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Acacia Hamiltoniana
''Acacia hamiltoniana'', commonly known as Hamilton's wattle, is a shrub belonging to the genus ''Acacia'' and the subgenus ''Phyllodineae'' that is native to parts of eastern Australia. Description The shrub typically grows to a height of up to and has a bushy habit with glabrous, finely ribbed, dark red branchlets. It has smooth, green phyllodes that are mostly ascending to erect. The variable phyllodes have a linear to linear-oblanceolate or narrowly elliptic shape with a length of and a width of and are narrowed at the base. It usually blooms between August and September producing inflorescences with spherical flower-heads containing 9 to 15 subdensely packed golden flowers. The seed pods that form after flowering are black with a length of up to and a width of . the pods contain shiny black seeds with an oblong to elliptic to ovate shape and a length of . Taxonomy The species was first formally described by the botanist Joseph Maiden in 1920 as part of the work ''No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Maiden
Joseph Henry Maiden (25 April 1859 – 16 November 1925) was a botanist who made a major contribution to knowledge of the Australian flora, especially the genus ''Eucalyptus''. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation when citing a botanical name. Life Joseph Maiden was born in St John's Wood in northwest London. He studied science at the University of London, but due to ill health he did not complete the course. As part of his treatment he was advised to take a long sea voyage, and so in 1880 he sailed for New South Wales. In 1881, Maiden was appointed first curator of the Technological Museum in Sydney (now the Powerhouse Museum), remaining there until 1896. While there, he published an article in 1886 describing what he called "some sixteenth century maps of Australia". These were the so-called Dieppe maps, the Rotz (1547), the Harleian or Dauphin (mid-1540s), and the Desceliers (1550), photo-lithographic reproductions of which had been published by the Briti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |