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Thomasia Angustifolia Foliage
''Thomasia'' is a genus of thirty-one species of flowering plants in the family Malvaceae. Plants in this genus are small shrubs that are endemic to the south-west of Western Australia, apart from '' T. petalocalyx'' that is native to Victoria and South Australia. The leaves are simple with leaf-like stipules at the base of the petiole, the flowers bisexual with five papery, petal-like sepals, usually five petals and five stamens opposite the petals. The fruit is a capsule covered with star-like hairs. Taxonomy The genus ''Thomasia'' was first formally described in 1821 by Jaques Étienne Gay in '' Mémoires du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle''. The name ''Thomasia'' honours Pierre Thomas, his son Abraham, and Abraham's sons Philippe, Louis and Emmanuel, a family of Swiss plant collectors. Species list The following is a listed of ''Thomasia'' species recognised by the Australian Plant Census as at December 2020: *''Thomasia angustifolia'' Steud. - narrow-leaved thomasia *'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomasia Sarotes
''Thomasia sarotes'' is a flowering plant in the family Malvaceae. It is an upright, spreading shrub with white, pinkish or purple flowers and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. Description ''Thomasia sarotes'' is an upright, spreading perennial shrub with branches covered in star-shaped hairs and grows to high and in wide. The flowers are purple, pink or white with 5 papery petal-like sepals. Flowering occurs from August to December and the fruit is a capsule. Taxonomy and naming The species was first formally described in 1852 by botanist Nikolai Turczaninow and the description was published in '' Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou''. The specific epithet (''sarotes'') means "broom like". Distribution and habitat This thomasia grows in clay, sand, granitic and rocky soils on low ridges and dunes in the Avon Wheatbelt The Avon Wheatbelt is a bioregion in Western Australia. It has an area of . It is considered part of the larger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomasia Macrocalyx
''Thomasia macrocalyx'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, bushy shrub with densely hairy new growth, egg-shaped leaves with a heart-shaped base and lobed or toothed edges, and groups of pale purple to mauve or white flowers. Description ''Thomasia macrocalyx'' is an erect, bushy shrub that typically grows to a height of , its young growth densely covered with pale or brownish, star-shaped hairs. The leaves are egg-shaped with a heart-shaped base, long and wide on a petiole long. The edges of the leaves are toothed or lobed, both surfaces densly covered with star-shaped hairs, the upper surface becoming glabrous with age. The flowers are arranged in hairy racemes of 2 to 6, long with egg-shaped bracteoles long at the base, the flowers in diameter. The sepals are joined at the base and covered with both simple and star-shaped hairs. Flowering occurs from May to December. Taxonomy and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lindl
John Lindley FRS (5 February 1799 – 1 November 1865) was an English botanist, gardener and orchidologist. Early years Born in Catton, near Norwich, England, John Lindley was one of four children of George and Mary Lindley. George Lindley was a nurseryman and pomologist and ran a commercial nursery garden. Although he had great horticultural knowledge, the undertaking was not profitable and George lived in a state of indebtedness. As a boy he would assist in the garden and also collected wild flowers he found growing in the Norfolk countryside. Lindley was educated at Norwich School. He would have liked to go to university or to buy a commission in the army but the family could not afford either. He became Belgian agent for a London seed merchant in 1815. At this time Lindley became acquainted with the botanist William Jackson Hooker who allowed him to use his botanical library and who introduced him to Sir Joseph Banks who offered him employment as an assistant in his herba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomasia Grandiflora
''Thomasia grandiflora'', commonly known as large-flowered thomasia, is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. The flowers are pinkish-purple with a papery appearance hanging in pendents from the leaf axils. The calyx lobes are prominent and larger than the petals. Description ''Thomasia grandiflora'' is a small shrub that grows to about high and wide. The dark, bright green leaves vary in shape, usually heart-shaped or occasionally narrowly elliptic, slightly flexible, leathery and long. The flowers have wide, conspicuous, pinkish-purple calyx lobes that are more prominent than the petals. The calyx is thicker near the mid-vein. The small petals are densely covered with star-shaped hairs, occasionally with only a few scattered hairs. The flowers have a papery texture and about across on short pendant stalks. The flowers are followed by capsules containing black seeds that are shed from the plant when ripe. Flowering occurs from winter to spring. Taxonomy and n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomasia Glabripetala
