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Cassinia Sifton
''Cassinia sifton'', commonly known as sifton bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia and an introduced species in other places. It is a multi-stemmed shrub with linear leaves, and more or less conical heads of 50 to 200 deep red to pale brown flowers. It is sometimes confused with '' Cassinia arcuata'' and authorities differ on its distribution. Description ''Cassinia sifton'' is an erect, aromatic, multi-stemmed shrub that typically grows to a height of , its branchlets with a few cottony hairs. The leaves are linear, mostly long and wide with the edges rolled under so that the leaves appear needle-shaped. Between fifty and two hundred heads are arranged in more or less conical groups, each head long, greenish-white at first, later red to brown. Flowering mostly occurs from February to April and the achenes are long with a pappus of bristles about long. Taxonomy and naming ''Cassinia sifton'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warrandyte, Victoria
Warrandyte is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 24 km north-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Manningham local government area. Warrandyte recorded a population of 5,541 at the . Warrandyte is bounded in the west by the Mullum Mullum Creek and Target Road, in the north by the Yarra River, in the east by Jumping Creek and Anzac Road, and in the south by an irregular line from Reynolds Road, north of Donvale, Park Orchards and Warrandyte South. Warrandyte was founded as a Victorian town, located in the once gold-rich rolling hills east of Melbourne, and is now on the north-eastern boundary of suburban Melbourne. Gold was first discovered in the town in 1851 and together, with towns like Bendigo and Ballarat, led the way in gold discoveries during the Victorian gold rush. Today Warrandyte retains much of its past in its surviving buildings of the Colonial period and remains a twin community with North Warrandyte, which b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Edward Orchard
Anthony Orchard (born 22 May 1946) is a retired botanist who worked at the State Herbarium of South Australia. His main interests were the study of the genera Rosaceae, Haloragaceae, Asteraceae and Rubiaceae. Anthony (Tony) Orchard is a systematic botanist who, prior to his retirement, collected widely across Australia and New Zealand. Most of the specimens are in the Adelaide and Hobart herbaria. He had editorial and executive roles related to the publication of the Flora of Australia and the Australian Plant Census The Australian Plant Census (APC) provides an online interface to currently accepted, published, scientific names of the vascular flora of Australia, as one of the output interfaces of the national government Integrated Biodiversity Information Syst .... Standard author abbreviation References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Orchard, Anthony 1946 births Living people Botanists active in Australia 20th-century Australian botanists 21st-century Australian bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Behr
Behr is a given name and surname that derives from the German ''Bär'' (''bear''). Older forms of the name, ''Bela'' and ''Belo'' (related to the old High German ''Belo''), occur in the Memorbuch. The diminutive forms ''Baeril'' ''(Berel)'' and ''Baerush'' ''(Berush)'' are used among Polish and Russian Jews. An additional origin of the name is from Middle Dutch ''baer'' meaning ''naked'' or ''bare'', possibly indicating someone who wore rags. Given name * Behr Perlhefter (1650–1713), Jewish scholar and rabbi Surname * Barbara Behr, photographer, film director and magazine editor * Bernd Behr (born 1976), German artist * Bill Behr (1919–1997), American professional basketball player * Bram Behr (1951–1982), Surinamese journalist * Carel Jacobus Behr (1812–1895), Dutch painter, watercolorist and draftsman * Carl Behr (1874–1943), German ophthalmologist * Carlos Boloña Behr (1950–2018), Peruvian politician * Christoph Behr (born 1989), German footballer * Dani Behr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sond (1812–1881), German botanist
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Sond may refer to: * Sensor (aka detector or probe) *SOND, abbreviation for Strengthening Our Nation's Democracy, movement motivated by the 1984 book, '' Strong Democracy'' * Tarunpreet Singh Sond (fl. 2020s), Indian politician *Praveen Sond, actress in " Nest of Angels", a 2003 episode of the TV series ''Spooks'' *''Sond.'', taxonomic author abbreviation of Otto Wilhelm Sonder Otto Wilhelm Sonder (18 June 1812, Bad Oldesloe – 21 November 1881) was a German botanist and pharmacist. Life A native of Holstein, Sonder studied at Kiel University, where he sat pharmaceutical examinations in 1835, before becoming the pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asteraceae
The family Asteraceae, alternatively Compositae, consists of over 32,000 known species of flowering plants in over 1,900 genera within the order Asterales. Commonly referred to as the aster, daisy, composite, or sunflower family, Compositae were first described in the year 1740. The number of species in Asteraceae is rivaled only by the Orchidaceae, and which is the larger family is unclear as the quantity of extant species in each family is unknown. Most species of Asteraceae are annual, biennial, or perennial herbaceous plants, but there are also shrubs, vines, and trees. The family has a widespread distribution, from subpolar to tropical regions in a wide variety of habitats. Most occur in hot desert and cold or hot semi-desert climates, and they are found on every continent but Antarctica. The primary common characteristic is the existence of sometimes hundreds of tiny individual florets which are held together by protective involucres in flower heads, or more technicall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere. For example, the Cape sugarbird is found exclusively in southwestern South Africa and is therefore said to be ''endemic'' to that particular part of the world. An endemic species can be also be referred to as an ''endemism'' or in scientific literature as an ''endemite''. For example '' Cytisus aeolicus'' is an endemite of the Italian flora. '' Adzharia renschi'' was once believed to be an endemite of the Caucasus, but it was later discovered to be a non-indigenous species from South America belonging to a different genus. The extreme opposite of an endemic species is one with a cosmopolitan distribution, having a global or widespread range. A rare alternative term for a species that is endemic is "precinctive", which applies to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cassinia Arcuata
''Cassinia arcuata'', commonly known as drooping cassinia, biddy bush, Chinese scrub, sifton bush and Chinese shrub, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to Australia. It is a shrub, sometimes a small tree with sessile, linear leaves, and heads of up to two hundred brownish flowers arranged in pyramid-shaped panicles. In New South Wales, the species is known as '' Cassinia sifton''. In disturbed areas, ''C. arcuata'' can become weedy. Description ''Cassinia arcuata'' is a densely-branched, erect shrub or small tree that typically grows to a height of but sometimes to , with densely cottony-hairy branches and sometimes a curry-like aroma. The leaves are linear, long and wide with the edges rolled under. Up to two hundred heads are arranged in pyramid-shaped panicles long with involucral bracts about long in four whorls around each of two or three brownish florets. Flowering mostly occurs from January to May and the achenes are long with a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cassinia Sifton Habit
''Cassinia'' is a genus of about fifty-two species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae that are native to Australia and New Zealand. Plants in the genus ''Cassinia'' are shrubs, sometimes small trees with leaves arranged alternately, and heads of white, cream-coloured, yellow or pinkish flowers surrounded by several rows of bracts. Description Plants in the genus ''Cassinia'' are shrubs or small trees, sometimes with sticky foliage. The leaves are arranged alternately, the edges flat to strongly rolled under, and the flowers white to cream-coloured, yellow or pinkish, arranged in heads, the heads in cylindrical, top-shaped or bell-shaped corymbs. The heads are surrounded by several rows of usually erect, boat-shaped bracts. The florets are bisexual and cylindrical with five lobes and the cypselas are small and usually have a pappus of bristles. Taxonomy The genus ''Cassinia'' was first formally described in 1817 by Robert Brown in his book ''Observations on the Na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pappus (botany)
In Asteraceae, the pappus is the modified calyx, the part of an individual floret, that surrounds the base of the corolla tube in flower. It functions as a wind-dispersal mechanism for the seeds. The term is sometimes used for similar structures in other plant families e.g. in certain genera of the Apocynaceae, although the pappus in Apocynaceae is not derived from the calyx of the flower. In Asteraceae, the pappus may be composed of bristles (sometimes feathery), awns, scales, or may be absent, and in some species, is too small to see without magnification. In genera such as ''Taraxacum'' or ''Eupatorium'', feathery bristles of the pappus function as a "parachute" which enables the seed to be carried by the wind. The name derives from the Ancient Greek word ''pappos'', Latin ''pappus'', meaning "old man", so used for a plant (assumed to be an ''Erigeron'' species) having bristles and also for the woolly, hairy seed of certain plants. The pappus of the dandelion plays a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Systematic Botany
''Australian Systematic Botany'' is an international peer-reviewed scientific journal published by CSIRO Publishing. It is devoted to publishing original research, and sometimes review articles, on topics related to systematic botany, such as biogeography, taxonomy and evolution. The journal is broad in scope, covering all plant, algal and fungal groups, including fossils. First published in 1978 as ''Brunonia'', the journal adopted its current name in 1988. The current editor-in-chief is Daniel Murphy ( Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne). Abstracting and indexing The journal is abstracted and indexed in BIOSIS, CAB Abstracts, Current Contents (Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences), Elsevier BIOBASE, Kew Index, Science Citation Index and Scopus. Impact factor According to the ''Journal Citation Reports'', the journal has a 2015 impact factor of 0.648. References External links * Australian Systematic Botanyat SCImago Journal Rank Australian Systematic Botan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stockinbingal
Stockinbingal is a town in the South West Slopes and Riverina regions of New South Wales, Australia. The town is in the Cootamundra–Gundagai Regional Council local government area and on the Burley Griffin Way. At the , Stockinbingal had a population of 374. Stockinbingal Post Office opened on 16 May 1891. Railways It is the location of a railway junction connecting the Cootamundra to Lake Cargelligo railway line (completed to Stockinbingal in 1893) to Parkes, which provides an alternative route from Sydney to Parkes to the route over the Blue Mountains, avoiding that route's steep grades and is now as a result the major route for freight between Sydney and Perth. The route from Cootamundra to Stockinbingal and Parkes is also part of a rail bypass of Sydney for traffic between Melbourne and Brisbane via Dubbo, Werris Creek and Maitland. Yeo Yeo Stockinbingal is the closest town to the Yeo Yeo district, where the Bradman family had a farm and Don Bradman lived ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pioneer Species
Pioneer species are hardy species that are the first to colonize barren environments or previously biodiverse steady-state ecosystems that have been disrupted, such as by wildfire. Pioneer flora Some lichens grow on rocks without soil, so may be among the first of life forms, and break down the rocks into soil for plants.LICHEN BIOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT, LICHENS OF NORTH AMERICA, Sylvia and Stephen Sharnoff/ref> Since some uninhabited land may have thin, poor quality soils with few nutrients, pioneer species are often hardy plants with adaptations such as long roots, root nodes containing Diazotroph, nitrogen-fixing bacteria, and leaves that employ transpiration. Note that they are often photosynthetic plants, as no other source of energy (such as other species) except light energy is often available in the early stages of succession, thus making it less likely for a pioneer species to be non-photosynthetic. The plants that are often pioneer species also tend to be wind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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