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Grevillea Decora
''Grevillea decora'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is an erect shrub or small tree with a single main stem, oblong, oval or egg-shaped leaves, and groups of pinkish red or pink flowers. Description ''Grevillea decora'' is an erect shrub or small tree that typically grows to a height of and has a single main stem. Its leaves are oblong, oval or egg-shaped, long and wide, the lower surface densely silky-hairy. The flowers are arranged near the ends of the branchlets on a one-sided rachis long, the pistil long. Flowering time varies with subspecies and the fruit is a follicle long. Taxonomy ''Grevillea decora'' was first formally described in 1921 by Karel Domin in the journal ''Bibliotheca Botanica'' from specimens he collected near Pentland in 1910. The specific epithet (''decora'') means "beautiful". In 2000, Robert Owen Makinson described two subspecies in the '' Flora of Australia'' and the names are accept ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Domin
Karel Domin (4 May 1882, Kutná Hora, Kingdom of Bohemia – 10 June 1953, Prague) was a Czech botanist and politician. After gymnasium school studies in Příbram Příbram (; german: Freiberg in Böhmen, ''Przibram'', or ''Pribram'', in 1939–1945 ''Pibrans'') is a town in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 32,000 inhabitants. It is well known for its mining history, and more ..., he studied botany at the Charles University in Prague, and graduated in 1906. Between 1911 and 1913 he published several important articles on Australian taxonomy. In 1916 he was named as professor of botany. Domin specialised in phytogeography, geobotany and plant taxonomy. He became a member at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, published many scientific works and founded a botany institute at the university. The Domin scale, a commonly used means of classifying a standard area by the number of plant species found in that area, is named after him. In the aca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
