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Arthur Andrew Hamilton
Arthur Andrew Hamilton, (1855-1929) was an Australian botanist. Names published *'' Ancistrachne maidenii'' (A.A.Ham.) Vickery (basionym: ''Eriochloa maidenii'' A.A.Ham.: Hamilton, A.A. (1913) A new Species of Eriochloa from the Hawkesbury River. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 37(4): 709.) * '' Lepidosperma forsythii'' A.A.Ham.: Hamilton, A.A. (1910) A new species of ''Lepidosperma'' .O. Cyperaceaefrom the Port Jackson district; with some miscellaneous botanical notes. ''Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales'' 35(2): 411. * '' Lepidosperma quadrangulatum'' A.A.Ham.:Hamilton, A.A. (1920Notes from the Botanic Gardens, Sydney. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 45(2): 261.*'' Prostanthera densa'' A.A.Ham.: Hamilton, A.A. (1920Notes from the Botanic Gardens, Sydney. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 45(2): 263.*'' Prostanthera saxicola'' var. ''montana'' A.A.Ham.: Hamilton, A.A. (1920Notes from the Bot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Botany
Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek word (''botanē'') meaning " pasture", " herbs" "grass", or " fodder"; is in turn derived from (), "to feed" or "to graze". Traditionally, botany has also included the study of fungi and algae by mycologists and phycologists respectively, with the study of these three groups of organisms remaining within the sphere of interest of the International Botanical Congress. Nowadays, botanists (in the strict sense) study approximately 410,000 species of land plants of which some 391,000 species are vascular plants (including approximately 369,000 species of flowering plants), and approximately 20,000 are bryophytes. Botany originated in prehistory as herbalism with the efforts of early humans to identify – and later cultivate – ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spermatophytes
A spermatophyte (; ), also known as phanerogam (taxon Phanerogamae) or phaenogam (taxon Phaenogamae), is any plant that produces seeds, hence the alternative name seed plant. Spermatophytes are a subset of the embryophytes or land plants. They include most familiar types of plants, including all flowers and most trees, but exclude some other types of plants such as ferns, mosses, algae. The term ''phanerogams'' or ''phanerogamae'' is derived from the Greek (), meaning "visible", in contrast to the cryptogamae (), together with the suffix (), meaning "to marry". These terms distinguished those plants with hidden sexual organs (cryptogamae) from those with visible sexual organs (phanerogamae). Description The extant spermatophytes form five divisions, the first four of which are traditionally grouped as gymnosperms, plants that have unenclosed, "naked seeds": * Cycadophyta, the cycads, a subtropical and tropical group of plants, * Ginkgophyta, which includes a single living s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ancistrachne Maidenii
''Ancistrachne maidenii'' is a grass (in the family Poaceae) endemic to New South Wales. It is a scrambling perennial grass with slender, rigid horizontal stems and branches which ascend. The leaves have sheathes which are sparsely hairy and the ligule is fringed. The racemes are terminal or axillary, and about long, with the lateral racemes being shorter and partially enclosed by the sheath. When mature the spikelets (2.5–3 mm long ) fall entirely. The upper glume has five nerves. The lower lemma (similar to the upper glume), has seven nerves and is sterile. The fertile florets are elliptic to lanceolate, with nerves which are obscure. It flowers in summer, and grows on sandstone soils, north of Sydney. The species was first described as ''Eriochloa maidenii'' by the botanist Arthur Hamilton in 1913, and in 1961 Joyce Vickery revised it to ''Ancistrachne maidenii''. The specific epithet honours Joseph Maiden, In New South Wales ) , nickname = , image_map ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joyce Winifred Vickery
Joyce Winifred Vickery (15 December 190829 May 1979) was an Australian botanist who specialised in taxonomy and became well known in Australia for forensic botany. Early life and education Joyce was born in the Sydney suburb of Strathfield. She attended the Methodist Ladies' College, Burwood, and went on to study at the University of Sydney graduating B.Sc. in 1931. Following graduation she was made a botany demonstrator and worked on her Masters, which she received in 1933. She became a member of both the Linnean and Royal societies of New South Wales. Career Vickery was offered the position of assistant botanist at the National Herbarium of New South Wales in August 1936, she refused the position on the grounds that she would not be paid the same wage as a man with her qualifications.Claire HookerVickery, Joyce Winifred (1908 - 1979) Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 16, Melbourne University Press, 2002, pp 452-453. After negotiations which increased the pay offered, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lepidosperma Forsythii
''Lepidosperma'' is a genus of flowering plant of the family Cyperaceae. Most of the species are endemic to Australia, with others native to southern China, southeast Asia, New Guinea, New Caledonia and New Zealand. Species Species include: Abbreviations in capital letters after the names represent states in Australia *''Lepidosperma amantiferrum'' R.L.Barrett - WA *''Lepidosperma angustatum'' R.Br. - WA *'' Lepidosperma asperatum'' (Kük.) R.L.Barrett -WA *''Lepidosperma australe'' (A.Rich.) Hook.f - New Zealand incl Chatham Island *'' Lepidosperma avium'' K.L.Wilson - NT, SA *''Lepidosperma benthamianum'' C.B.Clarke - WA *''Lepidosperma bungalbin'' R.L.Barrett - WA *''Lepidosperma canescens'' Boeck. - SA, VIC *''Lepidosperma carphoides'' F.Muell. ex Benth. Black Rapier Sedge - WA, SA, VIC *''Lepidosperma chinense'' Nees & Meyen ex Kunth - Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Hunan, Zhejiang, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Vietnam *''Lepidosperma clipeicola'' K.L.Wil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lepidosperma Quadrangulatum
