Which plant genus, Cleyera or Clintonia was named after De Witt Clinton?
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Cleyera Cleyera is a plant genus consisting of 18 species of tender, evergreen shrubs to small trees, mostly native to Mexico and Central America, and one from Eastern Asia. In the APG III system it is placed in the family Pentaphylacaceae.
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Clintonia Clintonia is a genus of flowering plants first described as a genus in 1818. It is distributed across North America and eastern Asia where it is found as an understory plant in woodlands. It was named after De Witt Clinton, an 18th-century botanist and U.S. politician.
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Vinca alkaloid "Vinca" alkaloids are a set of anti-mitotic and anti-microtubule alkaloid agents originally derived from the periwinkle plant "Catharanthus roseus" (basionym "Vinca rosea") and other "vinca" plants.
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Grevillea Grevillea is a diverse genus of about 360 species of evergreen flowering plants in the family Proteaceae, native to rainforest and more open habitats in Australia, New Guinea, New Caledonia, Sulawesi and other Indonesian islands east of the Wallace Line. It was named in honour of Charles Francis Greville. The species range from prostrate shrubs less than 50 cm tall to trees 35 m tall. Common names include grevillea, spider flower, silky oak and toothbrush plant. Closely related to the genus "Hakea", the genus gives its name to the subfamily Grevilleoideae.
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Clusiella Clusiella is a plant genus of the family Calophyllaceae. When Planchon and Triana first published it in 1860, based on "Clusiella elegans", the genus was considered monotypic and remained as such for about 100 years.
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Quisumbingia Quisumbingia is a genus of plants in the Apocynaceae first described as a genus in 1915. It was initially given the name "Petalonema", but this turned out to be an illegitimate homonym. In other words, someone else had already used the name for a very different species, in this case a cyanobacterium (formerly known as blue-green alga). So another name had to be chosen. It contains only one known species, Quisumbingia merrillii , endemic to the Philippines.
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Adelphia (plant) Adelphia is a genus in the Malpighiaceae, a family of about 75 genera of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales. "Adelphia" comprises four species of woody vines native to the West Indies, Mesoamerica, and western South America.
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Berlandiera lyrata Berlandiera lyrata, with the common names chocolate flower, chocolate daisy, or lyreleaf greeneyes, is a North American species of flowering plant in the sunflower family. The common name lyreleaf greeneyes is a reference to the shape of the leaf, which is curved like a lyre and the green disc which is left behind when the ray florets drop off which is thought to look like an eye.
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Dannemora (town), New York Dannemora is a town in Clinton County, New York, United States. The population was 4,898 at the 2010 census. The name is derived from Dannemora, Sweden, an important iron mining region.
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Clinton Square Clinton Square, in downtown Syracuse, New York, was the original town center and first came into existence in the early 19th century where roadways from north and south convened. By 1825, the construction of the Erie Canal further transformed the busy intersection into the center of commerce and trade in Central New York.
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Nymphaea Nymphaea is a genus of hardy and tender aquatic plants in the family Nymphaeaceae. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution. Many species are cultivated as ornamental plants, and many cultivars have been bred. Some taxa occur as introduced species where they are not native, and some are weeds. Plants of the genus are known commonly as water lilies. The genus name is from the Greek νυμφαια, "nymphaia" and the Latin "nymphaea", which mean "water lily" and were inspired by the nymphs of Greek and Latin mythology.
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Clinton, Hunt County, Texas Clinton is an unincorporated community in Hunt County, Texas, United States. The community is located on Farm to Market Road 3211 8 mi west-southwest of Greenville.
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Gustavia (plant) Gustavia is a genus of flowering plants of Lecythidaceae family described by Linnaeus in 1775. It is native to tropical Central America and South America. Many of the species are threatened; some are critically endangered "Gustavia superba", though, is actually abundant in re-growing secondary forests. It grows in northern South America, from Panama south through the Andes as far as Ecuador, and along the Caribbean coast and in the Amazon basin.
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Catharanthus roseus Catharanthus roseus, commonly known as the Madagascar periwinkle, rosy periwinkle or teresita as it is usually named in the southern part of Mexico, specifically in Champotón, Campeche and Mérida, is a species of flowering plant in the dogbane family Apocynaceae. It is native and endemic to Madagascar, but grown elsewhere as an ornamental and medicinal plant, a source of the drugs vincristine and vinblastine, used to treat cancer. Other English names include "Vinca", Cape periwinkle, rose periwinkle, rosy periwinkle, and "old-maid". It was formerly included in the genus "Vinca" as "Vinca rosea".
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Cyclanthera Cyclanthera is a genus of flowering plants in the family Cucurbitaceae. The name comes from the fact that some species show extreme cases of stamen fusion forming a ring around the gynoecium, with a single locule.
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Clinton County, Missouri Clinton County is a county located in the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the county had a population of 20,743. Its county seat is Plattsburg. The county was organized January 2, 1833 and named for Governor DeWitt Clinton of New York. The county seat of Plattsburg derives it name from a town of a similar name that is the county seat of Clinton County, New York, which was also named for the Governor.
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Charles Clinton (disambiguation) Charles Clinton was a colonel.
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De Witt Clinton Fort De Witt Clinton Fort (June 8, 1830, Hardeman County, Tennessee – May 25, 1868, Hempstead, Texas). He was a member of the Texas House of Representatives and soldier in the Confederate army during the American Civil War.
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Clinton Tyree Clinton Tyree, a.k.a. Skink, is a fictional character who has appeared in several novels by Carl Hiaasen, beginning with "Double Whammy" in 1987. He is an opponent of sprawl and development, and partakes of roadkill cuisine.
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Catharanthus Catharanthus is a genus of flowering plants in the dogbane family, Apocynaceae. Like genus "Vinca", they are known commonly as periwinkles. There are eight known species. Seven are endemic to Madagascar, though one, "C. roseus", is widely naturalized around the world. The eighth species, "C. pusillus", is native to India and Sri Lanka. The name "Catharanthus" comes from the Greek for "pure flower".
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Eleusine Eleusine is a genus of Asian, African, and South American plants in the grass family, sometimes called by the common name goosegrass. One species "(E. indica)", is a widespread weed in many places. Another species "E. coracana", is finger millet, cultivated as a cereal grain in India and parts of Africa.
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Clinton River (New Zealand) The Clinton River is a river in the Southland Region of the South Island of New Zealand. There is also a Clinton River in Canterbury, which is a tributary of the Puhi Puhi River.