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Sprengelia
''Sprengelia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. Plants in the genus ''Sprengelia'' are slender, erect or low-lying shrubs with overlapping, stem-clasping leaves, many bracts at the base of the flowers, the sepals egg-shaped, white or coloured, the five petals with spreading lobes, and the fruit a capsule. The genus ''Sprengelia'' was first formally described in 1794 by James Edward Smith in the journal ''Kongliga Vetenskaps Academiens Nya Handlingar'', later published in translation in ''Tracts relating to natural history''. The first species described was '' Sprengelia incarnata''. The genus name honours the German botanist Christian Konrad Sprengel. The names of seven species are accepted by 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 gove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sprengelia
''Sprengelia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. Plants in the genus ''Sprengelia'' are slender, erect or low-lying shrubs with overlapping, stem-clasping leaves, many bracts at the base of the flowers, the sepals egg-shaped, white or coloured, the five petals with spreading lobes, and the fruit a capsule. The genus ''Sprengelia'' was first formally described in 1794 by James Edward Smith in the journal ''Kongliga Vetenskaps Academiens Nya Handlingar'', later published in translation in ''Tracts relating to natural history''. The first species described was '' Sprengelia incarnata''. The genus name honours the German botanist Christian Konrad Sprengel. The names of seven species are accepted by 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 gove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sprengelia Incarnata
''Sprengelia incarnata'', commonly referred to as pink swamp-heath, is a species of flowering plant of the family Ericaceae, and is native to south-eastern Australia and New Zealand. It is an erect, glabrous shrub with sharply-pointed, stem-clasping, egg-shaped leaves, and clusters of pink, tube-shaped flowers with spreading lobes. Description ''Sprengelia incarnata'' is an erect, glabrous shrub that typically grows to a height of , and has reddish-brown to red stems. The leaves are egg-shaped to lance-shaped, long and wide, with a stem-clasping base and a sharp point long on the tip. The flowers are borne in clusters of 3 to 20 in spikes long near the ends of stems, with bracts and bracteoles long at the base. The sepals are usually pink, narrowly triangular to lance-shaped and long and the petals are usually pink, joined at the base to form a tube long with spreading, narrowly triangular lobes long. Flowering mainly occurs from June to October or December and the fruit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sprengelia Propinqua
''Sprengelia propinqua'' is a species of flowering plant of the family Ericaceae, and is endemic to Tasmania. It is an erect, robust shrub with overlapping, stem-clasping, egg-shaped leaves, and white flowers crowded in upper leaf axils. Description ''Sprengelia propinqua'' is a shrub that typically grows to a height of up to . Its leaves overlap each other, have a stem-clasping base, and are egg-shaped, long and wide, crowded near the ends of branches. The flowers are crowded near the ends of branches, with egg-shaped bracts long and wide at the base. The sepals are narrowly lance-shaped, long and the petals are white, joined at the base to form a tube long with narrowly lance-shaped lobes long. Flowering occurs from November to January. Taxonomy ''Sprengelia propinqua'' was first formally described in 1839 by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle in his ''Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis'' from an unpublished description by Allan Cunningham of plants he collected ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sprengelia Monticola
''Sprengelia monticola'', commonly known as rock sprengelia, is a species of flowering plant of the family Ericaceae, and is endemic to the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Blue Mountains in eastern New South Wales. It is an open or low-lying shrub with egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves, and white flowers arranged singly in leaf axils. Description ''Sprengelia monticola'' is an open or low-lying, wikt:glabrous, glabrous shrub that typically grows to a height of . The leaves are egg-shaped to lance-shaped, long and wide with a small point on the end. The flowers are arranged singly in leaf axils, with tapering, egg-shaped bracts at the base. The sepals are triangular to egg-shaped, about long and the petals white, sometimes joined at the base to form a tube long with lobes long. Flowering occurs from September to December and the fruit is a Capsule (fruit), capsule about in diameter. Taxonomy This species was first formally described in 1839 by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sprengelia Sprengelioides
''Sprengelia sprengelioides'' is a species of flowering plant of the family Ericaceae, and is endemic to near-coastal areas of eastern Australia. It is an erect shrub with egg-shaped leaves, and white flowers arranged singly in leaf axils. Description ''Sprengelia sprengelioides'' is an erect, glabrous shrub that typically grows to a height of and has wiry stems. The leaves are egg-shaped, long and wide with a small point on the end and minute teeth on the edges. The flowers are arranged singly in leaf axils, with egg-shaped bracts long at the base. The sepals are broad, green, egg-shaped, and long. The petals white, joined at the base to form a tube long with lobes long. Flowering occurs from June to September and the fruit is a capsule about in diameter. Taxonomy This species was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown who gave it the name ''Ponceletia sprengelioides'' in his ''Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen''. In 1917, George Claridg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sprengelia Montana
