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Acacia Costata
''Acacia costata'' is a shrub belonging to the genus ''Acacia'' and the subgenus ''Phyllodineae'' that is endemic to Western Australia. Description The spreading and prickly shrub typically grows to a height of . The ribbed branchlets are hairy to woolly with long stipules. The pungent, rigid, green phyllodes have a narrowly lanceolate shape and are straight or shallowly recurved. The phyllodes have a length of and a width of with five nerves and a prominent midrib. It blooms from May to June and produces yellow flowers. The simple inflorescences occur singly in the axils. The spherical flower-heads contain 13 to 19 golden flowers that are loosely bound. The curved, dark red-brown seed pods that form after flowering have a length of up to and a diameter of . Taxonomy The species was first formally described by the botanist George Bentham in 1942 as part of William Jackson Hooker's work ''Notes on Mimoseae, with a synopsis of species'' as published in the ''London Journal of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benth
George Bentham (22 September 1800 – 10 September 1884) was an English botanist, described by the weed botanist Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century". Born into a distinguished family, he initially studied law, but had a fascination with botany from an early age, which he soon pursued, becoming president of the Linnaean Society in 1861, and a fellow of the Royal Society in 1862. He was the author of a number of important botanical works, particularly flora. He is best known for his taxonomic classification of plants in collaboration with Joseph Dalton Hooker, his ''Genera Plantarum'' (1862–1883). He died in London in 1884. Life Bentham was born in Stoke, Plymouth, on 22 September 1800.Jean-Jacques Amigo, « Bentham (George) », in Nouveau Dictionnaire de biographies roussillonnaises, vol. 3 Sciences de la Vie et de la Terre, Perpignan, Publications de l'olivier, 2017, 915 p. () His father, Sir Samuel Bentham, a naval architect, was t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
