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Aggreflorum Brachyandrum
''Aggreflorum brachyandrum'' is a species of shrub or small tree that is Endemism, endemic to eastern Australia. It has smooth bark, linear to lance-shaped leaves, white flowers and usually grows along creeks, often in water. Description ''Aggreflorum brachyandrum'' is a shrub or small tree that typically grows to a height of and has smooth bark that is shed in strips. Young stems are slender and densely hairy at first. The leaves are linear to lance-shaped, long, wide and more or less Sessility (botany), sessile. The flowers are borne singly or in groups of up to seven in leaf wikt:axil, axils or on the ends of branchlets and are about in diameter. The Hypanthium, floral cup is mostly wikt:glabrous, glabrous, about long. The sepals are about long and remain attached as the fruit develops. The petals are long and white and the stamens are about long. Flowering occurs from November to January and the fruit is a woody Capsule (botany), capsule in diameter. Taxonomy and nam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferdinand Von Mueller
Baron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller, (german: Müller; 30 June 1825 – 10 October 1896) was a German-Australian physician, geographer, and most notably, a botanist. He was appointed government botanist for the then colony of Victoria (Australia) by Governor Charles La Trobe in 1853, and later director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne. He also founded the National Herbarium of Victoria. He named many Australian plants. Early life Mueller was born at Rostock, in the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. After the early death of his parents, Frederick and Louisa, his grandparents gave him a good education in Tönning, Schleswig. Apprenticed to a chemist at the age of 15, he passed his pharmaceutical examinations and studied botany under Professor Ernst Ferdinand Nolte (1791–1875) at Kiel University. In 1847, he received his degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Kiel for a thesis on the plants of the southern regions of Schleswig. Mueller's sister Bertha had be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
