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Adenanthos Acanthophyllus
''Adenanthos acanthophyllus'', commonly known as prickly woollybush, is a species of shrub endemic to Western Australia. The shrub has a robust habit and typically grows to a height of but can reach as high as . It often has many stems arising from a lignotuber. The petiolate leaves are fan shaped with three segments approximately long and wide. It blooms between April and June producing pink-red and green flowers. The perianth is up to in length dark red or pale red-pink and green, with short and long hairs outside. The glabrous style is about with a slightly pubescent ovary. The broad lobes armed with spines. The leaves resemble those of members of other proteaceous genera such as ''Isopogon baxteri''. It is the most northerly species of the genus ''Adenanthos'', found over disjunct from the nearest known populations of any other species. It is found in coastal areas of the Mid West and Gascoyne regions of Western Australia where it grows in sandy soils. It is often the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Australia
Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east, and South Australia to the south-east. Western Australia is Australia's largest state, with a total land area of . It is the second-largest country subdivision in the world, surpassed only by Russia's Sakha Republic. the state has 2.76 million inhabitants percent of the national total. The vast majority (92 percent) live in the south-west corner; 79 percent of the population lives in the Perth area, leaving the remainder of the state sparsely populated. The first Europeans to visit Western Australia belonged to the Dutch Dirk Hartog expedition, who visited the Western Australian coast in 1616. The first permanent European colony of Western Australia occurred following the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Habit (botany)
Habit, equivalent to habitus in some applications in biology, refers variously to aspects of behaviour or structure, as follows: *In zoology (particularly in ethology), habit usually refers to aspects of more or less predictable ''behaviour'', instinctive or otherwise, though it also has broader application. Habitus refers to the characteristic form or morphology of a species. *In botany, habit is the characteristic form in which a given species of plant grows (see plant habit).Jackson, Benjamin, Daydon; A Glossary of Botanic Terms with their Derivation and Accent; Published by Gerald Duckworth & Co. London, 4th ed 1928 Behavior In zoology, ''habit'' (not to be confused with ''habitus'' as described below) usually refers to a specific behavior pattern, either adopted, learned, pathological, innate, or directly related to physiology. For example: * ...the atwas in the ''habit'' of springing upon the oor knockerin order to gain admission... * If these sensitive parrots are k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lignotuber
A lignotuber is a woody swelling of the root crown possessed by some plants as a protection against destruction of the plant stem, such as by fire. Other woody plants may develop basal burls as a similar survival strategy, often as a response to coppicing or other environmental stressors. However, lignotubers are specifically part of the normal course of development of the plants that possess them, and often develop early on in growth. The crown contains buds from which new stems may sprout, as well as stores of starch that can support a period of growth in the absence of photosynthesis. The term "lignotuber" was coined in 1924 by Australian botanist Leslie R. Kerr. Plants possessing lignotubers include many species in Australia: ''Eucalyptus marginata'' (Jarrah), ''Eucalyptus brevifolia'' (snappy gum) and ''Eucalyptus ficifolia'' (scarlet gum) all of which can have lignotubers wide and deep, as well as most mallees (where it is also known as a mallee root) and many ''Banksia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isopogon Baxteri
''Isopogon baxteri'', commonly known as the Stirling Range coneflower, is a species of plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with wedge-shaped, often 3-lobed, toothed leaves and flattened spherical heads of hairy pink flowers. Description ''Isopogon baxteri'' is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of and has hairy reddish to brown branchlets. The leaves are wedge-shaped, often 3-lobed, long with twelve to fourteen sharply-pointed teeth. The flowers are arranged in sessile, flattened-spherical heads in diameter with hairy, egg-shaped involucral bracts at the base. The flowers are about long, pink and covered with greyish hairs. Flowering occurs from August to January and the fruit is a hairy nut, fused with others in an elliptical to spherical head up to in diameter. Taxonomy ''Isopogon baxteri'' was first formally described in 1830 by Robert Brown in the '' Supplementum'' to his ''Prodromus F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mid West (Western Australia)
The Mid West region is one of the nine regions of Western Australia. It is a sparsely populated region extending from the west coast of Western Australia, about north and south of its administrative centre of Geraldton, Western Australia, Geraldton and inland to east of Wiluna, Western Australia, Wiluna in the Gibson Desert. It has a total area of , and a permanent population of about 52,000 people, more than half of those in Geraldton. Earlier names The western portion of this region was known earlier as "The Murchison" based on the Murchison River (Western Australia), river of the same name, and the similarly named Goldfield. Economy The Mid West region has a diversified economy that varies with the geography and climate. Near the coast, annual rainfall of between allows intensive agriculture. Further inland, annual rainfall decreases to less than , and here the economy is dominated by mining of iron ore, gold, nickel and other mineral resources. Geraldton is an imp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gascoyne
The Gascoyne region is one of the nine administrative regions of Western Australia. It is located in the northwest of Western Australia, and consists of the local government areas of Carnarvon, Exmouth, Shark Bay and Upper Gascoyne. The Gascoyne has about of Indian Ocean coastline; extends inland about ; and has an area of , Estimated resident population, 30 June 2019. including islands. Population The Gascoyne has the lowest population of any region of Western Australia, with about 9,277 people. The majority of residents are non-Aboriginal people born in Australia (74%). Just over half live in Carnarvon (4,426) where Aboriginal residents account for 18% of the population. Other centres are Exmouth, Denham, Gascoyne Junction and Coral Bay. Climate The Gascoyne has a moderate arid tropical, climate. It is generally warm all year round, with mean maximum daily temperatures ranging from in July to in January. The region receives about 320 days of sunshine per year. Ann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shark Bay, Western Australia
