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Mirbelia
''Mirbelia'' is a plant genus belonging to the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Australia, occurring in every mainland state except South Australia. Plants in the genus ''Mirbelia'' are prickly, perennial shrubs with simple, sometimes sharply-pointed leaves, or the leaves absent. The flowers are arranged singly or in groups in leaf axils or on the ends of branches, the sepals joined at the base with five teeth. The petals are usually red, orange, purplish or bluish and the fruit is an inflated pod. Description Plants in the genus ''Mirbelia'' are prickly shrubs with spiny branchlets or sharply-pointed leaves. The leaves are simple with the edges turned down or rolled under, sometimes absent, or sometimes with small stipules at the base. The flowers are arranged in leaf axils or on the ends of branches, either singly or in clusters or racemes sometimes with small bracts, sometimes with small bracteoles. The sepals are joined at the base with five overlapping teeth, the two upp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirbelia Rubiifolia
''Mirbelia rubiifolia'', commonly known as heathy mirbelia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a diffuse, spreading shrub with narrowly egg-shaped to linear, sharply-pointed leaves and clusters of pink to purple flowers. Description ''Mirbelia rubiifolia'' is a diffuse, spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of up to and has angular stems, sometimes covered with soft hairs pressed against the surface. Its leaves are arranged in whorls of three, and are narrowly egg-shaped to lance-shaped or linear, mostly long, long and sharply pointed, on a petiole up to long. The upper surface has a conspicuous network of veins and the lower surface sometimes has a few scattered hairs. The flowers are arranged in clusters in leaf axils or in racemes on the ends of branches on silky-hairy pedicels up to long. The sepals are long and joined at the base, the upper two lobes almost completely fused. The petals are lon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirbelia Baueri
''Mirbelia baueri'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is an erect or prostrate shrub with sharply-pointed linear leaves and orange and purple flowers. Description ''Mirbelia baueri'' is an erect or prostrate, sometimes mat-forming shrub that typically grows to a height of and has softly-hairy stems. Its leaves are linear, long, about wide and sharply-pointed with the edges rolled under. The flowers are arranged singly in leaf axils, each flower on a short pedicel. The sepals are softly-hairy, long and joined at the base, the lobes shorter than the sepal tube. The petals are long, orange or yellow and purple. Flowering occurs in October and November, and the fruit is an oval pod about long with a pointed end. Taxonomy This pea was first formally described in 1837 by George Bentham, who gave it the name ''Chorizema baueri'' in ''Commentationes de Leguminosarum Generibus'', based on specimens collected by Ferdinand Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirbelia Confertiflora
''Mirbelia confertiflora'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a rigid, bushy shrub with linear leaves and yellow to orange flowers arranged in racemes near the end of the branches. Description ''Mirbelia confertiflora'' is a rigid, bush shrub that typically grows to a height of up to , its stems with a few silky hairs pressed against the surface. Its leaves are linear, mostly long, wide on a petiole about long, and sharply-pointed with the edges rolled under. The flowers are arranged in racemes on the ends of branches or in upper leaf axils, and have narrowly lance-shaped bracts and bracteoles at the base. The sepals are long, densely hairy and joined at the base, the lobes long. The petals are yellow-orange, the standard petal long and wide, the wings long and the keel long. The fruit is an oval pod long. Taxonomy ''Mirbelia confertiflora'' was first formally described in 1977 by Leslie Pedley in the jour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirbelia Corallina
''Mirbelia corallina'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the far west of Western Australia. It is a slender, sprawling sub-shrub with a few narrowly elliptic to narrowly egg-shaped leaves and pink and yellow flowers arranged in racemes near the ends of the branchlets. Description ''Mirbelia corallina'' is a slender, sprawling sub-shrub that typically grows up to high and wide. Its leaves are scattered, narrowly elliptic to narrowly egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide, some reduced to triangular scale-leaves long and wide. The flowers are arranged in racemes near the ends of branchlets, each flower on a pedicel long with egg-shaped bracts and bracteoles long. The sepals are long and joined at the base, the lower three lobes long. The standard petal is broadly kidney-shaped with a shallowly notched centre, long, wide and coral- to apricot-pink with a yellow centre. The wings are egg-shaped, long and p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirbelia Balsiformis
''Mirbelia balsiformis'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the far west of Western Australia. It is an erect to sprawling shrub with leaves reduced to triangular scales, and yellow to orange and red flowers arranged in racemes on the side of the branchlets. Description ''Mirbelia balsiformis'' is an erect to sprawling shrub that typically grows to high and wide and has erect, sharply-pointed and longitudinally-ridges branchlets. Its leaves are reduced to triangular scales long. The flowers are arranged in racemes, each flower on a pedicel long with egg-shaped bracts and bracteoles long. The sepals are long and joined at the base, the lobes overlapping each other, the lower three long. The standard petal is kidney-shaped with a notched centre, long, wide, and orange to yellow and red. The wings are egg-shaped, long and red with a yellow tip and a yellow base, the keel long and coloured like the wings. Flowering occurs from April t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirbelia Aotoides
