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Melaleuca Dawsonii
''Melaleuca dawsonii'' is a shrub in the myrtle Family (biology), family, Myrtaceae and is Endemism, endemic to the south of Grande Terre (New Caledonia), Grande Terre, the main island of New Caledonia. It is one of only a few members of its genus to occur outside Australia and was formerly known as ''Callistemon suberosum'' Jean Armand Isidore Pancher, Pancher ex Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart, Brongn. & Jean Antoine Arthur Gris, Gris. Description ''Melaleuca dawsonii'' grows to a height of , often with a single trunk with rough, corky bark and usually with only few branches. The young growth is densely covered with silvery-grey hair which is lost as the branches mature. Its leaves are pinkish and hairy when young, long and wide when mature and have between 5 and 15 parallel veins. The flowers are bright green or yellowish-green and are in almost spherical heads at the ends of branches which continue to grow after flowering. The petals are long, the sepals are fringed with hai ... [...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] |
