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Melaleuca Squamophloia
''Melaleuca squamophloia'' is a plant in the myrtle Family (biology), family, Myrtaceae and is Endemism, endemic to the black soil plains of south eastern Queensland in Australia. Like its close relative ''Melaleuca styphelioides'', it is a small, erect tree with prickly leaves and spikes of cream or white flowers but its bark is hard rather than papery and the leaves have fewer veins than that species. Description ''Melaleuca squamophloia'' is a shrub or small tree growing to high, with hard, scaly or fibrous bark. Its leaves are arranged alternately, long, wide, narrow egg-shaped with the end tapering to a sharp, prickly point and with 3 to 15 veins. The flowers are white or cream-coloured and are arranged in spikes on the ends of branches which continue to grow after flowering and on the sides of the branches. Each spike contains 5 to 16 individual flowers and is up to in diameter. The petals are long and fall off as the flower opens or soon after. There are five bundles ... [...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] |
