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Mirbelia Platyloboides
''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 t ... [...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] |
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] |
Charles Austin Gardner
Charles Austin Gardner (6 January 1896 – 24 February 1970) was an English-born Western Australian botanist. Biography Born in Lancaster, in England, on 6 January 1896, Gardner emigrated to Western Australia with his family in 1909, where they took possession of land at Yorkrakine. Gardner showed an interest in art and botany from youth, becoming engrossed in his state museum's copy of Bentham's '' Flora Australiensis'' (London, 1863-78) and received encouragement from the government's botanist Desmond Herbert and botanical artist Emily Pelloe. After a BSc in Biology, he was appointed a botanical collector for the Forests Department in 1920, and the following year was engaged as botanist on the Kimberley Exploration Expedition, resulting in his first publication, ''Botanical Notes, Kimberley Division of Western Australia'', which gave descriptions for twenty new species. In 1924 he transferred to the Department of Agriculture, and following a departmental re-organ ... [...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] |
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] |
Leslie Pedley
Leslie Pedley (19 May 1930 – 27 November 2018)IPNILeslie Pedley/ref> was an Australian botanist who specialised in the genus ''Acacia''. He is notable for bringing into use the generic name ''Racosperma'', creating a split in the genus, which required some 900 Australian species to be renamed, because the type species of ''Acacia'', ''Acacia nilotica'', now ''Vachellia nilotica'', had a different lineage from the Australian wattles. However, the International Botanical Congress (IBC), held in Melbourne in 2011, ratified its earlier decision to retain the name ''Acacia'' for the Australian species, but to rename the African species. See also: ''Acacia'' and ''Vachellia nilotica'' regarding the dispute, anAPNIfor a brief history of the name, ''Racosperma''. In 2018, Japanese botanists Hiroyoshi Ohashi and Kazuaki K. Ohashi published '' Pedleya'' (in the Fabaceae family) from New South Wales ) , nickname = , image_map = New South Wales in Australia.svg , map_caption = Lo ... [...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] |
Joy Thompson
Joy Thompson (born Joy Gardiner-Garden, 1923, died 2018) was an Australian botanist. Her main research areas were taxonomy and Myrtaceae. Life & Career Thompson's university studies occurred during the second world war and in university vacations she worked in the Land Army near Maitland. She graduated in 1946 with a B.Sc. (Agric) from the University of Sydney, and went to work at the New South Wales Herbarium (then a part of the NSW department of Agriculture). She was Honorary Secretary of the Systematic Botany Committee of ANZAAS from 1952 to 1954. In 1956 she married Max Thompson and, as a public servant, resigned from her position as was required at the time. Ten years later, after the birth of her two children, she returned to work at the Herbarium, in a part-time position. On her retirement in 1982, she became an Honorary Research Associate, and until 2009, continued to work in this role, making the 2.5 hour train journey from Mittagong once a week. Some publications ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Bentham
George Bentham (22 September 1800 – 10 September 1884) was an English botanist, described by the weed botanist Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century". Born into a distinguished family, he initially studied law, but had a fascination with botany from an early age, which he soon pursued, becoming president of the Linnaean Society in 1861, and a fellow of the Royal Society in 1862. He was the author of a number of important botanical works, particularly flora. He is best known for his taxonomic classification of plants in collaboration with Joseph Dalton Hooker, his ''Genera Plantarum'' (1862–1883). He died in London in 1884. Life Bentham was born in Stoke, Plymouth, on 22 September 1800.Jean-Jacques Amigo, « Bentham (George) », in Nouveau Dictionnaire de biographies roussillonnaises, vol. 3 Sciences de la Vie et de la Terre, Perpignan, Publications de l'olivier, 2017, 915 p. () His father, Sir Samuel Bentham, a naval architect, was ... [...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 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] |
