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Grevillea Victoriae
''Grevillea victoriae'', also known as royal grevillea or mountain grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to mountainous regions of south-eastern continental Australia. It is an erect to spreading shrub with elliptic to lance-shaped leaves, and pendulous clusters of red to orange flowers. Description ''Grevillea victoriae'' is an erect to spreading shrub that grows to a height of and has more or less silky-hairy branchlets. Its leaves are elliptic or narrowly elliptic to lance-shaped, sometimes egg-shaped, long and wide. The upper surface of the leaves is more or less glabrous and the lower surface is densely silky- or woolly-hairy. The flowes are red to orange and arranged on the ends of the branches or in leaf axils in pendant, conical to loose, sometimes branched clusters on a rachis long, the pistil long. Flowering may occur in any month, but mainly from August to January in the absence of snow. The fruit is a glabrous foll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Buffalo National Park
The Mount Buffalo National Park is a national park in the alpine region of Victoria, Australia. The national park is located approximately northeast of Melbourne in the Australian Alps. Within the national park is Mount Buffalo, a moderately high mountain plateau, with an elevation of above sea level. On 4 November 1898 an area of was reserved around the plateau and Eurobin Falls as Mount Buffalo National Park, making it one of the oldest national parks in Australia. In 1908 a road was opened to the plateau and the park was expanded to ; and in 1980 to its current size to take in most of the surrounding foothill country. On 7 November 2008, the park was added to the Australian National Heritage List as one of eleven areas constituting the Australian Alps National Parks and Reserves. Location and features Mount Buffalo is a moderately tall mountain plateau on the west side of the Victorian Alpine region. The top of the mountain has striking granite boulders and rock formati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Molyneux
William Mitchell Molyneux (born 1935) is an Australian horticulturist and author who has researched and developed many popular cultivars of Australian plants, including Banksia 'Birthday Candles', and Isopogon 'Woorikee 2000'. '' Grevillea molyneuxii'' was named in his honour. He has also written books for the Australian garden. Bill lives at Wombat Bend in Victoria Australia surrounded by examples of his work and passions. References Notes Bibliography *Molyneux W, Macdonald R (1992) ''How to Create an Australian Landscape'' Thomas Nelson, Melbourne, Australia 20th-century Australian botanists Australian horticulturists Australian taxonomists 1935 births Living people 21st-century Australian botanists {{australia-botanist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flora Of Australia (series)
''Flora of Australia'' is a 59 volume series describing the vascular plants, bryophytes and lichens present in Australia and its external territories. The series is published by the Australian Biological Resources Study who estimate that the series when complete will describe over 20 000 plant species.Orchard, A. E. 1999. Introduction. In A. E. Orchard, ed. ''Flora of Australia - Volume 1'', 2nd edition pp 1-9. Australian Biological Resources Study It was orchestrated by Alison McCusker. Series Volume 1 of the series was published in 1981, a second extended edition was released in 1999. The series uses the Cronquist system of taxonomy. The ABRS also published the ''Fungi of Australia'', the ''Algae of Australia'' and the ''Flora of Australia Supplementary Series''. A new online ''Flora of Australia'' was launched by ABRS in 2017, and no more printed volumes will be published. Volumes published :1. Introduction (1st edition) 1981 :1. Introduction (2nd edition) 1999 Othe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grevillea Miqueliana
''Grevillea miqueliana'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to Victoria in Australia. It is an erect to spreading shrub with elliptic to egg-shaped leaves and clusters of red and orange or yellow flowers. Description ''Grevillea miqueliana'' is a spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of and shaggy- to woolly-hairy branchlets. The leaves are elliptic to egg-shaped, sometimes with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide with the edges turned down or rolled under. The lower surface is covered with velvety to shaggy hairs. The flowers are usually arranged on the ends of branches or in leaf axils in oval to cylindrical clusters of 6 to 20 on a rachis long. The flowers are red with yellow or orange blotches, the pistil long. Flowering occurs in most months, in the absence of snow, and the fruit is a follicle long. Taxonomy ''Grevillea miqueliana'' was first formally described in 1855 by Ferdinand von Mueller in his ''D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grevillea Monslacana
''Grevillea monslacana'', commonly known as Lake Mountain grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to mountainous areas of eastern Victoria in Australia. It is a spreading to erect shrub with narrowly egg-shaped leaves and clusters of pink to reddish pink flowers. Description ''Grevillea monslacana'' is an erect to spreading shrub that typically grows to high, wide and has densely woolly-hairy branchlets. Its leaves are narrowly egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, sometimes narrowly elliptic, mostly long and wide. The upper surface of the leaves is usually glabrous, the lower surface silky-hairy, and the edges curved downwards. The flowers are arranged in sometimes branched clusters on a rachis long and are pink to reddish-pink, rarely white, the pistil long. Flowering occurs from October to April and the fruit is a faintly ridged follicle about long. Taxonomy ''Grevillea monslacana'' was first formally describe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grevillea Irrasa
''Grevillea irrasa'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to south-eastern New South Wales. It is an erect, spreading shrub with oblong to egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and clusters of red to apricot-coloured flowers. Description ''Grevillea irrasa'' is an erect, spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of and has hairy branchlets. Its leaves are oblong to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide, the edges rolled under and the lower surface with felty or shaggy hairs. The flowers are usually arranged on the ends of branches in clusters of six to sixteen on a rachis long and are red to apricot-coloured, the pistil long. Flowering occurs from August to January and the fruit is a glabrous oval to elliptic follicle long. Taxonomy ''Grevillea irrasa'' was first formally described in 2000 by Australian botanist Robert Owen Makinson in the '' Flora of Australia'' from specimens co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grevillea Epicroca
''Grevillea epicroca'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to south-eastern New South Wales. It is a shrub with elliptic to lance-shaped leaves and red, silky-hairy flowers. Description ''Grevillea epicroca'' is a shrub that typically grows up to high and has branchlets with a few silky hairs. Its leaves are elliptic to lance-shaped, mostly long and wide, the lower surface with a few silky hairs pressed against the surface. The flowers are arranged in small groups near the ends of branchets on a rachis long. The flowers are red and silky-hairy, the style red or pinkish and more or less glabrous, and the pistil long. Flowering mainly occurs from November to May and the fruit is a follicle long. Taxonomy ''Grevillea epicroca'' was first formally described in 2000 by Val Stajsic and Bill Molyneux in the '' Flora of Australia'' from specimens collected by Michael Crisp near Braidwood in 1976. The specific epithet (''epicroca'') means ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grevillea Rhyolitica
''Grevillea rhyolitica'', commonly known as Deua grevillea or Deua flame, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to south-eastern New South Wales. It is a more or less erect shrub with elliptic leaves and hairy red flowers. Description ''Grevillea rhyolitica'' is usually a more or less erect shrub that typically grows to a height of . Its leaves are elliptic, long and wide, the upper surface mostly glabrous and the lower surface sparsely hairy. The flowers are arranged on the ends of branches or in leaf axils near the ends of branches, in down-curved, oval to more or less spherical clusters of mostly 5 to 18 on a rachis long. The clusters are on a thin, wiry peduncle long, each flower on a pedicel long. The flowers are red and densely hairy except at the base, the pistil long. Flowering occurs from September to December, and the fruit is a glabrous follicle long with several longitudinal ridges. Taxonomy ''Grevillea rhyolitica'' was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grevillea Oxyantha
''Grevillea oxyantha'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is an erect to spreading shrub with somewhat silky-hairy branchlets, broadly elliptic to broadly egg-shaped or almost round leaves, and hairy, crimson and pink flowers with a red style. Description ''Grevillea oxyantha'' is an erect to spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of and has silky-hairy branchlets. Its leaves are broadly elliptic to broadly egg-shaped or almost round, long and wide, the lower surface covered with woolly or silky hairs. The flowers are arranged in more or less cylindrical clusters on a rachis long. The flowers are scarlet to crimson and woolly- or silky-hairy on the outside, pink inside, the pistil long. Flowering mainly occurs from August to December and the fruit is a glabrous, oval to elliptic follicle long. Taxonomy ''Grevillea oxyantha'' was first formally described in 1997 by Robert Owen Maki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grevillea Mollis
''Grevillea mollis'', commonly known as soft grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of north-eastern New South Wales. It is an open, spreading shrub with oblong to elliptic leaves and loose clusters of bright scarlet red flowers. Description ''Grevillea mollis'' is an open, spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of and has shaggy-hairy branchlets. Its leaves are oblong to narrowly oblong or elliptic, long and wide. The upper surface is covered with soft hairs, the lower side with shaggy hairs and the edges are wavy. The flowers are arranged in loose clusters of four to eight on a peduncle up to long, the rachis long with young buds developing as the older flowers fade. The flowers are bright scarlet red, the pistil long with a green to yellow pollen presenter. Flowering mainly occurs from August to November and the fruit is an elliptic follicle long. Taxonomy ''Grevillea mollis'' was first form ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grevillea Hockingsii
''Grevillea hockingsii'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Queensland. It is an erect shrub with oblong to narrowly elliptic leaves and clusters of reddish-pink flowers. Description ''Grevillea hockingsii'' is a dense, erect shrub that typically grows to a height of high and has ascending, silky-hairy branchlets. Its adult leaves are oblong to narrowly elliptic, long and wide. The lower surface of the leaves is silky-hairy. The flowers are arranged in leaf axils or on the stems in clusters of two to ten long on a rachis long, each flower on a pedicel about long. The flowers are reddish pink, hairy and slightly rust-coloured, the pistil long. Flowering mainly occurs from June to December and the fruit is an elliptic to narrowly oval follicle long. Taxonomy ''Grevillea hockingsii'' was first formally described in 2008 by Bill Molyneux and Peter M. Olde in the journal '' Telopea'' from specimens collected in the Coo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald McGillivray (botanist)
Donald John McGillivray (20 August 1935 – 17 August 2012) in New South Wales, Australia, usually known as D.J. McGillivray, was an Australian botanical taxonomist. He was trained in forestry, and became interested in plant taxonomy just before he transferred in 1964 to the National Herbarium of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney, New South Wales. From 1969 to 1970, he was the Australian Botanical Liaison Officer at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, London. McGillivray specialised in the ''Grevillea'' genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ..., and in 1993 published ''Grevillea – Proteaceae: A Taxonomic Revision'', a definitive scientific survey of the prolific Australian plant genus. References 20th-century Australian botanists Australian tax ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
