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Richea Sprengelioides
''Richea sprengelioides'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae. It is one of the 11 species within the genus ''Richea'' that are endemic to Australia, of which 9 are found only in Tasmania. The species was first formally described by botanist Robert Brown in 1810 in ''Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae''. He gave it the name ''Cystanthe sprengelioides''. ">/sup> In 1867 Victorian Government Botanist Ferdinand von Mueller transferred the species to the genus ''Richea''. It is found throughout the mountainous regions of Tasmania. Description ''Richea sprengelioides'' can grow as an erect shrub up to 1.2m in height. Older stems are devoid of leaves but bear numerous angular scars. Its leaves follow the distinctive habit of its genus, sheathing the stem before curling away and tapering to a point. Its inflorescence is roughly 2 centimeters wide and tall, with some 20 flowers clustered together at the end of the stems. ''Richea sprengelioides'' in general is eas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walls Of Jerusalem National Park
The Walls of Jerusalem National Park is a national park located in the Central Highlands region of Tasmania, Australia. The park is located approximately northwest of Hobart, east of the Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park, and west of the Central Plateau Conservation Area. It is south of Mole Creek, Tasmania, and Rowallan Lake. The national park forms part of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area. The locality of Walls of Jerusalem is in the local government areas of Central Highlands (36%) and Meander Valley (64%) in Tasmania. The locality is about north-west of the town of Hamilton. Etymology and history The park takes its name from the geological features of the park which are thought to resemble the walls of the city of Jerusalem. As a result, many places and features within the park also have Biblical references for names, such as Herods Gate, Lake Salome, Solomons Jewels, Damascus Gate, the Pool of Bethesda. According to local legend, a prophet roams ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richea Scoparia
''Richea scoparia (formerly known as R. angustifolia)'', is a wide spread Tasmanian endemic plant. The genus ''Richea,'' forms part of the Ericaceae (formerly Epacridaceae) family, which are commonly heath-like shrubs. The name refers to the erect bushy growth habit, described as a broom-like shrub, most commonly referred to as the honey bush or simply scoparia to many bushwalkers. Description ''Richea scoparia'' is 1-3m high and commonly grows in wind-swept regions of mountains. The leaves persist for a number of years, even when dead. Leaves are crowded, sharp pointed, linear-lanceolate with a broad sheathing base, 3-6cm long. Inflorescences are terminal spikes 4-12cm in varying colours of orange, yellow, red, pink or white, flowering in January- March. Flowers with caps of joined petals, which a deciduous, exposing 5mm long stamens and a short style. Hybrid ''Richea scoparia'' forms a hybrid species with ''Richea pandanifolia''. The hybrid species, Richea curtisiae' is rela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Endemic Flora Of Tasmania
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere. For example, the Cape sugarbird is found exclusively in southwestern South Africa and is therefore said to be ''endemic'' to that particular part of the world. An endemic species can be also be referred to as an ''endemism'' or in scientific literature as an ''endemite''. For example '' Cytisus aeolicus'' is an endemite of the Italian flora. '' Adzharia renschi'' was once believed to be an endemite of the Caucasus, but it was later discovered to be a non-indigenous species from South America belonging to a different genus. The extreme opposite of an endemic species is one with a cosmopolitan distribution, having a global or widespread range. A rare alternative term for a species that is endemic is "precinctive", which applies to s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flora Of Tasmania
Flora is all the plant life present in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring (indigenous) native plants. Sometimes bacteria and fungi are also referred to as flora, as in the terms '' gut flora'' or '' skin flora''. Etymology The word "flora" comes from the Latin name of Flora, the goddess of plants, flowers, and fertility in Roman mythology. The technical term "flora" is then derived from a metonymy of this goddess at the end of the sixteenth century. It was first used in poetry to denote the natural vegetation of an area, but soon also assumed the meaning of a work cataloguing such vegetation. Moreover, "Flora" was used to refer to the flowers of an artificial garden in the seventeenth century. The distinction between vegetation (the general appearance of a community) and flora (the taxonomic composition of a community) was first made by Jules Thurmann (1849). Prior to this, the two terms were used indiscriminately.Thurmann, J. (1849). ''Essai de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ericales Of Australia
The Ericales are a large and diverse order of dicotyledons. Species in this order have considerable commercial importance including for tea, persimmon, blueberry, kiwifruit, Brazil nuts, argan, and azalea. The order includes trees, bushes, lianas, and herbaceous plants. Together with ordinary autophytic plants, the Ericales include chlorophyll-deficient mycoheterotrophic plants (e.g., '' Sarcodes sanguinea'') and carnivorous plants (e.g., genus ''Sarracenia''). Many species have five petals, often grown together. Fusion of the petals as a trait was traditionally used to place the order in the subclass Sympetalae. Mycorrhizal associations are quite common among the order representatives, and three kinds of mycorrhiza are found exclusively among Ericales (namely, ericoid, arbutoid and monotropoid mycorrhiza). In addition, some families among the order are notable for their exceptional ability to accumulate aluminum. Ericales are a cosmopolitan order. Areas of distribution of fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paleoendemism
