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Stirlingia
''Stirlingia'', commonly known as blueboy, is a genus of 7 species in the family Proteaceae, all of which are endemic to Western Australia. Description ''Stirlingia'' grows as a shrub or herb arising from a perennial tap root or woody root stock; the herbaceous nature of some species is unique to ''Stirlingia'' among the Proteaceae. They grow to heights ranging from 10 centimetres to 1.5 metres. Leaves are soft and leathery, and bifurcated along their length. They occur mostly on lower parts of the stems. Flowers occur in inflorescences that are either heads or very short spikes. Taxonomy The genus was first published by Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773), Robert Brown in 1810, under the name ''Simsia''. Brown initially published two species, ''Simsia anethifolia'' and ''Simsia tenuifolia'', adding a third, ''Simsia latifolia'' in 1830. It was later discovered that Brown's generic name was illegal, as the name ''Simsia'' had already been published in 1807 by Christian Hendrik Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stirlingia Teretifolia
''Stirlingia'', commonly known as blueboy, is a genus of 7 species in the family Proteaceae, all of which are endemic to Western Australia. Description ''Stirlingia'' grows as a shrub or herb arising from a perennial tap root or woody root stock; the herbaceous nature of some species is unique to ''Stirlingia'' among the Proteaceae. They grow to heights ranging from 10 centimetres to 1.5 metres. Leaves are soft and leathery, and bifurcated along their length. They occur mostly on lower parts of the stems. Flowers occur in inflorescences that are either heads or very short spikes. Taxonomy The genus was first published by Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773), Robert Brown in 1810, under the name ''Simsia''. Brown initially published two species, ''Simsia anethifolia'' and ''Simsia tenuifolia'', adding a third, ''Simsia latifolia'' in 1830. It was later discovered that Brown's generic name was illegal, as the name ''Simsia'' had already been published in 1807 by Christian Hendrik Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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''Stirlingia'', commonly known as blueboy, is a genus of 7 species in the family Proteaceae, all of which are endemic to Western Australia. Description ''Stirlingia'' grows as a shrub or herb arising from a perennial tap root or woody root stock; the herbaceous nature of some species is unique to ''Stirlingia'' among the Proteaceae. They grow to heights ranging from 10 centimetres to 1.5 metres. Leaves are soft and leathery, and bifurcated along their length. They occur mostly on lower parts of the stems. Flowers occur in inflorescences that are either heads or very short spikes. Taxonomy The genus was first published by Robert Brown in 1810, under the name ''Simsia''. Brown initially published two species, ''Simsia anethifolia'' and ''Simsia tenuifolia'', adding a third, ''Simsia latifolia'' in 1830. It was later discovered that Brown's generic name was illegal, as the name '' Simsia'' had already been published in 1807 by Christian Hendrik Persoon. Therefore, in 1838 Stephan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stirlingia Latifolia
''Stirlingia latifolia'', commonly known as blueboy, is a plant endemic to Western Australia. Description It grows as an erect shrub from 20 centimetres to 1.5 metres high, consisting of numerous stems up to 70 centimetres long, emerging from an underground lignotuber. Leaves are leathery, up to 10 centimetres long, and bifurcate into lobes up to three times. They extend well up the stems. Flowers occur in a panicle atop a scape up to 1.5 metres high. Taxonomy ''Stirlingia latifolia'' was first published by Robert Brown in 1830 under the name ''Simsia latifolia''. It was later discovered that the generic name '' Simsia'', published by Brown in 1810, was illegitimate, as it had already been published in 1807 for a genus of ''Asteraceae''. A new generic name, ''Stirlingia'', was published in 1838, but the transfer of the species published under ''Simsia'' was overlooked at first. ''Simsia latifolia'' would not be transferred into ''Stirlingia'' until 1841, when Ernst Steudel pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stirlingia Simplex
''Stirlingia simplex'' is a plant endemic to Western Australia. Description A woody perennial, ''S. simplex'' can grow as a shrub or as suckering herb with short-lived stems arising from a perennial rootstock. Stems may be up to ten centimetres long, and the plant as a whole grows to a height of from ten to 60 centimetres, rarely to one metre. It has soft leaves that bifurcate repeatedly into lobes, with the final lobes measuring from two to twenty millimetres long. Flowers are cream or yellow, and occur in dense heads from ten to 15 millimetres in diameter, atop scapes up to 60 centimetres tall. Taxonomy The species was first published by John Lindley in his 1839 ''A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony'', based on unspecified material. Lindley commented that it "resembles a Sanicula". Since that time, it has had a fairly straightforward taxonomic history. It has only two synonyms: * Carl Meissner published ''S. capillifolia'' in 1855, but this was decla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stirlingia Abrotanoides
''Stirlingia abrotanoides'' is a herb or shrub of the genus ''Stirlingia'' endemic to the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th .... References Eudicots of Western Australia abrotanoides Proteales of Australia Taxa named by Carl Meissner {{Proteaceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stirlingia Anethifolia
''Stirlingia anethifolia'' is a shrub endemic to Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th .... The shrub typically grows to a height of . It blooms between September and November producing yellow flowers. It is found on undulating sand plains along the south coast in the Great Southern and Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia where it grows in sandy-clay soils. References Eudicots of Western Australia anethifolia Endemic flora of Western Australia Plants described in 1841 Taxa named by Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773) {{Proteaceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stirlingia Tenuifolia
''Stirlingia tenuifolia'' is a herb or shrub endemic to Western Australia. The erect perennial herb or shrub typically grows to a height of . It blooms between September and November producing yellow-cream flowers. It is found on dunes, sand plains, swamps and hillsides in the South West The points of the compass are a set of horizontal, radially arrayed compass directions (or azimuths) used in navigation and cartography. A compass rose is primarily composed of four cardinal directions—north, east, south, and west—each sepa ..., Great Southern and Goldfields-Esperanceregions of Western Australia where it grows in sandy-gravelly soils. References Eudicots of Western Australia tenuifolia Endemic flora of Western Australia Plants described in 1841 {{proteaceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stirlingia Divaricatissima
''Stirlingia divaricatissima'' is a shrub endemic to Western Australia. The non-lignotuber A lignotuber is a woody swelling of the root crown possessed by some plants as a protection against destruction of the plant stem, such as by fire. Other woody plants may develop basal burls as a similar survival strategy, often as a response t ...ous shrub typically grows to a height of . It blooms in October producing yellow flowers. It is found on wet depressions in the Great Southern region of Western Australia where it grows in sandy-clay soils. References Eudicots of Western Australia divaricatissima Endemic flora of Western Australia Plants described in 1995 {{proteaceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stirlingia Seselifolia
''Stirlingia seselifolia'' is a herb or shrub endemic to Western Australia. The erect perennial herb or shrub typically grows to a height of . It blooms between September and October producing yellow-cream-brown flowers. It is found on low-lying areas in the South West and Great Southern regions of Western Australia where it grows in sandy soils over laterite Laterite is both a soil and a rock type rich in iron and aluminium and is commonly considered to have formed in hot and wet tropical areas. Nearly all laterites are of rusty-red coloration, because of high iron oxide content. They develop by .... References Eudicots of Western Australia seselifolia Endemic flora of Western Australia Plants described in 1923 {{proteaceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Proteaceae
The Proteaceae form a family of flowering plants predominantly distributed in the Southern Hemisphere. The family comprises 83 genera with about 1,660 known species. Together with the Platanaceae and Nelumbonaceae, they make up the order Proteales. Well-known genera include ''Protea'', ''Banksia'', ''Embothrium'', ''Grevillea'', ''Hakea'' and ''Macadamia''. Species such as the New South Wales waratah (''Telopea speciosissima''), king protea (''Protea cynaroides''), and various species of ''Banksia'', ''soman'', and ''Leucadendron'' are popular cut flowers. The nuts of ''Macadamia integrifolia'' are widely grown commercially and consumed, as are those of Gevuina avellana on a smaller scale. Australia and South Africa have the greatest concentrations of diversity. Etymology The name Proteaceae was adapted by Robert Brown from the name Proteae coined in 1789 for the family by Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, based on the genus ''Protea'', which in 1767 Carl Linnaeus derived from t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karel Domin
Karel Domin (4 May 1882, Kutná Hora, Kingdom of Bohemia – 10 June 1953, Prague) was a Czech botanist and politician. After gymnasium school studies in Příbram, he studied botany at the Charles University in Prague ) , image_name = Carolinum_Logo.svg , image_size = 200px , established = , type = Public, Ancient , budget = 8.9 billion CZK , rector = Milena Králíčková , faculty = 4,057 , administrative_staff = 4,026 , students = 51,438 , under ..., and graduated in 1906. Between 1911 and 1913 he published several important articles on Australian taxonomy. In 1916 he was named as professor of botany. Domin specialised in phytogeography, geobotany and plant taxonomy. He became a member at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, published many scientific works and founded a botany institute at the university. The Domin scale, a commonly used means of classifying a standard area by the number of plant species found in that area, is named after him. In the acad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex George (botanist)
Alexander Segger George (born 4 April 1939) is a Western Australian botanist. He is the authority on the plant genera ''Banksia'' and ''Dryandra''. The "bizarre" Restionaceae genus '' Alexgeorgea'' was named in his honour in 1976. Early life Alex Segger George was born in Western Australia on 4 April 1939. Career George joined the Western Australian Herbarium as a laboratory assistant at the age of twenty in 1959. He worked under Charles Gardner for a year before the latter's retirement, and partly credits him with rekindling an interest in banksias. In 1963 he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Western Australia, and the following year added a botany major. Continuing at the Western Australian Herbarium as a botanist, in 1968 he was seconded as Australian Botanical Liaison Officer at the Royal Botanic Gardens in London. George also has an interest in history, especially historical biography of naturalists in Western Australia. He has published a number ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
