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Melaleuca Systena
''Melaleuca systena'', commonly known as coastal honeymyrtle is a plant in the myrtle Family (biology), family, Myrtaceae and is Endemism, endemic to the Southwest Australia, south-west of Western Australia. It was previously known as ''Melaleuca acerosa''. It is a small shrub with crowded foliage and profuse heads of white to yellow flowers on the ends of its branches in spring. Description ''Melaleuca systena'' sometimes grows to a height of but usually much less. Its leaves are arranged alternately, linear to egg-shaped and fleshy, long and wide. They are sometimes wikt:glabrous, glabrous, sometimes covered with fine hairs and often taper to a point. The flowers are white to creamy-yellow and arranged in heads on the ends of branches which continue to grow after flowering, sometimes also in the upper leaf axils. The heads are up to in diameter and contain 3 to 9 groups of flowers in threes. The flowers appear in winter and summer but are more prolific in spring. The petals ... [...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] |