Plocama
Encyclopedia
Plocama is a genus
of flowering plant
s in the Rubiaceae
family
. It was described by William Aiton
in 1789. It is found from the Canary Islands
to northwestern India
.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of flowering plant
Flowering plant
The flowering plants , also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants. Angiosperms are seed-producing plants like the gymnosperms and can be distinguished from the gymnosperms by a series of synapomorphies...
s in the Rubiaceae
Rubiaceae
The Rubiaceae is a family of flowering plants, variously called the coffee family, madder family, or bedstraw family. The group contains many commonly known plants, including the economically important coffee , quinine , and gambier , and the horticulturally valuable madder , west indian jasmine ,...
family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
. It was described by William Aiton
William Aiton
William Aiton was a Scottish botanist.Aiton was born near Hamilton. Having been regularly trained to the profession of a gardener, he travelled to London in 1754, and became assistant to Philip Miller, then superintendent of the Chelsea Physic Garden...
in 1789. It is found from the Canary Islands
Canary Islands
The Canary Islands , also known as the Canaries , is a Spanish archipelago located just off the northwest coast of mainland Africa, 100 km west of the border between Morocco and the Western Sahara. The Canaries are a Spanish autonomous community and an outermost region of the European Union...
to northwestern India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
.
Species
- Plocama afghanica (Ehrend.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama asperuliformis (Lincz.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama aucheri (Guill.Jean Baptiste Antoine GuilleminJean Baptiste Antoine Guillemin was a French botanist.In 1812 he was apprenticed to a pharmacist in Dijon, and in 1814 moved to Geneva, where he studied with Jean Pierre Étienne Vaucher and Augustin Pyramus de Candolle...
) M.Backlund & Thulin - Plocama botschantzevii (Lincz.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama brevifolia (Coss. & Durieu ex Pomel) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama bruguieri (A.Rich.Achille RichardAchille Richard was a French botanist and physician .He was son of a notable botanist, Louis-Claude Marie Richard .Pharmacist in the French fleet and member of several well-known societies of their time....
ex DC.) M.Backlund & Thulin - Plocama bucharica (B.Fedtsch. & Des.-Shost.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama calabrica (L.f.Carolus Linnaeus the YoungerCarl Linnaeus the Younger, Carl von Linné or Carolus Linnaeus the Younger was a Swedish naturalist...
) M.Backlund & Thulin - Plocama calcicola (Puff) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama calycoptera (Decne.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama corcyllis (Sond.Otto Wilhelm SonderOtto Wilhelm Sonder was a German botanist and pharmacist who was a native of Holstein. From 1841 to 1878 he was the proprietor of a pharmacy in Hamburg. In 1846 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Königsberg.He was the author, with William Henry Harvey , of the Flora Capensis...
) M.Backlund & Thulin - Plocama crucianelloides (Jaub. & Spach) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama dubia (Aitch. & Hemsl.William Hemsley (botanist)William Botting Hemsley was an English botanist and 1909 Victoria Medal of Honour recipient....
) M.Backlund & Thulin - Plocama eriantha (Jaub. & Spach) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama hymenostephana (Jaub. & Spach) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama iljinii (Lincz.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama inopinata (Lincz.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama jolana (Thulin) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama kandaharensis (Ehrend. & Qarar ex (Ehrend. & Schönb.-Tem.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama macrantha (Blatt. & Hallb.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama mestscherjakovii (Lincz.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama olivieri (A.Rich.Achille RichardAchille Richard was a French botanist and physician .He was son of a notable botanist, Louis-Claude Marie Richard .Pharmacist in the French fleet and member of several well-known societies of their time....
ex DC.) M.Backlund & Thulin - Plocama pendula AitonWilliam AitonWilliam Aiton was a Scottish botanist.Aiton was born near Hamilton. Having been regularly trained to the profession of a gardener, he travelled to London in 1754, and became assistant to Philip Miller, then superintendent of the Chelsea Physic Garden...
- Plocama puberulaPlocama puberulaPlocama puberula is a species of flowering plant in the Rubiaceae family. It is endemic to the Socotra archipelago of Yemen. Its natural habitat is rocky areas....
(Balf.f.Isaac Bayley BalfourSir Isaac Bayley Balfour FRS FRSE was a Scottish botanist. He was the son of John Hutton Balfour who was also a botanist.-Biography:...
) M.Backlund & Thulin - Plocama putorioidesPlocama putorioidesPlocama putorioides is a species of flowering plant in the Rubiaceae family. It is endemic to the Socotra archipelago of Yemen. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland....
(Radcl.-Sm.) M.Backlund & Thulin - Plocama reboudiana (Coss. & Durieu) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama rosea (Hemsl.William Hemsley (botanist)William Botting Hemsley was an English botanist and 1909 Victoria Medal of Honour recipient....
ex Aitch.) M.Backlund & Thulin - Plocama somaliensis (Puff) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama szowitzii (DC.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama thymoidesPlocama thymoidesPlocama thymoides is a species of flowering plant in the Rubiaceae family. It is endemic to the Socotra archipelago of Yemen. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests....
(Balf.f.Isaac Bayley BalfourSir Isaac Bayley Balfour FRS FRSE was a Scottish botanist. He was the son of John Hutton Balfour who was also a botanist.-Biography:...
) M.Backlund & Thulin - Plocama tinctoriaPlocama tinctoriaPlocama tinctoria is a species of flowering plant in the Rubiaceae family. It is endemic to northern Somalia and the Socotra archipelago of Yemen. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests....
(Balf.f.Isaac Bayley BalfourSir Isaac Bayley Balfour FRS FRSE was a Scottish botanist. He was the son of John Hutton Balfour who was also a botanist.-Biography:...
) M.Backlund & Thulin - Plocama trichophylla (Popov) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama vassilczenkoi (Lincz.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama yemenensis (Thulin) M.Backlund & Thulin