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Isopogon Longifolius
''Isopogon longifolius'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the Southwest Australia, southwest of Western Australia. It is a shrub with simple, linear, or deeply divided leaves and Sessility (botany), sessile, spherical heads of silky-hairy, yellow flowers and spherical to oval cone. Description ''Isopogon longifolius'' is a shrub that typically grows to a height of up to , its branchlets brownish to grey and hairy when young. The leaves are simple, linear to narrowly egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, sometimes deeply divided with two or three lobes, about long on a Petiole (botany), petiole about long. The flowers are borne in a spherical, sessile cluster up to about in diameter, each flower up to long, yellow and silky-hairy with a spindle-shaped pollen presenter up to long. Flowering occurs from November to January, and the fruit is a shaggy-hairy Nut (fruit), nut long, held in a more or less spherical to oval con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Kuntze
Carl Ernst Otto Kuntze (23 June 1843 – 27 January 1907) was a German botanist. Biography Otto Kuntze was born in Leipzig. An apothecary in his early career, he published an essay entitled ''Pocket Fauna of Leipzig''. Between 1863 and 1866 he worked as tradesman in Berlin and traveled through central Europe and Italy. From 1868 to 1873 he had his own factory for essential oils and attained a comfortable standard of living. Between 1874 and 1876, he traveled around the world: the Caribbean, United States, Japan, China, South East Asia, Arabian peninsula and Egypt. The journal of these travels was published as "Around the World" (1881). From 1876 to 1878 he studied Natural Science in Berlin and Leipzig and gained his doctorate in Freiburg with a monography of the genus '' Cinchona''. He edited the botanical collection from his world voyage encompassing 7,700 specimens in Berlin and Kew Gardens. The publication came as a shock to botany, since Kuntze had entirely revised taxonom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