''Mirbelia aotoides'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is a softly-hairy shrub with narrowly linear leaves with their edges rolled under, and yellow flowers arranged singly or in small groups in leaf axils. It was first formally described in 1859 by Ferdinand von Mueller in ''Transactions of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria''. This mirbelia occurs in eastern Queensland and is listed as "least concern" under the Queensland Government ''Nature Conservation Act 1992 The ''Nature Conservation Act 1992'' is an act of the Parliament of Queensland, Australia, that, together with subordinate legislation, provides for the legislative protection of Queensland's threatened biota. As originally published, it prov ...''. References Mirbelioids aotoides Fabales of Australia Flora of Queensland Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller Plants described in 1859 {{Australia-rosid-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirbelia Depressa
''Mirbelia depressa'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is an erect or spreading, prickly shrub that typically grows to a height of high and has yellow or orange and reddish-brown flowers from August to October. It was first formally described in 1904 by Ernst Georg Pritzel in the ''Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie''. The specific epithet (''depressa'') means "pressed down", referring to the low habit of this species. This mirbelia grows on sandplains and is widespread in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Gibson Desert, Great Victoria Desert, Mallee, Murchison and Yalgoo and bioregions of Western Australia, and is listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions. References Mirbelioids depressa Depressa, population 1,541, is a village or small town ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirbelia Densiflora
''Mirbelia densiflora'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect or straggling shrub that typically grows to a height of and has yellow or orange flowers from October to January. It was first formally described in 1942 by Charles Gardner in the ''Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia''. The specific epithet (''densiflora'') means "crowded-flowers". This mirbelia grows on ridges and plains in the Coolgardie and Mallee bioregions of south-western Western Australia, and is listed as " Priority Three" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions The Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions (DBCA) is the Western Australian government The Government of Western Australia, formally referred to as His Majesty's Government of Western Australia, is the Australian state de ..., meaning that it is poorly known and known ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Papilionaceous Flower
Papilionaceous flowers (from Latin: ''papilion'', a butterfly) are flowers with the characteristic irregular and butterfly-like corolla found in many, though not all, plants of the species-rich Faboideae subfamily of legumes. Tournefort suggested that the term ''Flores papilionacei'' originated with Valerius Cordus, who applied it to the flowers of the bean. Structure Corolla The flowers have a bilateral symmetry with the corolla consisting of five petals. A single, large, upper petal is known as the banner (also vexillum or standard petal). The semi-cylindrical base of the banner embraces and compresses two equal and smaller lateral wings (or alae). The wings in turn enclose a pair of small keel petals, that are situated somewhat lower than the wings, but are interior to them. They have concave sides and correspond with the shape of the wings. The two keel petals are fused at their bases or stuck together to form a boat-shaped structure that encloses the essential flower organs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles-François Brisseau De Mirbel
Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel (27 March 1776 – 12 September 1854) was a French botanist and politician. He was a founder of the science of plant cytology. A native Parisian, at the age of twenty, he became an assistant-naturalist with the French National Museum of Natural History. While there he began to examine plant tissue under a microscope. In 1802, Mirbel published his treatise ''Traité d'anatomie et de physiologie végétale'' which established his position as a founder of cytology, plant histology and plant physiology in France. He proposed that all plant tissue is modified from parenchyma (supporting tissue). His observation, in 1809, that each plant cell is contained in a continuous membrane, remains a central contribution to cytology. In 1803, Mirbel obtained the post of superintendent of the gardens of Napoleon's Château de Malmaison. There he studied and published on structure of plant tissue and the development of plant organs. He also studied and descr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perennial Plant
A perennial plant or simply perennial is a plant that lives more than two years. The term ('' per-'' + '' -ennial'', "through the years") is often used to differentiate a plant from shorter-lived annuals and biennials. The term is also widely used to distinguish plants with little or no woody growth (secondary growth in girth) from trees and shrubs, which are also technically perennials. Perennialsespecially small flowering plantsthat grow and bloom over the spring and summer, die back every autumn and winter, and then return in the spring from their rootstock or other overwintering structure, are known as herbaceous perennials. However, depending on the rigours of local climate (temperature, moisture, organic content in the soil, microorganisms), a plant that is a perennial in its native habitat, or in a milder garden, may be treated by a gardener as an annual and planted out every year, from seed, from cuttings, or from divisions. Tomato vines, for example, live several y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fabaceae
The Fabaceae or Leguminosae,International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants. Article 18.5 states: "The following names, of long usage, are treated as validly published: ....Leguminosae (nom. alt.: Fabaceae; type: Faba Mill. Vicia L.; ... When the Papilionaceae are regarded as a family distinct from the remainder of the Leguminosae, the name Papilionaceae is conserved against Leguminosae." English pronunciations are as follows: , and . commonly known as the legume, pea, or bean family, are a large and agriculturally important of |
