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Bossiaea Bracteosa
''Bossiaea bracteosa'', commonly known as mountain leafless bossiaea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to north-eastern Victoria, Australia. It is a dense shrub that often forms root suckers and has winged branches, winged and lobed cladodes, leaves reduced to small scales, and deep yellow flowers, often with red blotches. Description ''Bossiaea bracteosa'' is a dense, erect to spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of and often forms root suckers. The branches are flattened and winged, with cladodes wide with lobed edges. The leaves are reduced to broadly egg-shaped scales, long. The flowers are arranged singly, each flower on a pedicel long with overlapping bracts up to about long and bracteoles that fall off as the flower buds develop. The sepals are long and joined at the base with five more or less similar lobes long. The standard petal is bright yellow with faint red marks, and long, the wings and long and the ke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benth
George Bentham (22 September 1800 – 10 September 1884) was an English botanist, described by the weed botanist Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century". Born into a distinguished family, he initially studied law, but had a fascination with botany from an early age, which he soon pursued, becoming president of the Linnaean Society in 1861, and a fellow of the Royal Society in 1862. He was the author of a number of important botanical works, particularly flora. He is best known for his taxonomic classification of plants in collaboration with Joseph Dalton Hooker, his ''Genera Plantarum'' (1862–1883). He died in London in 1884. Life Bentham was born in Stoke, Plymouth, on 22 September 1800.Jean-Jacques Amigo, « Bentham (George) », in Nouveau Dictionnaire de biographies roussillonnaises, vol. 3 Sciences de la Vie et de la Terre, Perpignan, Publications de l'olivier, 2017, 915 p. () His father, Sir Samuel Bentham, a naval architect, was t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bossiaea Bombayensis
''Bossiaea bombayensis'', commonly known as bombay bossiaea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to a small area of New South Wales. It is an erect shrub with flattened cladodes, small, scale-like leaves, and pea-like yellow to red flowers. Description ''Bossiaea bombayensis'' is an erect shrub that typically grows up to high with flattened cladodes wide, and that forms rhizomes. The leaves are reduced to reddish-brown scales, long. The flowers are borne on pedicels long and have four or six brown scales long at the base. The five sepals are long and joined at the base forming a tube, the two upper lobes long and the lower three lobes about long. There are also bracteoles long but that fall off before the flower opens. The standard petal is yellow with a red base and long, the wings yellow with a brownish red base and about wide and the keel is pale pink to red and wide. Flowering occurs in September and October and the fruit is a n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flora Of Victoria (state)
Flora is all the plant life present in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring (indigenous) native plants. Sometimes bacteria and fungi are also referred to as flora, as in the terms ''gut flora'' or '' skin flora''. Etymology The word "flora" comes from the Latin name of Flora, the goddess of plants, flowers, and fertility in Roman mythology. The technical term "flora" is then derived from a metonymy of this goddess at the end of the sixteenth century. It was first used in poetry to denote the natural vegetation of an area, but soon also assumed the meaning of a work cataloguing such vegetation. Moreover, "Flora" was used to refer to the flowers of an artificial garden in the seventeenth century. The distinction between vegetation (the general appearance of a community) and flora (the taxonomic composition of a community) was first made by Jules Thurmann (1849). Prior to this, the two terms were used indiscriminately.Thurmann, J. (1849). ''Essai de Phy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bossiaea
''Bossiaea'' is a genus of about 78 species of flowering plants in the pea family Fabaceae and is endemic to Australia. Plants in this genus often have stems and branches modified as cladodes, simple, often much reduced leaves, flowers with the upper two sepal lobes larger than the lower three, usually orange to yellow petals with reddish markings, and the fruit a more or less flattened pod. Description Plants in the genus ''Bossiaea'' are shrubs, often with the stems and branches modified as cladodes, the leaves simple and often reduces to scales, usually with small stipules at the base. The flowers are usually arranged singly in leaf axils, usually with two or three small bracts or bracteoles at the base of the peduncle. There are five sepals, the upper two usually larger and united higher than the lower three. The petals are mostly orange to yellow, often with darker markings and the standard is about twice as long as the sepals. The stamens are united into a sheath that is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eucalyptus Pauciflora
''Eucalyptus pauciflora'', commonly known as snow gum, cabbage gum or white sally, is a species of tree or mallee that is native to eastern Australia. It has smooth bark, lance-shaped to elliptical leaves, flower buds in clusters of between seven and fifteen, white flowers and cup-shaped, conical or hemispherical fruit. It is widespread and locally common in woodland in cold sites above altitude. Description ''Eucalyptus pauciflora'' is a tree or mallee, that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. It has smooth white, grey or yellow bark that is shed in ribbons and sometimes has insect scribbles. Young plants and coppice regrowth have dull, bluish green or glaucous, broadly lance-shaped to egg-shaped leaves that are long and wide. Adult leaves are the same shade of glossy green on both sides, lance-shaped to curved or elliptical, long and wide, tapering to a petiole long. The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils in cluster of between seven and fifteen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wombat State Forest
