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Eucalyptus × Chrysantha
''Eucalyptus × chrysantha'' is a mallee that is endemic to Western Australia. It is a putative hybrid between '' E. preissiana'' and '' E. sepulcralis'' and has lance-shaped to curved adult leaves, flower buds in groups of between three and six, white to yellow flowers and cylindrical to urn-shaped fruit. Description ''Eucalyptus × chrysantha'' is an erect mallee that typically grows to a height of and has rigid, angular branches. The adult leaves are oblong to lance-shaped or curved, dark green on both sides, long and wide, tapering to a flattened petiole long. The flower buds are arranged in groups of between three and six in leaf axils on a peduncle long. Mature buds are about long and wide with a conical operculum long. Flowering occurs between August and December and the flowers are white to yellow. The fruit is a woody, oval to cylindrical or urn-shaped capsule long and wide. Taxonomy and naming This eucalypt was first formally described in 1938 by Will ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Blakely
William Faris Blakely (November 1875 – 1 September 1941) was an Australian botanist and collector. From 1913 to 1940 he worked in the National Herbarium of New South Wales, working with Joseph Maiden on ''Eucalyptus'', Maiden named a ''red gum'' in his honour, ''Eucalyptus blakelyi''. His botanical work centred particularly on ''Acacias'', Loranthaceae and Eucalypts Eucalypt is a descriptive name for woody plants with capsule fruiting bodies belonging to seven closely related genera (of the tribe Eucalypteae) found across Australasia: ''Eucalyptus'', ''Corymbia'', ''Angophora'', '' Stockwellia'', ''Allosyn .... The standard author abbreviation ''Blakely'' is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. Some published names (incomplete) * '' Astrotricha crassifolia Blakely -- Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 1925, 1. 385.. * '' Olearia stilwellae Blakely—Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 1925, 1.385. * '' Hibbertia dentata ''var. ''calva'' Blakely—Contr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capsule (botany)
In botany a capsule is a type of simple, dry, though rarely fleshy dehiscent fruit produced by many species of angiosperms (flowering plants). Origins and structure The capsule (Latin: ''capsula'', small box) is derived from a compound (multicarpeled) ovary. A capsule is a structure composed of two or more carpels. In (flowering plants), the term locule (or cell) is used to refer to a chamber within the fruit. Depending on the number of locules in the ovary, fruit can be classified as uni-locular (unilocular), bi-locular, tri-locular or multi-locular. The number of locules present in a gynoecium may be equal to or less than the number of carpels. The locules contain the ovules or seeds and are separated by septa. Dehiscence In most cases the capsule is dehiscent, i.e. at maturity, it splits apart (dehisces) to release the seeds within. A few capsules are indehiscent, for example those of ''Adansonia digitata'', ''Alphitonia'', and '' Merciera''. Capsules are often classifie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plants Described In 1938
Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclude the fungi and some algae, as well as the prokaryotes (the archaea and bacteria). By one definition, plants form the clade Viridiplantae (Latin name for "green plants") which is sister of the Glaucophyta, and consists of the green algae and Embryophyta (land plants). The latter includes the flowering plants, conifers and other gymnosperms, ferns and their allies, hornworts, liverworts, and mosses. Most plants are multicellular organisms. Green plants obtain most of their energy from sunlight via photosynthesis by primary chloroplasts that are derived from endosymbiosis with cyanobacteria. Their chloroplasts contain chlorophylls a and b, which gives them their green color. Some plants are parasitic or mycotrophic and have los ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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