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Daviesia Spiralis
''Daviesia spiralis'', commonly known as spiral-leaved daviesia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of south-western Western Australia. It is a rounded shrub with tangled branches, scattered, twisted linear phyllodes and yellow and red flowers. Description ''Daviesia spiralis'' is a rounded shrub that typically grows to a height of and has many tangled branches. Its phyllodes are scattered, linear but spirally twisted, about long and wide. The flowers are arranged singly or in small groups in leaf axils on a peduncle long with oblong to egg-shaped bracts, each flower on a sticky pedicel long. The sepals are long and joined at the base, the upper two lobes joined for most of their length and the lower three lobes about long. The standard petal is broadly elliptic, long, wide and yellow with a dark red base and rich yellow centre. The wings are long and reddish, the keel long and reddish with a maroon tip. Fl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wongan Hills
Wongan Hills is a range of low flat-topped hills in the Avon Wheatbelt bioregion of Western Australia. It is located at , in the Shire of Wongan–Ballidu. History The range was first recorded in 1836 by Surveyor General of Western Australia John Septimus Roe. The area was settled by the 1900s (decade), and in 1911 the town of Wongan Hills was established and named after the range. Etymology "Wongan" is derived from the Indigenous Australian name "wangan-katta", "wankan" and "woongan". "Katta" is known to mean "hill", but the meaning of "wongan" is uncertain. It may be related to "kwongan", an indigenous word for sandplain, or "whispering", in which case "wongan katta" would mean "whispering hills". Flora and fauna The hills are biologically significant because they contain the largest remaining single area of natural vegetation in northern parts of the wheatbelt. The hills are home to remnant woodlands of salmon gum, York gum, gimlet (''Eucalyptus salubris''), and silver mal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