''Sprengelia montana'' is a species of flowering plant of the family Ericaceae, and is endemic to Tasmania. It is a small, erect shrub with overlapping, stem-clasping, egg-shaped leaves, and pink flowers, sometimes in groups of up to 10 on the ends of branches. Description ''Sprengelia montana'' is a shrub that typically grows to a height of up to , often in or around alpine cushion plants. The leaves overlap each other, have a stem-clasping base, and are thick, egg-shaped, long and wide. The flowers are arranged singly, in pairs or groups of up to 10 in crowded heads on the ends of branches, with egg-shaped bracts at the base. The sepals are narrowly lance-shaped, long and the petals are pink, joined at the base to form a tube long with lance-shaped lobes long. Flowering occurs from November to January. This species is similar to ''Sprengelia incarnata'', but has spreading anthers, unlike those of ''S. incarnata''. Taxonomy ''Sprengelia montana'' was first formally describe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sprengelia Distichophylla
''Sprengelia distichophylla'' is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to Tasmania. It is a tufted shrub that typically grows to a height of with leaves about long, arranged in two closely overlapping rows, with the bases sheathing the stem. The flowers are arranged singly in leaf axils and are white, about long and bell-shaped. Flowering occurs in summer. This species was first formally described in 1903 by Leonard Rodway who gave it the name ''Sprengelia incarnata'' var. ''distichophylla'' in ''The Tasmanian Flora''. In 1963, Winifred Curtis raised the variety to species status as ''Sprengelia distichophylla'' in ''The Student's Flora of Tasmania''. The specific epithet In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ... (''distichophylla'') ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sprengelia Minima
''Sprengelia minima'' is a species of flowering plant of the family Ericaceae, and is endemic to Tasmania. It is a small shrub usually growing in alpine cushion plants and has many branches, overlapping, stem-clasping, sharply-pointed leaves, and white, tube-shaped flowers arranged singly on the ends of branches. Description ''Sprengelia minima'' is a small shrub that usually grows in alpine cushion plants, sometimes with prostrate branchlets on their surface, and has many branches. The leaves overlap each other and have a stem-sheathing base, tapering to a sharply-pointed tip, long and wide. The flowers are arranged singly, mainly on the ends of branches, with leaf-like bracts at the base. The sepals are broadly lance-shaped, long and the petals are white, joined at the base to form a tube about long with lobes long. Flowering occurs from December to January and the fruit is a capsule. Taxonomy ''Sprengelia minima'' was first formally described in 2013 by R.K. Crowden in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Konrad Sprengel
Christian Konrad Sprengel (22 September 1750 – 7 April 1816) was a German naturalist, theologist, and teacher. He is most famous for his research on plant sexuality. Sprengel was the first to recognize that the function of flowers was to attract insects, and that nature favoured cross-pollination. Along with the work of Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter he set the foundations for the modern study of floral biology and anthecology, but his work was not widely recognized until Charles Darwin examined and confirmed several of his observations almost 50 years later; see Fertilisation of Orchids (1862). Life Sprengel was born in Brandenburg an der Havel in the Margraviate of Brandenburg. He was the 15th and the last son of a preacher Ernst Victor Sprengel and his second wife Dorothea Gnadenreich Schaeffer (died 1778). Ernst Victor's father had been an organist and he himself was a choir-master, teacher and later archdeacon. Christian Konrad was expected to continue the traditional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 System (IBIS – an Oracle Co. relational database management system). The Australian National Herbarium, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Australian Biological Resources Study and the Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria coordinate the system. The Australian Plant Census interface provides the currently accepted scientific names, their synonyms, illegitimate, misapplied and excluded names, as well as state distribution data. Each item of output hyperlinks to other online interfaces of the information system, including the Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) and the Australian Plant Image Index (APII). The outputs of the Australian Plant Census interface provide information on all native and naturalised vascular plant taxa of Australi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capsule (botany)
In botany a capsule is a type of simple, dry, though rarely fleshy dehiscent fruit produced by many species of angiosperms (flowering plants). Origins and structure The capsule (Latin: ''capsula'', small box) is derived from a compound (multicarpeled) ovary. A capsule is a structure composed of two or more carpels. In (flowering plants), the term locule (or cell) is used to refer to a chamber within the fruit. Depending on the number of locules in the ovary, fruit can be classified as uni-locular (unilocular), bi-locular, tri-locular or multi-locular. The number of locules present in a gynoecium may be equal to or less than the number of carpels. The locules contain the ovules or seeds and are separated by septa. Dehiscence In most cases the capsule is dehiscent, i.e. at maturity, it splits apart (dehisces) to release the seeds within. A few capsules are indehiscent, for example those of ''Adansonia digitata'', ''Alphitonia'', and '' Merciera''. Capsules are often classifie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Edward Smith (botanist)
__NOTOC__ Sir James Edward Smith (2 December 1759 – 17 March 1828) was an English botanist and founder of the Linnean Society. Early life and education Smith was born in Norwich in 1759, the son of a wealthy wool merchant. He displayed a precocious interest in the natural world. During the early 1780s he enrolled in the medical course at the University of Edinburgh where he studied chemistry under Joseph Black and natural history under John Walker. He then moved to London in 1783 to continue his studies. Smith was a friend of Sir Joseph Banks, who was offered the entire collection of books, manuscripts and specimens of the Swedish natural historian and botanist Carl Linnaeus following the death of his son Carolus Linnaeus the Younger. Banks declined the purchase, but Smith bought the collection for the bargain price of £1,000. The collection arrived in London in 1784, and in 1785 Smith was elected Fellow of the Royal Society. Academic career Between 1786 and 1788 Smit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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