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List Of Australian Plant Species Authored By George Don
{{Use dmy dates, date=April 2022 This is a list of Australian plant species authored by George Don: * '' Acacia brunioides'' A.Cunn. ex G.Don * '' Acacia cultriformis'' A.Cunn. ex G.Don * ''Acacia cyclops'' A.Cunn. ex G.Don * '' Acacia deltoidea'' A.Cunn. ex G.Don * '' Acacia fimbriata'' A.Cunn. ex G.Don * ''Acacia holosericea'' A.Cunn. ex G.Don * ''Acacia pendula'' A.Cunn. ex G.Don * ''Acacia podalyriifolia'' A.Cunn. ex G.Don * ''Acacia prominens'' A.Cunn. ex G.Don * '' Acacia rigens'' A.Cunn. ex G.Don * '' Acacia sertiformis'' A.Cunn. ex G.Don * ''Alocasia macrorrhizos'' ( L.) G.Don * ''Aotus ericoides'' (Vent.) G.Don * ''Brachychiton acerifolius'' (A.Cunn. ex G.Don) Macarthur & C.Moore * ''Callistemon viminalis'' (Sol. ex Gaertn.) G.Don * ''Catharanthus roseus'' ( L.) G.Don * ''Chrysophyllum roxburghii'' G.Don * ''Clianthus formosus'' (G.Don) Ford & Vickery * ''Crotalaria ochroleuca'' G.Don * ''Daviesia leptophylla'' A.Cunn. ex G.Don * ''Daviesia physodes'' A.Cunn. ex G.Don * ''D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a Megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with Deserts of Australia, deserts in the centre, tropical Forests of Australia, rainforests in the north-east, and List of mountains in Australia, mountain ranges in the south-east. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south east Asia approximately Early human migrations#Nearby Oceania, 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy". Many of his writings were in Latin; his name is rendered in Latin as and, after his 1761 ennoblement, as . Linnaeus was born in Råshult, the countryside of Småland, in southern Sweden. He received most of his higher education at Uppsala University and began giving lectures in botany there in 1730. He lived abroad between 1735 and 1738, where he studied and also published the first edition of his ' in the Netherlands. He then returned to Sweden where he became professor of medicine and botany at Uppsala. In the 1740s, he was sent on several journeys through Sweden to find and classify plants and animals. In the 1750s and 1760s, he continued to collect an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dodonaea Multijuga
''Dodonaea'' is a genus of about 70 species of flowering plants, often known as hop-bushes, in the soapberry family, Sapindaceae. It has a cosmopolitan distribution in tropical, subtropical and warm temperate regions of Africa, the Americas, southern Asia and Australasia. By far the highest species diversity is in Australia. The genus is named after Rembert Dodoens, traditionally known as 'Dodonaeus'. They are shrubs and small trees growing to tall. The leaves are alternate, simple or pinnate. The flowers are produced in short racemes. The fruit is a capsule, often with two or three wings. ''Dodonaea'' species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including ''Aenetus eximia'' and ''Aenetus ligniveren''. Systematics ''Dodonaea'' is one of the largest genera in the Sapindaceae, and includes 70 species widely distributed in continental Australia. The only other species of the ''Dodonaea'' widely spread beyond mainland Australia, ''Dodonaea viscosa'', is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dodonaea Boroniifolia
''Dodonaea'' is a genus of about 70 species of flowering plants, often known as hop-bushes, in the soapberry family, Sapindaceae. It has a cosmopolitan distribution in tropical, subtropical and warm temperate regions of Africa, the Americas, southern Asia and Australasia. By far the highest species diversity is in Australia. The genus is named after Rembert Dodoens, traditionally known as 'Dodonaeus'. They are shrubs and small trees growing to tall. The leaves are alternate, simple or pinnate. The flowers are produced in short racemes. The fruit is a capsule, often with two or three wings. ''Dodonaea'' species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including ''Aenetus eximia'' and ''Aenetus ligniveren''. Systematics ''Dodonaea'' is one of the largest genera in the Sapindaceae, and includes 70 species widely distributed in continental Australia. The only other species of the ''Dodonaea'' widely spread beyond mainland Australia, ''Dodonaea viscosa'', is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desmodium Varians . A widespread species but not commonly seen, found in eastern Australia. Attractive pink flowers may form at any time of the year. The specific epithet varians is derived from Latin, referring to the variable habit and leaves.
''Desmodium varians'' is a small climbing or prostrate herb in the family Fabaceae The Fabaceae or Leguminosae,International Code of Nomenc ... Habitat ''Desmodium'' can occur in a number of soil types, but more fertile loam is preferred. Until seeds or fruits grow, it is widespread but often ignored. They are widespread in Qld, NSW, Vic, and Tas. It is found in forests of eucalyptus, woods and grassy woodlands.References External links * *[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Decaspermum Humile
''Decaspermum humile'', commonly known as the silky myrtle, is a tree from Australia and Asia. It can be used as bush food, as indicated by the alternate common name of currant myrtle. The tree features an attractive dark glossy crown. The new pink leaves with silvery hairs are particularly appealing. Taxonomy First described as ''Nelitris humilis'' by Scottish botanist George Don in 1832, it gained its current name in 1980 when reclassified in the genus ''Decaspermum''. ''Decaspermum'' refers to "ten seeds" as is often the case with this plant. ''Humile'' refers to small or lowly, as it is often seen as a bush or small tree. However, this is not always the case, as some examples of ''Decaspermum humile'' can reach 25 metres (80 ft) tall. Description A shrub or small tree, occasionally reaching 25 metres (80 ft) in height and a stem diameter of 45 cm (18 in). The trunk is often angled, crooked or fluted. Larger specimens may be slightly buttressed at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daviesia Physodes
''Daviesia physodes'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to near-coastal areas of south-western Western Australia. It is an open shrub with verically flattened or tapering, sharply-pointed phyllodes, and yellow and pink to red flowers. Description ''Daviesia physodes'' is an open, glabrous, usually glaucous shrub that typically grows to a height of up to . The phyllodes on the lower part of the plant are vertically flattened, wedge-shaped, up to long and high, those near the ends of the branchlets tapering and sharply pointed, up to long and wide. The flowers are arranged in groups of two to four on a peduncle about long, the rachis about long, each flower on a pedicel long. The sepals are about long, the upper two lobes joined for most of their length and the lower three about long. The standard petal is broadly egg-shaped with a notched centre, about long and wide, yellow with pink tinge. The wings are long and pink to red, the ke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daviesia Leptophylla
''Daviesia leptophylla'', commonly known as narrow-leaf bitter-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a broom-like, multi-stemmed shrub with dull, yellowish-green, linear phyllodes and bright yellow flowers with maroon markings. Description ''Daviesia leptophylla'' is a glabrous, broom-like, multi-stemmed shrub that typically grows to a height of up to about high or rarely, tree-like to wide. The phyllodes are scattered along the branchlets, linear, yellowish-green, up to long and wide. The flowers are borne in leaf axils usually on two racemes of five to ten flowers, the racemes on peduncles long, the rachis long, each flower on a pedicel long. The sepals are long and joined at the base, the upper two joined for most of their length and the lower three triangular and long. The standard petal is broadly elliptic with a notched centre, long and bright yellow with a maroon base and intens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crotalaria Ochroleuca
''Crotalaria'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae (subfamily Faboideae) commonly known as rattlepods. The genus includes over 700 species of herbaceous plants and shrubs. Africa is the continent with the majority of ''Crotalaria'' species (approximately 400 species), which are mainly found in damp grassland, especially in floodplains, depressions and along edges of swamps and rivers, but also in deciduous bush land, roadsides and fields. Some species of ''Crotalaria'' are grown as ornamentals. The common name rattlepod or rattlebox is derived from the fact that the seeds become loose in the pod as they mature, and rattle when the pod is shaken. The name derives from the Ancient Greek , meaning "castanet", and is the same root as the name for the rattlesnakes (''Crotalus''). ''Crotalaria'' species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including ''Endoclita sericeus'', ''Etiella zinckenella'' and ''Utetheisa ornatrix''. The toxic alkalo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clianthus Formosus
''Swainsona formosa'', Sturt's desert pea, is an Australian plant in the genus ''Swainsona'', named after English botanist Isaac Swainson, famous for its distinctive blood-red leaf-like flowers, each with a bulbous black centre, or "boss". It is one of Australia's best known wildflowers. It is native to the arid regions of central and north-western Australia, and its range extends into all mainland Australian states with the exception of Victoria. Description Sturt's desert pea is a member of Fabaceae, subfamily Faboideae. It has pinnate, grey-green leaves which are arranged spirally on the main axis of the plant, and in two opposite rows (distichous) on lateral stems. Flower Its flowers are so different from its relatives that it is almost unrecognisable as a member of the pea family. The flowers are about 9 centimetres in length and grow in clusters of around half a dozen on thick vertical stalks ( peduncles), which spring up every 10-15 centimetres along the prostrate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chrysophyllum Roxburghii
''Donella lanceolata'' is a plant species in the family Sapotaceae. It is a tree growing up to tall, with a trunk diameter of up to . The bark is grey to dark brown. Inflorescences bear up to 45 flowers. The fruit are brownish to purplish black, ripening yellow, round, up to in diameter. Its habitat is lowland forests from sea level to altitude. Its natural range is Madagascar, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Queensland. Synonyms Homotypic synonyms * '' Chrysophyllum javanicum'' * '' Chrysophyllum lanceolatum'' * '' Lucuma lanceolata'' * '' Nycterisition lanceolatum'' Heterotypic synonyms * '' Chrysophyllum acuminatum'' * '' Chrysophyllum bancanum'' * '' Chrysophyllum dioicum'' * ''Chrysophyllum lanceolatum'' var. ''papuanum'' * ''Chrysophyllum lanceolatum'' var. ''stellatocarpon'' * '' Chrysophyllum pentagonum'' * '' Chrysophyllum roxburghianum'' * ''Chrys ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catharanthus Roseus
''Catharanthus roseus'', commonly known as bright eyes, Cape periwinkle, graveyard plant, Madagascar periwinkle, old maid, pink periwinkle, rose periwinkle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Apocynaceae. It is native and endemic to Madagascar, but grown elsewhere as an ornamental and medicinal plant. It is a source of the drugs vincristine and vinblastine, used to treat cancer. It was formerly included in the genus ''Vinca'' as ''Vinca rosea''. It has many vernacular names among which are ''arivotaombelona'' or ''rivotambelona'', ''tonga'', ''tongatse'' or ''trongatse'', ''tsimatiririnina'', and ''vonenina''. Synonyms Two varieties are recognized * ''Catharanthus roseus'' var. ''roseus'' : Synonymy for this variety ::''Catharanthus roseus'' var. ''angustus'' Steenis ex Bakhuizen f. :: ''Catharanthus roseus'' var. ''albus'' G.DonG.Don, Gen. Hist. 4(1): 95. 1837. :: ''Catharanthus roseus'' var. ''occellatus'' G.Don :: ''Catharanthus roseus'' var. ''nanus'' Markgr. :: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
