Petrophile Juncifolia
''Petrophile juncifolia'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is Endemism, endemic to southwestern Western Australia. It is a small, domed shrub with needle-shaped leaves, and heads of yellow to cream-coloured flowers. Description ''Petrophile juncifolia'' is a shrub that typically grows to a height of . The leaves are needle-shaped but not sharply pointed, long, wide and sometimes curved. The flowers are yellow to cream-coloured, hairy, long and arranged in heads. Flowering occurs from October to November and the fruit is a Nut (fruit), nut, fused with others in a head long. Taxonomy ''Petrophile juncifolia'' was first formally described in 1840 by John Lindley in ''A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony''. The Botanical name, specific epithet (''juncifolia'') means "Juncaceae, rush-leaved". Distribution and habitat This petrophile mostly grows in winter-wet places between Perth and Waroona in the Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain IB ...
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John Lindley FRS (5 February 1799 – 1 November 1865) was an English botanist, gardener and orchidologist. Early years Born in Catton, near Norwich, England, John Lindley was one of four children of George and Mary Lindley. George Lindley was a nurseryman and pomologist and ran a commercial nursery garden. Although he had great horticultural knowledge, the undertaking was not profitable and George lived in a state of indebtedness. As a boy he would assist in the garden and also collected wild flowers he found growing in the Norfolk countryside. Lindley was educated at Norwich School. He would have liked to go to university or to buy a commission in the army but the family could not afford either. He became Belgian agent for a London seed merchant in 1815. At this time Lindley became acquainted with the botanist William Jackson Hooker who allowed him to use his botanical library and who introduced him to Sir Joseph Banks who offered him employment as an assistant in his h ...
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