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Eucalyptus Cernua
''Eucalyptus cernua'', commonly known as the red-flowered moort or the yellow-flowered moort, is a eucalypt that is native to Western Australia. Description The mallee (habit), mallee typically grows to a height of but can reach as high as . It has smooth mottled grey to brown coloured bark that can become black over greenish yellow new bark. It has no lignotuber and a single stem. The concolorous glossy green adult leaves are arranged alternately. The leaf blade has a lanceolate shape that is in length and wide with a base tapering to petiole. It blooms between October and December and produces crimson-red flowers. Each axillary unbranched inflorescence is often down-turned and in length and occurs groups of seven per umbel. Taxonomy The species was first formally described by the botanists Ian Brooker and Stephen Hopper in 2002 and ''Taxonomy of species deriving from the publication of Eucalyptus subseries Cornutae Benth. (Myrtaceae)'' as published in the Scientific journal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Brooker
Murray Ian Hill Brooker AM (2 June 1934 – 25 June 2016), better known as Ian Brooker, was an Australian botanist. He was widely recognised as the leading authority on the genus ''Eucalyptus''. Ian Brooker was born in Adelaide, South Australia on 2 June 1934. He obtained a B.Ag.Sc. from the University of Adelaide, and a MSc and D.Sc. from the Australian National University in Canberra. He worked with the Soil Conservation Branch of the Department of Agriculture in South Australia from 1957 to 1963; then joined the Department of Botany at the Australian National University until 1969; and then spent a year with the Western Australian Herbarium. In 1970, Brooker joined the Forest Research Institute in Canberra, now part of CSIRO. His research since then has specialised in the genus ''Eucalyptus'', especially its taxonomy. He travelled widely throughout Australia collecting specimens, and published 100 research papers, 180 leaflets, and four books, and is the principal author o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |