Astroloma Cataphractum
''Astroloma'' is an endemic Australian genus of around 20 species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae. The majority of the species are endemic to Western Australia, but a few species occur in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia. The genus was first described by Robert Brown in 1810 in Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae. The name ''Astroloma'' is derived from the Ancient Greek words ''astron'' = a star and ''loma'' = a fringe, alluding to five tufts of hairs which form a star at the bottom of the inside of the floral tube. Species include: *'' Astroloma baxteri'' A.Cunn. ex DC. *'' Astroloma cataphractum'' A.J.G.Wilson MS *'' Astroloma ciliatum'' (Lindl.) Druce *'' Astroloma compactum'' R.Br. *''Astroloma conostephioides'' (Sond.) F.Muell. ex Benth. - Flame heath *'' Astroloma drummondii'' Sond. *'' Astroloma epacridis'' (DC.) Druce *''Astroloma foliosum'' Sond. - Candle cranberry *'' Astroloma glaucescens'' Sond. *''Astroloma humifusum'' (Cav.) R.Br ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Astroloma Foliosum
''Astroloma foliosum'', commonly known as candle cranberry, is a small shrub species in the family Ericaceae. It is endemic to the Perth region in Western Australia. The species was formally described in 1845 by German botanist Otto Wilhelm Sonder Otto Wilhelm Sonder (18 June 1812, Bad Oldesloe – 21 November 1881) was a German botanist and pharmacist. Life A native of Holstein, Sonder studied at Kiel University, where he sat pharmaceutical examinations in 1835, before becoming the prop ... based on plant material collected at Maddington. References {{Taxonbar, from=Q4811589 foliosum Ericales of Australia Eudicots of Western Australia Taxa named by Otto Wilhelm Sonder ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Astroloma Conostephioides
''Stenanthera conostephioides'', commonly known as flame heath, is a species of small shrub that is Endemism, endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It has linear to lance-shaped leaves, red, tubular flowers and green, oval fruit turning dark red. Description ''Stenanthera conostephioides'' is an erect or spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of . The leaves are thick, linear to lance-shaped, long and wide, with a pointed tip long. The flowers are red and occur singly, pendent and tube-like, more or less cylindrical and long. There are brownish bracts long and Bract#Bracteole, bracteoles long at the base of the flower, and the sepals are brownish . The petal lobes are densely hairy on the inside near their tips. The Stamen#Morphology and terminology, anthers project beyond the end of the petal tube and the Style (botany), style is long. The fruit is oval, about long and green tinged with maroon, later dark red. Flowering occurs from March to November ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Astroloma Stomarrhena
''Astroloma'' is an endemic Australian genus of around 20 species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae. The majority of the species are endemic to Western Australia, but a few species occur in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia. The genus was first described by Robert Brown in 1810 in Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae. The name ''Astroloma'' is derived from the Ancient Greek words ''astron'' = a star and ''loma'' = a fringe, alluding to five tufts of hairs which form a star at the bottom of the inside of the floral tube. Species include: *'' Astroloma baxteri'' A.Cunn. ex DC. *'' Astroloma cataphractum'' A.J.G.Wilson MS *'' Astroloma ciliatum'' (Lindl.) Druce *'' Astroloma compactum'' R.Br. *''Astroloma conostephioides'' (Sond.) F.Muell. ex Benth. - Flame heath *'' Astroloma drummondii'' Sond. *'' Astroloma epacridis'' (DC.) Druce *''Astroloma foliosum'' Sond. - Candle cranberry *'' Astroloma glaucescens'' Sond. *''Astroloma humifusum'' (Cav.) R.Br ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Astroloma Recurvum
''Astroloma'' is an endemic Australian genus of around 20 species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae. The majority of the species are endemic to Western Australia, but a few species occur in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia. The genus was first described by Robert Brown in 1810 in Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae. The name ''Astroloma'' is derived from the Ancient Greek words ''astron'' = a star and ''loma'' = a fringe, alluding to five tufts of hairs which form a star at the bottom of the inside of the floral tube. Species include: *'' Astroloma baxteri'' A.Cunn. ex DC. *'' Astroloma cataphractum'' A.J.G.Wilson MS *'' Astroloma ciliatum'' (Lindl.) Druce *'' Astroloma compactum'' R.Br. *''Astroloma conostephioides'' (Sond.) F.Muell. ex Benth. - Flame heath *'' Astroloma drummondii'' Sond. *'' Astroloma epacridis'' (DC.) Druce *''Astroloma foliosum'' Sond. - Candle cranberry *'' Astroloma glaucescens'' Sond. *''Astroloma humifusum'' (Cav.) R.Br ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Astroloma Pinifolium
''Astroloma pinifolium'', commonly known as pine heath, is small prostrate shrub or groundcover in the family Ericaceae endemic to eastern Australia. Taxonomy It was initially described by the botanist Robert Brown in his 1810 work Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae as ''Stenanthera pinifolia'', before being assigned to the genus ''Astroloma'' by George Bentham in his work Flora Australiensis in 1868. The specific name is derived from the Latin words ''pinus'' "pine" and ''folium'' "leaf". Description ''Astroloma pinifolium'' grows as a spreading shrub 30 cm to 1 m (12–40 in) high and 0.5 to 1.5 m (20 in to 5 ft) across. Its hairy stems are densely packed with pine-like leaves 1–3 cm (0.4-1.2 in) long. The tubular flowers are up to 2 cm (0.8 in) long and appear from August to April, and are found singly along the stems, either yellow or pink with a band of yellow, green at the tip, and tapered at both ends. Flowers are followed by pale green ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Astroloma Pedicellatum
''Astroloma'' is an endemic Australian genus of around 20 species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae. The majority of the species are endemic to Western Australia, but a few species occur in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia. The genus was first described by Robert Brown in 1810 in Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae. The name ''Astroloma'' is derived from the Ancient Greek words ''astron'' = a star and ''loma'' = a fringe, alluding to five tufts of hairs which form a star at the bottom of the inside of the floral tube. Species include: *'' Astroloma baxteri'' A.Cunn. ex DC. *'' Astroloma cataphractum'' A.J.G.Wilson MS *'' Astroloma ciliatum'' (Lindl.) Druce *'' Astroloma compactum'' R.Br. *''Astroloma conostephioides'' (Sond.) F.Muell. ex Benth. - Flame heath *'' Astroloma drummondii'' Sond. *'' Astroloma epacridis'' (DC.) Druce *''Astroloma foliosum'' Sond. - Candle cranberry *'' Astroloma glaucescens'' Sond. *''Astroloma humifusum'' (Cav.) R.Br ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Astroloma Pallidum
''Astroloma pallidum'', commonly known as kick bush, is usually a small, compact shrub in the family Ericaceae. The species is endemic to south-western Western Australia. Description ''Astroloma pallidum'' is usually a neat, dense, compact shrub but sometimes a diffuse to erect shrub to about 30 cm high. The leaves are lance-shaped, about long with toothed margins. Creamy white to pale yellow (rarely pink or red) tubular flowers are present in the axils of leaves for most of the year. Taxonomy and naming ''Astroloma pallidum'' was first described by Robert Brown in 1810 in ''Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae''. The specific epithet (''pallidum'') is a Latin word meaning "pale" or "wan". Distribution and habitat Kick bush grows on yellow/grey sand, red/brown laterite gravel, brown clay to sandy clay, ironstone and limestone in a variety of habitats including flats, hillslopes, winter-wet sites and the edges of lakes in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sand ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Astroloma Microphyllum
''Astroloma'' is an endemic Australian genus of around 20 species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae. The majority of the species are endemic to Western Australia, but a few species occur in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia. The genus was first described by Robert Brown in 1810 in Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae. The name ''Astroloma'' is derived from the Ancient Greek words ''astron'' = a star and ''loma'' = a fringe, alluding to five tufts of hairs which form a star at the bottom of the inside of the floral tube. Species include: *'' Astroloma baxteri'' A.Cunn. ex DC. *'' Astroloma cataphractum'' A.J.G.Wilson MS *'' Astroloma ciliatum'' (Lindl.) Druce *'' Astroloma compactum'' R.Br. *''Astroloma conostephioides'' (Sond.) F.Muell. ex Benth. - Flame heath *'' Astroloma drummondii'' Sond. *'' Astroloma epacridis'' (DC.) Druce *''Astroloma foliosum'' Sond. - Candle cranberry *'' Astroloma glaucescens'' Sond. *''Astroloma humifusum'' (Cav.) R.Br ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Astroloma Microdonta
