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Melaleuca Beardii
''Melaleuca beardii'' is a plant in the myrtle Family (biology), family, Myrtaceae and is Endemism, endemic to the Southwest Australia, south-west of Western Australia. It is similar to a number of other Western Australian melaleucas such as ''Melaleuca trichophylla, M. trichophylla'' with its purple pom-pom flower heads but unlike others, the tips of its leaves are rounded rather than pointed. Description ''Melaleuca beardii'' grows to a height of with stems and leaves that are Glabrousness, glabrous except when young. Its leaves are arranged alternately, linear or narrow egg-shaped, long, wide with a rounded tip. The flowers are a shade of pink to purple and arranged in heads on the ends of branches which continue to grow after flowering, sometimes also in the upper leaf axils. The heads are up to in diameter and contain between 3 and 6 groups of flowers in threes. The stamens are arranged in bundles of five around the flower, with 8 to 13 stamens in each bundle. The flower ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyndley Craven
Lyndley Alan Craven (3 September 1945 – 11 July 2014) was a botanist who became the Principal Research Scientist of the Australian National Herbarium. Lyndley ("Lyn") Craven worked for the CSIRO plant taxonomy unit of the New Guinea Survey Group, Division of Land Research and Regional Survey from 1964 to 1967. This was part of a unit that became the Australian National Herbarium, Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research. Craven's duties included botanical support for land resources surveys. Craven then left to study horticulture at Burnley Horticultural College, Victoria, earning the degree of Diploma of Horticultural Science in 1970 before being briefly employed by the Parks and Gardens Branch of Department of the Interior, Canberra. Part of this department later became the Canberra Botanic Garden and eventually the Australian National Herbarium, Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research at the Australian National Botanic Gardens. In 1984, he earned the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
