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Goodenia Maretensis
''Goodenia'' is a genus of about two hundred species of flowering plants in the family Goodeniaceae. Plants in this genus are herbs or shrubs, mostly endemic to Australia. The leaves are variably-shaped, the flowers arranged in small groups, with three or five sepals, the corolla bilaterally symmetrical and either fan-shaped with two "lips" or tube-shaped. The petals are usually yellow to white, the stamens free from each other and the fruit a capsule. Taxonomy The genus ''Goodenia'' was first formally described in 1793 by James Edward Smith in his book ''A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland'' and the first species he described was '' G. ramosissima''. The name ''Goodenia'' honours Bishop of Carlisle Samuel Goodenough, a member of the Linnean Society of London at the time. Species list See List of ''Goodenia'' species Distribution Most species of ''Goodenia'' are endemic to Australia but '' G. konigsbergeri'' is endemic to Southeast Asia. '' G. armstrongiana'', '' G. purpu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goodenia Ovata
''Goodenia ovata'', commonly called the hop goodenia, is a species of flowering plant and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a shrub with sticky, often varnished foliage, toothed egg-shaped to elliptic leaves and racemes or thyrses of yellow flowers. Description ''Goodenia ovata'' is a erect, ascending to prostrate shrub that typically grows to a height of and has sticky, often varnished foliage. The leaves are egg-shaped to elliptic, long and wide with toothed edges, on a petiole up to long. The flowers are arranged in racemes or thyrses about long on a peduncle long, with leaf-like bracts and linear bracteoles long. Each flower is borne on a pedicel up to long, the sepals linear to lance-shaped and long. The petals are yellow, long, the lower lobes long with wings up to wide. Flowering occurs throughout the year with a peak from October to March and the fruit is a cylindrical capsule long. Taxonomy ''Goodenia ovata'' was first formally described in 17 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Endemism
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere. For example, the Cape sugarbird is found exclusively in southwestern South Africa and is therefore said to be ''endemic'' to that particular part of the world. An endemic species can be also be referred to as an ''endemism'' or in scientific literature as an ''endemite''. For example '' Cytisus aeolicus'' is an endemite of the Italian flora. '' Adzharia renschi'' was once believed to be an endemite of the Caucasus, but it was later discovered to be a non-indigenous species from South America belonging to a different genus. The extreme opposite of an endemic species is one with a cosmopolitan distribution, having a global or widespread range. A rare alternative term for a species that is endemic is "precinctive", which applies to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goodenia Pumilio
''Goodenia pumilio'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is native to northern Australia and New Guinea. It is a prostrate, stolon-forming herb with egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves in rosettes, and racemes of small, dark reddish-purple flowers. Description ''Goodenia pumilio'' is a prostrate, stolon-forming herb with stems up to with scattered, star-shaped hairs. The leaves are egg-shaped to lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, arranged in rosettes at the base of the plant and on the stolons, long and wide. The flowers are arranged in racemes up to long, sometimes singly in leaf axils, with leaf-like bracts long. Each flower is on a pedicel long with lance-shaped sepals up to long. The petals are dark reddish purple, long, the lower lobes of the corolla long and lacking wings. Flowering mainly occurs from April to July and the fruit is an oval capsule about long. Taxonomy and naming ''Goodenia pumilio'' was first formally d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goodenia Purpurascens
''Goodenia purpurascens'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is native to northern Australia and New Guinea. It is usually a perennial herb with linear to lance-shaped leaves at the base of the plant, and thyrses or panicles of purple flowers. Description ''Goodenia purpurascens'' is usually a perennial herb that typically grows to a height of and has adventitious roots. The leaves are linear to lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, ascending and mostly at the base of the plant, long and wide. The flowers are arranged in spreading thyrses or panicles racemes up to long, with linear bracts up to long and smaller bracteoles. Each flower is on a pedicel long with lance-shaped sepals long. The petals are purple, long, the lower lobes of the corolla long with wings wide. Flowering mainly occurs from January to May and the fruit is an oval to spherical capsule long. Taxonomy and naming ''Goodenia purpurascens'' was first formally d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goodenia Armstrongiana
''Goodenia armstrongiana'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is native to northern Australia and New Guinea. It is an erect to low-lying herb with egg-shaped to narrow elliptic leaves, sometimes with small teeth on the edges, racemes of white or yellow flowers with leaf-like bracts at the base, and oval fruit. Description ''Goodenia armstrongiana'' is an erect to low-lying herb with stems up to long. The stem leaves are egg-shaped to narrow elliptic, long and wide, sometimes with small teeth on the edges and hairy mostly on the edges. The flowers are arranged in racemes up to long, each flower on a pedicel long with leaf-like bracts at the base. The sepals are lance-shaped, long and the corolla is white or yellow, long and hairy inside. The lower lobes of the corolla are long with wings wide. Flowering mainly occurs from January to July and the fruit is an oval capsule long. Taxonomy and naming ''Goodenis armstrongiana'' was first formall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goodenia Konigsbergeri
''Goodenia konigsbergeri'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to Southeast Asia. It is a creeping stoloniferous herb with egg-shaped to spatula-shaped leaves and solitary pale yellow and white flowers. Description ''Goodenia konigsbergeri'' is a creeping herb with stems up to long, forming stolons apart along the stems. The leaves are arranged in a rosette at the base of the plant and along the stems and are egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, to spatula-shaped, long and wide, on a petiole long. The leaves are slightly fleshy, pale green and have a few scattered teeth on the edges. The flowers are long and arranged singly in leaf axils on a pedicel long. The sepals are lance-shaped, long, the corolla pale yellow and white, long. Flowering occurs from December to August and the fruit is a slightly flattened spherical capsule about in diameter. Taxonomy and naming This goodenia was first formally described in 1913 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linnean Society Of London
The Linnean Society of London is a learned society dedicated to the study and dissemination of information concerning natural history, evolution, and taxonomy. It possesses several important biological specimen, manuscript and literature collections, and publishes academic journals and books on plant and animal biology. The society also awards a number of prestigious medals and prizes. A product of the 18th-century enlightenment, the Society is the oldest extant biological society in the world and is historically important as the venue for the first public presentation of the theory of evolution by natural selection on 1 July 1858. The patron of the society was Queen Elizabeth II. Honorary members include: King Charles III of Great Britain, Emeritus Emperor Akihito of Japan, King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden (both of latter have active interests in natural history), and the eminent naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough. History Founding The Linnean Society ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Goodenough
Samuel Goodenough ( – 12 August 1827) was the Bishop of Carlisle from 1808 until his death in 1827, and an amateur botanist and collector. He is honoured in the scientific names of the plant genus ''Goodenia'' and the red-capped robin (''Petroica goodenovii''). In addition, William Kirby's 1802 book on the bees of EngandMonographia Apum Anglia, page 182, mentions, in Latin, that the cuckoo bee ''Nomada goodeniana'' (Gooden's Nomad Bee) is named after Goodenough with the following words:''A viro Reverendo'' S. Goodenough, LL. D. Canonico Windsoriensi, ''Botanico summo tum et in Entomologia lynceo, nomen suum haec Apis mutuatur.'' Life Born at Kimpton, near Weyhill, Hampshire, on 29 April 1743 (O.S.), he was the third son of the Rev. William Goodenough, rector of Broughton Poggs, Oxfordshire. In 1750 the family returned to Broughton, and Samuel was sent to school at Witney, under the Rev. B. Gutteridge; five years later he was sent to Westminster School, where William Markham wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bishop Of Carlisle
The Bishop of Carlisle is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Carlisle in the Province of York. The diocese covers the county of Cumbria except for Alston Moor and the former Sedbergh Rural District. The see is in the city of Carlisle where the seat is located at the Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity which was a collegiate church until elevated to cathedral status in 1133. The diocese was created in 1133 by Henry I out of part of the Diocese of Durham. It was extended in 1856 taking over part of the Diocese of Chester. The residence of the bishop was Rose Castle, Dalston, until 2009; the current bishop is the first to reside in the new Bishop's House, Keswick. The current bishop is James Newcome, the 67th Bishop of Carlisle, who signs ''James Carliol'' and was enthroned on 10 October 2009. History Early times The original territory of the diocese first became a political unit in the reign of King William Rufus (1087–1100), who made it into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goodenia Ramosissima
''Goodenia'' is a genus of about two hundred species of flowering plants in the family Goodeniaceae. Plants in this genus are herbs or shrubs, mostly endemic to Australia. The leaves are variably-shaped, the flowers arranged in small groups, with three or five sepals, the corolla bilaterally symmetrical and either fan-shaped with two "lips" or tube-shaped. The petals are usually yellow to white, the stamens free from each other and the fruit a capsule. Taxonomy The genus ''Goodenia'' was first formally described in 1793 by James Edward Smith in his book ''A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland'' and the first species he described was '' G. ramosissima''. The name ''Goodenia'' honours Bishop of Carlisle Samuel Goodenough, a member of the Linnean Society of London at the time. Species list See List of ''Goodenia'' species Distribution Most species of ''Goodenia'' are endemic to Australia but '' G. konigsbergeri'' is endemic to Southeast Asia. '' G. armstrongiana'', '' G. purpu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Specimen Of The Botany Of New Holland
''A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland'', also known by its standard abbreviation ''Spec. Bot. New Holland'', was the first published book on the flora of Australia. Written by James Edward Smith and illustrated by James Sowerby, it was published by Sowerby in four parts between 1793 and 1795. It consists of 16 colour plates of paintings by Sowerby, mostly based on sketches by John White, and around 40 pages of accompanying text. It was presented as the first volume in a series, but no further volumes were released. Book The work began as a collaboration between Smith and George Shaw. Together they produced a two-part work entitled ''Zoology and Botany of New Holland'', with each part containing two zoology plates and two botany plates, along with accompanying text. These appeared in 1793, although the publications themselves indicate 1794. The collaboration then ended, and Shaw went on to independently produce his '' Zoology of New Holland''. Smith's contributions to ''Zoolo ... [...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] |
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