Sprengelia

	Sprengelia ''Sprengelia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. Plants in the genus ''Sprengelia'' are slender, erect or low-lying shrubs with overlapping, stem-clasping leaves, many bracts at the base of the flowers, the sepals egg-shaped, white or coloured, the five petals with spreading lobes, and the fruit a capsule. The genus ''Sprengelia'' was first formally described in 1794 by James Edward Smith in the journal ''Kongliga Vetenskaps Academiens Nya Handlingar'', later published in translation in ''Tracts relating to natural history''. The first species described was '' Sprengelia incarnata''. The genus name honours the German botanist Christian Konrad Sprengel. The names of seven species are accepted by the Australian Plant Census The Australian Plant Census (APC) provides an online interface to currently accepted, published, scientific names of the vascular flora of Australia, as one of the output interfaces of the national gove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Sprengelia ''Sprengelia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. Plants in the genus ''Sprengelia'' are slender, erect or low-lying shrubs with overlapping, stem-clasping leaves, many bracts at the base of the flowers, the sepals egg-shaped, white or coloured, the five petals with spreading lobes, and the fruit a capsule. The genus ''Sprengelia'' was first formally described in 1794 by James Edward Smith in the journal ''Kongliga Vetenskaps Academiens Nya Handlingar'', later published in translation in ''Tracts relating to natural history''. The first species described was '' Sprengelia incarnata''. The genus name honours the German botanist Christian Konrad Sprengel. The names of seven species are accepted by the Australian Plant Census The Australian Plant Census (APC) provides an online interface to currently accepted, published, scientific names of the vascular flora of Australia, as one of the output interfaces of the national gove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	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]
	Sprengelia Propinqua ''Sprengelia propinqua'' is a species of flowering plant of the family Ericaceae, and is endemic to Tasmania. It is an erect, robust shrub with overlapping, stem-clasping, egg-shaped leaves, and white flowers crowded in upper leaf axils. Description ''Sprengelia propinqua'' is a shrub that typically grows to a height of up to . Its leaves overlap each other, have a stem-clasping base, and are egg-shaped, long and wide, crowded near the ends of branches. The flowers are crowded near the ends of branches, with egg-shaped bracts long and wide at the base. The sepals are narrowly lance-shaped, long and the petals are white, joined at the base to form a tube long with narrowly lance-shaped lobes long. Flowering occurs from November to January. Taxonomy ''Sprengelia propinqua'' was first formally described in 1839 by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle in his ''Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis'' from an unpublished description by Allan Cunningham of plants he collected ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Sprengelia Monticola ''Sprengelia monticola'', commonly known as rock sprengelia, is a species of flowering plant of the family Ericaceae, and is endemic to the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Blue Mountains in eastern New South Wales. It is an open or low-lying shrub with egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves, and white flowers arranged singly in leaf axils. Description ''Sprengelia monticola'' is an open or low-lying, wikt:glabrous, glabrous shrub that typically grows to a height of . The leaves are egg-shaped to lance-shaped, long and wide with a small point on the end. The flowers are arranged singly in leaf axils, with tapering, egg-shaped bracts at the base. The sepals are triangular to egg-shaped, about long and the petals white, sometimes joined at the base to form a tube long with lobes long. Flowering occurs from September to December and the fruit is a Capsule (fruit), capsule about in diameter. Taxonomy This species was first formally described in 1839 by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]