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Grevillea Uncinulata
''Grevillea uncinulata'', also known as hook-leaf grevillea, is species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the Southwest Australia, south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, open shrub with linear to elliptic leaves arranged in clusters along the branches, and small clusters of white flowers, the Style (botany), style with a yellow, orange or red tip. Description ''Grevillea uncinulata'' is an erect, open shrub that typically grows to a height of . It has linear to elliptic leaves long and wide arranged in clusters along the branches. The edges of the leaves are rolled under, concealing the lower surface apart from a longitudinal groove. The flowers are arranged in small clusters, the flowers near the far end of the rachis flowering first. The flowers are hairy and white with a yellow-, orange- or red-tipped style, the Gynoecium#Pistils, pistil long. Flowering occurs from May to November, and the fruit is a shaggy-hairy, oblong to elliptic Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludwig Diels
Dr. Friedrich Ludwig Emil Diels (24 September 1874 – 30 November 1945) was a German botanist. Diels was born in Hamburg, the son of the classical scholar Hermann Alexander Diels. From 1900 to 1902 he traveled together with Ernst Georg Pritzel through South Africa, Java, Australia and New Zealand. Shortly before the First World War he travelled New Guinea and in the 1930s in Ecuador. Especially his collections of plants from Australia and Ecuador, which contained numerous holotypes, enriched the knowledge of the concerning floras. His monography on the Droseraceae from 1906 is still a standard. The majority of his collections were stored at the botanical garden in Berlin-Dahlem, whose vicedirector he had been since 1913, becoming its director in 1921 until 1945. His collections were destroyed there during an air raid in 1943. He died in Berlin on 30 November 1945. Honours Several genus of plants have been named after him including; ''Dielsantha'' (from ''Campanulaceae' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
