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Avon Wheatbelt
The Avon Wheatbelt is a bioregion in Western Australia. It has an area of . It is considered part of the larger Southwest Australia savanna ecoregion. Geography The Avon Wheatbelt bioregion is mostly a gently undulating landscape with low relief. It lies on the Yilgarn Craton, an ancient block of crystalline rock, which was uplifted in the Tertiary and dissected by rivers. The craton is overlain by laterite deposits, which in places have decomposed into yellow sandplains, particularly on low hills. Steep-sided erosional gullies, known as breakaways, are common. Beecham, Brett (2001). "Avon Wheatbelt 2 (AW2 - Re-juvenated Drainage subregion)" in ''A Biodiversity Audit of Western Australia’s 53 Biogeographical Subregions in 2002''. Department of Conservation and Land Management, Government of Western Australia, November 2001. Accessed 15 May 2022/ref> In the south and west (the Katanning subregion), streams are mostly perennial, and feed rivers which drain westwards to empty in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boyagin Nature Reserve
Boyagin Rock is located south west of Brookton and north west of Pingelly in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, which is approximately south east of Perth. The Boyagin Rock outcrop rises above the surrounding land and is an crestal area of a granite inselberg within the geological Yilgarn Craton framework. The Boyagin Nature Reserve contains Boyagin Rock, and is widely recognised as one of the few areas of intact original fauna and flora in the Avon Wheatbelt bioregion. It provides refuge for a variety of fauna including numbats, goannas, echidnas and Tammar wallabies. The reserve was established in 1978, and covers an area of 1.21 km2. Aboriginal significance Boyagin Rock is known to the Noongar as "Boogin" and according to the Balardong Noongar it is a site of significance. A traditional story of how the rock came to be is from Noongar Elder Janet Collard who said that her husband (Andy Collard) told the story of how a big Wagyl (dreamtime water snake) wound i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merredin, Western Australia
Merredin is a town in Western Australia, located in the central Wheatbelt (Western Australia), Wheatbelt roughly midway between Perth and Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, Kalgoorlie, on List of road routes in Perth, Western Australia, Route 94, Great Eastern Highway. It is located on the route of the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme, and as a result is also on the Golden Pipeline Heritage Trail. It is connected by public transport to Perth via the'' The Prospector (train), Prospector'' and ''MerredinLink'' rail services. History Merredin's history varies from that of other wheat-belt towns in Western Australia in the sense that it started as a stopping place on the way to the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia, goldfields. The first European explorer into the area was the Surveyor General of Western Australia, Surveyor General John Septimus Roe, J. S. Roe, who travelled through the region in 1836 but was not impressed by its dryness and the low rainfall. By the 1850s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acacia Botrydion
''Acacia botrydion'' is a shrub belonging to the genus ''Acacia'' and the subgenus ''Phyllodineae''. It is native to the Wongan Hills in the Wheatbelt region 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 diffuse and spinose shrub typically grows to a height of . It blooms from July to September and produces yellow flowers. See also * List of ''Acacia'' species References botrydion Acacias of Western Australia Endemic flora of Southwest Australia Avon Wheatbelt {{WesternAustralia-plant-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eucalyptus Falcata
''Eucalyptus falcata'', commonly known as silver mallet or toolyumuck, is a species of Mallee (habit), mallee or marlock that is Endemism, endemic to Western Australia. It has smooth bark, lance-shaped to curved adult leaves, flower buds in groups of eleven or thirteen, creamy white or yellowish green flowers and flattened spherical fruit. Description ''Eucalyptus falcata'' is a mallee or marlock that forms a lignotuber and typically grows to a height of . It has smooth, silvery gray and green-gray over pale brown-orange bark. Young plants and coppice regrowth have egg-shaped, Petiole (botany), petiolate leaves arranged in opposite pairs and long and wide. Adult leaves are arranged alternately, the same shade of green on both sides, lance-shaped to curved, long and wide on a petiole long. The flower buds are arranged in leaf wikt:axil, axils in groups of eleven or thirteen on an unbranched, down-turned Peduncle (botany), peduncle long, the individual buds on Pedicel (botany) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eucalyptus Salubris
''Eucalyptus salubris'', commonly known as gimlet, fluted gum tree, gimlet gum and silver-topped gimlet, is a species of mallet that is endemic to low-rainfall areas of the wheatbelt and goldfields regions of Western Australia. Description ''Eucalyptus salubris'' grows as a mallet, usually from high, but sometimes as low as and does not form a lignotuber. It has smooth, strongly fluted trunks and stems, and white or cream flowers from September to March. ''E. salubris'' is one of the nine true gimlet species that have buds in groups of seven. The adult leaves are arranged alternately on the branchlets and the same glossy green colour on both sides, with petioles that are long. The leaf blade is narrow lance-shaped, usually long and wide with the base tapering to the petiole, and a pointed apex. The flowers are arranged in groups of seven in the leaf axils on stout, unbranched peduncles. The groups are broadest near the tip and approximately long. The fruit are hemi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wongan Hills
Wongan Hills is a range of low flat-topped hills in the Avon Wheatbelt bioregion of Western Australia. It is located at , in the Shire of Wongan–Ballidu. History The range was first recorded in 1836 by Surveyor General of Western Australia John Septimus Roe. The area was settled by the 1900s (decade), and in 1911 the town of Wongan Hills was established and named after the range. Etymology "Wongan" is derived from the Indigenous Australian name "wangan-katta", "wankan" and "woongan". "Katta" is known to mean "hill", but the meaning of "wongan" is uncertain. It may be related to "kwongan", an indigenous word for sandplain, or "whispering", in which case "wongan katta" would mean "whispering hills". Flora and fauna The hills are biologically significant because they contain the largest remaining single area of natural vegetation in northern parts of the wheatbelt. The hills are home to remnant woodlands of salmon gum, York gum, gimlet (''Eucalyptus salubris''), and silver mal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wandoo
