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Mirbelia Pungens
''Mirbelia pungens'', commonly known as prickly mirbelia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is an erect or prostrate shrub with sharply-pointed linear leaves and orange-red flowers with blue or purple markings. Description ''Mirbelia pungens'' is an erect or prostrate shrub that typically grows to a height of , and has softly-hairy stems. Its leaves are linear and sharply pointed, mostly long, about wide on a Petiole (botany), petiole up to long. The flowers are arranged singly or in groups of up to four in leaf axils on a Peduncle (botany), peduncle up to about long. The sepals are long, softly-hairy and joined at the base, the lobes shorter than the sepal tube. The Papilionaceous flower#Corolla, standard petal is orange-red with blue or purple markings, the Papilionaceous flower#Corolla, keel purplish and nearly as long as the Papilionaceous flower#Corolla, wings. Flowering occurs from Septembe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bemboka
Bemboka is a town in the South Coast region of New South Wales, Australia. The town is located on the Snowy Mountains Highway, in the Bega Valley Shire local government area, south of the state capital, Sydney. At the , the Bemboka gazetted locality had a population of 577. Geography The Aboriginal meaning of the name Bemboka (originally Benbooka) is thought to be "High Peak". Positioned at the eastern head of the Bega Valley, 25 kilometres (15 miles) from the base of Brown Mountain (1241m), a spur of the Great Dividing Range, the locality is bordered by the mountains and ridges of the South East Forests National Park. Prominent features in the Bemboka section to the north include Indian Head, Pigeon Box, Bemboka Peak and Numbugga Walls. History The first inhabitants of the region were a sub-group of the Thaua people of the Yuin nation. The first European settlers were squatters grazing sheep and cattle on crown land beyond the limits of location set by the NSW Government in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |