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Acacia Courtii
''Acacia courtii'', also commonly known as Northern Brother wattle or North Brother wattle, is a tree belonging to the genus ''Acacia'' and the subgenus ''Juliflorae'' that is native to eastern Australia. It is currently listed as Vulnerable species, vulnerable by the ''Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999''. Description The tree typically grows to over to a maximum height of and has slender, brittle and pendulous branchlets with caducous and deltate stipules that have a length that is mostly less than . Like most species of ''Acacia'' it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The glaucous, evergreen and flexible phyllodes have a linear shape and straight with a small hook at the end. They have a length of and a width of and have one prominent vein with several others. It blooms between November and January producing inflorescences with paired or solitary flower-spikes that have cylindrical shape with a length of with loosely packed golden coloured fl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Tindale
Mary Douglas Tindale (19 September 1920 – 31 March 2011) was an Australian botanist specialising in pteridology (ferns) and the genera ''Acacia'' and ''Glycine''. Tindale was born in Randwick, New South Wales, the only child of George Harold Tindale and Grace Matilda Tindale. She attended primary school in New York while her father served as British Ambassador to the United States. She returned to Sydney, Australia to attend high school at Abbotsleigh. Tindale earned a B.Sc. in Botany with Honours from Sydney University, as well as a master's degree from the same university. She became Assistant Botanist at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney in 1944 and later served as the Australian Botanical Liaison Officer at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew from 1949–1951. After completing her Doctor of Science, she was appointed the first principal research scientist at NSW Public Works NSW Public Works (or New South Wales Public Works), an agency of the Government of New South Wales, wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |