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Daviesia Oppositifolia
''Daviesia oppositifolia'', commonly known as rattle-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with many stems, egg-shaped phyllodes with the narrower end towards the base, and yellow flowers with maroon markings. Description ''Daviesia oppositifolia'' is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of and has many stems. Its phyllodes are often arranged in opposite pairs, egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, mostly long and wide. The flowers are arranged in leaf axils in one or two groups of five to ten flowers surrounded by three large Bract#Involucral_bracts, involucral bracts, green at first, later deep copper-maroon. The groups are on a Peduncle (botany), peduncle long, the rachis long, each flower on a Pedicel (botany), pedicel long with bracts about long at the base. The sepals are long and joined at the base, the upper two lobes about long and the lower ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stirling Range
The Stirling Range or Koikyennuruff is a range of mountains and hills in the Great Southern region of Western Australia, south-east of Perth. It is over wide from west to east, stretching from the highway between Mount Barker and Cranbrook eastward past Gnowangerup. The Stirling Range is protected by the Stirling Range National Park, which was gazetted in 1913, and has an area of . Environment Geology The mountains are formed of metamorphic rock derived from quartz sandstones and shales deposited during the Paleoproterozoic Era, between 2,016 and 1,215 million years ago (based on U-Th-Pb isotope geochronology of monazite crystals). The sediments were subsequently metamorphosed 1,215 million years ago, and later folded during reactivation of basement structures recording lateral displacements between Antarctica and Australia. Despite the relative youth of the mountains, the soils remain very poor, creating the species-rich heathland flora. Climate As the only ver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |