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Acacia Caesiella
''Acacia caesiella'', commonly known as tableland wattle, bluebush wattle or blue bush, is a shrub or small tree that is endemism, endemic to eastern Australia. Description The shrub or small tree typically grows to a height of and sometimes as high as with an erect or spreading habit. It has smooth grey or brown bark and angled branchlets. Like most ''Acacia''s it has phyllodes instead of true leaves. The phyllodes have a length and a width of with a narrowly elliptic to linear shape that is straight or curved. Globular yellow flowerheads appear between July and October in the species' native range. The spherical heads flower-heads have a diameter of and contain 12 to 20 bright yellow or deep yellow coloured flowers. The seed pods that form after flowering are flat and straight to slightly curved with a length of and a with of that are firmly papery to leathery. Taxonomy The species was first formally described by the botanists Joseph Maiden and William Blakely in 1927 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Maiden
Joseph Henry Maiden (25 April 1859 – 16 November 1925) was a botanist who made a major contribution to knowledge of the Australian flora, especially the genus ''Eucalyptus''. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation when citing a botanical name. Life Joseph Maiden was born in St John's Wood in northwest London. He studied science at the University of London, but due to ill health he did not complete the course. As part of his treatment he was advised to take a long sea voyage, and so in 1880 he sailed for New South Wales. In 1881, Maiden was appointed first curator of the Technological Museum in Sydney (now the Powerhouse Museum), remaining there until 1896. While there, he published an article in 1886 describing what he called "some sixteenth century maps of Australia". These were the so-called Dieppe maps, the Rotz (1547), the Harleian or Dauphin (mid-1540s), and the Desceliers (1550), photo-lithographic reproductions of which had been published by the Briti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |