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Plants of this genus are evergreen perennial herbs growing from large corms with fibrous tunics. The lowest two or three leaves are cataphylls that sheath the lower stem and become dry. The thin, wiry, branching stem may bend and droop when in flower. It is lined with leaves that have linear blades with thick longitudinal veins and often no midrib.
Wet-season form: Upperside dark Vandyke brown; forewings and hindwings with slender subterminal and terminal pale lines. Forewing with a single white-centred, fulvous-ringed, black ocellus, generally set in a square pale area, in interspace 2, occasionally a similar smaller ocellus without any pale surrounding area in interspace 5.
This is a woodcut is of the tragelaph from the book, The History of Four-footed Beasts and Serpents by Edward Topsell.. The tribe name "Tragelaphini" was published as a subfamily ("Tragelaphinae") by British zoologist Edward Blyth in 1863, and was downgraded to tribe by Russian zoologist Vladimir Sokolov in 1953.
Chrysopogon zizanioides, commonly known as vetiver and khus, is a perennial bunchgrass of the family Poaceae.. Vetiver is most closely related to Sorghum while sharing many morphological characteristics with other fragrant grasses, such as lemongrass (Cymbopogon citratus), citronella (Cymbopogon nardus, C. winterianus), and palmarosa (Cymbopogon martinii).
Hermetia illucens, the black soldier fly, is a common and widespread fly of the family Stratiomyidae.Since the late 20th century, H. illucens has increasingly been gaining attention because of its usefulness for recycling organic waste and generating animal feed.
3. A type of vernation of two leaves at a node, in which one half of each leaf is exposed and the other half is wrapped inside the other leaf. corcle A plant embryo, plumule, or plumule plus radicle. cordate Heart-shaped, with the notch lowermost; of the base of a leaf, like the notched part of a heart. Contrast obcordate. coriaceous
Moustached tamarin monkeys are characterized by white, curly hair around their mouth, similar to a moustache. [5] Their face is flat with almond-like shaped eyes. [5] Their ears are furry and large, and they have long, silky, body hair. [5] They have a brownish-black body with a white moustache and white nose.
Protea pityphylla grows in mountainous areas in between large rocks and boulders, at altitudes of 500 to 1,500 metres. [5] The species is restricted to a single habitat which the same source describes as fynbos on sandstone -derived soils and later as high-altitude fynbos on shale -derived soils. [ 3 ]