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Senecio Linearifolius
''Senecio linearifolius'', commonly known as fireweed groundsel, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is a small shrub with variable leaves, numerous heads of yellow flowers and grows in Tasmania, New South Wales and Victoria. Description ''Senecio linearifolius'' is a fragrant, sparse to shrubby perennial to about high and stems with smooth, fine, downy white hairs. Leaves are variable, linear to egg-shaped, long, wide, usually sessile (botany), sessile or with basal lobes, margins smooth, wavy or regularly toothed, lobed at the base or stem clasping. Both surfaces of the leaf are smooth and sparingly to thickly covered in downy white hairs. Inflorescence The inflorescence is a cluster of 20-200 flowers in a corymb about across. The individual flowers are in a grouping of 4–8 with a yellow centre. The fruit is a narrowly oblong-shaped Cypsela (botany), cypsela, long, light coloured to reddish-brown, surface with scattered or bands of hairs. Flow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Achille Richard
Achille Richard was a French botanist, botanical illustrator and physician (27 April 1794 in Paris – 5 October 1852). Biography Achille was the son of the botanist Louis-Claude Marie Richard (1754–1821). He was a pharmacist in the French navy, and a member of several well-known societies of that time. He became a botanical leader, and his books remain valued for their clarity and precision. On 24 February 1834 he was made a member of the French Academy of Sciences (Botanical Section). He was also a member of the French National Academy of Medicine. He studied and described several genera of orchids that take his abbreviation in the generic name, among them '' Ludisia''. Works * 1819 ''Nouveaux Éléments de Botanique'' (New Elements of Botany), Paris. (11th Edition, 1876, available online aGallica * 182''Monographie du genre Hydrocotyle de la famille des ombellifères'' (Monograph of genus ''Hydrocotyle'' of the family Umbelliferae (or Apiaceae) (available online at G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