Paleoendemism along with neoendemism is a possible subcategory of endemism. Paleoendemism refers to species that were formerly widespread but are now restricted to a smaller area. Neoendemism refers to species that have recently arisen, such as through divergence and reproductive isolation or through hybridization and polyploidy in plants. Etymology The first part of the word, paleo, comes from the Greek word ''palaiós, meaning "ancient".'' The second part of the word, ''endemism'' is from New Latin ''endēmicus'', from Greek ενδήμος, ''endēmos'', "native". ''Endēmos'' is formed of ''en'' meaning "in", and ''dēmos'' meaning "the people". Causes Changes in climate are thought to be the driving force in creating paleoendemic species, generally due to habitat loss. Regions where the climate has remained relatively stable form refugia which are more likely to be endemic hotspots today. This applies to both neoendemism and paleoendemism. However, paleoendemism differs as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbfield
Herbfields are plant communities dominated by herbaceous plants, especially forbs and grasses. They are found where climatic conditions do not allow large woody plants to grow, such as in subantarctic and alpine tundra environments. Herbfield is defined in New South Wales (Australia) government legislation as native vegetation that predominantly does not contain an over-storey or a mid-storey and where ground cover is dominated by non-grass species. The New Zealand Department of Conservation The Department of Conservation (DOC; Māori: ''Te Papa Atawhai'') is the public service department of New Zealand charged with the conservation of New Zealand's natural and historical heritage. An advisory body, the New Zealand Conservation Au ... has described herbfield vegetation as that in which the cover of herbs in the canopy is 20–100%, and in which herb cover is greater than that of any other growth form, or of bare ground.Lux et al. (2009). Various kinds of herbfield include ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richea Sprengelioides Distrobution
''Richea'' is a genus of 11 species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae. Nine of the species are endemic to Tasmania and the other two are endemic to the south-east of the Australian mainland. Species include: *''Richea acerosa'' (Lindl.) F.Muell. *''Richea alpina'' Menadue *''Richea continentis'' B.L.Burtt – Candle heath *''Richea dracophylla'' R.Br. – Dragonleaf richea *''Richea gunnii'' Hook.f. – Gunn's candle heath *''Richea milliganii'' (Hook.f.) F.Muell. – Milligan's candle heath or nodding candle heath *''Richea pandanifolia'' Hook.f. – Pandani or giant grass tree *''Richea procera'' (F.Muell.) F.Muell. – Lowland richea *''Richea scoparia'' Hook.f. – Scoparia *''Richea sprengelioides'' (R.Br.) F.Muell. *''Richea victoriana ''Richea victoriana '' is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae that is endemic to Victoria, Australia. It is similar to ''Richea continentis'', with differences including the presence ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sprengelia Incarnata
''Sprengelia incarnata'', commonly referred to as pink swamp-heath, is a species of flowering plant of the family Ericaceae, and is native to south-eastern Australia and New Zealand. It is an erect, glabrous shrub with sharply-pointed, stem-clasping, egg-shaped leaves, and clusters of pink, tube-shaped flowers with spreading lobes. Description ''Sprengelia incarnata'' is an erect, glabrous shrub that typically grows to a height of , and has reddish-brown to red stems. The leaves are egg-shaped to lance-shaped, long and wide, with a stem-clasping base and a sharp point long on the tip. The flowers are borne in clusters of 3 to 20 in spikes long near the ends of stems, with bracts and bracteoles long at the base. The sepals are usually pink, narrowly triangular to lance-shaped and long and the petals are usually pink, joined at the base to form a tube long with spreading, narrowly triangular lobes long. Flowering mainly occurs from June to October or December and the fruit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Papillose
This glossary of botanical terms is a list of definitions of terms and concepts relevant to botany and plants in general. Terms of plant morphology are included here as well as at the more specific Glossary of plant morphology and Glossary of leaf morphology. For other related terms, see Glossary of phytopathology, Glossary of lichen terms, and List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names. A B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cline (biology)
In biology, a cline (from the Greek κλίνειν ''klinein'', meaning "to lean") is a measurable gradient in a single character (or biological trait) of a species across its geographical range. First coined by Julian Huxley in 1938, the "character" of the cline referred to is usually genetic (e.g. allele frequency, blood type), or phenotypic (e.g. body size, skin pigmentation). Clines can show smooth, continuous gradation in a character, or they may show more abrupt changes in the trait from one geographic region to the next. A cline refers to a spatial gradient in a specific, singular trait, rather than a collection of traits; a single population can therefore have as many clines as it has traits, at least in principle. Additionally, Huxley recognised that these multiple independent clines may not act in concordance with each other. For example, it has been observed that in Australia, birds generally become smaller the further towards the north of the country they are found ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richea Sprengelioides Individual From Mt Wellington
''Richea'' is a genus of 11 species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae. Nine of the species are endemic to Tasmania and the other two are endemic to the south-east of the Australian mainland. Species include: *''Richea acerosa'' (Lindl.) F.Muell. *''Richea alpina'' Menadue *''Richea continentis'' B.L.Burtt – Candle heath *''Richea dracophylla'' R.Br. – Dragonleaf richea *''Richea gunnii'' Hook.f. – Gunn's candle heath *''Richea milliganii'' (Hook.f.) F.Muell. – Milligan's candle heath or nodding candle heath *''Richea pandanifolia'' Hook.f. – Pandani or giant grass tree *''Richea procera'' (F.Muell.) F.Muell. – Lowland richea *''Richea scoparia'' Hook.f. – Scoparia *''Richea sprengelioides'' (R.Br.) F.Muell. *''Richea victoriana ''Richea victoriana '' is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae that is endemic to Victoria, Australia. It is similar to ''Richea continentis'', with differences including the presence ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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