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Lomatia Tasmanica
''Lomatia tasmanica'', commonly known as King's lomatia, is a shrub of the family Proteaceae native to Tasmania. Growing up to tall, the plant has shiny green pinnate (lobed) leaves and bears red flowers in the summer, but yields neither fruit nor seeds. King's lomatia is unusual because all of the remaining plants are genetically identical clones. Because it has three sets of chromosomes (a triploid) and is therefore sterile, reproduction occurs only vegetatively: when a branch falls, that branch grows new roots, establishing a new plant that is genetically identical to its parent. Charles Denison "Deny" King discovered the plant in 1934, though it was not described until 1967 by botanist Winifred Mary Curtis of the Tasmanian Herbarium. Only one colony of King's lomatia is known to be alive in the wild, consisting of about 600 plants over an area 1.2 km in length. Description The individual plants of ''L. tasmanica'' are straggly shrubs or small trees to high, tho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hobart
Hobart ( ; Nuennonne/Palawa kani: ''nipaluna'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Home to almost half of all Tasmanians, it is the least-populated Australian state capital city, and second-smallest if territories are taken into account, before Darwin, Northern Territory. Hobart is located in Tasmania's south-east on the estuary of the River Derwent, making it the most southern of Australia's capital cities. Its skyline is dominated by the kunanyi/Mount Wellington, and its harbour forms the second-deepest natural port in the world, with much of the city's waterfront consisting of reclaimed land. The metropolitan area is often referred to as Greater Hobart, to differentiate it from the City of Hobart, one of the five local government areas that cover the city. It has a mild maritime climate. The city lies on country which was known by the local Mouheneener people as nipaluna, a name which includes surrounding features such as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phyllocladus Aspleniifolius
''Phyllocladus aspleniifolius'', commonly known as the celerytop pine, is an endemic gymnosperm of Tasmania, Australia. It is widespread and common in Tasmania, with the most abundance in the western highlands. Its ‘leaves’ appear similar to those of a celery plant, hence the common name. Description ''Phyllocladus aspeniifolius'' is a large, conical conifer in the family Podocarpaceae. The trunk is erect with horizontal branches. True leaves appear at the seedling stage and are fine and needle-like. Mature leaves are reduced to minute, brown scales. The function of the leaf is taken over by cladodes that look like green diamond shaped leaves, similar to the leaves of a celery plant, hence the common name “celery-top pine”. The cladodes are thick and flattened, 3–8 cm long borne spirally on green stems. The plant may bear male and female cones on the same tree or separate trees in summer. The male cones are cylindrical, 3–5 mm long, with 2-3 together ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parablechnum Wattsii
''Parablechnum wattsii'', synonym ''Blechnum wattsii'', is a common terrestrial fern growing in rainforest and open forest. It is often seen near creeks in much of south eastern Australia, including Victoria, Tasmania (and King Island), South Australia, New South Wales and Queensland. The specific epithet ''wattsii'' honours William Walter Watts (1856-1920). Watts was considered an authority on mosses and ferns and has more than 30 species named for him. Common names by which the species may be called are hard water fern - from its stiff leathery fronds, leech fern - as forest workers often encounter leaches while working in clusters of these ferns, hard hill fern - from the fern's habit and habitat, and red cabbage fern - from the bronze-pink colour of the young fronds resembling cooked red cabbage. Habit The mature ''Parablechnum wattsii'' can grow from 30 cm to 125 cm tall, with large erect fronds. The fern can spread horizontally using scaled rhizomes, which have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prionotes
''Prionotes'' is a genus of flowering plants endemic to Tasmania, with a single species, ''Prionotes cerinthoides''. Commonly known as climbing heath, it is a temperate rainforest climber or a small scrambling shrub in the mountains. It usually lives in very wet, undisturbed places. Description Its wiry stem is about 1 meter long. The glossy deep green leaves are 0.8–2 cm long, fairly crowded, elliptical in shape with shallowly-toothed margins, without parallel veins. The deep pink tubular flowers are bell shaped with 5 petals. They are up to 2.5 cm long by 1-1.2 cm wide, and constricted at the mouth. They are pendent, often clustered, and usually appear in summer and autumn. The fruit is a woody capsule, opening by 5 valves with many seeds in each part. ''P. cerinthoides'' is self-compatible and bird pollinated. Habitat and distribution The plant family Ericaceae (heaths and heathers) is widespread in many parts of the globe, particularly Europe and South Afr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agastachys
''Agastachys odorata'', commonly known as the white waratah or fragrant candlebush, is the sole member of the genus ''Agastachys'' in the protea family. It is an evergreen shrub to small tree and is endemic to the heaths and button grass sedgelands of western Tasmania. Diagnostic features ''Agastachys odorata'' is an erect, evergreen shrub that is endemic to Tasmania. ''A. odorata'' can be variable in shape, though mature individuals are commonly found between 1–3 metres in height and 0.5- 1 meter in width. ''A. odorata'' displays many of the diagnostic characteristics of the ''Proteaceae'' family it belongs to. The primary protea features ''A. odorata'' exhibit's are leathery alternate leaves and irregular woody floral structures(''see figure 1 and figure 2 below''). The leaves have entire margins with rounded tips. They are bright green in appearance with an almost leathery thick texture. The leaf looks like a football field stretched from one end, being classified as nar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raukaua Gunnii
''Raukaua gunnii'' is a species of plant in the family Araliaceae The Araliaceae are a family of flowering plants composed of about 43 genera and around 1500 species consisting of primarily woody plants and some herbaceous plants. The morphology of Araliaceae varies widely, but it is predominantly distinguisha ... native to Tasmania. It was previously known as ''Pseudopanax gunnii'', but was found not to be closely related to the core members of ''Pseudopanax''. References {{Taxonbar, from=Q15555330 gunnii Flora of Tasmania ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trochocarpa Gunnii
''Trochocarpa gunnii'', commonly known as sweet-scented trochocarpa or fragrant purpleberry, is a common rainforest understorey shrub from the plant family Ericaceae (formerly Epacridaceae) endemic to Tasmania. Description ''Trochocarpa gunnii'' is a densely branched understorey shrub, usually growing to 2-4m tall and spreading with twisting branches. Leaves grow alternately along the branches, arranged so that the shoot appears flattened. The leaves are small (6-10mm long) and oval-elliptical to oblong shaped, with a dark green adaxial (upper) surface and a lighter green abaxial (lower) surface. Leaves have 5-7 parallel veins running along the abaxial surface. ''T. gunnii'' has small, white, pink or red flowers, and is the only species in this genus with a glabrous corolla. The flowers are sweetly scented and arranged in short spikes near the ends of branches or in the axils of leaves of the previous year’s shoots. Flowers can be seen in the summer months of December to Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cenarrhenes
''Cenarrhenes'' is a monytypic genus in the family Proteaceae containing the single species ''Cenarrhenes nitida'', known as the Port Arthur plum or native plum. ''Cenarrhenes nitida'' is an evergreen shrub to small tree endemic to the rainforests and scrublands of western Tasmania. It bears white flowers in late spring followed by the development of fleshy fruit. Taxonomy and naming The French naturalist and explorer Jacques Labillardière described ''Cenarrhenes nitida'' in 1805, from a location described as ''in capite Van Diemen'' (Tasmania). It still bears its common name today. The genus name is derived from the Ancient Greek words ''kenos'' "empty" and ''arrhen'' "male", referring to the four staminode-like hypogynous glands. The genus only bears the one species, its name the Latin adjective ''nitida'' "bright/shining", referring to its glossy leaves. Although it resembles the persoonias in appearance, it does not appear to be related to them. Instead, it has been group ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archeria Serpyllifolia
''Archeria serpyllifolia'', commonly known as thyme archeria, is a species of shrub in the family Ericaceae. It is endemic to Tasmania, 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, sma .... References External links''Archeria serpyllifolia''a''The Plant List'' at th ''Encyclopedia of Life'' at th [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Understory
In forestry and ecology, understory (American English), or understorey (Commonwealth English), also known as underbrush or undergrowth, includes plant life growing beneath the forest canopy without penetrating it to any great extent, but above the forest floor. Only a small percentage of light penetrates the canopy so understory vegetation is generally shade-tolerant. The understory typically consists of trees stunted through lack of light, other small trees with low light requirements, saplings, shrubs, vines and undergrowth. Small trees such as holly and dogwood are understory specialists. In temperate deciduous forests, many understory plants start into growth earlier in the year than the canopy trees, to make use of the greater availability of light at that particular time of year. A gap in the canopy caused by the death of a tree stimulates the potential emergent trees into competitive growth as they grow upwards to fill the gap. These trees tend to have straight trunks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anodopetalum
''Anodopetalum biglandulosum'' is a Tasmanian endemic shrub or small tree species that is a common component of Tasmania ) , nickname = , image_map = Tasmania in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Tasmania in AustraliaCoordinates: , subdivision_type = Country , subdi ...'s cool temperate rainforests. It is commonly known as horizontal because of its habit of growth. It is the sole species in the genus ''Anodopetalum''. Morphology Growth form ''Anodopetalum biglandulosum'' is commonly known as horizontal scrub due to the habit of its slender trunk (primary shoot) bending down horizontally under its own weight. This fallen stem sends vertical branches up its length (secondary shoots), which in turn bend down and branches arise (tertiary shoots), forming an impenetrable horizontal scrub. The creation of light gaps in the canopy change light intensity, causing dormant buds at the b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leptospermum Glaucescens
''Leptospermum glaucescens'', commonly known as the blue-green tea tree or smoky tea tree, is a species of shrub or small tree that is endemic to Tasmania. It has elliptical to egg-shaped leaves that are often greyish green, white flowers about in diameter arranged in consecutive leaf axils and fruit that remain on the plant for some time after maturity. Description ''Leptospermum glaucescens'' is a shrub or small tree that has flaky bark and young stems that are hairy when young. It has elliptical to egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, mostly about long, wide and often greyish green, tapering to a petiole about long. The flowers are arranged singly in consecutive leaf axils on a stout pedicel and are about in diameter. There are broad, brownish bracts at the base of the flower bud but that fall off as the flower develops. The floral cup is long and usually densely hairy. The sepals are broadly egg-shaped to triangular, long, the petals white, long a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