Shark Bay (Malgana: ''Gathaagudu'', "two waters") is a World Heritage Site in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia. The http://www.environment.gov.au/heritage/places/world/shark-bay area is located approximately north of Perth, on the westernmost point of the Australian continent. UNESCO's official listing of Shark Bay as a World Heritage Site reads: : History The record of Australian Aboriginal occupation of Shark Bay extends to years BP. At that time most of the area was dry land, rising sea levels flooding Shark Bay between BP and BP. A considerable number of aboriginal midden sites have been found, especially on Peron Peninsula and Dirk Hartog Island which provide evidence of some of the foods gathered from the waters and nearby land areas. An expedition led by Dirk Hartog happened upon the area in 1616, becoming the second group of Europeans known to have visited Australia. (The crew of the ''Duyfken'', under Willem Janszoon, had visited Cape York in 1606). T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eucalyptus Beardiana
''Eucalyptus beardiana'', commonly known as Beard's mallee, is a mallee that is endemic to Western Australia. It has smooth pinkish bark, narrow lance-shaped to curved adult leaves, flower buds usually in groups of nine, pale yellow flowers and down-turned, hemispherical fruit. Description ''Eucalyptus beardiana'' is a spreading mallee that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. It has smooth grey, cream-cloloured or pinkish bark from the trunk to the thinnest branches. Young plants and coppice regrowth have dull, narrow lance-shaped leaves long and wide and have a petiole. Adult leaves are lance-shaped to curved, mostly long and wide, narrowing at the base to a petiole long. The flowers are usually borne in groups of nine, rarely eleven, in leaf axils on an unbranched peduncle long, the individual flowers on a pedicel long. Mature buds are oval, long and wide with a finely beaked operculum about long. Flowering mainly occurs from August to Septembe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grevillea Rogersoniana
''Grevillea rogersoniana'', commonly known as Rogerson's grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to a restricted area near Shark Bay in Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with spatula-shaped leaves with 3 to 5 teeth or shallow lobes on the end, and cylindrical clusters of reddish pink flowers, the style with a cream-coloured tip. Description ''Grevillea rogersoniana'' is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of , but sometimes to as much as . Its leaves are spatula-shaped to wedge-shaped, long and wide with 3 to 5 rounded teeth or shallow lobes on the end. Both sides of the leaves are silky-hairy at first, but soon glabrous. The flowers are arranged on the ends of branches in cylindrical clusters on a rachis long. The flowers are bronze-coloured in the bud stage, later reddish pink, the style pink with a cream-coloured tip, the pistil long. Flowering occurs from August to October, and the fruit is a glabrous, elliptic t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acacia Drepanophylla
''Acacia drepanophylla'' is a tree belonging to the genus ''Acacia'' and the subgenus ''Juliflorae'' that is endemic to western Australia Description The tree typically grows to a height of with fissured, fibrous grey bark. It blooms from May to July producing yellow flowers. The tree oftan has an obconical form with glabrous branchlets and pale-citron-sericeius new shoots. The falcate, linear, widely spreading phyllodes have a length of and a width of . The glabrous phyllodes are not rigid and acuminate to a delicate tip and finely striated with a prominent central nerve. The rudimentary inflorescences rudimentary occur in pairs of flower spikes that are in length and a diameter of composed of pale yellow flowers. The glabrous, flat, linear seed pods are slightly constricted between the seeds. the pods are up to in length and wide and firmly chartaceous to thinly coriaceous. The dull grey to brown seeds found in the pods have a compressed spherical shape with a diameter of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verticordia Cooloomia
''Verticordia cooloomia'', commonly known as Cooloomia verticordia, is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an open, spreading shrub with large heads of sharply scented yellow flowers and is only known from areas in and near to the Cooloomia Nature Reserve, near the Murchison River. Description ''Verticordia cooloomia'' is an openly branched shrub with a single stem at the base, growing to a height of up to and a width of up to . The leaves near the base of the plant are linear in shape, approximately circular in cross section and long, those further up the stem are lance-shaped, dished and long and those near the flowers are almost circular with a pointed end and are in diameter. The flowers are sharply scented and arranged in corymb-like groups on erect stalks long. The floral cup is broadly top-shaped, long, glabrous and slightly warty. The sepals are a golden-yellow colour, long, with 11 to 13 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eucalyptus Roycei
''Eucalyptus roycei'', commonly known as Shark Bay mallee, is a species of mallee or a small tree that is endemic to a small area along the Gascoyne coast of Western Australia. It has rough fibrous or flaky bark on the lower trunk, smooth greyish bark above, lance-shaped to curved adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven or nine, cream-coloured or pale yellow flowers and cylindrical to barrel-shaped, four-sided fruit. Description ''Eucalyptus roycei'' is a mallee or a small tree that typically that grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. It has rough fibrous or flaky greyish bark at the base, smooth greyish to cream-coloured bark above. Young plants and coppice regrowth have egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves that are long and wide. Adult leaves are the same shade of dull greyish green on both sides, lance-shaped to curved, long and wide, tapering to a petiole long. The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils in groups of seven or nine on an unbranched peduncle lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
