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Daphnandra Repandula
''Daphnandra'' is a genus of shrubs and trees in the family Atherospermataceae, or formerly Monimiaceae. The genus is endemic to Australia. There are six species, occurring in New South Wales and Queensland: *''Daphnandra apatela'' Schodde Socket wood, yellow wood, canary socketwood, satin wood *''Daphnandra johnsonii'' Schodde Illawarra socketwood *''Daphnandra melasmena'' Schodde *''Daphnandra micrantha'' (Tul.) Benth. *'' Daphnandra repandula'' (F.Muell.) F.Muell. Sassafras, grey sassafras, northern sassafras, northern yellow sassafras, scentless sassafras, yellow sassafras *''Daphnandra tenuipes'' J.R.Perkins, Red-flowered socketwood, socket sassafras The generic name ''Daphnandra'' refers to a similarity of the anthers The stamen (plural ''stamina'' or ''stamens'') is the pollen-producing reproductive organ of a flower. Collectively the stamens form the androecium., p. 10 Morphology and terminology A stamen typically consists of a stalk called the filam ... o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martinsville, New South Wales
Martinsville is a small town near Morisset and west of Lake Macquarie in New South Wales, Australia. It is part of the West Ward of the City of Lake Macquarie local government area. It was first settled by Europeans between 1861 and 1866. The first industry in the area was timber. The public school opened in 1878, but this was eventually closed and pupils transferred to Cooranbong Community School. The town sits in a small valley at the base of the Watagan Mountains. References * ''Cooranbong, first town in Lake Macquarie, 1827–1997: a history including Martinsville and Dora Creek'' by Michael Chamberlain Michael Leigh Chamberlain (27 February 1944 – 9 January 2017) was a New Zealand-Australian writer, teacher and pastor falsely implicated in the August 1980 death of his missing daughter Azaria, which was later demonstrated to be the result ...description. External links History of Martinsville(Lake Macquarie City Library) Suburbs of Lake Macquarie 1861 es ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daphnandra Johnsonii
''Daphnandra johnsonii'', also known as the Illawarra socketwood, is a rare rainforest tree in the Illawarra district of eastern Australia. Habitat It is found most often at less than 150 metres above sea level on volcanic soils in sub tropical rainforest. Occasionally it is found as high as 350 metres above sea level.Anders Bofeldt pers. comm. It grows often by creeks, or dry rocky scree slopes, and in disturbed forest and rainforest margins. It is distributed from southern Berry, New South Wales to Scarborough, New South Wales in the northern Illawarra (34° S). Naming and taxonomy A member of the ancient Gondwana family Atherospermataceae, the Illawarra socketwood is endangered by extinction. Formerly considered the southernmost population of ''Daphnandra micrantha'', the Australian socketwood. Recently it has been recognised as a separate species. The type specimen collected in the Illawarra district by Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson, L.A.S. Johnson, after whom the spe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bay Laurel
''Laurus nobilis'' is an aromatic evergreen tree or large shrub with green, glabrous (smooth) leaves. It is in the flowering plant family Lauraceae. It is native to the Mediterranean region and is used as bay leaf for seasoning in cooking. Its common names include bay tree (esp. United Kingdom), bay laurel, sweet bay, true laurel, Grecian laurel, or simply laurel. ''Laurus nobilis'' figures prominently in classical Greco-Roman culture. Worldwide, many other kinds of plants in diverse families are also called "bay" or "laurel", generally due to similarity of foliage or aroma to ''Laurus nobilis''. Description The laurel is an evergreen shrub or small tree, variable in size and sometimes reaching tall. The genus ''Laurus'' includes four accepted species, whose diagnostic key characters often overlap. The bay laurel is dioecious (unisexual), with male and female flowers on separate plants. Each flower is pale yellow-green, about diameter, and they are borne in pairs besid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthers
The stamen (plural ''stamina'' or ''stamens'') is the pollen-producing reproductive organ of a flower. Collectively the stamens form the androecium., p. 10 Morphology and terminology A stamen typically consists of a stalk called the filament and an anther which contains ''microsporangia''. Most commonly anthers are two-lobed and are attached to the filament either at the base or in the middle area of the anther. The sterile tissue between the lobes is called the connective, an extension of the filament containing conducting strands. It can be seen as an extension on the dorsal side of the anther. A pollen grain develops from a microspore in the microsporangium and contains the male gametophyte. The stamens in a flower are collectively called the androecium. The androecium can consist of as few as one-half stamen (i.e. a single locule) as in '' Canna'' species or as many as 3,482 stamens which have been counted in the saguaro (''Carnegiea gigantea''). The androecium in var ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet Russell Perkins
Janet Russell Perkins (March 20, 1853 – 1933) was an American-born botanist. Perkins authored 191 land plant species names, the tenth-highest number of such names authored by any female scientist. Born in Lafayette, Indiana, Janet was the daughter of Cyrus Grovenor Perkins and Jane Rose Houghteling. After an early education in private schools, Janet attended the University of Wisconsin, graduating with a B.S. degree in 1872. Travelling to Europe, she was employed as a private tutor in Hildesheim, Germany, and undertook the study of languages and music in Paris, France. In 1875 she returned to the United States, where she was employed as a teacher in Chicago, Illinois for the next twenty years. During this period she took time off to travel to the Azores, California, and Hawaii. In 1895 she returned to Germany to study botany. She spent eight semesters studying in Berlin under Adolf Engler and his associates, then transferred to the Heidelberg University where she was awarded a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daphnandra Tenuipes
''Daphnandra tenuipes'', commonly known as the socket sassafrass, or red-flowered socketwood is a rainforest tree in eastern Australia. It grows on the more fertile basaltic and wikt:alluvial, alluvial soils. Found from near Boorganna Nature Reserve near Taree, New South Wales to just over the border into Queensland at Springbrook National Park. It is a small to medium-sized tree featuring red new shoots and red flowers. It has dark green leaves which are lanceolate or ovate, and measure in length and wide. ''Daphnandra tenuipes'' was first described by J.R. Perkins in 1901, and still bears its original name. References Atherospermataceae Trees of Australia Flora of New South Wales Flora of Queensland {{Australia-plant-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daphnandra Repandula
''Daphnandra'' is a genus of shrubs and trees in the family Atherospermataceae, or formerly Monimiaceae. The genus is endemic to Australia. There are six species, occurring in New South Wales and Queensland: *''Daphnandra apatela'' Schodde Socket wood, yellow wood, canary socketwood, satin wood *''Daphnandra johnsonii'' Schodde Illawarra socketwood *''Daphnandra melasmena'' Schodde *''Daphnandra micrantha'' (Tul.) Benth. *'' Daphnandra repandula'' (F.Muell.) F.Muell. Sassafras, grey sassafras, northern sassafras, northern yellow sassafras, scentless sassafras, yellow sassafras *''Daphnandra tenuipes'' J.R.Perkins, Red-flowered socketwood, socket sassafras The generic name ''Daphnandra'' refers to a similarity of the anthers The stamen (plural ''stamina'' or ''stamens'') is the pollen-producing reproductive organ of a flower. Collectively the stamens form the androecium., p. 10 Morphology and terminology A stamen typically consists of a stalk called the filam ... o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daphnandra Micrantha
''Daphnandra micrantha'', the socketwood or Manning River socketwood is a rainforest tree in eastern Australia. It grows near streams in various types of rainforest. Restricted to the Manning River and Hastings River valleys (31° S) of northern eastern New South Wales. Also seen in ecotone areas dominated by brush box and tallowwood. Naming and taxonomy A member of the ancient Gondwana family Atherospermataceae. Previously considered one species, it is now published as four different types of ''socketwood'' by Richard Schodde. The generic name Daphnandra refers to a similarity of the anthers of the Bay Laurel. Greek ''daphne'' refers to the Bay Laurel, and ''andros'' from the Greek for man. ''Micanthra'' from the Greek refers to small flowers. A feature of Daphnandra apatela is where larger branchlets meet the main trunk, resembling a "ball and socket" type joint. Hence the common name of socketwood for this group of trees. Description A small to medium-sized tree, someti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daphnandra Melasmena
''Daphnandra melasmena'', commonly known as the socketwood, or black-leaved socketwood is a rainforest tree in eastern Australia. It grows on the more fertile basaltic soils, often associated with the White Booyong. Found from near Bowraville, New South Wales in the south to the Tweed River, New South Wales, Tweed Valley further north. A small to medium-sized tree growing to 20 metres tall with a stem diameter of 30 cm. ''Daphnandra melasmena'' was first described by ornithologist Richard Schodde in 2000, having been known previously as ''Daphnandra'' sp. D. The specific epithet ''melasmena'' is derived from the Ancient Greek, referring to the leaves and stems turning black on drying. References Atherospermataceae Trees of Australia Flora of New South Wales {{Australia-plant-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schodde
Richard Schodde, OAM (born 23 September 1936) is an Australian botanist and ornithologist. Schodde studied at the University of Adelaide, where he received a BSc (Hons) in 1960 and a PhD in 1970. During the 1960s he was a botanist with the CSIRO Division of Land Research and Regional Survey in Papua New Guinea. From 1970 to 1998 he was the foundation curator and director of the Australian National Wildlife Collection (ANWC) in the CSIRO Division of Wildlife and Ecology, following which he became a research fellow there. During this time he led the flora and fauna surveys that helped establish Kakadu National Park and the designation of the wet tropics of north-eastern Queensland as Australia's first World Heritage Site. These surveys resulted in the accession of almost 50,000 specimens to the ANWC, as well as 15,000 samples of frozen tissue for molecular studies.Bright Sparcs In the 2009 Queen's birthday honours, Schodde was awarded an OAM for his contribution to the n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a Megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with Deserts of Australia, deserts in the centre, tropical Forests of Australia, rainforests in the north-east, and List of mountains in Australia, mountain ranges in the south-east. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south east Asia approximately Early human migrations#Nearby Oceania, 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daphnandra Apatela
''Daphnandra apatela'', the socketwood, light yellowwood or canary socketwood is a common rainforest tree in eastern Australia. It grows in the more fertile alluvial soils and basaltic soils. Distributed from the Watagan Mountains (31° S) in New South Wales to Miriam Vale (24° S) near Gladstone in Queensland. Naming & taxonomy A member of the ancient Gondwana family Atherospermataceae. Formerly considered '' Daphnandra micrantha'', the Australian socketwood. Recently it has been recognised as a separate species, as published by Richard Schodde. The generic name Daphnandra refers to a similarity of the anthers of the Bay Laurel. Greek ''daphne'' refers to the Bay Laurel, and ''andros'' from the Greek for man. The species name apatela is from the Greek to deceive, because of the similarity to Daphnandra micrantha. A feature where larger branchlets meet the main trunk resembles a "ball and socket" type joint. Hence the common name of ''Socketwood''. Canary Socketwood or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
