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Melaleuca Pallescens
''Melaleuca pallescens'' is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae, and is endemic to the state of Queensland in Australia. It has hard, furrowed bark and very small leaves that have the lower part of their upper surface pressed against the branches of the plant. Description ''Melaleuca pallescens'' is a bushy shrub or small tree growing to about tall. Its leaves are arranged alternately, only long and wide, glabrous, narrow egg-shaped with the lower part of the upper surface touching the stem and with a sharp point on the end. The flowers are arranged in spikes at the ends of branches which continue to grow after flowering or sometimes in the upper leaf axils. The spikes contain 3 to 12 groups of flowers in threes and are up to in diameter and long. The flowers are pink or mauve when they open but fade rapidly to white. The petals are a darker shade, long but fall off as the flower ages. The stamens are arranged in five bundles around the flowers and there are 5 to 9 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Byrnes (botanist)
Norman Brice Byrnes (1922 – 1998) was an Australians, Australian botanist, specialising in Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy. Byrnes was born in Adelaide on 18 December 1922. He served in the Australian Defence Force during World War II and following the war, in 1946 gained a Bachelor of Science from the University of Sydney. Byrnes worked in Darwin, Northern Territory, Darwin in the Northern Territory from 1966 to 1973 then began at the Queensland Herbarium. He specialised in the Family (biology), families Combretaceae and Myrtaceae and his plant collections are stored in the Queensland and Northern Territory Herbarium, Northern Territory Herbarium, herbaria. In 1986, Byrnes retired to live at Bingil Bay, Queensland, Bingil Bay where he established an arboretum in Ross Overton Park at nearby Mission Beach, Queensland, Mission Beach and acted as coordinator for a local environment group called "C4". After his death, the arboretum was named the Norman Byrnes Arboretum in his honour. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
