Pityrodia Ternifolia
''Pityrodia ternifolia'' is a species of flowering plant in the mint family, Lamiaceae and is endemic to north-western Australia. It is an erect shrub with densely hairy stems, sticky and prickly, egg-shaped leaves, and mauve or pinkish-red, tube-shaped flowers. Description ''Pityrodia ternifolia'' is an erect shrub that has its stems and branches densely covered with woolly, glandular hairs. Its leaves are usually arranged in whorls of three, sticky and prickly, egg-shaped, mostly long, wide and sessile. The edges of the leaves are toothed and sometimes sharply pointed, and there are scattered glandular hairs on both surfaces. The flowers are arranged singly in leaf axils on a thin pedicel, usually shorter than the leaves and there are leaf-like bracts and linear or narrowly elliptic bracteoles at the base of the flowers. The sepals are long and joined at the base forming a bell-shaped tube with five lance-shaped lobes long. The five petals are mauve or pinkish-red, lo ...
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Ludwig Becker (explorer)
Ludwig Phillip Heinrich Becker (5 or 9 September 1808 – 27 April 1861) was a German artist, explorer and naturalist. He was born in Rödelheim near Frankfurt am Main. He moved to Australia in 1850, and was a member of the ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition. He died at the expedition's camp on the western bank of Koorliatto Waterhole, Bulloo River in 1861. Early years Becker was born at Rödelheim near Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 1808. His father was Ernst Friedrich Becker (1750–1826) and his mother was Amöne Eleonore Weber (1782–1819). Becker was the eldest of five children from this marriage. After his mother's death, Becker's father married Johanette Christiane Weber, a younger sister of his first wife. They had three more children. He left Germany in 1850. As was common practice at the time, he was referred to as Dr. Becker, but had not studied at a university. Australia After some time in England he travelled from Liverpool in November 1850 on the ship ''Hannah ...
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Journal Of The Adelaide Botanic Gardens
The Adelaide Botanic Garden is a public garden at the north-east corner of the Adelaide city centre, in the Adelaide Park Lands. It encompasses a fenced garden on North Terrace, Adelaide, North Terrace (between Lot Fourteen, the site of the old Royal Adelaide Hospital, and the National Wine Centre of Australia, National Wine Centre) and behind it the Botanic Park, Adelaide, Botanic Park (adjacent to the Adelaide Zoo). Work was begun on the site in 1855, with its official opening to the public on 4 October 1857. The Adelaide Botanic Garden and adjacent State Herbarium of South Australia, together with the Wittunga Botanic Garden and Mount Lofty Botanic Garden, comprise the ''Botanic Gardens of South Australia'', administered by the Board of the Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium, a state government statutory authority. Early history From the first official survey carried out for the map of Adelaide, William Light, Colonel William Light intended for the planned city to have a "b ...
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Pityrodia Jamesii
''Pityrodia jamesii'' is a flowering plant in the mint family Lamiaceae and is endemic to Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory, Australia. It is a spreading shrub with hairy, yellowish brown stems, sticky, hairy, egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves and white, bell-like flowers. Description ''Pityrodia jamesii'' is a spreading, hairy shrub which grows to a height of about , its branches covered with yellowish hairs. The leaves are lance-shaped to egg-shaped, sticky when young, mostly long and wide with the edges rolled under. They are crowded near the ends of the branches and are hairy and glandular with raised veins on the underside. The flowers are arranged in the upper leaf axils with bracts and smaller bracteoles. The five sepals are joined at the base and form a bell-shaped tube that is glandular and hairy on the outside and glabrous inside. The petals are white long and joined for about half their length to form a bell shaped tube with five lobes on the end. The lower thre ...
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Department Of Biodiversity, Conservation And Attractions (Western Australia)
The Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions (DBCA) is the Government of Western Australia, Western Australian government department responsible for managing lands and waters described in the ''Conservation and Land Management Act 1984'', the ''Rottnest Island Authority Act 1987'', the ''Swan and Canning Rivers Management Act 2006'', the ''Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority Act 1998'', and the ''Zoological Parks Authority Act 2001'', and implementing the state's conservation and environment legislation and regulations. The Department reports to the Minister for Environment and the Minister for Tourism. DBCA was formed on 1 July 2017 by the merger of the Department of Parks and Wildlife (Western Australia), Department of Parks and Wildlife (DPaW), the Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority, the Zoological Parks Authority and the Rottnest Island Authority. The former DPaW became the Parks and Wildlife Service. Status Parks and Wildlife Service The Formerly the Depar ...
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Territory Parks And Wildlife Conservation Act
A territory is an area of land, sea, or space, particularly belonging or connected to a country, person, or animal. In international politics, a territory is usually either the total area from which a state may extract power resources or an administrative division is usually an area that is under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state. As a subdivision a territory is in most countries an organized division of an area that is controlled by a country but is not formally developed into, or incorporated into, a political unit of the country that is of equal status to other political units that may often be referred to by words such as "provinces" or "regions" or "states". In its narrower sense, it is "a geographic region, such as a colonial possession, that is dependent on an external government." Etymology The origins of the word "territory" begin with the Proto-Indo-European root ''ters'' ('to dry'). From this emerged the Latin word ''terra'' ('earth, land') and later the La ...
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Pine Creek Bioregion
The Pine Creek biogeographic region, an interim Australian bioregion, (abbreviation PCK) is located in the Northern Territory,IBRA Version 6.1
data and comprises . The bioregion draws its name from Pine Creek, and has the code PCK. There is just one subregion (PCK01, identical to the region.

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Geography of Australia The geography of Australia encompasses a wide variety of biogeographic regions being the world's smallest continent, while ...
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Ord Victoria Plain
The Ord Victoria Plain, an interim Australian bioregion, is located in the Northern Territory and Western Australia, comprising .IBRA Version 6.1
data The bioregion draws its name from the and the Victoria River.

Location and description

This is an area of large plains of dry grassland lying between the to the south and the wetter, greener grassland to the north towards the coast. Sandstone outcrops rise ...
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Gulf Fall And Uplands
The Gulf Fall and Uplands, an interim Australian bioregion, is located in the Northern Territory and Queensland,IBRA Version 6.1
data comprising . Described in IBRA5.1 as "undulating terrain with scattered low, steep hills on

Proterozoic

and

Palaeozoic

sedimentary rocks, often overlain by lateritised Tertiary material; skeletal soils and shallow sands; Darwin box (''Eucalyptus tectifica'') and
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Gulf Coastal
The Gulf Coastal, an interim Australian bioregion, is located in the Northern Territory,IBRA Version 6.1
data comprising . The code for the bioregion is GUC.

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Geography of Australia The geography of Australia encompasses a wide variety of biogeographic regions being the world's smallest continent, while comprising the territory of the sixth-largest country in the world. The population of Australia is concentrated along ...

References

Further reading

* Thackway, R and I D Cresswell (1995) ''An interim biogeographic ...
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Darwin Coastal
The Darwin Coastal, an IBRA bioregion, is located in the Northern Territory of Australia.IBRA Version 6.1
data

Geography

It comprises an area of of central , in the of the Northern Territory. This Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) bioregion is generally flat, low-lying

Arnhem Plateau
The Arnhem Plateau, an interim Australian bioregion, is located in the Northern Territory of Australia,IBRA Version 6.1
data comprising an area of of the raised and heavily dissected that characterises central in the of the Northern Territory.

Description

The boundary of the

Arnhem Coast
The Arnhem Coast, an interim Australian bioregion, is located in the Northern Territory,IBRA Version 6.1
data comprising an area of of the coastal plains that characterises central in the of the Northern Territory.

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