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Acacia Chisholmii
''Acacia chisholmii'', commonly known as turpentine bush and Chisholm's wattle, is a shrub belonging to the genus ''Acacia'' and the subgenus ''Juliflorae''. It is native to arid areas of north eastern Australia. Description The resinous multi-stemmed shrub has a spreading habit that typically grows to a height of and has minni ritchi style bark. It has angular, purplish brown or red-brown coloured branchlets that are minutely crenulated with slightly appressed-villous ridges. It flowers between May and August producing golden flower spikes with a length of . After flowering it produces linear, flat seed pods that are constricted between the seeds. The pods have a length of and have pale margins. The dark brown to black seeds within the pods have a narrowly oblong to elliptic shape and have a length of . Taxonomy The species was first formally described by the botanist Frederick Manson Bailey in 1899 as part of the work ''Contributions to the Queensland Flora'' as published i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australasian Virtual Herbarium
The ''Australasian Virtual Herbarium'' (AVH) is an online resource that allows access to plant specimen data held by various Australian and New Zealand herbaria. It is part of the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA), and was formed by the amalgamation of ''Australia's Virtual Herbarium'' and ''NZ Virtual Herbarium''. As of 12 August 2014, more than five million specimens of the 8 million and upwards specimens available from participating institutions have been databased. Uses This resource is used by academics, students, and anyone interested in research in botany in Australia or New Zealand, since each record tells all that is known about the specimen: where and when it was collected; by whom; its current identification together with the botanist who identified it; and information on habitat and associated species. ALA post processes the original herbarium data, giving further fields with respect to taxonomy and quality of the data. When interrogating individual specimen record ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
