Mention the deserving positions of podostemaceae and laurineae. Podostemaceae described them as a special group with highly varied morphological structure. Keys to genera and species, including genera descriptions, illustrations1 to all species known, synonyms2, and literature list3 compiled by r. Podostemaceae in kew science plants of the world online. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. The developmental anatomy is described for seedlings of nine asian and australian species of podostemaceae, subfamily podostemoideae. Podocarpaceae definition of podocarpaceae by merriamwebster. Wikimedia commons has media related to podostemaceae.
The plant list includes 695 scientific plant names of species rank for the family podostemaceae. Annual or perennial, aquatic herbs, often bizarre in form, sometimes resembling lichens, bryophytes, seaweeds, or unlike any other plants. Podostemaceae article about podostemaceae by the free. Developmental morphology of seedling and shoot and. Developmental morphology of new world podostemaceae. Convert pdf to word free online pdf to word converter. Seedling developmental anatomy of an undescribed malaccotristicha species podostemaceae, subfamily tristichoideae with implications for body plan evolution. Similarly laurineae of series daphnales of monochlamydeae deserves a place in ranales of the series thalamiflorae of polypetalae.
Riverweeds adhere to hard surfaces generally rock in rapids and waterfalls of rivers. Convert pdf to word in one click with convertpdftoword. Flora of new yorkhypericaceae, podostemaceae, elatinaceae. The plants of podostemaceae, an unusual aquatic angiosperm famiy that occur in rapids andwaterfalls, gained a horizontal axis ofdevelopment at the beginning of the famiy, whie lost the verticalbipolar development common in angiosperms. Synonymic checklists of the vascular plants of the.
The substrate does not seem to be important as long as it is hard. The unusual ramification mode of sphaerothylax abyssinica. The plants live in rivers, usually waterfalls and rapids, in the tropics and subtropics where the water level of the rivers fluctuates seasonally. The new york flora atlas is a source of information for the distribution of plants within the state, as well as information on plant habitats, associated ecological communities, and taxonomy. Tpl has been static since 20, but was used as the starting point for the taxonomic backbone of the world flora online wfo, and updated information can be found at. Max brown foliage leaf the numerous large leaves of grasses are alternate and 2ranked on the culm, and originate at the node. Phantompdf is the pdf editor that is enterprise ready. Most reports state that they grow in oligotrophic and oxygenrich water. The prevalence of a high degree of polymorphism in the exomorphic characters of each taxon size, shape and colour varying from habitat and from season to. The unusual aquatic angiosperms podostemaceae exhibit a remarkable diversity of body plan in spite of its habitat unifor mity across a worldwide distribution willis, 1902.
Species of podostemaceae contained within the plant list belong to 49 plant genera. Many species are found in a very small geographic area, often even just a single river. Convert pdf files to and from any microsoft office formaton the desktop with nitro pro or in any web browser with nitro cloud. Podostemaceae riverweed family, a family in the order malpighiales, comprise about 46 genera and ca 300 species of more or less thalloid aquatic herbs. Habit plantbody often reduced to a thallus usually attached to the substratum by haptera shoots when present arising from a thalloid base and bearing simple or deeply divided, alternate, exstipulate or minutely stipulate leaves aquatic herbs of rocks or stones in swiftflowing water or spray of waterfalls. Foliage leaf blade usually narrow and long linear to lanceolate but sometimes ovate, triangular or other shapes. The evolution of unusual morphology in the podostemaceae article pdf available in the plant cell 227. Podostemaceae of series multiopvuatae aquaticae of monochlamydeae deserves a place in rosales of the series calyciflorae of polypetalae.
Without her lifelong effort we would know much less about this enigmatic family in africa and madagascar. The gain and loss of the axes took place in the seedling stage. The plants, which are usually very small, often resemble the thallus of some liverworts, lichens, or algae. Comparative morphology of the vegetative structures of tristicha trifaria, indotristicha ramosissima and dalzellia ceylanica podostemaceae, tristichoideae. This refers to the strange combination of simple undifferentiated thallus, perplexing polymorphism and number of growth forms surviving in the most erratic habitats. A list of all accepted names in podostemaceae is available in csv format. Rijksherbarium, leiden receivednovember10, 1953 page i. Edit any document, including images, paragraphs and pages. In most podostemaceae flowering takes place when the water level drops. Podostemaceae the river weeds are ecologically and morphologically unusual angiosperms. They have a unique body plan see figure1 that appears specialized for clinging to rocks in moving water. Podocarpaceae definition is a family of evergreen gymnosperms of the southern hemisphere with simple persistent needlelike or scalelike leaves and 2celled anthers.
All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the creative commons cc0 license. Podostemineae article about podostemineae by the free. An adventitious root forms endogenously in the hypocotyl of six species with ribbon. The hypocotyl is rudimentary except in zeylanidium olivaceum and does not form a primary root in any of the species examined. Crow herbs, annual perennial, aquatic, attached to rocks and other solid substrata in rapids and waterfalls, submersed in vegetative stage, becoming reproductive as water level drops, exposing plants to air. Podostemaceae are haptophytes normally fixed to a hard substrate usually rock in rapids and waterfalls, usually in sunny places. Distinguished by the presence of flowers or fruits in the leaf axils. Sculthorpe 1967 opined that podostemaceae is the strongest. Edit any pdf file, including all images, paragraphs, and pages. Convert pdf files to and from any microsoft office format. Podosphaera definition is a genus of powdery mildews family erysiphaceae having perithecia with only a single ascus and rigid usually dichotomously branched but sometimes simple appendages.
Podostemaceae, riverweed family of dicotyledonous flowering plants in the order malpighiales, with 48 genera and 270 species of aquatic plants that look like mosses, liverworts, algae, and even lichens and live on rocks in rushing rivers and waterfalls. Thomas philbrick2 1 department of taxonomy, south china institute of botany, chinese academy of sciences, wushan, guangzhou, guangdong 510650, peoples republic of china. He set himself at once to acquire a knowledge of the language, in which he made rapid progress, and was able to preach his first sermon in sinhalese at biyanwila four months after arrival. The plants grow on rocks, on cliffs, or, less frequently, on. They have parallel veins with rare exceptions and the tip or apex of the blade is often fairly sharppointed. Bernhard institute of systematic botany, university of zurich, version podosafrica0904a 23 september 2004. They are found mostly in tropical and subtropical areas worldwide.
Request pdf monograph of podostemum podostemaceae an expanded circumscription of the genus podostemum michx. The life history of the tristichaceae and podostemaceae, chapter ix. Charles carter, compiler of this dictionary, arrived in ceylon, as a missionary of the baptist missionary society, on 22nd september, 1853. To reveal the genetic basis for the evolution of novel shoot organogenesis in podostemaceae, we. The unusual ramification mode of sphaerothylax abyssinica w wedd. In addition, users can learn about the location of vouchered specimens and see images to get a better visual for each plant. The board of trustees of the royal botanic gardens, kew. Word tells you that its going to make a copy of the pdf and convert its contents into a format that word can display. This page was last edited on 17 december 2019, at 02. The family podostemaceae is a family of aquatic eudicots known as river weeds that grow on rocks in rapids and waterfalls, mostly in tropical and subtropical regions. The name hypericum was derived from the greek hyper above and eikon picture, possibly indicating that the flowers of these plants were hung above pictures or windows.
Already as a teenager i had become acquainted with rheophytes, during swimming exercises between utrecht and bunnik in the kromme rijn, an ancient, then canalized course of the river rhine, where a submerged waterplant occurred gregariously in dense stands on the sandy bottom. The subfamily tristichoideae has typical shoot apical meristems sams that produce leaves, but podostemoideae is devoid of sams and new leaves arise below the base of older leaves. Robson 2016 flora of north america, volume 6, 24apr2016. Threatened by diamond mining and a hydroelectric dam, it is here assessed as critically endangered according to the categories and criteria of iucn. The plant list includes a further 41 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for. Find the pdf, and open it you might have to select browse and find the pdf in a folder. The genus hypericum is organized here into sections as treated by robson 2016. Comparative developmental anatomy of seedlings in nine. Create pdf files from scratch, or merge and combine documents. Podosphaera definition of podosphaera by merriamwebster. A multibranched thallus of indeterminate size, flattened against the substrate and clinging to rocks with disclike processes in place of roots.
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