''Lepidosperma'' is a genus of flowering plant of the family Cyperaceae. Most of the species are endemic to Australia, with others native to southern China, southeast Asia, New Guinea, New Caledonia and New Zealand. Species Species include: Abbreviations in capital letters after the names represent states in Australia *''Lepidosperma amantiferrum'' R.L.Barrett - WA *''Lepidosperma angustatum'' R.Br. - WA *'' Lepidosperma asperatum'' (Kük.) R.L.Barrett -WA *''Lepidosperma australe'' (A.Rich.) Hook.f - New Zealand incl Chatham Island *'' Lepidosperma avium'' K.L.Wilson - NT, SA *''Lepidosperma benthamianum'' C.B.Clarke - WA *''Lepidosperma bungalbin'' R.L.Barrett - WA *''Lepidosperma canescens'' Boeck. - SA, VIC *''Lepidosperma carphoides'' F.Muell. ex Benth. Black Rapier Sedge - WA, SA, VIC *''Lepidosperma chinense'' Nees & Meyen ex Kunth - Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Hunan, Zhejiang, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Vietnam *''Lepidosperma clipeicola'' K.L.Wilson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prostanthera Densa
''Prostanthera densa'', commonly known as villous mint-bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae and is endemic to near-coastal areas of New South Wales. It is an erect, often compact shrub with aromatic branches, egg-shaped leaves, and mauve flowers with orange markings inside. Description ''Prostanthera densa'' is an erect, aromatic, often compact shrub that typically grows to a height of and has hairy branches. The leaves are egg-shaped to triangular, usually hairy, long and wide on a petiole long. The flowers are arranged singly in two to ten of the upper leaf axils with bracteoles about long at the base. The sepals are hairy, sometimes tinged with purple, long and form a tube about wide with two lobes, the upper lobe long. The petals are pale mauve to mauve with orange and white markings, long, forming a tube long. The lower central lobe is long, the lower side lobes long and the upper lobes long and fused with a central notch long. There ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prostanthera Saxicola
''Prostanthera saxicola'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae and is Endemism, endemic to eastern Australia. It is a shrub with linear to elliptic leaves and white to mauve flowers arranged in leaf axils. Description ''Prostanthera saxicola'' is a prostrate to erect, spreading to compact shrub that typically grows to a height of and sometimes has branches covered with white hairs flattened against the stem and more or less Sessility (botany), sessile Gland (botany), glands. Its leaves are linear to elliptic, long and wide on a Petiole (botany), petiole up to long. The flowers are borne in leaf axils with Bract#Bracteole, bracteoles long at the base, the sepals long forming a tube long with two lobes, the upper lobe long. The petals are white to mauve and long. Flowering occurs between July and February. Taxonomy ''Prostanthera saxicola'' was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773), Robert Brown in his treatise ''Prodrom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hakea Salicifolia
''Hakea salicifolia'' commonly known as the willow-leaved hakea, is species of flowering plant that is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an adaptable, fast growing small tree or shrub with attractive foliage and cream white flowers. Description ''Hakea salicifolia'' is a fast-growing upright shrub or small tree to tall. Smaller branches are smooth with obvious dark red longitudinal ribbing. Young shoots have sparse silky hairs or may be totally hairless. Leaves are narrowly oval shaped, widest in the middle up to 12 cm long and wide tapering to a point or occasionally rounded at the apex. The pale green leaves are smooth, occasionally bluish-green with a powdery film. Young leaves are darker with sparse flattened silky white and rusty coloured hairs quickly becoming smooth. The inflorescence consists of a single umbel of 16–28 white to pale yellow flowers on a short stalk long. The young flower bracts are long and slightly hairy externally. The pedicel is long. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grevillea Punicea
''Grevillea speciosa'', commonly known as red spider flower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the Central Coast of New South Wales. It is an erect shrub with elliptic to egg-shaped or more or less circular leaves and more or less spherical, downturned clusters of red flowers. Description ''Grevillea speciosa'' is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of , its branchlets covered with silky to shaggy hairs. The leaves are elliptic to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, or more or less circular, mostly long and wide with the edges turned down. The lower surface of the leaves is silky to softly-hairy. The flowers are arranged in large, downturned, dome-shaped to spherical clusters long, the flowers red, rarely pink or very rarely cream-coloured. The pistil is long and the style is gently curved. Flowering mainly occurs from July to October, and the fruit is an elliptic to narrowly oval follicle long. Taxono ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1855 Births
Events January–March * January 1 – Ottawa, Ontario, is incorporated as a city. * January 5 – Ramón Castilla begins his third term as President of Peru. * January 23 ** The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in modern-day Minneapolis, a predecessor of the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge. ** The 8.2–8.3 Wairarapa earthquake claims between five and nine lives near the Cook Strait area of New Zealand. * January 26 – The Point No Point Treaty is signed in the Washington Territory. * January 27 – The Panama Railway becomes the first railroad to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. * January 29 – Lord Aberdeen resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, over the management of the Crimean War. * February 5 – Lord Palmerston becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. * February 11 – Kassa Hailu is crowned Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia. * February 12 – Michigan State University (the "pioneer" l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
