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Patersonia
''Patersonia'', commonly known as native iris or native flag and are native to areas from Malesia to Australia. Description They are perennials with basal leaves growing from a woody rhizome that in some species extends above ground to form a short trunk. The leaves are tough and fibrous, often with adaptations for conserving moisture, such as stomata sunk in grooves, a thickened cross-section, marginal hairs, and thickened margins. The flowers appear from between a pair of bracts on a leafless stem. They have three large outer tepals that are usually blue to violet, and three tiny inner tepals. There are three stamens fused at the base to form a tube around the longer gynoecium, style, which bears a flattened carpel, stigma.Goldblatt, P. (2011). Systematics of ''Patersonia'' (Iridaceae, Patersonioideae) in the Malesian archipelago. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 98: 514-523. Taxonomy The genus ''Patersonia'' was first formally described in 1807 by Robert Brown (botani ...
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Patersonia Inflexa
''Patersonia'', commonly known as native iris or native flag and are native to areas from Malesia to Australia. Description They are perennials with basal leaves growing from a woody rhizome that in some species extends above ground to form a short trunk. The leaves are tough and fibrous, often with adaptations for conserving moisture, such as stomata sunk in grooves, a thickened cross-section, marginal hairs, and thickened margins. The flowers appear from between a pair of bracts on a leafless stem. They have three large outer tepals that are usually blue to violet, and three tiny inner tepals. There are three stamens fused at the base to form a tube around the longer gynoecium, style, which bears a flattened carpel, stigma.Goldblatt, P. (2011). Systematics of ''Patersonia'' (Iridaceae, Patersonioideae) in the Malesian archipelago. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 98: 514-523. Taxonomy The genus ''Patersonia'' was first formally described in 1807 by Robert Brown (botani ...
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Patersonia Sericea
''Patersonia sericea'', commonly known as purple flag or silky purple-flag is a species of plant in the iris family Iridaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a densely-tufted perennial herb with linear, sword-shaped leaves, broadly egg-shaped, bluish-violet tepals and an oval capsule. Description The purple flag is a densely-tufted perennial herb growing to a height of up to . It has linear, sword-shaped, grass-like green leaves long and wide. The flowering scape is long with the sheath enclosing the flowers egg-shaped to lance-shaped, dark brown to blackish, prominently veined and long. The outer tepals are bluish-violet, long and wide, the inner tepals about long and the stamen filaments long and joined for part of their length. Flowering mainly occurs from June to November, each flower open for one day, but each stem producing many flowers. The fruit is an oval capsule long. Taxonomy and naming ''Patersonia sericea'' was first described in 1807 by Robe ...
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Patersonia Fragilis
''Patersonia fragilis'', commonly known as swamp iris or short purple-flag, is a species of flowering plant in the family Iridaceae family and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a tufted perennial herb with linear, cylindrical leaves and pale violet to blue-violet flowers. Description ''Patersonia fragilis'' is a tufted or clump-forming perennial herb that typically grows to a height of . There are three to six narrowly linear leaves long and wide on each shoot. The leaves are biconvex to circular in cross-section, glabrous, pale green to glaucous, and often have a sharply-pointed tip. The flowering scape is long, striated and glabrous, with a smaller leaf clasping its base. The sheath enclosing the flowers is lance-shaped, long, green to pale brown. The petal-like sepals are pale violet to blue-violet, egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide with a thickened midvein and the stamens have filaments long joined for most of their length an ...
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Patersonia Glabrata
''Patersonia glabrata'', commonly known as leafy purple-flag, or bugulbi in the Cadigal language, is a species of flowering plant in the family Iridaceae family and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a perennial herb or subshrub with linear leaves and pale violet flowers. Description ''Patersonia glabrata'' is a perennial herb or subshrub that typically grows to a height of with a few woody stems. The leaves are linear, long, wide and glabrous apart from minute hairs on near the edges of the leaf base. The flowering scape is long and glabrous and the sheath enclosing the flowers is lance-shaped, long and dark brown. The petal-like sepals are pale violet, egg-shaped to more or less round, long and wide and the stamens have filaments long joined for most of their length. Flowering occurs from August to October and the fruit is a cylindrical capsule long containing seeds about long. Taxonomy ''Patersonia glabrata'' was first formally described in 1810 by Robe ...
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Patersonia Graminea
''Patersonia graminea'', commonly known as grass-leaved patersonia, is a species of plant in the iris family Iridaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a clump-forming herb with linear, grass-like leaves and pale violet tepals. Description ''Patersonia graminea'' is a rhizome-forming herb that forms dense clumps. The leaves are linear, long, wide, keeled and grass-like. The flowering scape is long with the sheath enclosing the flowers lance-shaped, prominently veined, green, glabrous and long. The outer tepals are pale purple, long and up to wide, and the hypanthium tube is about long and glabrous. Flowering mainly occurs from September to October. Taxonomy and naming ''Patersonia graminea'' was first described in 1873 by George Bentham in ''Flora Australiensis'', from specimens collected by James Drummond. The specific epithet (''graminea'') means "grass-like". Distribution and habitat Grass-leaved patersonia grows in heath and scrub on sand ...
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Patersonia Juncea
''Patersonia juncea'', commonly known as rush leaved patersonia, is a species of plant in the iris family Iridaceae and is endemic to a restricted part of the south-west of Western Australia. It is a tufted perennial herb with linear leaves and pale violet tepals. Description ''Patersonia juncea'' is a tufted perennial herb that grows to a height of and forms a rhizome. The leaves are linear, long, wide and more or less cylindrical with a deep longitudinal groove. The flowering scape is long and glabrous. The outer tepals are pale violet, long and wide, and the hypanthium tube is long and glabrous. Flowering mainly occurs from August to October. Taxonomy and naming ''Patersonia juncea'' was first described in 1840 by John Lindley in ''A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony''. The specific epithet (''juncea'') means "rush-like". Distribution and habitat Rush leaved patersonia grows in forest, woodland mallee and scrub between Eneabba and Israelite Bay in th ...
