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Acacia Alcockii
''Acacia alcockii'', also known as Alcock's wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to South Australia. It is a bushy shrub with narrowly elliptic to lance-shaped phyllodes with the narrower end towards the base, and racemes of 5 to 11 spherical heads of pale yellow flowers, and oblong Pod (fruit), pods. Description ''Acacia alcockii'' is a bushy shrub that typically grows to a height of up to about and often forms Basal shoot, suckers. Its branchlets are wikt:glabrous, glabrous and dark reddish. Its phyllodes narrowly elliptic to lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, mostly long and wide, with a Gland (botany), gland usually above the pulvinus, the pulvinus itself long. The flowers are borne in spherical heads of 5 to 11 on a raceme mostly long on a Peduncle (botany), peduncle mostly long, each head with 25 to 40 pale yellow flowers. Flowering time varies between populations, and the fruit is an oblong to narrowly oblon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Maslin
Bruce Roger Maslin (born 3 May 1946) is an Australian botanist, known for his work on ''Acacia'' taxonomy. Born in Bridgetown, Western Australia, he obtained an honours degree in botany from the University of Western Australia in 1967, then took up an appointment as a botanist with the Western Australian Herbarium. The following year he was conscripted to serve in the Vietnam War; he gave three years in National Service, serving in Vietnam in 1969. In 1970 he returned to his position at the Western Australian Herbarium, serving in that institution until 1987. During this time he was Australian Botanical Liaison Officer in 1977 and 1978; editor of ''Nuytsia ''Nuytsia floribunda'' is a hemiparasitic tree found in Western Australia. The species is known locally as moodjar and, more recently, the Christmas tree or Western Australian Christmas tree. The display of intensely bright flowers during the ...'' from 1981 to 1983; and acting curator in 1986 and 1987. In 1987, Maslin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |