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Kunzea Glabrescens
''Kunzea glabrescens'', commonly known as spearwood, is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a large shrub with leaves and flowers similar to those of '' K. ericifolia'' but has differently shaped bracteoles. It is often common in wet areas around Perth. Description ''Kunzea glabrescens'' is a shrub or tree with several main stems and many branches and which grows to a height of up to . The leaves are linear to lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, mostly long and less than wide with a petiole up to long. The flowers are arranged in dense heads of 18 to 28 mainly on the ends of the longer branches. The flowers are surrounded by egg-shaped bracts long and wide and pairs of broadly egg-shaped bracteoles which are long and wide. The floral cup is long and the five sepals are egg-shaped to triangular, glabrous and long. The five petals are long and pale yellow and there 30-45 stamens. F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hellmut R
Hellmut is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Hellmut Andics (1922–1998), Austrian journalist, publicist, and writer * Hellmut Bunge (1920–2006), Hauptmann in the Wehrmacht during World War II, recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross *Hellmut von der Chevallerie (1896–1965), General of the Infantry in the German Wehrmacht during the World War II * Sigismund Hellmut von Dawans (1899–1944), general in the Wehrmacht during World War II, recipient of the German Cross in Gold *Hellmut Diwald (1924–1993), German historian and Professor of Medieval and Modern History at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg *Hellmut Federhofer (1911–2014), Austrian musicologist *Hellmut Flashar (born 1929), German philologist and translator * Hellmut Fritzsche (born 1927), American physicist *Hellmut Geissner (1926–2012), German scholar of speech and rhetoric *Hellmut von Gerlach (1866–1935), German journalist and politician *Hellmut G. Haasis (born 1942), German h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenwood, Western Australia
Greenwood is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located in the City of Joondalup. The suburb is located 18 km from Perth's central business district. It is bordered by the Mitchell Freeway, Hepburn ave, Wanneroo road and Warwick road. History The Gold Land Development Corporation used the name ''Greenwood Forest'' as the promotional name of the estate which commenced development in the area in 1969. The reserve between the suburbs of Duncraig and Greenwood was used for the construction of the Mitchell Freeway in 1985-1986. Education Greenwood is home to a senior high school and three primary schools: * Greenwood College * Greenwood Primary School * West Greenwood Primary School Liwara Catholic Primary School The original Greenwood Primary School closed in 1997 and the land was sub-divided and sold as residential lots. During June 2007, the government announced that Allenswood Primary School and East Greenwood Primary schools would amalgamate, temporarily at the East Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Department Of Parks And Wildlife (Western Australia)
The Department of Parks and Wildlife (DPaW) was the department of the Government of Western Australia responsible for managing lands described in the ''Conservation and Land Management Act 1984'' and implementing the state's conservation and environment legislation and regulations. The minister responsible for the department was the Minister for the Environment. History The Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) was separated on 30 June 2013, forming the Department of Parks and Wildlife (DPaW) and the Department of Environment Regulation (DER), both of which commenced operations on 1 July 2013. DPaW focused on managing multiple use state forests, national parks, marine parks and reserves. DER focused on environmental regulation, approvals and appeals processes, and pollution prevention. It was announced on 28 April 2017 that the Department of Parks and Wildlife would merge with the Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority, the Zoological Parks Authority and the Rott ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Government Of Western Australia
The Government of Western Australia, formally referred to as His Majesty's Government of Western Australia, is the Australian state democratic administrative authority of Western Australia. It is also commonly referred to as the WA Government or the Western Australian Government. The Government of Western Australia, a parliamentary constitutional monarchy, was formed in 1890 as prescribed in its Constitution, as amended from time to time. Since the Federation of Australia in 1901, Western Australia has been a state of the Commonwealth of Australia, and the Constitution of Australia regulates its relationship with the Commonwealth. Under the Australian Constitution, Western Australia ceded legislative and judicial supremacy to the Commonwealth, but retained powers in all matters not in conflict with the Commonwealth. History Executive and judicial powers Western Australia is governed according to the principles of the Westminster system, a form of parliamentary government ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albany, Western Australia
Albany ( ; nys, Kinjarling) is a port city in the Great Southern region in the Australian state of Western Australia, southeast of Perth, the state capital. The city centre is at the northern edge of Princess Royal Harbour, which is a part of King George Sound. The central business district is bounded by Mount Clarence to the east and Mount Melville to the west. The city is in the local government area of the City of Albany. While it is the oldest colonial, although not European, settlement in Western Australia - predating Perth and Fremantle by over two years - it was a semi-exclave of New South Wales for over four years until it was made part of the Swan River Colony. The settlement was founded on 26 December 1826 as a military outpost of New South Wales for the purpose of forestalling French ambitions in the region. To that end, on 21 January 1827, the commander of the outpost, Major Edmund Lockyer, formally took possession for the British Crown of the portion of N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Southern (Western Australia)
__NOTOC__ The Great Southern Region is one of the nine regions of Western Australia, as defined by the Regional Development Commissions Act 1993, for the purposes of economic development. It is a section of the larger South coast of Western Australia and neighbouring agricultural regions. The region officially comprises the local government areas of Albany, Broomehill-Tambellup, Cranbrook, Denmark, Gnowangerup, Jerramungup, Katanning, Kent, Kojonup, Plantagenet and Woodanilling. The Great Southern Region has an area of and a population of about 54,000. Its administrative centre is the historic port of Albany. It has a Mediterranean climate, with hot, dry summers and cool, wet winters. The Stirling Range is the only place in Western Australia that regularly receives snowfalls, if only very light. The economy of the Great Southern Region is dominated by livestock farming, dairy farming and crop-growing. It has some of the most productive cereal grain and pastoral l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South West (Western Australia)
The South West region is one of the nine regions of Western Australia. It has an area of 23,970 km2, and a population of about 170,000 people. Bunbury is the main city in the region. Climate The South West has a Mediterranean climate, with dry summers and wet winters. There is about 900 mm of precipitation per year, with most between May and September. Bunburyonline. Mean maximum daily temperatures range from 16 °C in July to 34 °C in February. Economy The economy of the South West is very diverse. It is a major world producer of aluminium oxide and |
Peel (Western Australia)
The Peel region is one of the nine regions of Western Australia. It is located on the west coast of Western Australia, about south of the state capital, Perth. It consists of the City of Mandurah, and the Shires of Shire of Boddington, Boddington, Shire of Murray, Murray, Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale, Serpentine-Jarrahdale and Shire of Waroona, Waroona. It has a total area of 6,648 km². In 2017, Peel had a population of 136,854, of which over sixty percent lived in Mandurah. In June 2019 the total population for the constituent LGAs was 142,960 Estimated resident population, 30 June 2019. within an area of 5516.3 sq km. The economy of the Peel region is dominated by mining and mineral processing; the area has large reserves of bauxite, some gold and mineral sands, and an aluminium refinery. Other important economic sectors include agriculture and a substantial equine industry. Before European settlement, the Peel region was inhabited by Indigenous Australians, specificall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swan Coastal Plain
The Swan Coastal Plain in Western Australia is the geographic feature which contains the Swan River as it travels west to the Indian Ocean. The coastal plain continues well beyond the boundaries of the Swan River and its tributaries, as a geological and biological zone, one of Western Australia's Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) regions.IBRA Version 6.1 data It is also one of the distinct physiographic provinces of the larger West Australian Shield division. Location and description The coastal plain is a strip on the Indian Ocean coast directly west of the |
Gingin, Western Australia
Gingin is a town in Western Australia, located on the Brand Highway north of the Perth city centre. It is the council seat for the Shire of Gingin local government area. Gingin had a population of 852 at the . The town's economy is mostly based on its agriculture, although there has been an increasing focus on science with the establishment of the Australian International Gravitational Observatory and Gravity Discovery Centre. There is also a small military airfield, RAAF Gingin, located nearby. History The first European to visit the area was the explorer George Fletcher Moore; he arrived in 1836 and recorded the Aboriginal name "Jinjin" on his charts. The first property to be established in the area by William Locke Brockman in 1841 was named Gingin station. The meaning of the word Gingin is uncertain but is thought to mean "footprint" or "place of many streams". A townsite, Granville, was established close by in 1839 but once Gingin was gazetted in 1871 Granville was ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustav Kunze
Gustav Kunze (4 October 1793, Leipzig – 30 April 1851, Leipzig) was a German professor of zoology, an entomologist and botanist with an interest mainly in ferns and orchids. Kunze joined the Wernerian Natural History Society in Edinburgh in 1817. He later became Zoology Professor at Leipzig University and in 1837 was appointed director of the Botanical Gardens in Leipzig. In 1851 he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The plant genus ''Kunzea ''Kunzea'' is a genus of plants in the family Myrtaceae and is endemic to Australasia. They are shrubs, sometimes small trees and usually have small, crowded, rather aromatic leaves. The flowers are similar to those of plants in the genus '' Lep ...'' was named in his honour. Works * Beiträge zur Monographie der Rohrkäfer. ''Neue Schrift. Naturf. Ges. Halle'', 2 (4): 1-56. (1818). * Die Farrnkrauter in Kolorirten Abbildungen: Naturgetreu Erläutert und Beschrieben. 2 volumes (1847-1851). * Index ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suffix
In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word. Common examples are case endings, which indicate the grammatical case of nouns, adjectives, and verb endings, which form the conjugation of verbs. Suffixes can carry grammatical information (inflectional suffixes) or lexical information ( derivational/lexical suffixes'').'' An inflectional suffix or a grammatical suffix. Such inflection changes the grammatical properties of a word within its syntactic category. For derivational suffixes, they can be divided into two categories: class-changing derivation and class-maintaining derivation. Particularly in the study of Semitic languages, suffixes are called affirmatives, as they can alter the form of the words. In Indo-European studies, a distinction is made between suffixes and endings (see Proto-Indo-European root). Suffixes can carry grammatical information or lexical information. A word-final segment that is somewhere between a free morpheme and a b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
