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Conostephium
''Conostephium'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. The name of the genus comes from Greek words, ''conos'', "cone" and ''stephanos'', "that which encircles, a crown or wreath", referring to the petal tube that encloses the stamens. Description Plants in the genus ''Conostephium'' are small evergreen shrubs with small to medium-sized simple leaves. The flowers occur singly in the axils of the leaves, have 5 sepals, 5 corolla petals joined at their bases into a long corolla tube, and 5 stamens. The fruit is a more or less fleshy drupe. Taxonomy The genus was first formally described in 1837 by George Bentham, and the first species described was '' C. pendulum''. There are 12 species in the genus, 4 having been added recently. The most distinctive features of the genus are the corolla tube which is conical in the upper half, the tiny corolla lobes and very long anthers which are fully enclosed within th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conostephium Minus
''Conostephium minus'', common name pink-tipped pearl flower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to the Southwest Australia, southwest of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with linear leaves and white and purplish-pink flowers. Description ''Conostephium minus'' is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of . Its leaves are linear, long with the edges rolled under and a small point on the tip. The flowers are about long, each flower on a Peduncle (botany), peduncle about long with several bracts and Bract#Bracteole, bracteoles almost as long as the sepals. The sepals are white, the longest ones long and the petals purplish-pink and joined at the base with lobes long. The upper half of the Ovary (botany), ovary is softly-hairy, the stamens attached near the middle of the petal tube. Flowering occurs from August to October. This species is similar to ''Conostephium magnum, C. magnum'', but that species has longer sepals and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conostephium Pendulum
''Conostephium pendulum'', commonly known as pearl flower, is a small, open shrub in the family Ericaceae endemic to the Swan Coastal Plain from Eneabba to Margaret River. Description ''Conostephium pendulum'' grows to a height of 1 metre or less, has oblong or linear leaves about 2.5 cm long and with a sharp point on the end. The flowers, which occur from June to September, are cream coloured with a red-purple tip, about 11 mm long, tubular in shape with the style protruding beyond the floral tube. The flowers hang individually from the leaf axils. Taxonomy and naming The species was named by George Bentham in 1837 in Endlicher's '' Enumeratio plantarum quas in Novae Hollandiae ora austro-occidentali ad fluvium Cygnorum et in sinu Regis Georgii collegit Carolus Liber Baro de Hügel'' from a specimen collected by Charles von Hügel. It was the first species in the genus to be described. The specific epithet is a latin word meaning "hanging down", "pendent" or "d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conostephium Uncinatum
''Conostephium uncinatum'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with clustered, narrowly oblong leaves with hooked tips, and spindle-shaped flowers. Description ''Conostephium uncinatum'' is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of . Its leaves are clustered, narrowly oblong, long and about wide on a petiole long, with the edges rolled under and a hooked tip. The flowers are arranged singly in upper leaf axils and are long, wide and more or less sessile, the bracteoles nearly as long as the sepals. The sepals are long, papery and shiny, the petal tube spindle-shaped, and about wide. This species is similar to '' C. minus'' and '' C. marchantiorum'' but has leaves with the edges more tightly turned under, and shorter flower parts. Taxonomy and naming ''Conostephium uncinatum'' was first formally described in 1987 by Paul G.van der Moezel in the journal ''Nuytsia'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conostephium Preissii
''Conostephium preissii'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with many stems, egg-shaped to oblong leaves and white and purplish to reddish-pink flowers. Description ''Conostephium preissii'' is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of . Its leaves are egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base to oblong and long with the edges rolled slightly downwards and often a small point on the tip. The flowers are about long, each flower on a downcurved peduncle long with many bracts and bracteoles almost as long as the sepals. The sepals are white, about long and the petals purplish to reddish-pink. The upper half of the ovary is glabrous, the stamens attached near the base of the petal tube. Flowering occurs from September to December. Taxonomy and naming ''Conostephium preissii'' was first formally described in 1845 by Otto Wilhelm Sonder in Lehmann's ''Plantae P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conostephium Magnum
''Conostephium magnum'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, compact shrub with scattered lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end toward the base, and pendulous, spindle-shaped, cream-coloured to white and pink flowers arranged singly in leaf axils. Description ''Conostephium magnum'' is an erect, compact shrub that typically grows to a height of , and has many stems at the base. The leaves are lance-shaped with the narrower end toward the base, long and wide on a petiole long. The leaves are glabrous and the edges are often rolled inwards. The flowers are arranged singly in leaf axils on a pendulous pedicel long with 4 to 6 bracts and 3 to 5 bracteoles long and about wide, grading into the sepals. The sepals are narrowly egg-shaped, long and overlap each other, the petal tube usually white to cream-coloured and pink, long. Flowering occurs from July to September, the fruit mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conostephium Roei