The Wombat State Forest (locally: Bullarook) is located west of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, between Woodend and Daylesford, at the Great Dividing Range. The forest is approximately in size and sits upon Ordovician or Cenozoic sediments. The Bullarook Wombat State Forest was proclaimed in 1871. The only initiative in Australia to introduce community forestry, within the internationally understood context, is in the Wombat State Forest. It is managed by the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning. The management plan covers several areas such as firewood and other products; protection of water supplies; conservation of biodiversity; and conservation of landscape. Other areas of importance include cultural heritage, research, education, tourism, recreation, mineral exploration, mining, and grazing. On 24 June 2021, the Andrews State Government, following extensive review and recommendation, declerated that the Wombat State Forest would be added to the National ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bossiaea Vombata
''Bossiaea vombata'', commonly known as wombat bossiaea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the Wombat State Forest in Victoria, Australia. It is an erect shrub with flattened cladodes and yellow, pea-like flowers. Description ''Bossiaea vombata'' is a more or less glabrous, rhizome-forming shrub that typically grows to a height of up to . The branches are flattened and winged, ending in greyish-green cladodes wide. The leaves are reduced to scales long and up to wide. The flowers are long and arranged singly on a pedicel long with broadly egg-shaped bracts up to long and egg-shaped, brown bracteoles long but that fall off as the flower opens. The five sepals are glabrous and joined at the base, forming a tube long, the two upper lobes long and the lower lobes slightly shorter. The standard petal is uniformly yellow, long and wide, the wings yellow and long, and the keel yellowish-white and long. Flowering occurs in October and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brogo Dam
Brogo Dam is a minor ungated rockfill embankment dam with an uncontrolled unlined rock cut spillway across the Brogo River upstream of Brogo in the South Coast region of New South Wales, Australia. The dam's purpose includes environmental flows, hydro-electric power generation, irrigation, and water supply. The impounded reservoir is also called Brogo Dam. Location and features Commenced in 1964 and completed in 1976, the Brogo Dam is a major dam on the Brogo River, a tributary of the Bega River, and is located approximately northwest of Bega. The dam was built by Citra Constructions Pty Limited on behalf of the New South Wales Department of Land and Water Conservation to supply water for irrigation and potable water for the towns of Quaama, Cobargo, and Bermagui. The dam supplies water to farmers along the Brogo and Bega rivers for stock and domestic use and irrigation on improved pastures for stock feed. Dairy farming is the main industry in the Bega Valley and the dam ens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bossiaea Milesiae
''Bossiaea milesiae'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of New South Wales. It is an erect shrub with flattened, winged cladodes, small, scale-like leaves, and pea-like yellow to apricot-coloured and red flowers. Description ''Bossiaea milesiae'' is an erect shrub that typically grows up to high with flattened cladodes up to wide, and that forms rhizomes. The leaves are reduced to coppery-brown scales, long. The flowers are borne on pedicels long and have four to eight scales up to long at the base. The five sepals are long and joined at the base forming a tube with lobes long, the two upper lobes about wide and the lower three lobes about wide. There are also bracteoles that fall off before the flower opens. The standard petal is deep yellow to apricot with a red base and long, the wings yellow with a red base and wide, and the keel red with a paler base and long. Flowering occurs from August to September and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Capital Territory
The Australian Capital Territory (commonly abbreviated as ACT), known as the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) until 1938, is a landlocked federal territory of Australia containing the national capital Canberra and some surrounding townships. It is located in southeastern Australian mainland as an enclave completely within the state of New South Wales. Founded after Federation as the seat of government for the new nation, the territory hosts the headquarters of all important institutions of the Australian Government. On 1 January 1901, federation of the colonies of Australia was achieved. Section 125 of the new Australian Constitution provided that land, situated in New South Wales and at least from Sydney, would be ceded to the new federal government. Following discussion and exploration of various areas within New South Wales, the ''Seat of Government Act 1908'' was passed in 1908 which specified a capital in the Yass-Canberra region. The territory was transferred to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bossiaea Grayi
''Pultenaea grayi'', commonly known as Murrumbidgee bossiaea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the Australian Capital Territory. It is an erect shrub with flattened, winged, glabrous cladodes, leaves reduced to small scales, and pea-like, yellow and red flowers. Description ''Bossiaea grayi'' is an erect, rhizome-forming shrub that typically grows to a height of up to . The flowers are borne on flattened, winged, more or less erect cladodes up to wide. The leaves are reduced to reddish-brown scales, long and pressed against the cladode. The flowers are borne singly at nodes on the cladode, each on a pedicel long with overlapping, dark brown bracts up to long, at the base. The five sepals are long and joined at the base forming a tube with more or less equal lobes long. There are also bracteoles but that fall off before the flower opens. The standard petal is deep yellow with a red base and long, the wings yellow with a red base and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abercrombie Caves
The Abercrombie Caves, contained within the Abercrombie Karst Conservation Reserve, are a series of limestone arch caves that are located in the Central West region of New South Wales, Australia. The caves are renowned for their karst qualities, namely the formation that has been eroded by water action that has developed from a sinkhole to become a blind valley. Several good examples of crayback formations exist in both entrances. The reserve is situated south of and north of , near the small village of . The caves are registered as a natural heritage site on the Register of the National Estate for its large diversity of karst morphological and sedimentological features. Camping in the reserve is permitted, with sixty campground sites and two cottages. The caves are open seven days a week during school holidays; and closed on Monday and Tuesday during school terms. Features The most popular feature of the Abercrombie Caves is ''The Archway'' the largest natural arch in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
