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Herbaceous or woody plants; leaves alternate,commonly palmately lobed, with small and caducous stipuules; hermaphrodite, actinomorphic flowers; calyx of 5 sepal united at the base, accompanied frequently by an epicalyx (involucel); corolla of 5 free petals; androecium of numerous stamens, typically with filaments fused in a staminal tube (column) that surrounds the styles; pollen smooth; ovary superior and pluricarpellate; fruits schizocarpous or capsular. Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms (as opposed to folk taxonomy). ...
Divisions Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Marchantiophyta - liverworts Anthocerotophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) â Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants Adiantum pedatum (a fern...
Classes Magnoliopsida- Dicots Liliopsida- Monocots The flowering plants (also called angiosperms) are a major group of land plants. ...
Young castor oil plant showing its prominent two embryonic leaves (cotyledons), that differ from the adult leaves Dicotyledons or dicots is a name for a group of flowering plants whose seed typically contains two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. ...
Families Malvaceae (mallows,...) Dipterocarpaceae Sarcolaenaceae Cistaceae Muntingiaceae Bixaceae Diegodendraceae Cochlospermaceae Sphaerosepalaceae Thymelaeaceae Neuradaceae The Malvales are an order of flowering plants, mostly comprised of shrubs and trees. ...
Genera Abelmoschus - Okra Abutilon - Abutilon Adansonia â Baobab Alcea - Hollyhock Althaea - Marsh mallow Bombax â Silk-cotton tree Brachychiton â Bottletree Callirhoe - Poppy mallow Ceiba â Kapok Chiranthodendron â Mexican Hand Tree Cola - Kola nut Corchorus - Jute Durio â Durian Fremontodendron â Flannelbush Gaya â Gaya Gossypium - Cotton plant Hibiscus - Hibiscus Hoheria â Lacebark Kosteletzkya - Saltmarsh mallow Lavatera - Tree...
Burnett may refer to: Place name Burnett, Wisconsin Burnett River, in Queensland, Australia Shire of Burnett, Queensland, Australia Burnett County, Wisconsin Last name John Burnett (1970-), British Born Person from Leek Staffordshire William Burnett(1799-1861), British physician and Naval officer Frances Hodgson Burnett(1849-1924), born Frances Eliza Hodgson...
- Adansonia
- Aguiaria
- Bernoullia
- Bombax; secretes sweet nectar, around the thorns, to feed colonies of wasps that drive away the predators
- Camptostemon
- Catostemna
- Cavanillesia
- Ceiba
- Ceiba pentandra; secretes sweet nectar, around the thorns, to feed colonies of wasps that drive away the predators
- Chiranthodendron
- Eriotheca
- Fremontodendron
- Gyranthera
- Huberodendron
- Matisia
- Neobuchia
- Ochroma
- Pachira
- Patinoa
- Pentaplaris
- Phragmotheca
- Pseudobombax
- Quararibea
- Scleronema
- Septotheca
- Spirotheca
Camptostemon and Pentaplaris might more appropriate be placed in Malvoideae as might the tribe Matisieae (Matisia, Phragmotheca and Quararibea). The baobabs (Adansonia) are a genus of eight species of trees, native to Madagascar (the centre of diversity, with six species), and Africa and Australia (one species in each). ...
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Species Bombax buonopozense Bombax ceiba And six other species Silk cotton trees comprise eight species in the genus Bombax, native to tropical southern Asia, northern Australia and tropical Africa. ...
Species About 10-20 species, including: Ceiba aesculifolia Ceiba glaziovii Ceiba insignis Ceiba pentandra Ceiba speciosa Ceiba trichistandra Ceiba is the name of a genus of many species of large trees found in tropical areas, including Central and South America, The Bahamas,the Caribbean, West Africa, and Southeast Asia. ...
Binomial name Ceiba pentandra (L.) Gaertn. ...
Species Fremontodendron californicum Fremontodendron mexicanum The flannelbush or flannel bush is a genus Fremontodendron (or Fremontia) of two species of shrubs from the western United States and northern Mexico. ...
Binomial name Ochroma lagopus Balsa (Ochroma lagopus, synonym ) is a large, fast-growing tree to 30 m tall, native from tropical South America north to southern Mexico. ...
Binomial name Ochroma lagopus Balsa (Ochroma lagopus, synonym ) is a large, fast-growing tree to 30 m tall, native from tropical South America north to southern Mexico. ...
Binomial name Ochroma lagopus Sw. ...
Tribes Malveae Gossypieae Hibisceae Matiseae Malvoideae is a botanical name at the rank of subfamily, which includes at the minimum the genus Malva. ...
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