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Cryptandra Hispidula
''Cryptandra hispidula'', commonly known as rough cryptandra, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to South Australia. It is a small shrub with clustered, cylindrical leaves, and tube-shaped white flowers surrounded by leafy bracts. Description ''Cryptandra hispidula'' is a shrub that typically grows to a height of , its branchlets covered with star-shaped hairs and rough. The leaves are clustered and more or less needle-shaped, long and about wide with the edges rolled under, concealing the lower surface. The flowers are sessile, arranged in clusters of up to 8 at the ends of branches and are white, tube-shaped, long and surrounded by 4 or 5 hairy brown bracts about half as long as the floral tube. The sepals are long and silky-hairy, the style nearly as long as the floral tube. Flowering occurs in most months. Taxonomy ''Cryptandra hispidula'' was first formally described in 1858 by Siegfried Reissek and Ferdinand von Mueller in the jou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cox Scrub Conservation Park
Cox Scrub Conservation Park (formerly Cox's Scrub National Park) is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located in the gazetted localities of Ashbourne and Nangkita about south of the state capital of Adelaide. The conservation park consists of land in sections 1972 and 1979 to 1985 in the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Kondoparinga. On 5 March 1970, it was proclaimed under the ''National Parks Act 1966'' as ''Cox’s Scrub National Park''. On 27 April 1972, it was reconstituted as ''Cox Scrub Conservation Park'' upon the proclamation of the ''National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972''. As of 2018, it covered an area of . In 1980, the conservation park was described as follows:This park preserves an uncommon vegetation type for the Mount Lofty Ranges, the principal vegetation being a low ''Eucalyptus baxteri'' open forest over banksia scrub. This habitat supports a wide variety of bird species including the threatened scaly thrush and the beautiful firet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferdinand Von Mueller
Baron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller, (german: Müller; 30 June 1825 – 10 October 1896) was a German-Australian physician, geographer, and most notably, a botanist. He was appointed government botanist for the then colony of Victoria (Australia) by Governor Charles La Trobe in 1853, and later director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne. He also founded the National Herbarium of Victoria. He named many Australian plants. Early life Mueller was born at Rostock, in the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. After the early death of his parents, Frederick and Louisa, his grandparents gave him a good education in Tönning, Schleswig. Apprenticed to a chemist at the age of 15, he passed his pharmaceutical examinations and studied botany under Professor Ernst Ferdinand Nolte (1791–1875) at Kiel University. In 1847, he received his degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Kiel for a thesis on the plants of the southern regions of Schleswig. Mueller's sister Bertha had be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flora Of South Australia
Flora is all the plant life present in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring (indigenous) native plants. Sometimes bacteria and fungi are also referred to as flora, as in the terms '' gut flora'' or '' skin flora''. Etymology The word "flora" comes from the Latin name of Flora, the goddess of plants, flowers, and fertility in Roman mythology. The technical term "flora" is then derived from a metonymy of this goddess at the end of the sixteenth century. It was first used in poetry to denote the natural vegetation of an area, but soon also assumed the meaning of a work cataloguing such vegetation. Moreover, "Flora" was used to refer to the flowers of an artificial garden in the seventeenth century. The distinction between vegetation (the general appearance of a community) and flora (the taxonomic composition of a community) was first made by Jules Thurmann (1849). Prior to this, the two terms were used indiscriminately.Thurmann, J. (1849). ''Essai de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosales Of Australia
Rosales () is an order of flowering plants. Peter F. Stevens (2001 onwards). "Rosales". At: Trees At: Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. At: Missouri Botanical Garden Website. (see ''External links'' below) It is sister to a clade consisting of Fagales and Cucurbitales. It contains about 7,700 species, distributed into about 260 genera. Rosales comprise nine families, the type family being the rose family, Rosaceae. The largest of these families are Rosaceae (90/2500) and Urticaceae (54/2600). The order Rosales is divided into three clades that have never been assigned a taxonomic rank. The basal clade consists of the family Rosaceae; another clade consists of four families, including Rhamnaceae; and the third clade consists of the four urticalean families.Douglas E. Soltis, et alii. (28 authors). 2011. "Angiosperm Phylogeny: 17 genes, 640 taxa". ''American Journal of Botany'' 98(4):704-730. The order Rosales is strongly supported as monophyletic in phylogenetic analyses of DNA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cryptandra
''Cryptandra'' is a genus of flowering plants family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to Australia. Most plants in the genus ''Cryptandra'' are spiny, heath-like shrubs with small, clustered leaves and flowers crowded at the ends of branches, the flowers are usually small, surrounded by brown bracts, and with tube-shaped hypanthium, the petals hooded over the anthers. Taxonomy The genus ''Cryptandra'' was first formally described in 1798 by James Edward Smith (botanist), James Edward Smith in the ''Transactions of the Linnean Society of London''. The genus name means "hidden man", referring to the stamens. List of species The following is a list of species of ''Cryptandra'' accepted by the Australian Plant Census as at August 2022: * ''Cryptandra alpina'' Hook.f. (Tas.) * ''Cryptandra amara'' Sm. (Qld., N.S.W., A.C.T., Vic., Tas.) * ''Cryptandra apetala'' Alfred James Ewart, Ewart & Jean White-Haney, Jean White (W.A.) **''Cryptandra apetala'' var. ''anomala'' Barbara Lynette Rye, Rye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Lofty Ranges
The Mount Lofty Ranges are a range of mountains in the Australian state of South Australia which for a small part of its length borders the east of Adelaide. The part of the range in the vicinity of Adelaide is called the Adelaide Hills and defines the eastern border of the Adelaide Plains. Location and description The Mount Lofty Ranges stretch from the southernmost point of the Fleurieu Peninsula at Cape Jervis northwards for over before petering out north of Peterborough. In the vicinity of Adelaide, they separate the Adelaide Plains from the extensive plains that surround the Murray River and stretch eastwards to Victoria. The Heysen Trail traverses almost the entire length of the ranges, crossing westwards to the Flinders Ranges near Hallett. The mountains have a Mediterranean climate with moderate rainfall brought by south-westerly winds, hot summers and cool winters. The southern ranges are wetter (with of rain per year) than the northern ranges (). Southern rang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kangaroo Island
Kangaroo Island, also known as Karta Pintingga (literally 'Island of the Dead' in the language of the Kaurna people), is Australia's third-largest island, after Tasmania and Melville Island. It lies in the state of South Australia, southwest of Adelaide. Its closest point to the mainland is Snapper Point in Backstairs Passage, which is from the Fleurieu Peninsula. The native population of Aboriginal Australians that once occupied the island (sometimes referred to as the Kartan people) disappeared from the archaeological record sometime after the land became an island following the rising sea levels associated with the Last Glacial Period around 10,000 years ago. It was subsequently settled intermittently by sealers and whalers in the early 19th century, and from 1836 on a permanent basis during the British colonisation of South Australia. Since then the island's economy has been principally agricultural, with a southern rock lobster fishery and with tourism growing in impo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Botanical Name
A botanical name is a formal scientific name conforming to the '' International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants'' (ICN) and, if it concerns a plant cultigen, the additional cultivar or Group epithets must conform to the ''International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants'' (ICNCP). The code of nomenclature covers "all organisms traditionally treated as algae, fungi, or plants, whether fossil or non-fossil, including blue-green algae ( Cyanobacteria), chytrids, oomycetes, slime moulds and photosynthetic protists with their taxonomically related non-photosynthetic groups (but excluding Microsporidia)." The purpose of a formal name is to have a single name that is accepted and used worldwide for a particular plant or plant group. For example, the botanical name ''Bellis perennis'' denotes a plant species which is native to most of the countries of Europe and the Middle East, where it has accumulated various names in many languages. Later, the plant was intro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linnaea (jjournal)
