• surfaces abaxially glabrous to tomentose, lightly to heavily resin-coated. (neonscience.org)
  • Some patterns of variation within Grindelia are similar to those found in genera characterized by apomictic seed production (e.g., local morphologic variants such as discoid plants in otherwise radiate taxa, hairy plants in otherwise glabrous taxa, narrow-leaved plants in otherwise broad-leaved taxa, etc. (neonscience.org)
  • The G. bosvalliaan endemic taxa to India, were a major plant population distributed in the Western Ghats of India.The plant shows distinct anatomical characters of stem and root. (sajeb.org)
  • Lewisia congdonii, known by the common name Congdon's lewisia, is a rare species of flowering plant in the family Montiaceae. (calflora.org)
  • Though P. deltoides is sometimes planted as a shade tree, Populus species as a whole are subject to many diseases and insect pests, such as canker and tent caterpillars, which often kill the tree or make it unattractive. (swbiodiversity.org)
  • The plant medicines used are mostly one species against a disease (142 species), or two (45), three (44), four (13), and to a maximum of five (5). (google.com)
  • Deam (1932): This species could be used to good advantage in ornamental planting in low ground. (asu.edu)
  • After comparing Steyermark´s treatment with specimens, one gets the impression that Steyermark had a keen eye for subtleties and trends in variation and that he sometimes assigned taxonomic ranks (species, variety, and forma) to trends rather than to what most botanists would consider to be taxa. (neonscience.org)
  • Some species characteristically have cauline leaves with ± crenate margins and rounded, obtuse, or truncate teeth tipped by resin globules. (neonscience.org)
  • Plants with margins of some or all leaves entire may be encountered in almost all species of Grindelia and may predominate in some plants, populations, or species. (neonscience.org)
  • Species of conifers can be found in almost all parts of the world, and are often the most common plants in their habitats , as in the taiga . (wikipedia.org)
  • Given the ecological and economic relevance of the genus, it is essential to continue researching the other species and to delve further into such topics as the analysis of micorrhyzal species and the level of micorrhyzation in plants. (gob.mx)
  • A better understanding of these relationships is needed to make the species more useful for plant improvement or genetic studies. (scialert.net)
  • This perspective provides additional insight into understanding the evolutionary history of the genus Pistacia to make the species more useful for plant improvement or genetic studies. (scialert.net)
  • Particularly within the genus Chaenothecopsis, many species exclusively occur on fresh and solidified resins or other exudates of vascular plants. (jjh.cz)
  • This species is unique because of its floral parts densely covered with a resin-like substance, and exceptionally long fruits. (mapress.com)
  • Gernandt and Pérez (2014) point out that the Mexican Republic hosts 57 of the approximately 120 taxa that make up the genus. (gob.mx)
  • Though the Baltic amber collection is not as large as some European collections, it contains many rare taxa, particularly of Hymenoptera. (amnh.org)
  • Dioecious (rarely monoecious) shrubs or trees , often spiny, outer bark often papery or peeling, inner bark greenish, often secreting aromatic resin . (co.zw)
  • In young plants resin bleeds from oviposition holes and larval tunnels in the bark may be seen. (eppo.int)
  • monoecious trees with shreddy bark and small, appressed, imbricate, scale-like, decussately opposite lvs, the lateral ones folded, the upper and lower flat and with a prominent resin-gland, branchlets numerous from the axils of the lateral lvs, forming soft, flat sprays. (intermountainbiota.org)
  • The dense inflorescence has resin glands and some woolly fibers. (wikipedia.org)
  • Near the flowers are small, pointed bracts tipped with resin glands. (calflora.org)
  • Calflora taxon report, University of California, Ericameria bloomeri (A. Gray) J.F. Macbr. (wikipedia.org)
  • Volatile resins in the plants are strongly aromatic and, when crushed, leaves have very distinctive (although not easily described) aromas. (intermountainbiota.org)
  • Flowering plant diversity and endemism in India: An Overview. (google.com)
  • This makes it one of the important plant diversity hotspots in the Mediterranean basin as well as Europe. (isebindia.com)
  • In the fieldwork, we found 105 taxa used as medicinal plants which belong to 46 families, where Rosaceae , Asteraceae , Fabaceae , and Lamiaceae are the ones with more diversity. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Tropicos search for Aster bloomeri Tropicos, Haplopappus bloomeri A. Gray The Plant List, Ericameria bloomeri (A.Gray) J.F.Macbr. (wikipedia.org)
  • The climbing plants of northern Telangana in India and their ethnomedicinal and economic uses. (google.com)
  • Intracultural Cognizance of Medicinal Plants of Warangal North Forest Division, Northern Telangana, India. (google.com)
  • The presence of these two taxa in India was brought to light in 1987 by Rossignol et al. (google.com)
  • The investigated medicinally and ethno-medicinally very important taxon endemic to the Western Ghats of India. (sajeb.org)
  • It shows the presence of resin oil cavities and large solitary calcium crystals in the region of the cortex of the stem and root of G. bosvallia. (sajeb.org)
  • Application of a resin floor on this type of substrate requires special preparation, e.g. grinding, filling cavities, and levelling the surface with resin-based mass with quartz sand. (bpcc.org.pl)
  • Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. (swbiodiversity.org)
  • Largest family of vascular plants in California and of eudicots globally. (berkeley.edu)
  • Annuals , 10-100 cm, herbage loosely gray-tomentose and villous with jointed multicellular hairs, sometimes minutely scabrous, minutely resin-gland-dotted. (swbiodiversity.org)
  • hairs glandular (resin-filled) or T-shaped, hollow. (berkeley.edu)
  • Here we show that geothermally resistant fossil cuticles of seed-bearing plants, analysed with Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy and hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA), retain biomolecular suites that consistently distinguish major taxa even after experiencing different diagenetic histories. (nature.com)
