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Pimelea Leptospermoides
''Pimelea leptospermoides'', commonly known as serpentine rice flower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is a shrub with narrowly egg-shaped to elliptic leaves and white, tube-shaped flowers arranged in groups of up to 7. Description ''Pimelea leptospermoides'' is a shrub that typically grows to a height of and has hairy young stems. The leaves are narrowly egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, to elliptic, long and wide on a Petiole (botany), petiole long. The flowers are arranged singly or in small groups in leaf axils on a densely hairy rachis long. The flowers are white, the Hypanthium, floral tube long, the sepals long, the Style (botany), style shorter than the floral tube. Flowering occurs from May to October. Taxonomy ''Pimelea leptospermoides'' was first formally described in 1869 by Ferdinand von Mueller in ''Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae'' from specimens collected near the Tropic of Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Kuntze
Carl Ernst Otto Kuntze (23 June 1843 – 27 January 1907) was a German botanist. Biography Otto Kuntze was born in Leipzig. An apothecary in his early career, he published an essay entitled ''Pocket Fauna of Leipzig''. Between 1863 and 1866 he worked as tradesman in Berlin and traveled through central Europe and Italy. From 1868 to 1873 he had his own factory for essential oils and attained a comfortable standard of living. Between 1874 and 1876, he traveled around the world: the Caribbean, United States, Japan, China, South East Asia, Arabian peninsula and Egypt. The journal of these travels was published as "Around the World" (1881). From 1876 to 1878 he studied Natural Science in Berlin and Leipzig and gained his doctorate in Freiburg with a monography of the genus '' Cinchona''. He edited the botanical collection from his world voyage encompassing 7,700 specimens in Berlin and Kew Gardens. The publication came as a shock to botany, since Kuntze had entirely revised taxonom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |