Dapania | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Oxalidales |
Family: | Oxalidaceae |
Genus: | Dapania Korth. |
Dapania is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Oxalidaceae. [1]
Its native range is Madagascar, Western Malesia. [1]
Species: [1]
Pieter Willem Korthals was a Dutch botanist. Korthals was the official botanist with the Dutch East India Service from 1831 to 1836. Among his many discoveries was the medicinal plant Kratom . Korthals wrote the first monograph on the tropical pitcher plants, "Over het geslacht Nepenthes", published in 1839.
Microcos is a genus of flowering plants in the family Malvaceae sensu lato or Tiliaceae or Sparrmanniaceae.
Anisoptera costata is an endangered species of plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. The name costata is derived from Latin and describes the prominent venation of the leaf blade. A huge emergent tree up to 65 m high, it is found in evergreen and semi-evergreen lowland tropical seasonal forests of Indo-Burma and in mixed dipterocarp forests of Malesia.
Hopea is a genus of plants in the family Dipterocarpaceae. The genus was named after John Hope, 1725–1786, the first Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. It contains some 113 species, distributed from Sri Lanka and southern India to southern China, and southward throughout Malesia to New Guinea. They are mainly main and subcanopy trees of lowland rainforest, but some species can become also emergent trees, such as Hopea nutans.
Licania splendens is a tree in the family Chrysobalanaceae. The specific epithet splendens is from the Latin meaning "shining", referring to surfaces of the dried leaves.
Anisoptera is a genus of plants in the family Dipterocarpaceae. The name Anisoptera is derived from Greek and describes the unequal fruit calyx lobes. It contains ten species distributed from Chittagong (Bangladesh) to New Guinea. Eight out of the ten species are currently listed on the IUCN redlist. Of these, four species are listed as critically endangered and the other four as endangered. The main threat is habitat loss. The timber is a light hardwood.
Mitragyna is a genus of trees in the family Rubiaceae found in the tropical and subtropical regions of Asia and Africa. Members of this genus contain antimalarial and analgesic indole alkaloids. The Rubiacae are the fifth-largest family of flowering plants by number of genera, and the fourth- or fifth-largest by number of species.
Dendrophthoe is a genus of hemiparasitic shrubs found in Asia and Australia known as mistletoes. The genus was described by German naturalist Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius in 1830. Species in this genus have a variety of reported uses in the medical traditions of the region, most notably in Nepal.
Cratoxylum glaucum is a plant in the family Hypericaceae. The specific epithet glaucum is from the Latin meaning "blue-green", referring to the colour of the leaf underside.
Saprosma elegans is a species of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It is found in Indonesia.
Lithocarpus hystrix is a tree in the beech family Fagaceae. The specific epithet hystrix is from the Greek meaning "spiny", referring to the cupule.
Stixis is a South-East Asian genus of plants in the order Brassicales; they are typically lianas. This genus has previously been placed in the Stixaceae and Capparaceae, but under the APG IV system is now included in the family Resedaceae.
Ridsdalea is an Asian genus of plants in the family Rubiaceae; it was named after Dr. Colin Ridsdale. The type species is Ridsdalea grandis(Korth.) J.T.Pereira, which was re-named from the basionym Gardenia grandis. Several other species have been re-assigned from other genera: notably Rothmannia, which is now reserved for African species. Its native range is southern China, Indo-China, Malesia and New Guinea.
Dissochaeta is a genus of plants in the family Melastomataceae. Species can be found in: Hainan and Indo-China through to Malesia.
Rennellia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Rubiaceae.
Loeseneriella is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Celastraceae.
Anerincleistus is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Melastomataceae.
Angelesia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Chrysobalanaceae.
Baratranthus is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Loranthaceae.
Boschia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Malvaceae.