''Conostephium roei'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with egg-shaped, oblong or linear leaves with and white and purple or reddish brown flowers. Description ''Conostephium roei'' is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of . Its leaves are egg-shaped, oblong or linear, mostly long with the edges sometimes rolled. The flowers are long, more or less sessile, and downturned, with bracteoles nearly as long as the sepals. The sepals are white, less than long, the petal tube conical, hairy near the tip, and purple or reddish brown. Flowering occurs from August to October. Taxonomy and naming ''Conostephium roei'' was first formally described in 1868 by George Bentham in '' Flora Australiensis'' from specimens collected "in the interior" by John Septimus Roe. The specific epithet (''roei'') honours the collector of the type specimens. Distribution and habitat This spe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conostephium Marchantiorum
''Conostephium marchantiorum'' is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with linear leaves clustered near the ends of branchlets, and pale green and pink, densely-bearded, tube-shaped flowers. Description ''Conostephium marchantiorum'' is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of about and has many branches, its leaves clustered near the ends of twigs. The leaves are linear, leathery, long and wide on a petiole long. The edges of the leaves are rolled under and the lower surface has several prominent longitudinal veins. The flowers are arranged singly in 2 to 4 leaf axils on each twig with small, egg-shaped bracts and several broader, overlapping bracteoles closely surrounding the flowers. The sepals are lance-shaped, long, the petals white and joined at the base to form a tube about long. The petal lobes are twice as long as the petal tube and densely bearded. Flower ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Family (taxonomy)
Family ( la, familia, plural ') is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified between order and genus. A family may be divided into subfamilies, which are intermediate ranks between the ranks of family and genus. The official family names are Latin in origin; however, popular names are often used: for example, walnut trees and hickory trees belong to the family Juglandaceae, but that family is commonly referred to as the "walnut family". What belongs to a family—or if a described family should be recognized at all—are proposed and determined by practicing taxonomists. There are no hard rules for describing or recognizing a family, but in plants, they can be characterized on the basis of both vegetative and reproductive features of plant species. Taxonomists often take different positions about descriptions, and there may be no broad consensus across the scientific community for some time. The publishing of new data and opini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brachyloma
''Brachyloma'' is a genus of about 16 species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to Australia. Plants in the genus ''Brachyloma'' are shrubs with more or less erect leaves and Plant reproductive morphology#Bisexual, bisexual flowers usually arranged singly in leaf axils, the 5 petals fused to form a cylindrical or bell-shaped tube, the stamens sometimes enclosed in the petal tube. Description Plant in the genus ''Brachyloma'' are erect or spreading shrubs with Leaf#Divisions of the blade, simple, Sessility (botany), sessile or shortly Petiole (botany), petiolate leaves with more or less parallel or spreading veins on the lower surface. The flowers are bisexual and usually arranged singly in leaf axils, each flower with a bract at the base and Bract#bracteole, bracteoles grading to the size of the 5 sepals. The 5 petals are fused at the base to form a cylindrical to bulbous, bell-shaped tube with erect to curved-back lobes. The fruit is a drupe with a har ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arne Strid
P. Arne K. Strid (born March 7, 1943 in Kristianstad, Sweden) is a Swedish botanist and expert on Greek flora. Biography He studied botany, chemistry and genetics in the University of Lund and graduated in 1970. His doctorate was about an experimental study for the differentiation and evolution of a group of plants ('' Nigella arvensis'' complex) in the Aegean archipelago (supervisor: professor Hans Runemark) for which he also won the Jesse M. Greenman prize for the best dissertation about scientific classification of plants that year. He was professor of botany (1973-2001) at the University of Copenhagen and distinguished visiting professor at the University of Patras, Greece (1997-1998). He was director of the Gothenburg Botanical Garden and the Natural History Museum of Göteborg (2001-2008). In 2011 he became emeritus professor at the Berlin-Dahlem Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum, in 2015 at the University of Patras, Greece and from 2017 at the National and Kapodistri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flora Australiensis
''Flora Australiensis: a description of the plants of the Australian Territory'', more commonly referred to as ''Flora Australiensis'', and also known by its standard abbreviation ''Fl. Austral.'', is a seven-volume flora of Australia published between 1863 and 1878 by George Bentham, with the assistance of Ferdinand von Mueller. It was one of the famous Kew series of colonial floras, and the first flora of any large continental area that had ever been finished. In total the flora included descriptions of 8125 species.Orchard, A. E. 1999. Introduction. In A. E. Orchard, ed. ''Flora of Australia - Volume 1'', 2nd edition pp 1-9. Australian Biological Resources Study Bentham prepared the flora from Kew; with Mueller, the first plant taxonomist residing permanently in Australia, loaning the entire collection of the National Herbarium of Victoria to Bentham over the course of several years. Mueller had been dissuaded from preparing a flora from Australia while in Australia by Bentham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
