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Nest Hill Nature Reserve
Nest Hill Nature Reserve is a protected nature reserve, located in the South Western Slopes region of New South Wales, in eastern Australia. The reserve is located approximately north of Holbrook, and south of Wagga Wagga. History The reserve lies within Wiradjuri country, however little is known about its historic significance to Aboriginal people. The lack of permanent water within the reserve suggests that it may have been of low importance. The reserve was gazetted as Pulletop State Forest on 4 May 1917, and managed by the Forestry Commission of NSW for logging and timber harvesting activities. The state forest was reclassified as a nature reserve on 1 January 2001. The name ''Nest Hill'' is derived from a dominant peak of the same name located south of the reserve. Environment Nest Hill Nature Reserve is situated on the undulating slopes of County Ridge and is relatively flat in comparison to the surrounding landscape. The reserve is generally dry for most of the ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Government Of New South Wales
The Government of New South Wales, also known as the NSW Government, is the Australian state democratic administrative authority of New South Wales. It is currently held by a coalition of the Liberal Party and the National Party. The Government of New South Wales, a parliamentary constitutional monarchy, was formed in 1856 as prescribed in its Constitution, as amended from time to time. Since the Federation of Australia in 1901, New South Wales has been a state of the Commonwealth of Australia, and the Constitution of Australia regulates its relationship with the Commonwealth. Under the Australian Constitution, New South Wales, as with all states, ceded legislative and judicial supremacy to the Commonwealth, but retained powers in all matters not in conflict with the Commonwealth. Executive and judicial powers New South Wales is governed according to the principles of the Westminster system, a form of parliamentary government based on the model of the United Kingdom. Legisl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dichopogon Strictus
''Dichopogon strictus'' ( syn. ''Arthropodium strictum''), commonly known as chocolate lily, is a herbaceous perennial plant species native to Australia. Description The species has up to 12 leaves that are linear or lanceolate in shape and are up to 65 cm long and 1–12 mm wide. The racemose inflorescence is up to 1 metre high. This appears between August and January in the species' native range. The individual, drooping flowers range in colour from pale mauve to dark purple. The common name chocolate lily alludes to the scent of the flowers which resembles chocolate, caramel or vanilla. The tubers, which are juicy and slightly bitter in taste, were eaten by Indigenous Australians. Taxonomy The species was formally described in 1810 by Scottish botanist Robert Brown, based on plant material collected at Port Dalrymple in Tasmania. Brown gave it the name ''Arthropodium strictum''. In 1876, English botanist John Gilbert Baker transferred it to the genus ''Dichopogon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stratification (vegetation)
Stratification in the field of ecology refers to the vertical layering of a habitat; the arrangement of vegetation in layers. It classifies the layers (sing. ''stratum'', pl. ''strata'') of vegetation largely according to the different heights to which their plants Plants are predominantly Photosynthesis, photosynthetic eukaryotes of the Kingdom (biology), kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all curr ... grow. The individual layers are inhabited by different animal and plant community (ecology), communities (stratozones). Vertical structure in terrestrial plant habitats The following layers are generally distinguished: forest floor (root and moss layers), herbaceous plant, herb, shrub, understory and canopy (trees), canopy layers. These vegetation layers are primarily determined by the height of their individual plants, the different elements may however have a range of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stackhousia Monogyna
''Stackhousia monogyna'', commonly known as creamy stackhousia or creamy candles,is a flowering plant in the family Celastraceae. It is a small multi-stemmed plant with narrow leaves and terminal spikes of white, cream or yellow flowers. It is a widespread species found in all states of Australia but not the Northern Territory. Description ''Stackhousia monogyna'' is a slender, multi-stemmed, perennial herb to high, covered with soft hairs or smooth on upright or ascending stems. The leaves are dark green, mostly narrow, linear to lance-shaped, up to long, wide and rounded, acute or with a short point at the apex. The inflorescence consists of numerous white, cream or yellow flowers in a densely-packed cylindrical spike, each flower is tubular with five pointed spreading lobes up to long. Flowering occurs from late winter to early summer and the fruit is a wide oval or ellipsoid shaped mericarp, wrinkled to veined and long. Taxonomy and naming The species was described in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Persoonia Rigida
''Persoonia rigida'', commonly known as the rigid-, hairy- or stiff geebung, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is an erect to low-lying shrub with hairy young branchlets, lance-shaped to spatula-shaped leaves that are hairy when young, and yellow flowers borne in groups of up to twenty on a rachis up to long that continues to grow after flowering. Description ''Persoonia rigida'' is an erect to low-lying shrub that typically grows to a height of and has branches and leaves that are hairy when young. The leaves are lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, to spatula-shaped, long and wide with the edges curving downwards. The flowers are arranged in groups of up to twenty on a rachis up to long that continues to grow after flowering, each flower on a pedicel long with a leaf at its base. The tepals are yellow, long and hairy on the outside but with a glabrous ovary. Flowering occurs from Novembe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acacia Lanigera
