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Townsonia Deflexa
''Townsonia deflexa'', commonly known as the creeping forest orchid, is a species of orchid endemic to New Zealand. It forms diffuse colonies with tiny, inconspicuous flowers and small, more or less round leaves and grows mainly in mossy places in beech forest. Description ''Townsonia deflexa'' is a terrestrial, perennial, deciduous, sympodial herb which grows in small groups with its tubers connected by a fleshy root. It spreads through mossy patches and leaf litter, each tuber producing one or two leaves. The leaves of both flowering and non-flowering plants are very thin with wavy margins and a relatively long petiole. The leaves emerge at ground level and are egg-shaped to almost round, and about long. Flowering plants also have a similar leaf on the flowering stem except that it lacks a petiole. Up to four flowers about long are borne on a flowering stem high. The flowers are green with red blotches. The sepals are V-shaped in cross section, the dorsal sepal broader ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Frederic Cheeseman
Thomas Frederick Cheeseman (8 June 184515 October 1923) was a New Zealand botanist. He was also a naturalist who had wide-ranging interests, such that he even described a few species of sea slugs (marine gastropod molluscs). Biography Cheeseman was born at Hull, in Yorkshire on 8 June 1845, the eldest of five children. He came to New Zealand at the age of eight with his parents on the ''Artemesia'', arriving in Auckland on 4 April 1854. He was educated at Parnell Grammar School and then at St John's College, Auckland. His father, the Rev. Thomas Cheeseman, had been a member of the old Auckland Provincial Council. Cheeseman started studying the flora of New Zealand, and in 1872 he published an accurate and comprehensive account of the plant life of the Waitākere Ranges. In 1874, he was appointed Secretary of the Auckland Institute and Curator of the Auckland Museum, which had only recently been founded. For the first three decades, Cheeseman was the only staff member who w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |