Cleghornia

Cleghornia
Cleghornia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Apocynaceae
Genus: Cleghornia
Wight[1]
Species[2]

dogbane family; its various species are distributed in Borneo, China, Laos, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam. The genus name was chosen in dedication to Dr. Hugh Cleghorn,[3] the "father of scientific forestry in India".[4]

References

  1. ^  Two species were published at the same time in 1848 under the then newly coined name of Cleghornia in Icones Plantarum Indiae Orientalis 4(2): 5. 1848.; C. acuminata and C. cymosa "Name - Cleghornia Wight". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. http://tropicos.org/Name/40009937. Retrieved May 16, 2011. 
  2. ^ "Name - Cleghornia Wight subordinate taxa". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. http://www.tropicos.org/NameSearch.aspx?name=Cleghornia. Retrieved July 13, 2011. 
  3. ^ (conducted by) P.J.Selby, Esq., F.L.S.; George Johnston, M.D.; Charles C. Babington, Esq., M.A., F.L.S., F.G.S.; J.H.Balfour, M.D., Prof. Bot. Edinburgh; and Richard Taylor, F.L.S., F.G.S. (1850). "Proceedings of the Royal Society ; Zoological Society ; Botanical Society of Edinburgh" (PDF). The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany, and Geology. (being a continuation of the 'Magazine of Botany and Zoology,' and of Loudon and Charlesworth's 'Magazine of Natural History.') (London: R. and J.E.Taylor) VI (2nd Series): 142. http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16086567. Retrieved July 13, 2011. "...Cleghornia, a new genus of Apocynaceæ, named by Dr. Wight, in honour of Dr. Hugh Cleghorn" 
  4. ^ Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1899). p.731-739 "The Hill Forests of Western India". Journal of the Society of Arts (Covent Garden, London: George Bell and Sons) 47: 735. http://books.google.com/books?id=EVVDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA734&lpg=PA734&dq=The+father+of+scientific+forestry+in+India&source=bl&ots=hluGDKZT3S&sig=rMCbB2SXDG0Nftn2TA6hlZJrlg4&hl=en&ei=bMxiTcChM4K88gaip4irDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=The%20father%20of%20scientific%20forestry%20in%20India&f=false, p.731-739. Retrieved July 13, 2011. 

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