Baumea Teretifolia
''Baumea'' is a genus of the sedge family, which includes around 30 species native to Madagascar and the Pacific Islands, with 15 species in Australia. All are perennial rhizomatous herbs, with leaves and stems very similar in appearance. The inflorescence is terminal, with the flowers tightly clustered or loosely arranged. The fruits are small nuts. It is closely related to the genus ''Machaerina'', and is sometimes included in that genus. Habitat and cultivation Most species occur in open moist habitats; many are found in swamps or seasonally inundated areas. ''Baumea'' is propagated from transplants, divisions, or from seeds, which germinate readily if sown on damp organic mix and kept moist until shoots appear. Selected species *''Baumea acuta'' (Labill.) Palla *''Baumea arthrophylla'' (Nees) Boeckeler *''Baumea articulata'' (R.Br.) S.T.Blake *''Baumea juncea'' (R.Br.) Palla *''Baumea laxa'' (Nees) Boeckeler *''Baumea preissii'' Nees *''Baumea riparia'' (Nees) Boeckeler ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Baumea Rubiginosa
''Machaerina rubiginosa'', commonly known as soft twig rush, flat leaf twig rush or common twig rush, is a flowering plant in the sedge family, Cyperaceae, that is native to Asia and the Pacific. Description The robust grass-like sedge is rhizomatous and perennial, it typically grows to a height of and a width of . It blooms between August and March producing brown flowers. It has rigid, terete and biconvex culms that are smooth and glabrous. The culms are in length and in diameter. The narrow and erect inflorescence has an interrupted-oblong shape in outline forming dense clusters that are around long and with a diameter of . After flowering an ellipsoid to obovoid shaped pale red-brown to bright orange coloured nut. The nut is smooth with a hispid apex with a length of and a diameter of . Distribution and habitat It found in swamps and on the margins of lakes and streams along coastal areas in the Mid West, Wheatbelt, Peel, South West, Great Southern and Goldfields-Es ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Baumea Arthrophylla
''Baumea arthrophylla''(now known as Machaerina arthrophylla) is a flowering plant in the sedge family, Cyperaceae that is native to many states and territories of Australia. The grass-like plant is rhizomatous and perennial, with a tufted habit. It typically grows to a height of . It blooms between September and November producing brown flowers. It is found in winter wet depressions and around swamps and lakes along coastal areas in the Peel, South West The points of the compass are a set of horizontal, radially arrayed compass directions (or azimuths) used in navigation and cartography. A compass rose is primarily composed of four cardinal directions—north, east, south, and west—each sepa ..., Great Southern and Goldfields-Esperance where it grows in damp to wet peaty-sand soils. Commonly confused with Machaerina rubiginosa (syn. Baumea rubiginosa), which has larger, less angular nuts, leaves and involucral bracts somewhat flattened at least near the apex, and more ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Baumea Vaginalis
''Baumea vaginalis'', commonly known as sheath twig rush, is a flowering plant in the sedge family, Cyperaceae, that is native to Western Australia. The robust grass-like sedge is rhizomatous and perennial and has a tufted habit, it typically grows to a height of and to a width of . It blooms between October and November producing brown flowers. It found in wet depressions and swamps and on the margins of lakes and creeks along coastal areas in the Peel, South West The points of the compass are a set of horizontal, radially arrayed compass directions (or azimuths) used in navigation and cartography. A compass rose is primarily composed of four cardinal directions—north, east, south, and west—each sepa ... and Great Southern regions where it grows in dark brown sandy soils. References {{Taxonbar, from=Q15550599 vaginalis Plants described in 1969 Flora of Western Australia ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Baumea Riparia
''Baumea riparia'' is a flowering plant in the sedge family, Cyperaceae that is native to Western Australia. The robust grass-like sedge is rhizomatous and perennial, it typically grows to a height of and colonises easily. It blooms between August and October producing brown flowers. It found in swamps and on the margins of brackish lakes and creeks in the Peel, South West and Great Southern where it grows in black peaty-sand soils. References {{Taxonbar, from=Q41776419 riparia ''Riparia'' is a genus of passerine birds in the swallow family Hirundinidae. These are small or medium-sized swallows, ranging from in length. They are brown above and mainly white below, and all have a dark breast band. They are closely ass ... Plants described in 1874 Flora of Western Australia ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Baumea Preissii
''Baumea preissii'' is a flowering plant in the sedge family Cyperaceae, which is native to Western Australia. The robust grass-like plant is rhizomatous and perennial; it typically grows to a height of , and colonises easily. It blooms between July and December, producing purple-brown flowers. It is found in swamps and on the margins of lakes and creeks along coastal areas in the Wheatbelt, Peel, South West The points of the compass are a set of horizontal, radially arrayed compass directions (or azimuths) used in navigation and cartography. A compass rose is primarily composed of four cardinal directions—north, east, south, and west—each se ..., Great Southern, and Goldfields-Esperance, where it grows in water-logged silty-sand soils. References {{Taxonbar, from=Q15550172 preissii Plants described in 1846 Flora of Western Australia ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Baumea Laxa
