Cochlospermum Fraseri
''Cochlospermum fraseri'' is a tree in the family Bixaceae with common names cotton tree, kapok bush, and kapok tree. It is native to north western Australia (in Western Australia and the Northern Territory). Taxonomy French botanist Jules Émile Planchon described this species in 1847 from Melville Island off the north coast of Australia. Two subspecies are recognised: subspecies ''fraseri'', found mainly from Katherine to Melville Island, has smooth leaves and 2 mm-long bracts, and subspecies ''heteronemum'', from Katherine west to the Ord River, has finely furred leaves and 40–58 mm-long bracts. Description ''Cochlospermum fraseri'' is a deciduous tree or shrub which can grow to 7 m tall. It flowers from April to October (March to August), the inflorescence being a terminal panicle. The flower is asymmetric, having five sepals in two whorls, with the outer two sepals being shorter than the inner three. It has numerous stamens. The flowers often appear when the ...
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Jules Émile Planchon
Jules Émile Planchon (21 March 1823 – 1 April 1888) was a French botanist born in Ganges, Hérault. Biography After receiving his Doctorate of Science at the University of Montpellier in 1844, he worked for a while at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Royal Botanical Gardens in London, and for a few years was a teacher in Nancy, France, Nancy and Ghent. In 1853 he became head of the department of botanical sciences at the University of Montpellier, where he remained for the remainder of his career. Planchon was highly regarded in scientific circles, and made a number of contributions in his classification of botanical species and varieties. He is credited with publishing over 2000 botanical names, including ''Actinidia chinensis'', better known as the "golden kiwifruit". Planchon is remembered for his work in saving French grape vineyards from ''Phylloxera vastatrix'', a microscopic, yellow aphid-like pest that was an exotic species from the United States. He performed this ta ...
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Northern Kimberley
The Northern Kimberley, an interim Australian bioregion, is located in the northern Kimberley region of Western Australia,IBRA Version 6.1
data comprising . It is composed of two recognised sub-regions: Mitchell and Berkeley subregions.

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Cochlospermum
''Cochlospermum'' is a genus of trees in the Bixaceae family; some classifications place this genus in the family Cochlospermaceae. It is native to tropical regions of the world, particularly Latin America, Africa, the Indian Subcontinent, and Australia. Species Species include: #''Cochlospermum angolense'' Welw. ex Oliv. - Angola, Zaïre #'' Cochlospermum fraseri'' Planch. - Western Australia, Northern Territory #''Cochlospermum gillivraei'' Benth. - Northern Territory, Queensland, Papua New Guinea #'' Cochlospermum intermedium'' Mildbr - Central African Republic #'' Cochlospermum noldei'' Poppend. - Angola #''Cochlospermum orinocense'' (Kunth) Steud. - Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas, Brazil, Peru #''Cochlospermum planchonii'' Hook.f. ex Planch. - tropical Africa from Sierra Leone to Sudan #''Cochlospermum regium'' (Schrank) Pilg. - Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay #''Cochlospermum religiosum'' (L.) Alston - India, Sri Lanka, Western Himalayas, Myanmar; naturalized in Cam ...
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Department Of Parks And Wildlife (Western Australia)
The Department of Parks and Wildlife (DPaW) was the department of the Government of Western Australia responsible for managing lands described in the ''Conservation and Land Management Act 1984'' and implementing the state's conservation and environment legislation and regulations. The minister responsible for the department was the Minister for the Environment. History The Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) was separated on 30 June 2013, forming the Department of Parks and Wildlife (DPaW) and the Department of Environment Regulation (DER), both of which commenced operations on 1 July 2013. DPaW focused on managing multiple use state forests, national parks, marine parks and reserves. DER focused on environmental regulation, approvals and appeals processes, and pollution prevention. It was announced on 28 April 2017 that the Department of Parks and Wildlife would merge with the Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority, the Zoological Parks Authority and the Rott ...
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Jawoyn
The Jawoyn, also written Djauan, are an Australian Aboriginal people living in the Northern Territory of Australia. The Bagala clan are of the Jawoyn people. Language Jawoyn, known as Kumertuo, is a non- Pama–Nyungan language that belongs to the Macro-Gunwinyguan group of languages of Arnhem land. (It has recently been established that the Gunwinyguan and Pama-Nyungan languages are both branches of a proto- Macro-Pama–Nyungan language.) At one time, Kumertuo was a group of several closely related spoken dialects, but since resettlement in the post-war period, these dialects have been tending to converge into a single standardized language. Country . Historically, the land occupied by the Jawoyn, which Norman Tindale has estimated covered about , were in the Katherine Gorge area in the Northern Territory. The Jawoyn call this area ''Nitmiluk'', a name derived from the word ''nitmi'' (which refers to the cicada song that Nabilil the crocodile is said to have heard when h ...
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Great Sandy Desert
The Great Sandy Desert is an interim Australian bioregion,IBRA Version 6.1
data located in the northeast of straddling the and southern Kimberley regions and extending east into the . It is the second largest desert in Australia after the

Victoria Bonaparte
The Victoria Bonaparte, an interim Australian bioregion, is located in the Northern Territory and Western Australia,IBRA Version 6.1
data comprising . The bioregion draws its name from the Victoria River and the .

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Pine Creek (biogeographic Region)
The Pine Creek biogeographic region, an interim Australian bioregion, (abbreviation PCK) is located in the Northern Territory,IBRA Version 6.1
data and comprises . The bioregion draws its name from Pine Creek, and has the code PCK. There is just one subregion (PCK01, identical to the region.

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Ord Victoria Plain
The Ord Victoria Plain, an interim Australian bioregion, is located in the Northern Territory and Western Australia, comprising .IBRA Version 6.1
data The bioregion draws its name from the and the Victoria River.

Location and description

This is an area of large plains of dry grassland lying between the to the south and the wetter, greener grassland to the north towards the coast. Sandstone outcrops rise ...
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Gulf Fall And Uplands
The Gulf Fall and Uplands, an interim Australian bioregion, is located in the Northern Territory and Queensland,IBRA Version 6.1
data comprising . Described in IBRA5.1 as "undulating terrain with scattered low, steep hills on

Proterozoic

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Palaeozoic

sedimentary rocks, often overlain by lateritised Tertiary material; skeletal soils and shallow sands; Darwin box (''Eucalyptus tectifica'') and
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Australasian Virtual Herbarium
The ''Australasian Virtual Herbarium'' (AVH) is an online resource that allows access to plant specimen data held by various Australian and New Zealand herbaria. It is part of the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA), and was formed by the amalgamation of ''Australia's Virtual Herbarium'' and ''NZ Virtual Herbarium''. As of 12 August 2014, more than five million specimens of the 8 million and upwards specimens available from participating institutions have been databased. Uses This resource is used by academics, students, and anyone interested in research in botany in Australia or New Zealand, since each record tells all that is known about the specimen: where and when it was collected; by whom; its current identification together with the botanist who identified it; and information on habitat and associated species. ALA post processes the original herbarium data, giving further fields with respect to taxonomy and quality of the data. When interrogating individual specimen record ...
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Dampierland
Dampierland is an interim Australian bioregion in Western Australia.IBRA Version 6.1
data The region is also a distinct physiographic section of the larger Nullagine Platform province, which in turn is part of the larger West Australian Shield division. The bioregion is located in the West Kimberley area and incorporates the country that is adjacent to Broome, including the