''Linnaea'' is a plant genus in the honeysuckle family Caprifoliaceae. Until 2013, the genus included a single species, ''Linnaea borealis''. In 2013, on the basis of molecular phylogenetic evidence, the genus was expanded to include species formerly placed in ''Abelia'' (excluding section ''Zabelia''), ''Diabelia'', ''Dipelta'', ''Kolkwitzia'' and ''Vesalea''. However, this is rejected by the majority of subsequent scientific literature and flora. ''Linnaea borealis'' was a favorite of Carl Linnaeus, founder of the modern system of binomial nomenclature, for whom the genus was named. Taxonomy The genus ''Linnaea'' was first formally described by Carl Linnaeus. The name had been used earlier by the Dutch botanist Jan Frederik Gronovius, and was given in honour of Linnaeus. Linnaeus adopted the name in 1753 in ''Species Plantarum'' for the then sole species ''Linnaea borealis'', because it was his favourite plant. Most botanists resisted placing other species in the genus, tre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siegfried Reissek
Siegfried Reissek (11 April 1819 in Teschen – 9 November 1871 in Vienna) was an Austrian naturalist and botanist who specialized in spermatophytes. He is known for his studies involving plant anatomy and histology. From 1837 to 1841 he was a student at the University of Vienna. He worked as assistant curator at the Royal Botanical Collection in Vienna between 1845 and 1867, when he was appointed head curator; and from 1848 was a member of the Vienna Academy of Sciences. He circumscribed numerous plant taxa, including the genus ''Stenanthemum'' (family Rhamnaceae). The plant genus '' Reissekia'' from Brazil (in the family Rhamnaceae) commemorates his name. Publications * ''Über die selbständige Entwickelung der Pollenzelle zur keimtragenden Pflanze'', 1844 – On the self-development of the pollen cell in germinating plants. * ''Die Fasergewebe des Leines. des Hanfes, der Nessel und Baumwolle'', 1851 – The fibrous tissue of rope, hemp, nettle and cotton. * ''U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reissek
Siegfried Reissek (11 April 1819 in Cieszyn, Teschen – 9 November 1871 in Vienna) was an Austrian naturalist and botanist who specialized in spermatophytes. He is known for his studies involving plant anatomy and histology. From 1837 to 1841 he was a student at the University of Vienna. He worked as assistant curator at the Royal Botanical Collection in Vienna between 1845 and 1867, when he was appointed head curator; and from 1848 was a member of the Vienna Austrian Academy of Sciences, Academy of Sciences. He circumscribed numerous plant taxa, including the genus ''Stenanthemum'' (family Rhamnaceae). The plant genus ''Reissekia'' from Brazil (in the family Rhamnaceae) commemorates his name. Publications * ''Über die selbständige Entwickelung der Pollenzelle zur keimtragenden Pflanze'', 1844 – On the self-development of the pollen cell in germinating plants. * ''Die Fasergewebe des Leines. des Hanfes, der Nessel und Baumwolle'', 1851 – The fibrous tissue of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Style (botany)
The stigma () is the receptive tip of a carpel, or of several fused carpels, in the gynoecium of a flower. Description The stigma, together with the style and ovary (typically called the stigma-style-ovary system) comprises the pistil, which is part of the gynoecium or female reproductive organ of a plant. The stigma itself forms the distal portion of the style, or stylodia, and is composed of , the cells of which are receptive to pollen. These may be restricted to the apex of the style or, especially in wind pollinated species, cover a wide surface. The stigma receives pollen and it is on the stigma that the pollen grain germinates. Often sticky, the stigma is adapted in various ways to catch and trap pollen with various hairs, flaps, or sculpturings. The pollen may be captured from the air (wind-borne pollen, anemophily), from visiting insects or other animals ( biotic pollination), or in rare cases from surrounding water (hydrophily). Stigma can vary from long and slen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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