''Baumea laxa'' is a flowering plant in the sedge family, Cyperaceae, that is native to Western Australia. The grass-like plant is found along coastal areas in the Peel, South West The points of the compass are a set of horizontal, radially arrayed compass directions (or azimuths) used in navigation and cartography. A compass rose is primarily composed of four cardinal directions—north, east, south, and west—each sepa ..., and Great Southern regions where it grows in damp sandy soils. References laxa Plants described in 1874 Flora of Western Australia {{Cyperaceae-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Baumea Juncea
''Machaerina juncea'', commonly known as bare twig-rush or tussock swamp twig rush, is a sedge in the sedge family, Cyperaceae, that is native to Australia, New Zealand, and New Caledonia. Description The grass-like sedge is rhizomatous and perennial. It typically grows to a height of and colonises easily. The woody and shortly creeping rhizome has a diameter of and is covered in light brown papery, loose, imbricate bracts. The terete, rigid, erect, smooth, glaucous culms arise as crowded tufts along rhizome and have one to two distant nodes. The leaves are light brown or reddish sheathing bracts. It blooms between October and March producing brown flowers. Each stiff, erect, spike-like and sparingly branched inflorescence has a length of and has a much shorter sheathing bract underneath. The red-brown coloured spikelets have a length of and contain one or two flowers. The oblong to ovoid shaped nut that forms later has a length of and is dark brown to black and orange near ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Baumea Articulata
''Baumea articulata'', commonly known as jointed rush, is a sedge in the sedge family, Cyperaceae, that is native to Western Australia. The grass-like plant is rhizomatous and perennial, it typically grows to a height of . It blooms between September and December producing red-brown flowers on pendulous inflorescences. It is found around swamps and on the margins of lakes along coastal areas in the Mid West, Wheatbelt, Peel, South West The points of the compass are a set of horizontal, radially arrayed compass directions (or azimuths) used in navigation and cartography. A compass rose is primarily composed of four cardinal directions—north, east, south, and west—each sepa ..., Great Southern and Goldfields-Esperance where it grows in damp black sandy soils. References {{Taxonbar, from=Q15550023 articulata Plants described in 1969 Flora of Western Australia ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Baumea Acuta
''Baumea acuta'', commonly known as pale twig-rush, is a flowering plant in the sedge family, Cyperaceae, that is native to southern parts of Australia. Description The grass-like plant is rhizomatous and perennial. It typically grows to a height of and to a width of approximately . It blooms between September and November producing brown flowers. Taxonomy The species was first formally described as ''Schoenus acutus'' by Jacques Labillardière in 1805. In 1902 Eduard Palla reclassified the species as ''Baumea acuta'' as part of the work ''Allgemeine Botanische Zeitschrift fur Systematik''. Several other synonyms exist including ''Baumea schoenoides'', ''Mariscus acutus'', ''Machaerina schoenoides'', ''Chapelliera schoenoides'' and ''Cladium acutum''. Distribution It is found along the southern half of the east and west coast of mainland Australia and in coastal areas of Tasmania. On the east coast it extends from coastal areas in southern Queensland, New South Wales and Victor ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Pacific Islands
Collectively called the Pacific Islands, the islands in the Pacific Ocean are further categorized into three major island groups: Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. Depending on the context, the term ''Pacific Islands'' may refer to one of several different concepts: (1) those countries and islands with common Austronesian origins, (2) the islands once (or currently) colonized, or (3) the geographical region of Oceania. This list of islands in the Pacific Ocean is organized by archipelago or border, political boundary. In order to keep this list of moderate size, the more complete lists for countries with large numbers of small or uninhabited islands have been hyperlinked. Name ambiguity and groupings The umbrella term ''Pacific Islands'' has taken on several meanings. Sometimes it is used to refer only to the islands defined as lying within Oceania Oceania (, , ) is a region, geographical region that includes Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. Spann ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Madagascar
Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa across the Mozambique Channel. At Madagascar is the world's List of island countries, second-largest island country, after Indonesia. The nation is home to around 30 million inhabitants and consists of the island of Geography of Madagascar, Madagascar (the List of islands by area, fourth-largest island in the world), along with numerous smaller peripheral islands. Following the prehistoric breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana, Madagascar split from the Indian subcontinent around 90 million years ago, allowing native plants and animals to evolve in relative isolation. Consequently, Madagascar is a biodiversity hotspot; over 90% of wildlife of Madagascar, its wildlife is endemic. Human settlement of Madagascar occurred during or befo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |