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Hakea Ochroptera
''Hakea ochroptera'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is Endemism, endemic to a restricted area of New South Wales. It is a shrub with long, needle-shaped leaves and an abundance of cream-white flowers in spring. Description ''Hakea ochroptera'' is a tall shrub or tree to high with descending branches and does not form a lignotuber. Young stems, leaves and Pedicel (botany), pedicels are hairy and rusty coloured. The leaves are needle-shaped, long and about wide ending with a point long. Creamy-white flowers appear in umbels of up to six flowers in the leaf axils from September to October. The fruit are long and wide with small blister-like growths on the surface ending with an obscure or absent horn. Taxonomy and naming ''Hakea ochroptera'' was first formally described in 1996 by South Australian botanist William Robert Barker, William Barker and the description was published in the Adelaide Botanic Garden, Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Garde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australasian Virtual Herbarium
The ''Australasian Virtual Herbarium'' (AVH) is an online resource that allows access to plant specimen data held by various Australian and New Zealand herbaria. It is part of the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA), and was formed by the amalgamation of ''Australia's Virtual Herbarium'' and ''NZ Virtual Herbarium''. As of 12 August 2014, more than five million specimens of the 8 million and upwards specimens available from participating institutions have been databased. Uses This resource is used by academics, students, and anyone interested in research in botany in Australia or New Zealand, since each record tells all that is known about the specimen: where and when it was collected; by whom; its current identification together with the botanist who identified it; and information on habitat and associated species. ALA post processes the original herbarium data, giving further fields with respect to taxonomy and quality of the data. When interrogating individual specimen record ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |