Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. An internationally important botanical research and education institution, it employs 1,100 staff. Its board of trustees is chaired by Dame Amelia Fawcett.
The Chenopodioideae are a subfamily of the flowering plant family Amaranthaceae in the APG III system, which is largely based on molecular phylogeny, but were included – together with other subfamilies – in the family Chenopodiaceae, or goosefoot family, in the Cronquist system.
Sarcomphalus is a genus of plants in the family Rhamnaceae.
Toiyabea is a genus of North American plants in the tribe Astereae within the family Asteraceae. The genus is named for the Toiyabe Mountains in the US state of Nevada.
Xylothamia, the desert goldenrods, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. Until 2003, it was held to contain nine species of shrubs native to deserts of Mexico and the southwestern United States. However, it seems to contain at least two groups. Four species are related to Gundlachia and may be moved to that genus. Plants of the World Online class it as a synonym of Gundlachia. The relationships of the other five species is not quite as clear. All nine species do belong in the subtribe Solidagininae.
The family Apodanthaceae comprises about 10 species of endoparasitic herbs. They live in the branches or stems of their hosts, emerging only to flower and fruit. The plants produce no green parts and do not carry out any photosynthesis. There are two genera: Pilostyles and Apodanthes. A third genus, Berlinianche, was never validly published. Mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences confidently place the Apodanthaceae in the Cucurbitales, where they also fit well in terms of their flower morphology. The native range of Apodanthes is restricted to Central and tropical South America, while Pilostyles has a much wider though disjointed native range, encompassing many countries in tropical and subtropical America, a section of Africa from Gabon to Tanzania and down to Zimbabwe, as well as Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Western Australia.
Symphyotrichum subulatum, commonly known as eastern annual saltmarsh aster or, in Britain and Ireland where it is naturalized, annual saltmarsh aster, is an annual plant in the family Asteraceae native to the eastern United States and the Gulf Coast to Texas. The species grows primarily in coastal salt marshes, although in the Ozarks it occurs as a non-marine weedy variety.
Bienertia is a flowering plant genus that currently is classified in the family Amaranthaceae s.l.. For long time, the genus was considered to consist only of one species, Bienertia cycloptera, but in 2005 and 2012, two new species have been separated.
Garcinia binucao is a species of flowering plant in the Clusiaceae family. It is commonly known as binukaw or batuan, is a species of Garcinia endemic to the Philippines. It is not cultivated, though its edible fruits are harvested from the wild for use as a souring agent in some Filipino dishes.
Ge Lin Chu is a Chinese botanist.
Spermolepis is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Apiaceae.
Apopyros is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Asteraceae.
Baolia bracteata is a species of flowering plant belonging to the family Amaranthaceae. It is the sole species in genus Baolia. It is an annual plant endemic to southern Gansu province in north-central China.
Climacoptera is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Amaranthaceae.
Cornulaca is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Amaranthaceae.
Grubovia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Amaranthaceae.
Neokochia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Amaranthaceae.
Pacifigeron is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Asteraceae. It is endemic to the Tubuai Islands.
Symphyotrichum leone is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae native to Cuba. It is also spelled Symphyotrichum leonis.
Acroglochin is a genus of flowering plants in the family Amaranthaceae.
