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Caladenia Validinervia
''Caladenia validinervia'', commonly known as the Lake Muir spider orchid, is a species of orchid Endemism, endemic to the Southwest Australia, south-west of Western Australia. It has a single erect, hairy leaf and up to three greenish to creamy white flowers with red stripes on the sepals and petals. The flowers have relatively narrow sepals and petals and a relatively small Labellum (botany), labellum. It is a rare orchid only known from an area between Rocky Gully, Western Australia, Rocky Gully and Collie, Western Australia, Collie. Description ''Caladenia validinervia'' is a terrestrial, Perennial plant, perennial, deciduous, Herbaceous plant, herb with an underground tuber and which grows as solitary plants. It has a single erect leaf, 50–160 mm long, 3–6 mm wide and pale green with reddish-purple blotches near its base. Up to three greenish to creamy white flowers 50–80 mm across are borne on a stalk 120–210 mm high. The sepals and petals su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Phillip Brown
Andrew Phillip Brown (born 1951) is a conservation biologist and taxonomist at the Western Australian Department of Environment and Conservation. He is also curator of Orchidaceae and Myoporaceae Myoporaceae was a family of plants, found mostly in Australia, which included the following genera: * '' Diocirea'' * '' Eremophila'', also known as emu bush * ''Myoporum'', also known as Boobiala In the APG II system (continued in the APG III ... at the Western Australian Herbarium and a foundation member of the Australian Orchid Foundation and the Western Australia Native Orchid Study and Conservation Group. He is the author of more than 100 journal articles and seven books on the flora of Western Australia, including a field guide to the eremophilas of that state. References External links 20th-century Australian botanists Australian conservationists Australian taxonomists Orchidologists 1951 births Living people Botanists active in Australia Botany in Western ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |