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Acacia Havilandiorum
''Acacia havilandiorum'', also known as Haviland's wattle or needle wattle, is a shrub of the genus ''Acacia'' and the subgenus ''Plurinerves''. It is native to areas in South Australia, New South Wales and Victoria (Australia), Victoria. Description The bushy shrub or small typically grows to a height of and has Glabrousness (botany), glabrous and terete branchlets. Like most species of ''Acacia'' it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The grey to green, inclined to ascending and straight or slightly incurved, rigid phyllodes are in length and wide and are quite brittle and tend to break easily. It blooms between July and October producing simple inflorescences which occur in group of one to three in the axils and have spherical flower-heads with a diameter of and contain 20 to 30 bright yellow coloured flowers. Following flowering it produces glabrous and firmly papery seed pods which are straight to curved and raised over each seed and slightly constricted between them 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 Brit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |