Sentence examples for botanical description from inspiring English sources

It makes no sense to slow the rate of botanical description by forcing scientists to learn how to encode their discoveries in Latin or by putting up with the lag time in getting a discovery into actual print.

Fifteen species used mostly as important folk medicine, ornamental plants, or wild food resources were selected, and their local names, botanical description, distribution and traditional uses were summarized in Table 1.

However, it was Valerius Cordus (1515 1544) who pioneered the formal botanical description that detailed both flowers and fruits, some anatomy including the number of chambers in the ovary, and the type of ovule placentation.

The earliest botanical description of a species in the genus was made by French botanist Charles Plumier, who described two species based on his visits to the West Indies between 1689 and 1695.

Paul Mason could earn that distinction for a tortured paragraph in his novel "Red Earth" that describes a feat of tantric sex involving an overweight businessman, a botanical description of female genitalia, and a man panting out the words "global market".

The native range points cover the full known geographic range of the species, based on the best available botanical description [47]; however, whether they cover the full environmental range is a much more complex question that has not been examined in this contribution.

As of Jan . 1 diagnostic botanical descriptions may be written in Latin or English, and the electronic publication of new names is accepted.

Each of the chapters in the first section presents a classification of steppe vegetation communities, often with very detailed botanical descriptions.

In Italy, too herbals were beginning to include botanical descriptions.

As reference manuals for botanical study and plant identification herbals were supplanted by Floras – systematic accounts of the plants found growing in a particular region, with scientifically accurate botanical descriptions, classification, and illustrations.

The first botanical descriptions of S. speciosa (as G. speciosa) were published in two British botanical periodicals in 1817; one was by John Sims, MD in Curtis's Botanical Magazine (Sims 1817), and the other, in both Latin and English, is from The Botanical Register and is attributed to John B. Ker Gawler (Edwards 1817).