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Bursaria
''Bursaria'' is a genus of eight species of flowering plants in the family Pittosporaceae and is endemic to Australia. They are shrubs or slender trees, often with spiny branches and have simple leaves, relatively small flowers with five sepals, five petals and five stamens, and fruit that is a flattened, thin-walled capsule. Description Plants in the genus ''Bursaria'' range from low shrubs to small, slender trees and have branches that are often spiny. The leaves are arranged alternately along the branches or clustered and are linear to lance-shaped, egg-shaped or wedge-shaped, sometimes with toothed edges or a notched tip. The flowers are relatively small, arranged singly in racemes or panicles at the ends of branchlets or in leaf axils. There are five sepals that are free from each other, five narrow oblong, spreading white petals, and five stamens that are free from each other. The fruit is a flattened, thin-walled capsule containing ten to fifty kidney-shaped seeds. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bursaria Spinosa
''Bursaria spinosa'' is a small tree or shrub in the family Pittosporaceae. The species occurs mainly in the eastern and southern half of Australia and not in Western Australia and the Northern Territory. Reaching 10 m (35 ft) high, it bears fragrant white flowers at any time of year but particularly in summer. A common understorey shrub of eucalyptus woodland, it colonises disturbed areas and fallow farmland. It is an important food plant for several species of butterflies and moths, particularly those of the genus '' Paralucia'', and native bees. Description ''Bursaria spinosa'' has a variable habit, and can grow anywhere from 1 to 12 m high. The dark grey bark is furrowed. The smooth branches are sometimes armed with thorns, and the leaves are arranged alternately along the stems or clustered around the nodes and have a pine-like fragrance when bruised. Linear to oval or wedge-shaped (ovate, obovate or cuneate), they are 2–4.3 cm long and 0.3–1.2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bursaria Incana
''Bursaria incana'', commonly known as prickly pine, box thorn, native box, native olive and mock orange, is a species of flowering plant in the family Pittosporaceae and is endemic to northern Australia. It is a tall shrub or small, sparse tree with softly-hairy foliage, heart-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, leafy groups of white flowers with five spreading sepals, five spreading petals, and flattened fruit. Description ''Bursaria incana'' is a tall shrub or sparse tree that typically grows to a height of , its foliage mostly softly-hairy and the young branchlets spiny. Its adult leaves are heart-shaped to lance-shaped or egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long, wide on a petiole less than long. The flowers are arranged in leafy groups, each flower on a pedicel less than long. The five sepals are long and free from each other, the five petals white, spreading from the base, long. The five stamens are free from each other and the pis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bursaria Occidentalis
''Bursaria occidentalis'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Pittosporaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is a spiny tree or shrub with egg-shaped adult leaves, flowers with relatively small, hairy sepals and five spreading creamy-white petals, and inflated capsules. Description ''Bursaria occidentalis'' is a tree that typically grows to a height of , sometimes a shrub to , and usually only has spiny branches when young. The adult leaves are egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, hairy on the lower surface, long and wide on a petiole long. The plants have both andromonoecious and bisexual flowers borne in groups on the ends of branchlets, each flower on a pedicel long. The sepals are hairy, less than long and spread from their bases and the petals are creamy-white, long and also spread from their bases. Flowering occurs from August to December and the fruit is an inflated capsule long and wide containing winged, brown seeds. Taxonomy '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bursaria Longisepala
''Bursaria longisepala'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Pittosporaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is a spiny, sprawling shrub with narrowly elliptic leaves clustered around spiny side-shoots, flowers with relatively large sepals, five spreading white petals and five stamens, and concave fruit. Description ''Bursaria longisepala'' is a spiny, sprawling shrub that typically grows to a height of less than , some stands retaining juvenile characteristics. Young plants have clustered, thin, more or less sessile elliptic leaves long and wide with toothed edges. Adult plants have sessile, dark green, narrowly elliptic leaves long and wide clustered around spiny side-shoots. The flowers are arranged singly, in pairs or in small groups at the ends of branchlets, each flower on a pedicel long. The sepals are larger in this species than in others of the genus, green or cream-coloured, long, free from each other and spreading from the base. The five petals ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bursaria Cayzerae
''Bursaria cayzerae'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Pittosporaceae and is endemic to the North Coast of New South Wales. It is a sparsely-branched shrub with spiny branches, narrowly elliptic leaves, flowers with five glabrous sepals, spreading white petals and five stamens, and flattened fruit. Description ''Bursaria cayzerae'' is a spiny, sparsely-branched shrub that typically grows to a height of up to , its foliage covered with woolly hairs. Its adult leaves are narrowly elliptic to lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long, wide on a petiole about long. The flowers are usually arranged singly in leaf axils, sometimes in groups of up to five, each flower on a hairy pedicel long. The sepals are lance-shaped, long, glabrous and free from each other. The five petals are white and spread from the base, long. The five stamens are white and free from each other, the filaments long, and the pistil is glabrous. Flowering occurs in late sprin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bursaria Calcicola
''Bursaria calcicola'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Pittosporaceae and is endemic to a restricted area near Wombeyan Caves in New South Wales. It is a spiny, hairy, erect or sprawling shrub with clustered, narrowly elliptic to egg-shaped leaves, white flowers with triangular sepals, cream-coloured petals and flattened fruit. Description ''Bursaria calcicola'' is an erect or sprawling shrub than typically grows to a height of less than , its foliage covered with hairs flattened against the surface and its branches armed with spines. The leaves are clustered, sessile, egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, about long, wide and toothed on the edges near the ends. The flowers are white arranged in groups on the ends of branches, sometimes on short side shoots, each flower on a pedicel with five distinctive, triangular sepals long and free from each other. The five petals spread from the base, are cream-coloured and long. The five stamens are free fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bursaria Tenuifolia
''Bursaria tenuifolia'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Pittosporaceae and is endemic to north-eastern Queensland. It is a shrub or spindly tree with elliptic to rhombic adult leaves, spiny foliage when young, flowers with five whitish petals, and slightly flattened, papery fruit. Description ''Bursaria tenuifolia'' is a shrub or spindly tree that typically grows to a height of up to and has smooth, mottled bark. The young growth is armed with spines, the edges of leaves with teeth or lobes. Adult stages have few spines, the leaves elliptic to more or less rhombic, long and wide on a petiole long. There are both andromonoecious and bisexual flowers, the bisexual flowers on pedicels long. The sepals are long and spread from the base and the five petals are white, long and also spread from the base. Flowering mostly occurs from April to July and the fruit is a slightly flattened, papery capsule long and wide. Taxonomy ''Bursaria tenuifolia'' was first forma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bursaria Reevesii
''Bursaria reevesii'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Pittosporaceae and is endemic to a few places near Marlborough in Queensland. It is an erect or sprawling shrub with spiny side-shoots, egg-shaped adult leaves with the narrower end towards the base, flowers with five white petals, and rounded fruit. Description ''Bursaria reevesii'' is an erect or sprawling, multi-stemmed shrub that typically grows to a height of up to , its young side-shoots armed with spines. New growth has elliptic leaves clustered around the spiny side-shoots, the edges of the leaves toothed. Adult growth has fewer spines and egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide on a petiole long. The flowers are white and arranged in small groups, each flower on a pedicel long with paired bracts at the base. The sepals are long and spread from the base and the five petals are white, long and also spread from the base. Flowering mostly occurs in April and May and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pittosporaceae
Pittosporaceae is a family of flowering plants that consists of 200–240 species of trees, shrubs, and lianas in 9 genera. Habitats range from tropical to temperate climates of the Afrotropical, Indomalayan, Oceanian, and Australasian realms. The type genus is ''Pittosporum'' Banks ex Gaertn. Description Pittosporaceae are dioecious trees, shrubs, or twining vines, with leaves having pinnate venation, no stipules, and margins that are smooth. Ovaries are superior, often with parietal placentation. The style is undivided and straight, and the stigma is often lobed. The fruit is a capsule or berry with the calyx being shed from the fruit. The seeds are surrounded by sticky pulp that comes from secretions of the placental hairs. The flowers have equal numbers of sepals, petals and stamens.Stevens, P.F. (2001 onwards) Pittosporaceae at 'Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 12, July 2012 nd more or less continuously updated since.' Available at http://www.mobot.org/mobot/research/ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apiales Of Australia
The Apiales are an order of flowering plants. The families are those recognized in the APG III system. This is typical of the newer classifications, though there is some slight variation and in particular, the Torriceliaceae may also be divided. Under this definition, well-known members include carrots, celery, parsley, and ''Hedera helix'' (English ivy). The order Apiales is placed within the asterid group of eudicots as circumscribed by the APG III system. Within the asterids, Apiales belongs to an unranked group called the campanulids, and within the campanulids, it belongs to a clade known in phylogenetic nomenclature as Apiidae. In 2010, a subclade of Apiidae named Dipsapiidae was defined to consist of the three orders: Apiales, Paracryphiales, and Dipsacales. Taxonomy Under the Cronquist system, only the Apiaceae and Araliaceae were included here, and the restricted order was placed among the rosids rather than the asterids. The Pittosporaceae were placed within ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Territory
The Northern Territory (commonly abbreviated as NT; formally the Northern Territory of Australia) is an Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory shares its borders with Western Australia to the west ( 129th meridian east), South Australia to the south ( 26th parallel south), and Queensland to the east ( 138th meridian east). To the north, the territory looks out to the Timor Sea, the Arafura Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria, including Western New Guinea and other islands of the Indonesian archipelago. The NT covers , making it the third-largest Australian federal division, and the 11th-largest country subdivision in the world. It is sparsely populated, with a population of only 249,000 – fewer than half as many people as in Tasmania. The largest population center is the capital city of Darwin. The archaeological history of the Northern Territory may have begun more than 60,000 years ago when humans first sett ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eleanor Marion Bennett
Eleanor Marion Bennett (born 4 February 1942) (née Scrymgeour) is an Australian botanist who was employed by the Western Australian Herbarium from 1965 to 1970. She collected ''Eucalyptus'' species in the south-west of Western Australia and published a revision of the genus ''Hybanthus ''Hybanthus'' (green-violet) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Violaceae. This genus name is Greek for "humpback flower", referring to the drooping pedicels of plants that are part of this genus. The genus is grossly polyphyletic ...'' in 1972. She is the author of two books: ''Bushland Plants of Kings Park, Western Australia'' and ''Common and aboriginal names of Western Australian plant species''. Bennett was also one of the authors of ''Flora of the Perth region.'' References 1942 births 20th-century Australian botanists Botanists active in Australia Botanists with author abbreviations Women botanists 20th-century Australian women scientists Living people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