''Thomasia glabripetala'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of the south-west of Western Australia. It is an open shrub with densely hairy branchlets, sparsely hairy, wrinkled, elliptic or oblong leaves, and racemes of purplish-pink flowers arranged in leaf axils. Description ''Thomasia glabripetala'' is an open shrub that typically grows up to high, wide and has its branchlets densely covered with brownish, star-shaped hairs. The leaves are elliptic or oblong, long and wide, on a petiole long with leaf-like, kidney-shaped or lobed stipules long at the base. The leaves are slightly wrinkled, both surfaces covered with star-shaped hairs, pale on the upper surface and rusty brown on the lower surface. The flowers are arranged in racemes of 4 to 7 in leaf axils on a hairy peduncle, each flower on a pedicel long, with 3 hairy, elliptic bracteoles long at the base. The sepals are purplish-pink, long with 5 lobes long ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomasia Gardneri
''Thomasia gardneri'', commonly known as Mount Holland thomasia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and was endemic to a restricted area of Western Australia, but is now considered to be extinct. It was a low, erect shrub with scaly, narrowly egg-shaped leaves and racemes of pink flowers. Description ''Thomasia gardneri'' was an erect, woody shrub that grew to a height of up to , its branchlets, leaves and flower heads covered with small scales surrounded by short hairs. The leaves were arranged alternately, narrowly egg-shaped, long and wide on a petiole long. The flowers were arranged on the ends of branches in racemes of one or two flowers on a peduncle long, each flower on a pedicel about long. The sepals were pink and about long, the petals papery and about long, and the 5 anthers about long. Flowering was observed in September. Taxonomy ''Thomasia gardneri'' was first formally described in 1974 by Susan Paust in the journal ''Nuytsia'' from sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomasia × Formosa
''Thomasia × formosa'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, compact shrub with densely hairy branchlets, hairy, coarsely serrated, egg-shaped to elliptic or oblong leaves, and racemes of pink or purple flowers arranged in leaf axils. Description ''Thomasia × formosa'' is an erect, compact shrub that typically grows to high, wide and has its branchlets densely covered with rust-coloured, star-shaped hairs. The leaves are egg-shaped to elliptic or oblong, long and wide, tapering to a petiole long with oval stipules long at the base. The upper surface of the leaves is wrinkled, the edges have rounded teeth and down-curved edges, and both surfaces are covered with rust-coloured, star-shaped hairs. The flowers are arranged in racemes of 7 or more in leaf axils on a peduncle long, each flower on a pedicel up to long, with egg-shaped bracts and 3 bracteoles about l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomasia Foliosa
''Thomasia discolor'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a multi-stemmed shrub with densely hairy branchlets, coarsely serrated, egg-shaped leaves with a heart-shaped base, and many small pink, cream-coloured or white flowers. Description ''Thomasia discolor'' is a multistemmed shrub that typically grows to high, wide and has its branchlets densely covered with star-shaped hairs. The leaves are egg-shaped with a heart-shaped base, long and wide on a petiole long. The edges of the leaves are coarsely serrated, the lower surface paler than the upper surface and sparsely hairy. The flowers are arranged in racemes of 3 to 10 about long, each flower on a pedicel long, with linear bracts and sparsely hairy bracteoles long at the base. The sepals are pink, cream-coloured or white. Flowering occurs from May to November. Taxonomy and naming ''Thomasia discolor'' was first formally described in 1821 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomasia Discolor
''Thomasia discolor'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a small, compact shrub with hairy new growth, heart-shaped leaves with wavy, lobed edges, and pink flowers in crowded clusters. Description ''Thomasia discolor'' is a compact shrub that typically grows to high, wide and has its young growth covered with rust-coloured, star-shaped hairs. The leaves are heart-shaped to oval, long and wide on a petiole up to long. The edges of the leaves are wavy and lobed, the lower surface densely covered with white or rust-coloured, star-shaped hairs. The flowers are arranged in crowded racemes of up to 10, each flower on a pedicel long, with hairy bracteoles at the base. The sepals are pink, up to long, but there are no petals. Flowering occurs from September to December. Taxonomy and naming ''Thomasia discolor'' was first formally described in 1845 by Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel in Lehmann's ''Plant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomasia Dielsii
''Thomasia dielsii'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a low, erect to spreading shrub with egg-shaped leaves with wavy edges, and purple, violet and blue flowers. Description ''Thomasia dielsii'' is an erect to spreading shrub that typically grows to high, wide and has its young stems covered in greyish, star-shaped. The leaves are egg-shaped to oblong, long and wide on a petiole long. The edges of the leaves are wavy and slightly serrated, the upper surface with a few star-shaped hairs, the lower surface more densely hairy. There are hairy, smaller leaf-like stipules at the base of the petioles. The flowers are arranged in racemes of 4 to 9, each flower on a hairy pedicel long, with hairy, linear bracteoles about long at the base. The sepals are purple, violet and blue, long, and there are no petals, the style protruding above the stamens. Taxonomy and naming ''Thomasia dielsii'' was fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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