  • Thus, in the absence of modern relatives yielding molecular information, FTIR spectroscopy provides valuable proxy biochemical data complementing morphological characters to distinguish fossil taxa and to help elucidate extinct plant relationships. (nature.com)
  • We depend on donations from users of our database of over 8000 edible and useful plants to keep making it available free of charge and to further extend and improve it. (pfaf.org)
  • they are the habitat and source of food of wildlife, and they provide timber, firewood, pulp, resins, edible seeds and other non-timber forest products (Sánchez, 2008). (gob.mx)
  • All living conifers are woody plants which are perennial . (wikipedia.org)
  • These included foundational woody taxa, such as Terminalia and Boswellia sacra (frankincense), which had a strong positive influence on local hydrology and the economy, respectively. (nau.edu)
  • Phanerochaete chrysosporium is a saprophytic fungus capable of organic breakdown of the woody part of dead plants. (kenyon.edu)
  • This plant has ornamental value, and is cultivated in parks and gardens. (wikipedia.org)
  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S. & Celis, M. (2015) New names and new combinations for the Catalogue of the Plants and Lichens of Colombia. (mapress.com)
  • The various medicinally important components deposited in various parts of plant. (sajeb.org)
  • The various plant parts have some medicinally important depositions that will be used in the future to cure diseases or abnormalities. (sajeb.org)
  • The trunk of the tree produces copaiba-balsam, an oily oleo-resin which is used medicinally to counter mucous in the chest and genito-urinary system. (pfaf.org)
  • Always seek advice from a professional before using a plant medicinally. (pfaf.org)
  • Copaiba-balsam, an oily oleo-resin obtained from the trunk of the tree, has a very long history of use medicinally. (pfaf.org)
  • Local medicinal uses of plants were identified and grouped into 10 categories through data analysis, in quantitative indices such as the relative frequency citation (RFC), the cultural importance index (CI), and the informant consensus factor ( F IC ). (biomedcentral.com)
  • Aside from the abovementioned medicinal uses, the resin can also be used as a flavouring agent in food and beverages, or in varnishes and lacquers, for photographic paper, or as substitute for diesel oil. (pfaf.org)
  • By contrast, the fossil archive of plants offers a vastly greater and more accessible testing ground to investigate the biochemistry of durable tissues. (nature.com)
  • These studies provide a firm basis for evaluating whether the biochemistry of plant cuticles preserved over geological timescales can yield taxonomically and phylogenetically useful information. (nature.com)
  • Introduction to Plant Biochemistry. (botany.org)
  • is an herbaceous plant, forever green, grayish from drooping, shrub 30 - 60 (100) cm high, with a strong odor. (scirp.org)
  • Indian Journal of Plant Sciences 3 (1): 86-100. (google.com)
  • American Journal of Plant Sciences , 11 , 578-588. (scirp.org)
  • A high point in our visit came when we were received by Madame Teng Ying Chow (Madame (Thou En-Lai) and six other women who are prominent in China, including the newly appointed Minister of Health, Madame Liu Shing Ping. (botany.org)
  • this resin clings to cutter teeth and other tool parts and complicates the machining operations. (pfaf.org)
  • Conifers were eventually overtaken by their descendants, the flowering plants , which first appeared in the Cretaceous . (wikipedia.org)
  • Flowering plants became dominant in the Cainozoic era. (wikipedia.org)
  • Gene sequences form the primary basis for understanding the relationships among extant plant groups, but genetic data are unavailable from fossils to evaluate the affinities of extinct taxa. (nature.com)
  • These were used to evaluate the importance of medicinal plants to the locals. (biomedcentral.com)
  • is a tertiary period relict endemic taxon of the East Mediterranean, distributed naturally only in the South and West Anatolian parts of Turkey, mainly on sandy soils, with a high pH. (isebindia.com)
  • The sources of plant medicine comprise four ferns and 245 angiosperms (220 Magnoliopsida and 25 Liliopsida) representing 199 genera of 89 families. (google.com)
  • Within and among populations of grindelias, some morphologic traits appear to vary more from plant to plant than in most genera of composites. (neonscience.org)
  • Bangladesh Journal of Plant Taxonomy 18 (1): 57-63. (google.com)
  • Identified diagnostic features that can be used in taxonomy and can be used to identify plant materials can also be used to develop indicators of authenticity in this type of raw material. (scirp.org)
  • Information on California plants for education, research and conservation, with data contributed by public and private institutions and individuals. (calflora.org)
  • This research helps in the conservation effort of the collective knowledge of medicinal plants for future generations. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Atlas of the .Japanese Flora: An Introduction to Plant Sociology of East Asia. (botany.org)
  • He is editor of Plant Biosystems, Plant Sociology, associate editor of Documents Phytosociologiques, Mediterranean Botany and Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens. (researchgate.net)
  • Arthropods are the most diverse life forms in amber, though plants and rare soft-bodied invertebrates can also be preserved. (amnh.org)
  • This plant is native to the mountains of western North America from British Columbia to California, including Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Nevada. (wikipedia.org)
  • Our results reveal that similarities between the cuticular biochemical signatures of major plant groups (extant and fossil) are mostly consistent with recent phylogenetic hypotheses based on molecular and morphological data. (nature.com)
  • Research has shown Phanerochaete chrysosporium to be a degrader of phenolic resins found in such plastics within particle board and Formica, the constitutent of many counters and table tops. (kenyon.edu)
  • The use of wild populations of lavender as medicinal and aromatic plants has been known since ancient Rome. (scirp.org)
  • Only 17 out of the 57 pine taxa in Mexico have been formally researched. (gob.mx)
  • The use of plants in therapy remains, worldwide, an important means of combating diseases. (biomedcentral.com)