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Melaleuca Stenostachya
''Melaleuca stenostachya'', commonly known as fibre-barked teatree or straight teatree is a plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is native to the Cape York Peninsula in northern Australia, the Gulf Country, gulf country of the Northern Territory and the south of Papua New Guinea. It is closely related to ''Melaleuca dealbata'' but can be distinguished from that species by the wide separation of the flowers in the inflorescence. Description ''Melaleuca stenostachya'' is a large shrub or small tree which grows to a height of with white to dark grey, papery or fibrous bark. Its leaves are arranged alternately, long, wide, linear to elliptic in shape, covered with silky hairs, and tapering to a point. The leaves also have 5 to 7 longitudinal veins. The flowers are creamy-white in colour and are arranged in spikes at the ends of branches which continue to grow after flowering, and sometimes in the upper leaf axils. The spikes contain 6 to 12 groups of flowers in threes well ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Thatcher Blake
Stanley Thatcher Blake (1910 – 24 February 1973) was an Australian botanist who served as president of the Royal Society of Queensland and who was associated with the Queensland Herbarium beginning in 1945 until his death. Background Prior to his stint with the Herbarium, Blake received a Walter and Eliza Hall Fellowship which allowed him to undertake botanical collecting expeditions to Western Queensland (1935–1937). Blake is also credited with validating the name ''Melaleuca quinquenervia'', which was initially proposed by Antonio José Cavanilles Antonio José Cavanilles (16 January 1745 – 5 May 1804) was a leading Spanish taxonomic botanist of the 18th century. He named many plants, particularly from Oceania. He named at least 100 genera, about 54 of which were still used in 2004, ... (1745–1804). References *Bright SparksBlake, Stanley Thatcher (1911–1973) 1910 births 1973 deaths 20th-century Australian botanists Royal Society of Queensland Aus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