Wandoo is the common name for a number of Western Australian ''Eucalyptus'' species, all of which have smooth white bark. The original "wandoo" is ''Eucalyptus wandoo''. Additional species have been given this name because of a perceived likeness with ''E. wandoo''. These include * '' Eucalyptus redunca'' (wandoo) * ''Eucalyptus accedens ''Eucalyptus accedens'', commonly known as smooth bark wandoo or powderbark wandoo is a species of tree endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. Although the common names suggest it is similar to wandoo, (''Eucalyptus wandoo''), the two ...'' (wandoo, or powder-bark wandoo) * '' Eucalyptus capillosa'' (wheatbelt wandoo) * '' Eucalyptus lane-poolei'' (salmonbark wandoo) * '' Eucalyptus livida'' (mallee wandoo) * '' Eucalyptus nigrifunda'' (desert wandoo) {{Plant common name Eucalyptus Rosids of Western Australia Myrtales of Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eucalyptus Loxophleba
''Eucalyptus loxophleba'', commonly known as York gum, daarwet, goatta, twotta or yandee, is a species of tree or mallee that is endemic to Western Australia. It has rough bark on the trunk, smooth olive to brownish bark above, lance-shaped adult leaves, flowers buds in groups of between seven and eleven, white flowers and conical fruit. Description ''Eucalyptus loxophleba'' is a mallee or a tree that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. The trunk has a diameter of about of and varying amounts, depending on subspecies, of rough fibrous-flaky or smooth bark on the trunk and smooth grey-brown over copper bark above. Young plants and coppice regrowth have more or less triangular, egg-shaped or almost round glaucous leaves that are long and wide. Adult leaves are lance-shaped to curved, the same glossy, dark green on both sides, long and wide tapering to a petiole long. The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils in groups of seven, nine or eleven on an unbra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acacia Acuminata
''Acacia acuminata'', known as mangart and jam, is a tree in the family Fabaceae. Endemic to Western Australia, it occurs throughout the south west of the State. It is common in the Wheatbelt, and also extends into the semi-arid interior. Description ''Acacia acuminata'' grows as a tall shrub or small tree growing 3-7m, In ideal conditions it may grow to a height of ten metres, but in most of its distribution it does not grow above five metres. As with most ''Acacia'' species, it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. These are bright green, around ten centimetres long and about ten millimetres wide, and finish in a long point. The lemon yellow flowers are held in tight cylindrical clusters about two centimetres long, flowering occur late winter to spring. The pods are light brown and flattened, about ten centimetres long and five millimetres wide and are present during summer. The nutritional composition of the numerous seeds, a shiny brown-black colour, is 45% protein, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allocasuarina Huegeliana
''Allocasuarina huegeliana'', commonly known as rock sheoak or sighing sheoak, is a tree in the family Casuarinaceae. Endemic to Western Australia, it occurs mostly throughout the Wheatbelt region. It is now especially common on road verges, where it sometimes forms thickets. Description Rock sheoak is a dioecious tree that grows to a height of . The dark coloured bark is longitudinally fissured. It has sparse foliage that forms a rounded outline. Sometimes it branches at ground level, but usually has a bole of a few metres. As with other ''Allocasuarina'' species, the foliage consists of slender green branchlets informally referred to as "needles" but more correctly termed cladodes. These are segmented, and the true leaves are reduced to tiny teeth encircling each joint. Male trees have small brown flower spikes at the end of branchlets. Female trees bear small flowers on short branchlets of their own. The red to brown coloured flowers appear between May and January. Fer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eucalyptus Salmonophloia
''Eucalyptus salmonophloia'', commonly known as salmon gum, wurak or weerluk or woonert or marrlinja. is a species of small to medium-sized tree that is endemic to Western Australia. It has smooth bark, narrow lance-shaped to curved adult leaves, flower buds in groups of between nine and thirteen, creamy white flowers and hemispherical fruit. Description ''Eucalyptus salmonophloia'' is a tree that typically grows to a height of and a width of and does not form a lignotuber. The tree is quite shallow rooting with roots spreading radially over quite a distance from the base of the tree although the roots are deep enough to make the tree drought resistant. Taller trees can have trunks that are up to in length. Epicormic buds can be produced further up the stem allowing the tree to resprout after fire. It is an erect tree in form and has an umbrella shaped canopy. The crown of the tree can spread as wide as and provide shade over a wide area. It has smooth pale grey-silver bark t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Proteaceae
The Proteaceae form a family of flowering plants predominantly distributed in the Southern Hemisphere. The family comprises 83 genera with about 1,660 known species. Together with the Platanaceae and Nelumbonaceae, they make up the order Proteales. Well-known genera include ''Protea'', ''Banksia'', ''Embothrium'', ''Grevillea'', ''Hakea'' and ''Macadamia''. Species such as the New South Wales waratah (''Telopea speciosissima''), king protea (''Protea cynaroides''), and various species of ''Banksia'', ''soman'', and ''Leucadendron'' are popular cut flowers. The nuts of ''Macadamia integrifolia'' are widely grown commercially and consumed, as are those of Gevuina avellana on a smaller scale. Australia and South Africa have the greatest concentrations of diversity. Etymology The name Proteaceae was adapted by Robert Brown from the name Proteae coined in 1789 for the family by Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, based on the genus ''Protea'', which in 1767 Carl Linnaeus derived from t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