''Acacia lanigera'', commonly known as woolly wattle or hairy wattle, is a tree species that is endemic south eastern Australia. Description It has an erect or spreading habit, growing up to high, The phyllodes, which may be hairy or glabrous, are up to in length and wide. The bright yellow globular flowerheads appear in the leaf axils from May to October, followed by curved or coiled seedpods that are densely covered with white hairs and are up to long. Taxonomy Three varieties are currently recognised: *''Acacia lanigera'' var. ''gracilipes'' Benth., occurring in the Wallagaraugh River area in south-eastern New South Wales and Victoria. *''Acacia lanigera'' A.Cunn. var. ''lanigera'' *''Acacia lanigera'' var. ''whanii'' (F.Muell. ex Benth.) Pescott, a variety first collected from Skipton, Victoria by William Taylor Whan. The variety ''venulosa'' is currently regarded as a species in its own right - '' Acacia venulosa''. Distribution The species occurs in New South Wales ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acacia Dealbata
''Acacia dealbata'', the silver wattle, blue wattle or mimosa, is a species of flowering plant in the legume family (botany), family Fabaceae, native plant, native to southeastern Australia in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, and the Australian Capital Territory, and widely introduced in Mediterranean, warm temperate, and highland tropical landscapes.Australian Plant Name Index''Acacia dealbata''/ref> Description It is a fast-growing evergreen tree or shrub growing up to 30 m tall, typically a pioneer species after fire. The leaves are bipinnate, glaucous blue-green to silvery grey, 1–12 cm (occasionally to 17 cm) long and 1–11 cm broad, with 6–30 pairs of pinnae, each pinna divided into 10–68 pairs of leaflets; the leaflets are 0.7–6 mm long and 0.4–1 mm broad. The flowers are produced in large raceme, racemose inflorescences made up of numerous smaller globose bright yellow flowerheads of 13–42 individual flowers. The fruit is a flatte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acacia Buxifolia
''Acacia buxifolia'', commonly known as box-leaf wattle, is shrub species that is endemic to eastern Australia. Description The medium sized evergreen shrub grows to a height of and a width of . The plant has an erect habit with glabrous, flattened and angled branchlets. It has phyllodes that are in length and wide. The bright yellow spherical flowerheads appear in groups of 2 to 14 in the axils of the phyllodes from July to November in the species' native range, followed by straight or curved seed pods which are long and . Taxonomy The species was first formally described by the botanist Allan Cunningham in 1825 as part of the work ''On the Botany of the Blue Mountains. Geographical Memoirs on New South Wales''. It was reclassified as ''Racosperma buxifolium'' in 1987 by Leslie Pedley and transferred back to genus ''Acacia'' in 2006. Two subspecies are known; * ''Acacia buxifolia'' subsp. ''buxifolia'' * ''Acacia buxifolia'' subsp. ''pubiflora''. Distribution The speci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xanthorrhoea Glauca
''Xanthorrhoea glauca'', known as the grass tree, is a large plant in the genus ''Xanthorrhoea'', widespread in eastern Australia. The trunk can grow in excess of 5 metres tall, and may have many branches. It is occasionally seen in large communities in nutrient rich soils. The leaves are a grey or bluish glaucous green. Two sub-species are recognised; subspecies ''angustifolia'' and ''glauca''. File:Xanthorrhoea Mt Cabrebald 4.jpg, File:Xanthorrhoea Mt Cabrebald 3.jpg, File:Xanthorrhoea Mt Cabrebald 2.jpg, File:Xanthorrhoea Mt Cabrebald 5.jpg, Aboriginal (Ngunnawal) uses The flower spike soaked in water makes a sweet drink. The growing part of the leaf stem and the white leaf bases can be eaten. The dried flower stems form a base for fire drills when making a fire. The resin from the base of the leaves is a glue used when making weapons and axes. References Flora of New South Wales Flora of Queensland Xanthorrhoeoideae, glauca {{Asphodelaceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calotis Cuneifolia
''Calotis cuneifolia'', the purple burr-daisy, is a species of daisy found in many parts of eastern and central Australia. A small herbaceous plant to 60 centimetres tall. Its leaves are simple and alternate in arrangement. Blue or purple flowers form at any time of year, but mostly seen in spring. The type specimen was collected by Allan Cunningham on the banks of the Lachlan River in 1817. The specific epithet In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ... "cuneifolia" refers to the wedged shape leaves.Les Robinson - Field Guide to the Native Plants of Sydney, page 132 References Astereae Plants described in 1820 Flora of New South Wales Flora of Victoria (state) Flora of Queensland Flora of South Australia Flora of the Northern Territory {{Astereae-stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Microtis Unifolia
''Microtis unifolia'', commonly known as the common onion orchid, is a species of orchid occurring from south China to Japan, Malesia, and Australasia to the Southwest Pacific. It has a single green leaf and up to one hundred small green or yellowish-green flowers. A common, widespread orchid which is easily grown in pots and is sometimes a weed in plant nurseries. Description ''Microtis unifolia'' is a terrestrial, perennial, deciduous, herb with an underground tuber and a single hollow, green leaf which is long. A flowering stem up to high emerges from the leaf about one-third of its length from its base. Between ten and one hundred green or yellowish-green flowers are arranged on a length of the flowering stem. There is a lance-shaped to egg-shaped bract long and about wide at the base of each flower. The ovary is more or less oval in shape, long on a short, relatively thick pedicel and stands out from the stem. The dorsal sepal is egg-shaped to almost circular, long an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caladenia Fuscata
''Caladenia fuscata'', commonly known as dusky fingers, is a plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae and is endemic to eastern and south-eastern Australia, including Tasmania. It is a small ground orchid found in eucalyptus woodland and which flowers in September and October. Description ''Caladenia fuscata'' is a terrestrial, perennial, deciduous, herb with an underground tuber and a single, sparsely hairy, narrow linear leaf, long and wide. The single white or pink flower is borne on a spike up to high. The dorsal sepal is erect, linear in shape, long, wide with a pointed end. The lateral sepals and petals are usually long, about wide, with their outer surfaces densely covered with a band of short, reddish-brown glandular hairs. The labellum is egg-shaped, about long and wide, white or pinkish with three lobes and prominent red stripes. The mid-lobe is small and pointed with small teeth on the edge and several rows of yellow-tipped calli in the centre. The lateral lobe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
