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Acacia Densiflora
''Acacia densiflora'' is a shrub of the genus ''Acacia'' and the subgenus ''Plurinerves'' that is endemic to an area of south western Australia. Description The dense pungent shrub typically grows to a height of and has branchlets that are covered with matted woolly hairs. Like most species of ''Acacia'' it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The evergreen, inclined to ascending phyllodes which are straight, flat and linear. The rigid and glabrous phyllodes are in length and wide and are coarsely pungent and have 16 closely parallel, yellowish coloured nerves. When it blooms it produces simple inflorescences that are found in pairs in the axils and have spherical flower-heads that have a diameter of and contain 15 to 18 golden coloured flowers. Following flowering linear to slightly curves seed pods form that are raised over and constricted between each of the seeds. The hairy and thinly crustaceous pods have a length of up to and a width of about . The glossy black seeds ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Morrison (botanist)
Alexander Morrison (15 March 1849 – 7 December 1913) was a Scottish Botanist who was the first Government Botanist of Western Australia. Morrison was born in western Dalmeny, Scotland the 8th of 10 children to Thomas Morrison (1809-1867) and Ann Geggie (1815-1867). He began a medicine degree at Edinburgh, but suffered from ill health, prompting him to break his studies and visit Australia. He spent two years in Melbourne before returning to Edinburgh to complete his degree. He then undertook post-graduate studies at Glasgow, Würzburg and Vienna. He returned to Australia in 1877 as a medical officer on a migrant ship. He practiced medicine in Melbourne for 15 years, but again ill health prompted him to travel. He visited the South Seas and spend some time living in the New Hebrides, where he collected plants for Ferdinand von Mueller. After returning to Australia, he was appointed the first Government Botanist of Western Australia, holding the position from 1897 to 1906. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acacia Eremophila
''Acacia eremophila'' is a shrub of the genus ''Acacia'' and the subgenus ''Plurinerves'' that is native to Western Australia. Description The dense shrub typically grows to a height of and has a rounded habit. The straight and erect phyllodes are patent to erect. The phyllodes are in length with a diameter of . It blooms from July to October producing simple inflorescences with globular heads with a diameter of containing 10 to 25 yellow flowers. After flowering linear seed pods that are raised over and constricted between each seed that are in length and wide. The dark brown seeds with an elliptic to oblong-ovate shape. Taxonomy The species was first formally described by the botanist William Vincent Fitzgerald in 1912 is the work ''New West Australian Plants'' published in the ''Journal of Botany, British and Foreign''. There are two varieties: *''Acacia eremophila'' var. ''eremophila'' *''Acacia eremophila'' var. ''variabilis'' ''A. eremophila'' closely resemble ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Acacia Species
Several Cladistics, cladistic analyses have shown that the genus ''Acacia sensu lato, Acacia'' is not monophyletic. While the subg. ''Acacia'' and subg. ''Phyllodinae'' are monophyletic, subg. ''Aculeiferum'' is not. This subgenus consists of three clades. Therefore, the following list of ''Acacia'' species cannot be maintained as a single entity, and must either be split up, or broadened to include species previously not in the genus. This genus has been provisionally divided into 5 genus, genera, ''Acacia'', ''Vachellia'', ''Senegalia'', ''Acaciella'' and ''Mariosousa''. The proposed type species of ''Acacia'' is ''Acacia penninervis''. Which of these segregate genera is to retain the name ''Acacia'' has been controversial. The genus was previously typified with the African species ''Acacia scorpioides'' (L.) W.F.Wright, a synonym of ''Acacia nilotica'' (L.) Delile. Under the original typification, the name ''Acacia'' would stay with the group of species currently recognized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coolgardie, Western Australia
Coolgardie is a small town in Western Australia, east of the state capital, Perth. It has a population of approximately 850 people. Although Coolgardie is now known to most Western Australians as a tourist town and a mining ghost town, it was once the third largest town in Western Australia (after Perth and Fremantle). At this time, mining of alluvial gold was a major industry and supplied the flagging economy with new hope. Many miners suffered under the harsh conditions, but for a few, their find made the hard work worthwhile. Most men, however, left poorer than they had started off, with their hopes dashed. History Coolgardie was founded in 1892, when gold was discovered in the area known as Fly Flat by prospectors Arthur Wellesley Bayley and William Ford. Australia had seen several major gold rushes over the previous three decades, mostly centred on the east coast, but these had mostly been exhausted by the 1890s. With the discovery of a new goldfield, an entire new ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Hann National Park
Frank Hann National Park is a national park in Western Australia, located east-southeast of the capital, Perth in the Shire of Lake Grace. It was named for Frank Hann, an early explorer of the district. The park contains a wide array of flora, including seasonal wildflowers. It was officially named on 30 October 1970. The park is mostly composed of heathland and scrubland situated on an inland sandplain. No entrance fee is required to enter the park but no facilities are available to visitors in the park. The park is found within the Eastern Mallee (IBRA) subregion in southern Western Australia. Some of the flora found within the park include '' Acacia mackeyana'', ''Acacia dissona'' and ''Banksia xylothemelia''. Fauna found within the park include lizards such as the marbled gecko, the clawless gecko, the crested dragon, the callose-palmed shining-skink and the bright crevice skink. Many frog species also inhabit the area including ''Myobatrachus gouldii'', '' Pseudo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ongerup, Western Australia
Ongerup is a town south-east of Perth and east of Gnowangerup in the Great Southern region of Western Australia. At the 2016 census Ongerup had a population of 93. History The name Ongerup means "place of the male kangaroo" in the local Noongar language. The area around Ongerup was explored by Surveyor General John Septimus Roe who passed through in 1848. In the 1870s the Moir family moved to the area and began grazing sheep along the Warperup Creek. In 1910 the land was surveyed into blocks priced at 10 shillings per acre before the townsite was gazetted in 1912. A local newspaper, ''The Gnowangerup Star and Tambellup-Ongerup Gazette'', was launched on 21 August 1915 with the final edition being printed in 2003. The first Ongerup Public Hall was built in 1927 but was replaced by the current building in 1953. During the Great Depression of the 1930s, kangaroo hunters and mallee bark strippers came to the area. The bark was sent to Germany for use in tanning. In 1936 t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wyalkatchem, Western Australia
Wyalkatchem is a town in the central Wheatbelt region, east-north-east of Perth, east of Dowerin and south of Koorda. At the , Wyalkatchem had a population of 358. The town won the state tidy town award in 2000 and 2002, and then won the national award in 2003. History Wyalkatchem is an Aboriginal name first recorded for a waterhole, spelt Walkatching in the 1870s. The spelling Walcatching was used in 1881 when the Toodyay Road Board referred to a tank to be built there, and when the road from Northam to the Yilgarn Goldfield was surveyed in 1892 the spelling Wyalcatchem was used for the tank. The Walkatching spelling is probably the most accurate, as Aboriginal names in this region rarely end in ''em''. The change of spelling from Wyalcatchem to Wyalkatchem in 1911 was done by the Department of Lands & Surveys according to rules the department had adopted for spelling Aboriginal names. The meaning of the name is not known. In 1932 the Wheat Pool of Western Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Australia
Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east, and South Australia to the south-east. Western Australia is Australia's largest state, with a total land area of . It is the second-largest country subdivision in the world, surpassed only by Russia's Sakha Republic. the state has 2.76 million inhabitants percent of the national total. The vast majority (92 percent) live in the south-west corner; 79 percent of the population lives in the Perth area, leaving the remainder of the state sparsely populated. The first Europeans to visit Western Australia belonged to the Dutch Dirk Hartog expedition, who visited the Western Australian coast in 1616. The first permanent European colony of Western Australia occurred following the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wheatbelt (Western Australia)
The Wheatbelt is one of nine regions of Western Australia defined as administrative areas for the state's regional development, and a vernacular term for the area converted to agriculture during colonisation. It partially surrounds the Perth metropolitan area, extending north from Perth to the Mid West region, and east to the Goldfields–Esperance region. It is bordered to the south by the South West and Great Southern regions, and to the west by the Indian Ocean, the Perth metropolitan area, and the Peel region. Altogether, it has an area of (including islands). The region has 42 local government authorities, with an estimated population of 75,000 residents. The Wheatbelt accounts for approximately three per cent of Western Australia's population. Ecosystems The area, once a diverse ecosystem, reduced when clearing began in the 1890s with the removal of plant species such as eucalypt woodlands and mallee, is now home to around 11% of Australia's critically end ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acacia Hadrophylla
''Acacia hadrophylla'' is a shrub of the genus ''Acacia'' and the subgenus ''Plurinerves'' that is endemic to south western Australia. Description The dense spreading shrub typically grows to a height of with a dense domed to obconic habit. The has hairy branchlets and, like most species of ''Acacia'' has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The thick, rigid and evergreen phyllodes have an oblong-elliptic shape and are slightly incurved. They are generally in length and and have four to seven prominent distant yellowish coloured nerves. It blooms from June to September and produces yellow flowers. The simple inflorescences occur in pairs in the axils and have spherical flower-heads that have a diameter of and contain 14 to 25 golden coloured flowers. Following flowering linear shaped seed pods form that have a length of in length and wide and contain brown-black oblong-elliptic shaped seeds that are in length. Distribution It is native to an area in the southern Wheatbelt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acacia Kalgoorliensis
''Acacia kalgoorliensis'' is a shrub of the genus ''Acacia'' and the subgenus ''Plurinerves''. It is native to an area in the Mid West, Wheatbelt and Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th .... The dense, rounded and pungent shrub typically grows to a height of . It blooms from July to October and produces yellow flowers. See also * List of ''Acacia'' species References {{Taxonbar, from=Q15287438 kalgoorliensis Acacias of Western Australia Taxa named by Bruce Maslin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
