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Bossiaea Tasmanica
''Bossiaea tasmanica'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Tasmania. It is a prostrate or low-lying shrub with spiny branches, elliptic to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, and yellow and red to pink flowers. Description ''Bossiaea tasmanica'' is a prostrate or low-lying shrub growing that typically grows to a height of about , its branches often ending in a spine. The leaves are elliptic to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide on a petiole about long with stipules long at the base. The flowers are borne leaf axils near the ends of branches, each flower up to long on a pedicel long. There is one or a few bracts about long at the base, and bracteoles long but that fall off as the flower opens. The five sepals are long and joined at the base forming a tube, the upper lobes long and wide, the lower lobes narrower. The standard petal is yellow with a red base and up to about long, the wings p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonard Rodway
Leonard Rodway (5 October 1853 – 9 March 1936) was an English-born Australian dentist and botanist. Early life Rodway was born in Torquay Devon, England, the thirteenth child of Henry Barron Rodway, a dentist and inventor of the Rodway life buoy, and his wife Elizabeth, ''née'' Allin. Leonard Rodway was educated in Birmingham and aboard the Thames Nautical Training College ship, ''Worcester'', obtaining double first-class certificates. He served for three years as a midshipman in the merchant service, but decided to follow his father into dentistry. He obtained the licentiateship of the Royal College of Surgeons, London in 1878.Elias, A. (1988). Rodway, Leonard (1853–1936). ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'', Vol. 11 MUP, p 436-437, 1988. Career Rodway emigrated to Australia and settled in Hobart, Tasmania. Rodway was registered under the first Tasmanian Dental Act 1884, but is mainly remembered for his interest in botany. In 1896 he was appointed honorary go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bossiaea Obcordata
''Bossiaea obcordata'', commonly known as spiny bossiaea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is an erect, rigid shrub with spiny branches, heart-shaped to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, and yellow and purplish-brown flowers. Description ''Bossiaea obcordata'' is an erect, rigid shrub that typically grows to a height of up to and has flattened branchlets that become spiny with age. The leaves are arranged alternately along the stems, broadly egg-shaped to heart-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, sometimes almost round, long and wide on a Petiole (botany), petiole long with narrow triangular stipules long at the base. The flowers are mostly long and arranged singly along the branches, each flower on a Pedicel (botany), pedicel up to long. The sepals are long with Bract#Bracteole, bracteoles up to long on the pedicel. The Papilionaceous flower#Corolla, standard peta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
