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Sclerolaena Parviflora
''Sclerolaena parviflora'' (common names - Mallee copper burr, Small-flower saltbush) is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae, found in every mainland state and territory of Australia. It was first described in 1923 by Robert Henry Anderson as ''Bassia parviflora'', but was transferred to the genus, ''Sclerolaena'' in 1978 by Andrew John Scott. It is found in the central and southern areas of Australia. Gallery Sclerolaena parviflora 175542815.jpg Sclerolaena parviflora 175543362.jpg Sclerolaena parviflora 75693421.jpg References External links''Scleroalaena parviflora'' occurrence datafrom GBIF The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) is an international organisation that focuses on making scientific data on biodiversity available via the Internet using web services. The data are provided by many institutions from around the ... parviflora Endemic flora of Australia Plants described in 1923 Taxa named by Robert Henry Anderson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Henry Anderson
Robert Henry Anderson (1899-1969) was botanist who in 1945 became the first Australian-born director of the Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney, Royal Botanic Garden in Sydney. He remained director until his retirement in March 1964. Early life Anderson was born in Cooma, New South Wales on 12 March 1899, to Rev. William Addison Smyth Anderson and his wife Jane, née Thompson. He is the brother of Sir William Hewson Anderson. Andserson grew up in Cooma, Bowenfels, New South Wales, Bowenfels, Liverpool, New South Wales, Liverpool and Arncliffe, New South Wales, Arncliffe in New South Wales while his father (an ordained Presbyterian minister) moved from parish to parish. Anderson and his brother were educated at Fort Street High School, Fort Street Boys' High School in Petersham, New South Wales. Writings Anderson is the author of ''Tree Planting on the Farm'' (1931) and ''The Trees of New South Wales'' (1932). Career * Botanical assistant, National Herbarium of New South Wales ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew John Scott (botanist)
Andrew John Scott B.A., M.Sc., Ph.D., DMS, F.L.S. (born 1950) is a British botanist. After St Peter's School, Southbourne (1961-1969) he studied Biology at York University (1972) followed by an M.Sc. in Plant taxonomy at Reading University (1973), with a project on "'' Lotus'' section ''Pedrosia'' in the Canary Islands". In 1976 he was awarded a Ph.D. from Birmingham University for the thesis "The Systematics of the Chenopodiaceae" using Numerical taxonomy. He worked (1976-1978) at the Herbarium, Kew Gardens, on Myrtaceae. Later he worked on the Flora of the Mascarenes project at Kew. Elected a member of the Linnean Society of London in 1976. He was awarded a Diploma in Management Studies (DMS) from Thames Valley College in 1990 and worked in Information technology. ''Gossia scottiana'' N.Snow is named for him. Selected publications 1990. Myrtacées. In: Bosser J, Cadet T, Guého J, Marais W (Eds) Flore des Mascareignes: La Réunion, Maurice, Rodrigues 92. MSIRI, Port Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amaranthaceae
Amaranthaceae is a family of flowering plants commonly known as the amaranth family, in reference to its type genus ''Amaranthus''. It includes the former goosefoot family Chenopodiaceae and contains about 165 genera and 2,040 species, making it the most species-rich lineage within its parent order, Caryophyllales. Description Vegetative characters Most species in the Amaranthaceae are annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs; others are shrubs; very few species are vines or trees. Some species are succulent. Many species have stems with thickened nodes. The wood of the perennial stem has a typical "anomalous" secondary growth; only in subfamily Polycnemoideae is secondary growth normal. The leaves are simple and mostly alternate, sometimes opposite. They never possess stipules. They are flat or terete, and their shape is extremely variable, with entire or toothed margins. In some species, the leaves are reduced to minute scales. In most cases, neither basal nor terminal aggrega ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a Megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with Deserts of Australia, deserts in the centre, tropical Forests of Australia, rainforests in the north-east, and List of mountains in Australia, mountain ranges in the south-east. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south east Asia approximately Early human migrations#Nearby Oceania, 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sclerolaena
''Sclerolaena '' is a genus of Annual plant, annuals or short-lived perennials in the family Chenopodiaceae (''sensu stricto''), which are included in Amaranthaceae (''sensu lato'') according to the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, APG classification. Species include: *''Sclerolaena alata'' Paul G. Wilson *''Sclerolaena anisacanthoides'' Domin *''Sclerolaena bicornis'' Lindl. *''Sclerolaena birchii'' (F. Muell.) Domin *''Sclerolaena blakei'' (Ising) A.J. Scott *''Sclerolaena calcarata'' (Ising) A.J.Scott *''Sclerolaena cuneata'' Paul G. Wilson *''Sclerolaena densiflora'' *''Sclerolaena diacantha'' (Nees) Benth. *''Sclerolaena divaricata'' (R.Br.) Sm. *''Sclerolaena eriacantha'' (F. Muell.) Ulbr. *''Sclerolaena eurotioides'' (F. Muell.) A.J. Scott *''Sclerolaena fimbriolata'' (F. Muell.) A.J. Scott *''Sclerolaena forrestiana'' (F. Muell.) Domin *''Sclerolaena fusiformis'' Paul G. Wilson *Sclerolaena hostilis, ''Sclerolaena'' ''hostilis'' (Diels) Domin *''Sclerolaena lanicuspis'' (F.Mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GBIF
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) is an international organisation that focuses on making scientific data on biodiversity available via the Internet using web services. The data are provided by many institutions from around the world; GBIF's information architecture makes these data accessible and searchable through a single portal. Data available through the GBIF portal are primarily distribution data on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes for the world, and scientific names data. The mission of the GBIF is to facilitate free and open access to biodiversity data worldwide to underpin sustainable development. Priorities, with an emphasis on promoting participation and working through partners, include mobilising biodiversity data, developing protocols and standards to ensure scientific integrity and interoperability, building an informatics architecture to allow the interlinking of diverse data types from disparate sources, promoting capacity building and catal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Endemic Flora Of Australia
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] |
Plants Described In 1923
Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclude the fungi and some algae, as well as the prokaryotes (the archaea and bacteria). By one definition, plants form the clade Viridiplantae (Latin name for "green plants") which is sister of the Glaucophyta, and consists of the green algae and Embryophyta (land plants). The latter includes the flowering plants, conifers and other gymnosperms, ferns and their allies, hornworts, liverworts, and mosses. Most plants are multicellular organisms. Green plants obtain most of their energy from sunlight via photosynthesis by primary chloroplasts that are derived from endosymbiosis with cyanobacteria. Their chloroplasts contain chlorophylls a and b, which gives them their green color. Some plants are parasitic or mycotrophic and have lost the ability ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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