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Calothamnus Montanus
''Calothamnus montanus'' is a plant in the myrtle Family (biology), family, Myrtaceae and is Endemism, endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with short, needle-shaped leaves and red flowers with four stamen bundles. (In 2014 Lyndley Craven, Craven, Edwards and Cowley proposed that the species be renamed ''Melaleuca georgi''.) Description ''Calothamnus montanus'' is a shrub growing to a height of about with stems that are hairy at first but become glabrousness, glabrous and thick over time. Its leaves are needle-like, mostly long and wide and circular in cross section. The flowers have 4 sepals and 4 petals. The stamens are partly red, partly green and are arranged in 4 claw-like bundles, each about long. The petals are long. Flowering occurs from October to January and is followed by fruits which are woody, flattened spherical Capsule (botany), capsules, long and partly buried in the stem. Taxonomy and naming ''Calothamnus montanus'' was ... [...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] |