Vaccinium is a common and widespread genus of shrubs or dwarf shrubs in the heath family (Ericaceae). The fruits of many species are eaten by humans and some are of commercial importance, including the cranberry, blueberry, bilberry (whortleberry), lingonberry (cowberry), and huckleberry. Like many other ericaceous plants, they are generally restricted to acidic soils.
The Inyo Mountains are a short mountain range east of the Sierra Nevada in eastern California in the United States. The range separates the Owens Valley to the west from Saline Valley to the east, extending for approximately 70 miles (110 km) south-southeast from the southern end of the White Mountains, from which they are separated by Westgard Pass, to the east of Owens Lake.
Bathocyroe fosteri is a species of lobate ctenophore found at intermediate depths in all the world's oceans. The species is very common and abundant near the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. It is bioluminescent, and is typically observed hanging motionlessly in an upright or inverted posture although it can flap its oral lobes to swim. This deep-sea comb jelly is named for Alvin (DSV-2) pilot Dudley Foster, who collected the first specimens.
Gustavia fosteri, one of several plants in the genus Gustavia known by the Spanish common name membrillo, is a species of woody plant in the family Lecythidaceae. It is found only on Barro Colorado Island in Panama. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Membrillo is a Spanish language common name for several species of plants:
Myrcia fosteri is a species of plant in the family Myrtaceae. It is endemic to Panama. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Perityle is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family. They are known generally as rock daisies.
Ilex or holly is a genus of over 570 species of flowering plants in the family Aquifoliaceae, and the only living genus in that family. Ilex has the most species of any woody dioecious angiosperm genus. The species are evergreen or deciduous trees, shrubs, and climbers from tropics to temperate zones worldwide. The type species is Ilex aquifolium, the common European holly used in Christmas decorations and cards.
Perityleae is a tribe of flowering plants in the subfamily Asteroideae. The species of its genera are native exclusively to the New World.
Peru has some of the greatest biodiversity in the world. It belongs to the select group of mega diverse countries because of the presence of the Andes, Amazon rainforest, and the Pacific Ocean. It has the fourth-most tropical forests of any country and the ninth-most forest area. The country is ranked among the five countries with the greatest biodiversity in the world according to various studies.
Ruehssia cundurango is a species of plant of the genus Ruehssia native to Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in South America. It has the common name condurango. The subspecies Ruehssia cundurango subsp. cundurango is known to contain conduritol, a cyclitol or cyclic polyol. It was first isolated in 1908 by K. Kübler from the bark of the vine.
Perityle emoryi is a species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common name Emory's rockdaisy. It is native to the Southwestern United States, northwestern Mexico, and western South America. It is a common wildflower of the deserts, and can also be found in the coastal regions of the Californias, Sonora, and Sinaloa.
Laphamia inyoensis, known by the common names Inyo rockdaisy and Inyo laphamia, is a rare species of flowering plant in the aster family.
Korrigania fosteri is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Bursidae, the frog shells.
Laphamia saxicola is a rare species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common names Roosevelt Dam rockdaisy and Fish Creek rockdaisy. It is endemic to Arizona in the United States, where it occurs in Tonto National Monument near the Roosevelt Dam.
Laphamia is a genus of flowering plants in the sunflower family, Asteraceae. It includes 43 species native to the southwestern and south-central United States and northern and western Mexico.
Nesothamnus incanus is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is endemic to Guadalupe Island, a Mexican Pacific island off the west coast of Baja California.
Laphamia lindheimeri, commonly called Lindheimer's rock daisy, is a species of flowering plant in the aster family (Asteraceae). It is native to the United States, where it is endemic to the Edwards Plateau of Texas.
Donovan "Don" Stewart Correll was an American botanist, plant collector, and plant taxonomist, specializing in orchids.
Murravia is a genus of brachiopods belonging to the family Cancellothyrididae.
