Holmskioldia
Encyclopedia
Holmskioldia is a genus of flowering plant
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family, Lamiaceae
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and botanist. He wrote Beata ruris otia fungis Danicis, published in two volumes in 1790 and 1799.http://www.usc.edu/libraries/archives/arc/findingaids/hancockcollection/rbbooksh/holmskt1.htm
Flowering plant
The flowering plants , also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants. Angiosperms are seed-producing plants like the gymnosperms and can be distinguished from the gymnosperms by a series of synapomorphies...
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Mentha
Mentha is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae . The species are not clearly distinct and estimates of the number of species varies from 13 to 18. Hybridization between some of the species occurs naturally...
family, Lamiaceae
Lamiaceae
The mints, taxonomically known as Lamiaceae or Labiatae, are a family of flowering plants. They have traditionally been considered closely related to Verbenaceae, but in the 1990s, phylogenetic studies suggested that many genera classified in Verbenaceae belong instead in Lamiaceae...
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Name
The genus name is derived from Johan Theodor Holmskiold (1731-1793), a DanishDenmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
and botanist. He wrote Beata ruris otia fungis Danicis, published in two volumes in 1790 and 1799.http://www.usc.edu/libraries/archives/arc/findingaids/hancockcollection/rbbooksh/holmskt1.htm
Species
- Holmskioldia gigasHolmskioldia gigasHolmskioldia gigas is a species of plant in the Verbenaceae family. It is found in Kenya and Tanzania.-Source:* Lovett, J. & Clarke, G.P. 1998. . Downloaded on 21 August 2007....
- Holmskioldia sanguineaHolmskioldia sanguineaHolmskioldia sanguinea, whose common names include Chinese hat plant, cup-and-saucer-plant or mandarin's hat, is a plant species in the genus Holmskioldia found in tropical Asia. The plant contains oroxindin, a type of polyphenolic compound. It is grown as an ornamental shrub in tropical and...
– Chinese hat plant - Holmskioldia speciosa
- Holmskioldia tettensis (Klotzsch) Vatke – Cups-and-saucers, Wild parasol flower