''Astroloma'' is an endemic Australian genus of around 20 species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae. The majority of the species are endemic to Western Australia, but a few species occur in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia. The genus was first described by Robert Brown in 1810 in Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae. The name ''Astroloma'' is derived from the Ancient Greek words ''astron'' = a star and ''loma'' = a fringe, alluding to five tufts of hairs which form a star at the bottom of the inside of the floral tube. Species include: *'' Astroloma baxteri'' A.Cunn. ex DC. *'' Astroloma cataphractum'' A.J.G.Wilson MS *'' Astroloma ciliatum'' (Lindl.) Druce *'' Astroloma compactum'' R.Br. *''Astroloma conostephioides'' (Sond.) F.Muell. ex Benth. - Flame heath *'' Astroloma drummondii'' Sond. *'' Astroloma epacridis'' (DC.) Druce *''Astroloma foliosum'' Sond. - Candle cranberry *'' Astroloma glaucescens'' Sond. *''Astroloma humifusum'' (Cav.) R.Br ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Astroloma Microcalyx
''Astroloma'' is an endemic Australian genus of around 20 species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae. The majority of the species are endemic to Western Australia, but a few species occur in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia. The genus was first described by Robert Brown in 1810 in Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae. The name ''Astroloma'' is derived from the Ancient Greek words ''astron'' = a star and ''loma'' = a fringe, alluding to five tufts of hairs which form a star at the bottom of the inside of the floral tube. Species include: *'' Astroloma baxteri'' A.Cunn. ex DC. *'' Astroloma cataphractum'' A.J.G.Wilson MS *'' Astroloma ciliatum'' (Lindl.) Druce *'' Astroloma compactum'' R.Br. *''Astroloma conostephioides'' (Sond.) F.Muell. ex Benth. - Flame heath *'' Astroloma drummondii'' Sond. *'' Astroloma epacridis'' (DC.) Druce *'' Astroloma foliosum'' Sond. - Candle cranberry *'' Astroloma glaucescens'' Sond. *''Astroloma humifusum'' (Cav.) R.B ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Astroloma Macrocalyx
''Astroloma'' is an endemic Australian genus of around 20 species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae. The majority of the species are endemic to Western Australia, but a few species occur in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia. The genus was first described by Robert Brown in 1810 in Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae. The name ''Astroloma'' is derived from the Ancient Greek words ''astron'' = a star and ''loma'' = a fringe, alluding to five tufts of hairs which form a star at the bottom of the inside of the floral tube. Species include: *'' Astroloma baxteri'' A.Cunn. ex DC. *'' Astroloma cataphractum'' A.J.G.Wilson MS *'' Astroloma ciliatum'' (Lindl.) Druce *'' Astroloma compactum'' R.Br. *''Astroloma conostephioides'' (Sond.) F.Muell. ex Benth. - Flame heath *'' Astroloma drummondii'' Sond. *'' Astroloma epacridis'' (DC.) Druce *''Astroloma foliosum'' Sond. - Candle cranberry *'' Astroloma glaucescens'' Sond. *''Astroloma humifusum'' (Cav.) R.Br ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Astroloma Humifusum
''Astroloma humifusum'', commonly known as the native cranberry or cranberry heath, is a small prostrate shrub or groundcover in the heath family Ericaceae. The species is endemic to south-eastern Australia. Description ''Astroloma humifusum'' grows as a spreading mat-like shrub up to 50 cm (20 in) high and 0.5 to 1.5 m (20 in to 5 ft) across. Its hairy stems bear blue-green pine-like acute leaves 0.5-1.2 cm (0.2-0.5 in) long. The tubular flowers are up to 2 cm (0.8 in) long and appear from February to June, and are all red, unlike the red and green flowers of '' A. pinifolium''. Flowers are followed by green globular berries around 0.4-0.6 cm (0.2 in) in diameter, which become reddish as they ripen. Taxonomy ''Astroloma humifusum'' was initially described as ''Ventenatia humifusa'' by Spanish botanist Antonio José Cavanilles in 1797, before being given its current binomial name by prolific Scottish botanist Robert Brown in his 181 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |