

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Perianth

The perianth (perigonium, perigon or perigone in monocots) is the non-reproductive part of the flower, and structure that forms an envelope surrounding the sexual organs, consisting of the calyx (sepals) and the corolla (petals) or tepals when called a perigone.

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Personal grooming

Grooming (also called preening) is the art and practice of cleaning and maintaining parts of the body.

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Plants of the World Online

Plants of the World Online (POWO) is an online database published by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

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Pollen

Pollen is a powdery substance produced by most types of flowers of seed plants for the purpose of sexual reproduction.

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Pollen-presenter

A pollen-presenter is an area on the tip of the style in flowers of plants of the family Proteaceae on which the anthers release their pollen prior to anthesis.

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Pollination

Pollination is the transfer of pollen from an anther of a plant to the stigma of a plant, later enabling fertilisation and the production of seeds.

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Pollination syndrome

Pollination syndromes are suites of flower traits that have evolved in response to natural selection imposed by different pollen vectors, which can be abiotic (wind and water) or biotic, such as birds, bees, flies, and so forth through a process called pollinator-mediated selection.

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Prostrate shrub

A prostrate shrub is a woody plant, most of the branches of which lie upon or just above the ground, rather than being held erect as are the branches of most trees and shrubs.

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Protea

Protea is a genus of South African flowering plants, also called sugarbushes (Afrikaans: suikerbos).

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Protea montana

Protea montana also known as the Swartberg sugarbush, is a flowering plant of the genus Protea within the family Proteaceae, which is endemic to the southwestern Cape Region of South Africa. Protea pruinosa and Protea montana are protea.

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Protea scolopendriifolia

Protea scolopendriifolia, also known as the harts-tongue-fern sugarbush or hart's-tongue-fern sugarbush, is a flowering shrub endemic to South Africa, where it occurs in both the Western and Eastern Cape. Protea pruinosa and Protea scolopendriifolia are endemic flora of the Cape Provinces and protea.

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Proteaceae

The Proteaceae form a family of flowering plants predominantly distributed in the Southern Hemisphere.

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Protein

Proteins are large biomolecules and macromolecules that comprise one or more long chains of amino acid residues.

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Pseudanthium

A pseudanthium (false flower;: pseudanthia) is an inflorescence that resembles a flower.

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Rare species

A rare species is a group of organisms that are very uncommon, scarce, or infrequently encountered.

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Regional Red List

A Regional Red List is a report of the threatened status of species within a certain country or region.

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Reproductive isolation

The mechanisms of reproductive isolation are a collection of evolutionary mechanisms, behaviors and physiological processes critical for speciation.

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Rodent

Rodents (from Latin rodere, 'to gnaw') are mammals of the order Rodentia, which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws.

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Sandstone

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains, cemented together by another mineral.

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Self-incompatibility

Self-incompatibility (SI) is a general name for several genetic mechanisms that prevent self-fertilization in sexually reproducing organisms, and thus encourage outcrossing and allogamy.

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Sequential hermaphroditism

Sequential hermaphroditism (called dichogamy in botany) is one of the two types of hermaphroditism, the other type being simultaneous hermaphroditism.

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Serotiny

Serotiny in botany simply means 'following' or 'later'.

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Sessility (botany)

In botany, sessility (meaning "sitting", in the sense of "resting on the surface") is a characteristic of plant organs such as flowers or leaves that have no stalk.

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Shrub

A shrub or bush is a small-to-medium-sized perennial woody plant.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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South African National Biodiversity Institute

The South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) is an organisation tasked with research and dissemination of information on biodiversity, and legally mandated to contribute to the management of the country's biodiversity resources.

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Species description

A species description is a formal scientific description of a newly encountered species, typically articulated through a scientific publication.

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Spectacled dormouse

The spectacled dormouse or namtap (Graphiurus ocularis) is a species of rodent in the family Gliridae, and one of four dormouse species endemic to South Africa.

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Stamen

The stamen (stamina or stamens) is the pollen-producing reproductive organ of a flower.

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Stigma (botany)

The stigma (stigmas or stigmata) is the receptive tip of a carpel, or of several fused carpels, in the gynoecium of a flower.

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Stratification (seeds)

In horticulture, stratification is a process of treating seeds to simulate natural conditions that the seeds must experience before germination can occur.

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Style (botany)

In botany, the style of an angiosperm flower is an organ of variable length that connects the ovary to the stigma.

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Sucrose

Sucrose, a disaccharide, is a sugar composed of glucose and fructose subunits.

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Swartberg

The Swartberg mountains (black mountain in Afrikaans) are a mountain range in the Western Cape province of South Africa.

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Sympatry

In biology, two related species or populations are considered sympatric when they exist in the same geographic area and thus frequently encounter one another.

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Table Mountain Sandstone

Table Mountain Sandstone (TMS) is a group of rock formations within the Cape Supergroup sequence of rocks.

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Verreaux's mouse

Verreaux's mouse or Verreaux's white-footed rat (Myomyscus verreauxii) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.

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Vulnerable species

A vulnerable species is a species which has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as being threatened with extinction unless the circumstances that are threatening its survival and reproduction improve.

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Western Cape

The Western Cape (Wes-Kaap; iNtshona-Koloni) is a province of South Africa, situated on the south-western coast of the country.

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Wildfire

A wildfire, forest fire, or a bushfire is an unplanned, uncontrolled and unpredictable fire in an area of combustible vegetation.

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See also

Taxa named by John Patrick Rourke

• Leucadendron osbornei
• Protea foliosa
• Protea inopina
• Protea intonsa
• Protea namaquana
• Protea nubigena
• Protea piscina
• Protea pruinosa
• Protea pudens
• Protea vogtsiae

References

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

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