Melaleuca Flammea
''Melaleuca flammea'', commonly known as tapering-leaved bottlebrush, is a plant in the myrtle Family (biology), family, Myrtaceae and is Endemism, endemic to New South Wales and Queensland in Australia. (The Australian Plant Census and some Australian state Herbarium, herbaria continue to use the name ''Callistemon acuminatus''.) It is a shrub with broad, lance-shaped leaves which have wavy edges and taper gradually to a fine point. In spring it has typical bottlebrush flowers whose fiery colour gives the species its name. Description ''Melaleuca flammea'' is a shrub growing to tall with hard, fibrous bark. Its leaves are arranged alternately and are long, wide, broad to narrow lance-shaped and gradually taper to a fine point. They are also distinguished by their broad v-shape, wavy margin with scattered fine teeth and 12 to 33 distinct lateral veins. The flowers are deep red to crimson and arranged in spikes on the ends of branches which continue to grow after flowering. Th ...
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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 ...
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