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Mount Kaye
Mount Kaye is a mountain in the Coopracambra National Park, north of the township of Cann River in East Gippsland in Victoria, Australia. Geology The Mount Kaye Range is an outcrop of black and white Noorinbee Granodiorite, exposed on slopes and peaks. Small streams draining the range descend in a series of falls and cascades to the Cann River at the base. Flora The area between Mount Kaye and Mount Denmarsh, together with the nearby Back Creek catchment, has high biological significance, containing a large number of rare plants including Long-leaf Bitter pea ('' Daviesia wyattiana''), Tasmanian Waxflower (''Philotheca virgata''), Genoa Grevillea ('' Grevillea parvula''), Finger Hakea ('' Hakea dactyloides''), Rusty Velvet-bush (''Lasiopetalum ferrugineum''), New South Wales Pomaderris ('' Pomaderris ledifolia'') and Monkey Mint-bush ('' Prostanthera walteri''). The furthest extent of distribution for many sub-alpine species from Tasmania as well as eastern New South Wales sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria (Australia)
Victoria is a state in southeastern Australia. It is the second-smallest state with a land area of , the second most populated state (after New South Wales) with a population of over 6.5 million, and the most densely populated state in Australia (28 per km2). Victoria is bordered by New South Wales to the north and South Australia to the west, and is bounded by the Bass Strait to the south (with the exception of a small land border with Tasmania located along Boundary Islet), the Great Australian Bight portion of the Southern Ocean to the southwest, and the Tasman Sea (a marginal sea of the South Pacific Ocean) to the southeast. The state encompasses a range of climates and geographical features from its temperate coastal and central regions to the Victorian Alps in the northeast and the semi-arid north-west. The majority of the Victorian population is concentrated in the central-south area surrounding Port Phillip Bay, and in particular within the metropolit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hakea Dactyloides
''Hakea dactyloides'', commonly known as the finger hakea, is a widely distributed species mainly found in southeastern New South Wales, Australia. An attractive shrub or small tree for the home garden bearing sprays of cream-white flowers. Description ''Hakea dactyloides'' is a non-lignotuberous upright single-stemmed bushy shrub or small tree tall. Small branches are smooth and generally pale, covered with short matted fine hairs at flowering. Leaves are long and narrow, widest in the middle, rarely narrowly egg-shaped or sickle shaped long and wide. The mid-green leaves taper to a point with three prominent longitudinal veins above and below. The solitary inflorescence has 20-38 white flowers on a short stalk with white flat silky hairs and rarely rust coloured. The sepals and petals are cream-white, the style long. Fruit are warty and egg-shaped with a slight curve long and wide ending with a sharp short point. Small white flowers often with a pink tinge appear alo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Mountains In Australia
This is a list of mountains in Australia. Highest points by state and territory List of mountains in Australia by topographic prominence This is a list of the top 50 mountains in Australia ranked by topographic prominence. Most of these peaks are the highest point in their areas. Australian Capital Territory The following is a list of mountains and prominent hills in the Australian Capital Territory in order, from the highest peak to the lowest peak, for those mountains and hills with an elevation above : New South Wales Queensland South Australia Tasmania Victoria Western Australia * Carnarvon Range * Mount Augustus (1105m) * Mount Beadell * Darling Range ** Mount Dale ** Mount Cooke * Hamersley Range ** Mount Meharry (at 1,249 metres above sea level, the highest peak in Western Australia) ** Mount Bruce (1,221 m; the second highest peak in WA) ** Mount Nameless/Jarndunmunha 1,115 m * Wunaamin Miliwundi Ranges, formerly King Leopold Ranges * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monaro Highway
Monaro Highway is a highway in Victoria, New South Wales, and the Australian Capital Territory, in Australia, linking in Victoria to Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) via the Monaro region. From its southern terminus, it follows the nearby Cann River upstream towards the New South Wales border through heavily forested terrain. Within New South Wales (NSW), it makes its way through further forest before reaching the pastures typical of the Monaro. There are multiple towns and villages along the highway, including , , and . The terrain within the Monaro is largely hilly, and there are numerous crossings. The road also parallels the former Bombala railway line in several locations. Within the ACT, the road becomes a high volume roadway and serves the southern suburbs of Canberra. The highway has more recently had a grade-separated dual carriageway extension constructed within Canberra, as part of the Eastern Parkway construction project. It is designated part of r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New South Wales
) , nickname = , image_map = New South Wales in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of New South Wales in AustraliaCoordinates: , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , established_date = Colony of New South Wales , established_title2 = Establishment , established_date2 = 26 January 1788 , established_title3 = Responsible government , established_date3 = 6 June 1856 , established_title4 = Federation , established_date4 = 1 January 1901 , named_for = Wales , demonym = , capital = Sydney , largest_city = capital , coordinates = , admin_center = 128 local government areas , admin_center_type = Administration , leader_title1 = Monarch , leader_name1 = Charles III , leader_title2 = Governor , leader_name2 = Margaret Beazley , leader_title3 = Premier , leader_name3 = Dominic Perrottet (Liberal) , national_representation = Parliament of Australia , national_representation_type1 = Senat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tasmania
) , nickname = , image_map = Tasmania in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Tasmania in AustraliaCoordinates: , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , established_date = Colony of Tasmania , established_title2 = Federation , established_date2 = 1 January 1901 , named_for = Abel Tasman , demonym = , capital = Hobart , largest_city = capital , coordinates = , admin_center = 29 local government areas , admin_center_type = Administration , leader_title1 = Monarch , leader_name1 = Charles III , leader_title2 = Governor , leader_name2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prostanthera Walteri
''Prostanthera walteri'', commonly known as blotchy mint-bush, is a species of flowering plant that is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a sprawling shrub with tangled, hairy branches, egg-shaped leaves and usually bluish green flowers with prominent purple veins arranged singly in leaf axils. Description ''Prostanthera walteri'' is a sprawling shrub that typically grows to a height of and has hairy, glandular, often tangled, wiry branches. The leaves are egg-shaped, mostly long and wide on a petiole long. The lower surface of the leaves is hairy and the upper is grooved and more or less glabrous. The flowers are arranged singly in leaf axils on a hairy pedicel long with bracteoles long at the base of the sepals. The sepals are long, forming a tube long with two lobes long. The petals are long, forming a tube long and usually bluish green with prominent purple veins. The lower middle lobe of the tube is long and wide, the side lobes long and wide, the upp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pomaderris Ledifolia
''Pomaderris ledifolia'', commonly known as Sydney pomaderris, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is an erect, delicate shrub with hairy young stems, narrowly elliptic to lance-shaped leaves, and compact clusters of yellow flowers. Description ''Pomaderris ledifolia'' is an erect, delicate shrub that typically grows to a height of , its young branchlets covered with greyish or rust-coloured hairs. The leaves are narrowly elliptic to lance-shaped, long and wide with stipules long at the base but that fall off as the leaf develops. The upper surface of the leaves is glabrous and the lower surface is covered with greyish hairs. The flowers are arranged in groups of two to twenty, wide and are yellow, each flower on a pedicel long with soft hairs on the back. The sepals are long but fall off as the flowers open, and the petals are narrowly spatula-shaped and long. Flowering occurs from Septembe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lasiopetalum Ferrugineum
''Lasiopetalum ferrugineum'', commonly known as rusty velvet-bush, is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family and is endemic to eastern Australia. Growing up to a metre tall, much of the plant is covered in rusty hairs. It is found in forest and heathland. Description ''Lasiopetalum ferrugineum'' is a shrub, typically up to high and wide, its new growth covered with red-brown hair. The leaves are narrowly oblong to lance-shaped, long and wide on a petiole long. The upper surface of the leaves is more or less glabrous and the lower surface covered with woolly, white to rust-coloured hairs. There are prominent veins on both surfaces of the leaves. The flowers are arranged in crowded cymes of five to ten, more or less sessile flowers. The sepals are whitish, long and covered with star-shaped hairs, with three bracteoles long at the base. The petals are reddish-brown and less than long, the anthers also reddish-brown and about long. Flowering occurs from Septemb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grevillea Parvula
''Grevillea parvula '', commonly known as Genoa grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to an area near the border between New South Wales and Victoria in south-eastern continental Australia. It is a spreading to erect shrub, usually with elliptic leaves, and down-turned clusters of pinkish to red flowers. Description ''Grevillea parvula'' is a spreading, sometimes compact shrub that typically grows to a height of and has woolly- to shaggy-hairy branchlets. Its leaves are usually ellicptic or narrowly elliptic, sometimes lance-shaped or narrowly egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, mostly long and wide. The edges of the leaves are turned down, the upper surface of the leaves smooth, the lower surface densely silky-hairy. The flowers are arranged on the ends of branches or in leaf axils in down-turned clusters of 8 to 36 flowers, on a rachis long. The flowers are pinkish to red, the style red or reddish-pink, and the pis ... [...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] |
Philotheca Virgata
''Philotheca virgata'', commonly known as Tasmanian wax-flower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a slender, erect shrub with wedge-shaped to oblong leaves and white or pale pink flowers at the ends of branchlets. It is the only philotheca with four sepals and petals. Description ''Philotheca virgata'' is a slender, erect shrub that typically grows to a height of about and has prominently glandular warty branchlets. The leaves are sessile, narrow wedge-shaped to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide and glandular warty on the upper surface. The flowers are arranged singly on the end of branchlets on a thin pedicel long. The four sepals are more or less round, fleshy and about long. The four petals are white or pale pink, broadly elliptic and about long and the eight stamens are about long and hairy. Flowering occurs from May to December and the fruit is about long with a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
