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Senecio Quadridentatus
''Senecio quadridentatus'' is native to Australia and New Zealand. In New Zealand it is known by its Māori name pahokoraka or pekapeka. ''Senecio quadridentatus'' is an annual or perennial herbaceous flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is also known as ''Erechtites quadridentata Labill'' by the synonyms. Description This erect plant, ''Senecio quadridentatus,'' is an annual or short-lived perennial herb up to around 1m tall. Generally speaking, it is a silver-looking plant from a distance which is attractive. Its stems are branched from or near the hard woody base, covered with thick white fine hair-like filaments, becoming thin with age. Lower and middle stem leaves are basically evenly arranged and similar in size, about 4–12 cm long and 1.5-6 mm wide. These leaves are linear to narrow lance-shaped with pointed apex and subsessile, the upper surface grey-green with white tomentum or glabrous and the lower surface with moderate to dense white to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Labillardière
Jacques-Julien Houtou de Labillardière (28 October 1755 – 8 January 1834) was a French biologist noted for his descriptions of the flora of Australia. Labillardière was a member of a voyage in search of the Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, La Pérouse expedition. He published a popular account of his journey and produced the first Flora (publication), Flora on the region. Early life Jacques Labillardière was born in Alençon, Normandy, France, on 28 October 1755. The ninth of 14 children of a lace merchant, he was born into a devoutly Roman Catholic family of modest means.Duyker (2003) p. 8. The surname ''Labillardière'' originated with Labillardière's grandfather, Jacques Houtou, who, in an affectation of nobility, appended the name of the family's estate, ''La Billardière'', after his surname. Labillardière was thus baptised under the surname ''Houtou de Labillardière'', but he later dropped the patronymic, retaining only ''Labillardière'' in both h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
