| Bulbine caput-medusae | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Asphodelaceae |
| Subfamily: | Asphodeloideae |
| Genus: | Bulbine |
| Species: | B. caput-medusae |
| Binomial name | |
| Bulbine caput-medusae G.Will. | |
Bulbine caput-medusae is a species of plant in the Asphodelaceae family. It is endemic to Namibia. Its natural habitats are dry savanna and hot deserts.
The ashy-headed goose is a large sheldgoose, which breeds in mountainous areas of southernmost South America and winters on lowlands just north of its breeding range.
Caput medusae is the appearance of distended and engorged superficial epigastric veins, which are seen radiating from the umbilicus across the abdomen. The name caput medusae originates from the apparent similarity to Medusa's head, which had venomous snakes in place of hair. It is also a sign of portal hypertension. It is caused by dilation of the paraumbilical veins, which carry oxygenated blood from mother to fetus in utero and normally close within one week of birth, becoming re-canalised due to portal hypertension caused by liver failure.
Caput Medusae is Latin for "head of Medusa". It may also refer to:
Ptychopyxis is a genus of plant of the family Euphorbiaceae first described in 1861. It is native to Southeast Asia and New Guinea.
The thoracoepigastric vein runs along the lateral aspect of the trunk between the superficial epigastric vein below and the lateral thoracic vein above and establishes an important communication between the femoral vein and axillary vein. This is an especially important vein when the inferior vena cava (IVC) becomes obstructed, by providing a means of collateral venous return. It creates a cavocaval anastomosis by connecting with superficial epigastric veins arising from femoral vein just below inguinal ligament.
In the course of the round ligament of liver, small veins (paraumbilical) are found which establish an anastomosis between the veins of the anterior abdominal wall and the hepatic portal, hypogastric, and iliac veins.
Bulbine francescae is a species of plant in the genus Bulbine. It is endemic to Namibia. Its natural habitat is rocky areas.
Bulbine namaensis is a species of plant in the genus Bulbine. It is native to Namibia and to the Cape Provinces in South Africa. Its natural habitat is dry savanna.
Euphorbia caput-aureum is a species of plant in the family Euphorbiaceae. It is endemic to Madagascar. Its natural habitat is rocky areas.
Tillandsia caput-medusae is a species of flowering plant in the bromeliad family, Bromeliaceae, subfamily Tillandsioideae. Common names include octopus plant and medusa's head. An epiphyte native to Central America and Mexico, T. caput-medusae is a commonly cultivated bromeliad species. The thick, channeled, tapering and twisting leaves are up to 25 cm (9.8 in) long and are covered in fine gray hairs. The rosette of leaves arise from an inflated pseudobulb. Pups are produced after blooming, as is usual with most Tillandsia species.
Taeniatherum is a genus of Eurasian and North African plants in the grass family known by the common name medusahead.
Hordelymus is a genus of European, north African, and southwest Asian plants in the grass family.
Tillandsia baileyi, commonly known as the reflexed airplant or Bailey's ball moss, is a species of bromeliad that is native to southern Texas in the United States and Tamaulipas in Mexico. It is found along the Gulf of Mexico from Kingsville, Texas to Tampico, Tamaulipas. Preferred host plants for this epiphyte include Southern live oak and Texas ebony.
Euphorbia caput-medusae is a plant of the genus Euphorbia that occurs in and around Cape Town, South Africa.
Medusahead is the common name of more than one species of plant, including:
Astrophytum caput-medusae is a species of cactus native to Mexico, specifically the state of Nuevo León; the plant is reported to grow wild only at a single location. This species differs from the conventional star-shaped phenotype associated with other Astrophytum members. The plant is characterized by a cylindrical, reduced stem with triangular or cylindrical tubercles producing yellow flowers with orange perianth sections. Propagation by seed, tissue culture or via grafting have all been reported. The species is considered critically endangered by the IUCN due to the plant's limited growth range, destruction by livestock and over collection of wild specimen by plant collectors
Bulbine bruynsii is a species of plant in the genus Bulbine. It is endemic to South Africa.
Cordylus macropholis, the large-scaled girdled lizard, is a small (55-77 mm) lizard endemic to the west coast of South Africa. They spend most of their time on and around a single plant species, Euphorbia caput-medusae which only occupies around 5% of the vegetation present. It is thought that they restrict themselves to these plants because they provide safer hiding places than most other shrubs, house a large range of invertebrate prey, and provide good thermal microhabitats. They can additionally be found sunbathing on, or hiding in between rocks, as these could provide protection from larger predators from which their physical adaptations might not provided them with adequate protection.
Psathyrella caput-medusae is a species of fungus belonging to the family Psathyrellaceae.