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Patersonia Drummondii
''Patersonia drummondii'', commonly known as Drummond's patersonia, is a species of plant in the iris family Iridaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a tufted herb with linear, often twisted leaves and pale violet to purple or blue tepals. Description ''Patersonia drummondii'' is a tufted herb with linear, often twisted leaves long, wide and grooved. The flowering scape is up to long clasped by a single, small leaf and the sheath enclosing the flowers is lance-shaped, glabrous, green and long. The outer tepals are pale violet to purple or blue, long and wide, and the hypanthium tube is long. Flowering from August to October. Taxonomy and naming ''Patersonia drummondii'' was first described in 1873 by George Bentham in ''Flora Australiensis'' from an unpublished description by Ferdinand von Mueller, from specimens collected by James Drummond in the Swan River Colony. The specific epithet (''drummondii'') honours James Drummond. Distribution a ...
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Patersonia Babianoides
''Patersonia babianoides'' is a species of plant in the iris family Iridaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a tufted, rhizome-forming herb with soft, linear to elliptic leaves and blue-violet tepals on a relatively short flowering scape. Description ''Patersonia babianoides'' is a tufted, rhizome-forming herb that typically grows to a height of and annually forms corm-like segments. Each segment usually only has a single linear to elliptic leaf long and wide on a petiole long, and covered with soft hairs long. The flowering scape is long with the sheath enclosing the flowers narrow triangular to lance-shaped, prominently veined, green, hairy and long. The outer tepals are blue-purple, long and wide, and the hypanthium tube is long and glabrous. Flowering mainly occurs from September to November. Taxonomy and naming ''Patersonia babianoides'' was first described in 1873 by George Bentham in ''Flora Australiensis'', from specimens collecte ...
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Patersonia Inaequalis
''Patersonia inaequalis'', commonly known as unequal bract patersonia, is a species of plant in the iris family Iridaceae and is endemic to a restricted part of the south-west of Western Australia. It is a tufted herb with linear, often twisted leaves and white tepals. Description ''Patersonia inaequalis'' is a tufted herb that with erect stems up to long. The leaves are linear, often twisted, long, wide, the leaf bases surrounding the stem. The flowering scape is long with the two sheaths enclosing the flowers of different lengths. The outer tepals are white, long and wide, and the hypanthium tube is long and glabrous. Flowering mainly occurs from August to October. Taxonomy and naming ''Patersonia inaequalis'' was first described in 1873 by George Bentham in ''Flora Australiensis'', from specimens collected by George Maxwell at Stokes Inlet. The specific epithet (''inaequalis'') means "unequal", referring to the bracts. Distribution and habitat Unequal bract patersonia ...
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Patersonia Argyrea
''Patersonia argyrea'' is a species of plant in the iris family Iridaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is a tufted perennial herb with linear, sword-shaped leaves and violet tepals. Description ''Patersonia argyrea'' is a tufted perennial herb that typically grows to a height of with its foliage covered with silvery hairs. It has six to ten linear, sword-shaped, grass-like leaves long and wide. The flowering scape is shorter than the leaves, long with the sheath enclosing the flowers elliptic, dark brown, prominently veined and long. The outer tepals are violet-purple, the hypanthium tube long and glabrous. Flowering mainly occurs from September to November. Taxonomy and naming ''Patersonia argyrea'' was first described in 1984 by David Alan Cooke in the journal ''Nuytsia'', from specimens collected by Charles Austin Gardner on Mount Lesueur in 1946. The specific epithet (''argyrea'') is derived from the Latin word ''argyreus'' meaning "silvery", referring to th ...
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Patersonia Borneensis
''Patersonia borneensis'' is a species of plant in the iris family Iridaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of Borneo. It is a tufted perennial with many leaves and pale lavender to bluish-purple tepals on a flowering stem shorter than the leaves. Description ''Patersonia borneensis'' is a tufted, rhizome-forming perennial that typically grows to a height of and has many sword-shaped leaves wide. The flowering stem is shorter than the leaves, oval in cross-section, long and about in diameter with the sheath enclosing the flowers long. The outer tepals are pale lavender to bluish purple, egg-shaped and about long, and the hypanthium tube is about long. Flowering mainly occurs from December to April. Taxonomy and naming ''Patersonia borneensis'' was first described in 1894 by Otto Stapf in the ''Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany'' from specimens collected on Mount Kinabalu by George Darby Haviland in 1892. Distribution and habitat This patersonia is restricted to ...
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Robert Brown (botanist, Born 1773)
Robert Brown (21 December 1773 – 10 June 1858) was a Scottish botanist and paleobotanist who made important contributions to botany largely through his pioneering use of the microscope. His contributions include one of the earliest detailed descriptions of the cell nucleus and cytoplasmic streaming; the observation of Brownian motion; early work on plant pollination and fertilisation, including being the first to recognise the fundamental difference between gymnosperms and angiosperms; and some of the earliest studies in palynology. He also made numerous contributions to plant taxonomy, notably erecting a number of plant families that are still accepted today; and numerous Australian plant genera and species, the fruit of his exploration of that continent with Matthew Flinders. Early life Robert Brown was born in Montrose on 21 December 1773, in a house that existed on the site where Montrose Library currently stands. He was the son of James Brown, a minister in the ...
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