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Darwinia Leptantha
''Darwinia leptantha'' is a flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae. It is an upright, small shrub with white flowers turning pink with age, triangular-shaped leaves and is endemic to New South Wales. Description ''Darwinia leptantha'' is an upright shrub high with smooth, flattened leaves long. The slender tubular flowers are borne at the end of short erect stems in tight clusters of 2-8, long, about in diameter, petals long, white when young turning pink with age and on a peduncle (botany), peduncle long. The bracts are leaf-like long, bracteoles reddish to yellowish brown, long, style (botany), style white, straight or curved and long. Flowering occurs from late autumn to spring. Taxonomy and naming ''Darwinia leptantha'' was first formally described in 1962 by Barbara Gillian Briggs and the description was published in ''Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium''. The binomial nomenclature, specific epithet (''leptantha'') means "slender flowered". ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Gillian Briggs
Barbara Gillian Briggs (born 1934) is one of the foremost Australian botanists. The '' IK'' lists 205 names of plants which have been published or co-published by her. She was one of the botanists in the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, of th1998 APG system. Briggs was employed at the Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney from 1959. She was awarded a PhD from the University of Sydney in 1960. Briggs and Craig Anthony Atkins were co-awarded the Clarke Medal of the Royal Society of New South Wales in 1994. Briggs was awarded the Public Service Medal in 1998. She was made a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours for "significant service to science and research as a botanist, to documenting Australian flora, and to professional societies". She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales The Royal Society of New South Wales is a learned society based in Sydney, Australia. The Governor of New South Wales is the vice-regal patron of the Society. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |