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Darwinia Terricola
''Darwinia terricola'', commonly known as the Blackwood bell, is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is endemic to a small area in the south-west of Western Australia. It is a small, low, sometimes prostrate shrub with small, linear leaves and small groups of flowers surrounded by reddish-green bracts and which usually lie on the ground. Description ''Darwinia terricola'' is a spreading or prostrate shrub which grows to tall and wide and which has many stems spreading from a woody base. Its leaves are linear in shape, long and less than wide, triangular in cross-section and with scattered cilia along the edges. The flowers are arranged in groups, usually of between five and seven, the groups long and wide. The flowers are surrounded by several rows of leaf-like bracts which are green at first, but which turn reddish-green and increase in size to long and wide as the flowers develop. The groups of flowers lie on the ground or on top of leav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gregory John Keighery
Gregory John Keighery is an Australian botanist. Since 2003 he has been a senior research scientist at the Science and Conservation Division of the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions of Western Australia (formerly the Department of Environment and Conservation then the Department of Parks and Wildlife). His main expertise is in the native plants of Western Australia, particularly weed flora and the Apiaceae, Liliaceae and Myrtaceae. Career Keighery has a BSc in plant genetics from the University of Western Australia. From 1974 to 1983 he worked in biosystematics at the Kings Park and Botanic Garden in Perth, Western Australia. In 1983–84 he was a survey biologist with the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, and then from 1984 was a research scientist at the Department of Conservation and Land Management The Department of Conservation and Land Management (CALM) was a department of the Government of Western Australia that was responsible for im ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |