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Lake Cooloongup
Lake Cooloongup, sometimes also referred to as White Lake, is a shallow saline lake in the suburb of Cooloongup, south of the central business district of Perth, the capital of Western Australia. It is part of Rockingham Lakes Regional Park. In the local Nyungar language, Cooloongup means "place of children". Overview The lake is bound in the east by Mandurah Road and in the west by the suburb of Cooloongup, with the reserve south of the lake stretching to Safety Bay Road, to the south of which Lake Walyungup is located. Like Lake Walyungup, Lake Cooloongup is thought to be drying because of reduced rainfalls. Depths of both lakes fluctuate from 0.5 to 3.5 metres, with the permanent pools of Lake Walyungup being the deepest points. Both lakes are also increasing in salinity, with Walyungup being more saline than Cooloongup. Unlike Lake Cooloongup, which has a groundwater outflow towards the sea, Lake Walyungup is a closed system, with water from the lake discharging through ev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandurah Road
Mandurah Road is the name given to two roads in the cities of Perth and Mandurah, Western Australia, which link together at Stakehill Road, Karnup. Route description The northern part starts in the Kwinana Beach industrial area. After 2 km and reaching the City of Rockingham boundary, it becomes a semi-rural single carriageway road which runs past wetlands east of Rockingham such as Lake Cooloongup and Lake Walyungup. It also provides access to the residential and rural-residential sections of the suburb of Baldivis. The southern part starts at Stakehill Road and is a dual carriageway and part of National Highway 1. It is actually a continuation of Ennis Avenue coming from Rockingham. It continues to Mandurah, where it intersects with Mandjoogoordap Drive at a roundabout before crossing Pinjarra Road and heading west to meet Old Coast Road which was traditionally the main road to Bunbury and South West of Western Australia, until the opening of Forrest Highway supe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Department Of Defence (Australia)
Defence Australia is a department of the Government of Australia charged with the responsibility to defend Australia and its national interests. Along with the Australian Defence Force (ADF), it forms part of the Australian Defence Organisation (ADO) and is accountable to the Commonwealth Parliament, on behalf of the Australian people, for the efficiency and effectiveness with which it carries out the Government's defence policy. The head of the department, who leads it on a daily basis, is the Secretary of the Department of Defence (SECDEF), currently Greg Moriarty. The Secretary reports to the Minister of Defence, Richard Marles. History Australia has had at least one defence-related government department since Federation in 1901. The first Department of Defence existed from 1901 until 1921. In 1915, during World War I, a separate Department of the Navy was created. The two departments merged in 1921 to form the second Department of Defence, regarded as a separate bod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eucalyptus Gomphocephala
''Eucalyptus gomphocephala'', known as tuart, is a species of tree, one of the six forest giants of Southwest Australia. Tuart forest was common on the Swan coastal plain, until the valuable trees were felled for export and displaced by the urban development around Perth, Western Australia. The wood is dense, hard, water resistant and resists splintering, and found many uses when it was available. Remnants of tuart forest occur in state reserves and parks, the tree has occasionally been introduced to other regions of Australia and overseas. Remaining trees are vulnerable to phytophthora dieback, an often fatal disorder, including a previously unknown species discovered during analysis of dead specimens. Description The tree is native to the southwest of Western Australia and typically grows to a height of . The tallest known living Tuart is 47m tall and located in the Tuart Forest NP near Ludlow. The largest Tuart tree has a wood volume of 108m³. Taller trees are often found a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthropodium Strictum
''Dichopogon strictus'' (syn. ''Arthropodium strictum''), commonly known as chocolate lily, is a herbaceous perennial plant species native to Australia. Description The species has up to 12 leaves that are linear or lanceolate in shape and are up to 65 cm long and 1–12 mm wide. The racemose inflorescence is up to 1 metre high. This appears between August and January in the species' native range. The individual, drooping flowers range in colour from pale mauve to dark purple. The common name chocolate lily alludes to the scent of the flowers which resembles chocolate, caramel or vanilla. The tubers, which are juicy and slightly bitter in taste, were eaten by Indigenous Australians. Taxonomy The species was formally described in 1810 by Scottish botanist Robert Brown, based on plant material collected at Port Dalrymple in Tasmania. Brown gave it the name ''Arthropodium strictum''. In 1876, English botanist John Gilbert Baker transferred it to the genus ''Dichopogon'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viminaria Juncea
''Viminaria juncea'' is the single species in the genus ''Viminaria'' endemic to Australia. The genus is in the pea family Fabaceae. It is colloquially known as native broom after its resemblance to the related European broom plants. The Noongar peoples know the plant as koweda. Taxonomy Originally described in 1795 by Schrader as ''Sophora juncea'', it was given its current binomial name by Hoffmannsegg in 1824. The genus name is derived from the Latin ''vimineus'' "switch", and the species name from Latin ''juncus'' "rush", hence "rush-like". Alternate names include golden spray, native broom and swishbush. Description Native broom grows as an erect or weeping shrub high and wide. It has a smooth trunk and ascending branches while the minor branchlets often droop. The long and thin leaves are essentially petioles and measure in length. Flowering occurs from September to January, the flowers growing on racemes to about in length. Measuring in diameter, they are yellow w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lobelia Tenuior
''Lobelia tenuior'', commonly known as slender lobelia, is a small herbaceous plant in the family '' Campanulaceae'' native to Western Australia. The erect, slender and annual herb typically grows to a height of . It blooms between October and January producing blue flowers. The species is found on sand dunes, among coastal limestone and in lowlying areas along the coast of the South West The points of the compass are a set of horizontal, radially arrayed compass directions (or azimuths) used in navigation and cartography. A compass rose is primarily composed of four cardinal directions—north, east, south, and west—each sepa ... and Great Southern regions of Western Australia where it grows in sandy soils. Subspecies *'' Lobelia tenuior subsp. tenuior'' *'' Lobelia tenuior subsp. dictyosperma'' N.G.Walsh References {{Taxonbar, from=Q3257618 tenuior Flora of Western Australia Plants described in 1810 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pimelea Calcicola
''Pimelea calcicola'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae and is endemic to part of the west coast of Western Australia. It is an erect to spreading shrub with elliptic leaves arranged in opposite pairs, and head-like racemes of pale to deep pink, tube-shaped flowers surrounded by leaf-like involucral bracts. Description ''Pimelea calcicola'' is an erect to spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of and has a single main stem. The leaves are arranged in opposite pairs, narrowly elliptic to elliptic, long and wide on a petiole about long. The flowers are pale to deep pink, and borne in head-like racemes surrounded by six leaf-like, egg-shaped involucral bracts long, each flower on a silky-hairy pedicel about long. The floral tube is long, the sepals egg-shaped, long and glabrous. Flowering occurs from September to November. Taxonomy ''Pimelea calcicola'' was first formally described in 1984 by Barbara Lynette Rye in the journal '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ptilotus Drummondii
''Ptilotus'' R.Br. is a genus of approximately 120 species of annual and perennial herbs and shrubs in the family Amaranthaceae. All species are native to mainland Australia, although one species, ''Ptilotus spathulatus'' (R.Br.) Poir., also occurs in Tasmania and another, '' Ptilotus conicus'' R.Br., in Malesia on the islands of Flores and Timor. Most of the diversity is in Western Australia, particularly in the Pilbara. Common names for species in this genus include mulla mulla, foxtails, pussy tails and lamb's tails. The genus was first formally described by botanist Robert Brown in ''Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae'' in 1810. In family-level phylogenetic studies, ''Ptilotus'' has been placed within a clade informally known as the 'aervoids'. It has been resolved as monophyletic and is closely related to ''Aerva'' Forssk. An interactive key to the species of ''Ptilotus'' is available at KeyBase. Species Conservation status A number of ''Ptilotus'' species are listed as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hakea Trifurcata
''Hakea trifurcata'', commonly known as two-leaf, two-leaved hakea, or kerosene bush, is a shrub, endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. The species has two leaf forms, needle-like or oblong egg-shaped. Unlike most hakea species the fruit remain green at maturity and resemble the broader leaf form. The mimicry creates a camouflage, reducing predation of the seed by granivores in particular cockatoos. Description ''Hakea trifurcata'' is an open or dense shrub high and about wide. It does not form a lignotuber. The branchlets have white or rusty coloured flattened, short soft silky hairs or are densely covered in soft hairs and quickly become smooth. The shrub has two forms of leaves usually needle-like, curved, straight or may be divided in segments, long and wide, grooved below and ending in a sharp point. The second form is wider, oblong to egg-shaped long, wide with a central vein and is either wedge-shaped at the apex or narrows gradually. Both leaf shapes have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hakea Varia
''Hakea varia'', commonly known as the variable-leaved hakea, is a shrub of the family Proteaceae and is endemism, endemic to Wheatbelt (Western Australia), Wheatbelt, South West (Western Australia), South West, Great Southern (Western Australia), Great Southern and Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia. It is a dense prickly shrub with creamy-white or yellow flowers and variably shaped leaves. Description ''Hakea varia'' is an erect or spreading shrub typically growing to a height of and wide and forms a lignotuber. The branchlets and young leaves have flattened, densely matted silky hairs, quickly becoming smooth. The stiff leaves may be variable on the one plant, needle-shaped, simple, more or less elliptic, egg-shaped, toothed, long and wide. All variations of leaves always end in a sharp point long. The inflorescence consists of 16-36 sweetly scented white-cream or yellow showy flowers in axillary clusters. The inflorescence stalk is long with coarse longi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billardiera Heterophylla
''Billardiera heterophylla'' (formerly ''Sollya heterophylla'') is a species of flowering plant in the family Pittosporaceae, known by the common name bluebell creeper. It is native to Western Australia, but is grown as an ornamental plant in appropriate climates worldwide. It can sometimes be found growing in the wild as an introduced species or garden escapee, for example in other Australian states and in California, where it is popular in landscaping. It is sometimes considered a weed. Description It is a climbing shrub with vine-like branches that twine around other plants for support. The leaves are a glossy green on the upper surface, and long, wide. The inflorescence is a single hanging flower or a hanging group of up to five flowers. The flower has five petals up to 1 cm long which may be white to deep blue or pinkish in color. The fruit is a berry up to long with pulpy flesh and many seeds. The purplish-green, cylindrical, sausage-shaped fruits (up to in length) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Botanical
Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek word (''botanē'') meaning "pasture", " herbs" "grass", or " fodder"; is in turn derived from (), "to feed" or "to graze". Traditionally, botany has also included the study of fungi and algae by mycologists and phycologists respectively, with the study of these three groups of organisms remaining within the sphere of interest of the International Botanical Congress. Nowadays, botanists (in the strict sense) study approximately 410,000 species of land plants of which some 391,000 species are vascular plants (including approximately 369,000 species of flowering plants), and approximately 20,000 are bryophytes. Botany originated in prehistory as herbalism with the efforts of early humans to identify – and later cultivate – edible, me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
