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Eucalyptus Aspratilis
''Eucalyptus aspratilis'', commonly known as the soak yate or inland mallee-yate, is a Mallee (habit), mallee that is Endemism, endemic to Western Australia. It has rough bark near its base, smooth silvery greyish bark above, lance-shaped adult leaves, pendulous buds in groups of seven, pale yellow or cream-coloured flowers and cylindrical fruit. Description ''Eucalyptus aspratilis'' is a mallee that typically grows to a height of , sometimes to and forms a lignotuber. It has rough, scaly to ribbony greyish brown bark on the lower park of its trunks and smooth silvery grey bark above, or sometimes throughout. Young plants and coppice regrowth have egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves long, wide and dull bluish grey. Adult leaves are the same glossy green on both sides, lance-shaped, long, wide on a Petiole (botany), petiole long. The flower buds are usually arranged in group of seven in leaf wikt:axil, axils on an unbranched Peduncle (botany), peduncle long, the individual flo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson
Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson FAA, (26 June 1925 – 1 August 1997) known as Lawrie Johnson, was an Australian taxonomic botanist. He worked at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, for the whole of his professional career, as a botanist (1948–1972), Director (1972–1985) and Honorary Research Associate (1986–1997). - originally published in ''Historical Records of Australian Science'', vol.13, no.4, 2001. Alone or in collaboration with colleagues, he distinguished and described four new families of vascular plants, 33 new genera, 286 new species (including posthumous publications), and reclassified another 395 species. Of the families he described, Rhynchocalycaceae (with B. G. Briggs, 1985) is accepted by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG). Hopkinsiaceae and Lyginiaceae, (which he and B. G. Briggs proposed in 2000 be carved out of Anarthriaceae), have not been accepted by the APG. Lawrie Johnson died of cancer in 1997. He received many honours and awards, including ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
