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Acacia Longispinea
''Acacia longispinea'' is a shrub or tree of the genus ''Acacia'' and the subgenus ''Plurinerves'' that is endemic to an area of south western Australia. Description The shrub or tree typically grows to a height of It has glabrous and terete branchlets and lenticellular branchlets that are scarred by raised stem-projections from lost phyllodes. Like most species of ''Acacia'' it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The rigid, glabrous, pungent and evergreen phyllodes are ascending to erect and straight to shallowly incurved with a pentagonal cross section. The phyllodes are in length and wide with five strongly raised nerves. It blooms from September to October and produces yellow flowers. The simple inflorescences occur singly and have spherical flower-heads with a diameter of containing 60 to 85 densely packed golden coloured flowers. Following flowering glabrous and chartaceous seed pods form that are pendent with a linear shape but raised over each of the seeds with a l ... [...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] |
Mid West (Western Australia)
The Mid West region is one of the nine regions of Western Australia. It is a sparsely populated region extending from the west coast of Western Australia, about north and south of its administrative centre of Geraldton, Western Australia, Geraldton and inland to east of Wiluna, Western Australia, Wiluna in the Gibson Desert. It has a total area of , and a permanent population of about 52,000 people, more than half of those in Geraldton. Earlier names The western portion of this region was known earlier as "The Murchison" based on the Murchison River (Western Australia), river of the same name, and the similarly named Goldfield. Economy The Mid West region has a diversified economy that varies with the geography and climate. Near the coast, annual rainfall of between allows intensive agriculture. Further inland, annual rainfall decreases to less than , and here the economy is dominated by mining of iron ore, gold, nickel and other mineral resources. Geraldton is an imp ... [...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] |
Comet Vale, Western Australia
Comet Vale is an abandoned town in Western Australia located in the Goldfield region of Western Australia located between Kalgoorlie and Laverton on the Goldfields Highway. It is within the Shire of Menzies. The town site was named after a comet that could be seen at about the time gold was discovered in the area. By 1895 the town had a population of approximately 500, and by 1897 the townspeople were demanding a post-office. The postmaster general instructed postmasters at Menzies and Googarrie prepare daily mail bags for Comet Vale which were then distributed at one of the stores in town. The ''Comet Vale Hotel'' was established some time prior to 1898. The town was gazetted in 1916. A prospector, Dan Baker is credited with the initial gold discovery. Two mines were in production in 1900 named ''Lady Margaret'' and ''Long tunnel''. The ''Gladsome'' mine was operating before 1905, and the Moss brothers built a 10-head stamp mill and ''Coonega'' at Comet Vale. More mines op ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albion Downs
Albion Downs Station, often referred to as Albion Downs, is a pastoral lease that operates as a sheep station. It is located about north west of Leinster and south of Wiluna in the Mid West region of Western Australia. History The property had been established prior to 1928 when it was owned by Mr. Howard. Sheep had been introduced to the property and increased in numbers as the country was being opened up. The quality of wool produced at the property was highly regarded, with top prices being paid for bales from Albion. In 1976, the property was being run by Glenda and John Howard. It had suffered through a five-year drought and the flock had been reduced from 20,000 to 9,000 sheep. Dingos were also a problem and regularly had to be shot to protect the stock. The station occupied an area of at this time. See also *List of ranches and stations This is a list of ranches and sheep and cattle stations, organized by continent. Most of these are notable either for the larg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boorabbin, Western Australia
Boorabbin was a location on the narrow gauge Eastern Goldfields Railway in Western Australia. It was half way between Southern Cross and Coolgardie. It was the location of a water tank used during the era of steam power on the railways. Construction of the tank began in 1896; it had a capacity of five and a quarter million gallons. The townsite was gazetted in 1898. It was named by C.C. Hunt in 1865. It is in the area of the Boorabbin National Park, and Boorabbin Rocks. The locality was identified as the nearest to a tragedy on the Great Eastern Highway Great Eastern Highway is a road that links the Western Australian capital of Perth with the city of Kalgoorlie. A key route for road vehicles accessing the eastern Wheatbelt and the Goldfields, it is the western portion of the main road link ... when three truck drivers were killed by bushfire across the highway in 2007. Notes {{authority control Towns in Western Australia Goldfields-Esperance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Narembeen, Western Australia
Narembeen is a town in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia. It is 286 km, almost due east, from Perth, the capital of WA. It is the major settlement in the Shire of Narembeen, in which the major industries are growing cereal crops and raising cattle and sheep. The surrounding areas produce wheat and other cereal crops. The town is a receival site for Cooperative Bulk Handling. Narembeen means ''place of female emus'' in the local Aboriginal language. History The area was initially surveyed in 1836 by the Surveyor General John Septimus Roe. After camping on a rocky outcrop and seeing a group of emus he named the area Emu Hill. By the 1850s, European settlers arrived in the area looking for pastoral land for wheat and grazing. Sandalwood cutters also frequented the area during this time. In 1901 the rabbit proof fence was constructed just to the east of Narembeen, and can still be seen today. A settler named Charles Smith bought a property he called Narimbeen. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamelin Pool Marine Nature Reserve
The Hamelin Pool Marine Nature Reserve is a protected marine nature reserve located in the UNESCO World Heritagelisted Shark Bay in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia. The nature reserve boasts the most diverse and abundant examples of living marine stromatolites in the world, monuments to life on Earth over million years BP. Location and access Hamelin Pool is the eastern major waters within Shark Bay, separated from the western area by the Peron Peninsula, with a smaller water body just adjacent to its northern border with Faure Island - L'Haridon Bight the juncture being defined by ''Petit Point''. At the northern edge of the Hamelin Pool area is the Wooramel Seagrass Bank. The marine reserve is situated adjacent to the Hamelin Station Reserve and the historic Hamelin Pool Telegraph Station about west of the Overlander Roadhouse on the North West Coastal Highway. Access is via Hamelin Pool Road and then through the Hamelin Pool Telegraph Station grounds. ... [...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 Gonophylla
''Acacia gonophylla'', also known as rasp-stemmed wattle, is a shrub belonging to the genus ''Acacia'' and the subgenus ''Phyllodineae'' that is endemic to south western parts of Australia. Description The low spreading shrub with many branches typically grows to a height of . It has ribbed glabrous branchlets with caducous stipules caducous. The ascending to erect green phyllodes are often shallowly incurved and have five prominently raised nerves. The phyllodes are around in length and have a width of . It produces cream-yellow flowers from May to October. The inflorescences appear in groups of one to three in a long raceme. The spherical flower-heads have a diameter of around and contain 12 to 21 cream to pale yellow flowers. The dark red-brown linear seed pods that form after flowering reach a length of up to and a width of . The shiny black seeds within have an oblong to elliptic shape and are in length. Taxonomy The species was first formally described by the botanist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
