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Verticordia Polytricha
''Verticordia polytricha'', commonly known as northern cauliflower, is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, bushy shrub with linear leaves and dense heads of white flowers in late spring and summer. Description ''Verticordia polytricha'' is a shrub with a single stem at its base but which is densely branched and bushy. It grows to a height of and wide. Its leaves are linear in shape, semi-circular or triangular in cross-section, long and those near the ends of the branches are crowded. The flowers are scented and arranged in dense, corymb-like groups near the ends of the branches, each flower on a stalk about long. The floral cup is hemispherical, long and hairy on the upper half. The sepals are creamish-white, about long and have a fringe of long hairs. The petals are the same colour as the sepals, spreading at first, erect later, long and hairy on the outside. The style is long, gently ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Bentham
George Bentham (22 September 1800 – 10 September 1884) was an English botanist, described by the weed botanist Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century". Born into a distinguished family, he initially studied law, but had a fascination with botany from an early age, which he soon pursued, becoming president of the Linnaean Society in 1861, and a fellow of the Royal Society in 1862. He was the author of a number of important botanical works, particularly flora. He is best known for his taxonomic classification of plants in collaboration with Joseph Dalton Hooker, his ''Genera Plantarum'' (1862–1883). He died in London in 1884. Life Bentham was born in Stoke, Plymouth, on 22 September 1800.Jean-Jacques Amigo, « Bentham (George) », in Nouveau Dictionnaire de biographies roussillonnaises, vol. 3 Sciences de la Vie et de la Terre, Perpignan, Publications de l'olivier, 2017, 915 p. () His father, Sir Samuel Bentham, a naval architect, was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex George (botanist)
Alexander Segger George (born 4 April 1939) is a Western Australian botanist. He is the authority on the plant genera ''Banksia'' and ''Dryandra''. The "bizarre" Restionaceae genus '' Alexgeorgea'' was named in his honour in 1976. Early life Alex Segger George was born in Western Australia on 4 April 1939. Career George joined the Western Australian Herbarium as a laboratory assistant at the age of twenty in 1959. He worked under Charles Gardner for a year before the latter's retirement, and partly credits him with rekindling an interest in banksias. In 1963 he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Western Australia, and the following year added a botany major. Continuing at the Western Australian Herbarium as a botanist, in 1968 he was seconded as Australian Botanical Liaison Officer at the Royal Botanic Gardens in London. George also has an interest in history, especially historical biography of naturalists in Western Australia. He has published a number ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Euryglossa Evansi
Euryglossa may refer to: * ''Euryglossa'' (bee), a genus of bee in the family Colletidae * ''Euryglossa'', a genus of fishes in the family Soleidae, synonym of ''Brachirus'' * ''Euryglossa'' Motschoulsky, 860/small>, a genus of beetles in the family Staphylinidae, synonym of '' Leucocraspedum'' * ''Euryglossa'' Fauvel, 1866, a genus of beetles in the family Staphylinidae The rove beetles are a family (Staphylinidae) of beetles, primarily distinguished by their short elytra (wing covers) that typically leave more than half of their abdominal segments exposed. With roughly 63,000 species in thousands of genera, the ..., synonym of '' Pagla'' {{Genus disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IBRA
The Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) is a biogeographic regionalisation of Australia developed by the Australian government's Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population, and Communities. It was developed for use as a planning tool, for example for the establishment of a national reserve system. The first version of IBRA was developed in 1993–94 and published in 1995. Within the broadest scale, Australia is a major part of the Australasia biogeographic realm, as developed by the World Wide Fund for Nature. Based on this system, the world is also split into 14 terrestrial habitats, of which eight are shared by Australia. The Australian land mass is divided into 89 bioregions and 419 subregions. Each region is a land area made up of a group of interacting ecosystems that are repeated in similar form across the landscape. IBRA is updated periodically based on new data, mapping improvements, and review of the existing scheme. The most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yalgoo (biogeographic Region)
Yalgoo is an interim Australian bioregion located in Western Australia. It has an area of . The bioregion, together with the Avon Wheatbelt and Geraldton Sandplains bioregions, is part of the larger Southwest Australia savanna ecoregion as classified by the World Wildlife Fund. Geography The Yalgoo bioregion extends southeastwards from the southern end of Shark Bay on Australia's west coast nearly to Lake Barlee in the interior of Western Australia. The western portion, known as the Edel subregion, includes the Edel Land peninsula and Dirk Hartog, Bernier, and Dorre islands, which enclose Shark Bay on the west. It also includes the coastal plain south of Shark Bay nearly to Kalbarri, where it transitions to the Geraldton Sandplains bioregion. The Edel subregion rests on the Carnarvon and Perth sedimentary basins. The Zuytdorp Cliffs line the coast from the northern end of Edel Land to the mouth of the Murchison River. Soils are generally white sands along the coast, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jarrah Forest
Jarrah forest is tall open forest in which the dominant overstory tree is ''Eucalyptus marginata'' (jarrah). The ecosystem occurs only in the Southwest Botanical Province of Western Australia. It is most common in the biogeographic region named in consequence Jarrah Forest. Most jarrah forest contains at least one other co-dominant overstory tree; association with ''Corymbia calophylla'' is especially common, and results in which is sometimes referred to as jarrah-marri forest. Considerable amount of research delineates northern, central and southern jarrah forestStrelein, G. J. (1988) ''Site classification in the Southern jarrah forest of Western Australia'' Como, W.A. Dept. of Conservation and Land Management, Western Australia. Research bulletin 0816-9675 ; 2. (not printed in book) which relates to rainfall, geology and ecosystem variance. See also *Darling Scarp The Darling Scarp, also referred to as the Darling Range or Darling Ranges, is a low escarpment running nort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geraldton Sandplains
Geraldton (Wajarri: ''Jambinu'', Wilunyu: ''Jambinbirri'') is a coastal city in the Mid West region of the Australian state of Western Australia, north of the state capital, Perth. At June 2018, Geraldton had an urban population of 37,648. Estimated resident population, 30 June 2018. Geraldton is the seat of government for the City of Greater Geraldton, which also incorporates the town of Mullewa, Walkaway and large rural areas previously forming the shires of Greenough and Mullewa. The Port of Geraldton is a major west coast seaport. Geraldton is an important service and logistics centre for regional mining, fishing, wheat, sheep and tourism industries. History Aboriginal Clear evidence has established Aboriginal people living on the west coast of Australia for at least 40,000 years, though at present it is unclear when the first Aboriginal people reached the area around Geraldton. The original local Aboriginal people of Geraldton are the Amangu people, with the Nan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalbarri, Western Australia
Kalbarri is a coastal town in the Mid West (Western Australia), Mid West region located north of Perth, Western Australia. The town is located at the mouth of the Murchison River (Western Australia), Murchison River which has an elevation of . It is connected by public transport to Perth via Transwa coach services N1 and N2. History Kalbarri is a part of the traditional lands of the Nanda people who were recognised as the traditional owners of more than of land and water in the Yamatji region, in Western Australia, on 28 November 2018. Nanda people have been awarded exclusive native title rights over several key areas including Paradise Flats, Bully, Wilgie Mia, Mooliabatanya and Syphon pools. The story of the Beemarra serpent is the central dreaming story of Nanda people. The Beemarra is, according to Nanda culture, an ancestral being responsible for the creation of the land and waters in the region Kalbarri was named after an Aboriginal man from the Nanda tribe and is als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Binnu, Western Australia
Binnu is a town on the North West Coastal Highway in the Mid West region of Western Australia. The name derives from a well on the outskirts of town that was first in use in 1909. The name is Indigenous Australian in origin and is thought to mean either ''to squeeze'' or ''place of emus''. The townsite was gazetted in 1932. The main industry in the area is agriculture, particularly the production of wheat and lupins. The town was gripped by a two-year drought from 2006 then had a bumper crop in 2008. In 2009 up to 30% of crops were lost as a result of damage caused by a mouse A mouse ( : mice) is a small rodent. Characteristically, mice are known to have a pointed snout, small rounded ears, a body-length scaly tail, and a high breeding rate. The best known mouse species is the common house mouse (''Mus musculus' ... plague. Sheep are also raised, particularly Merinos, although problems with salinity, erosion and drought are common. The main industry in town is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verticordia Capillaris
''Verticordia capillaris'' is a flowering plant in the myrtle Family (biology), family, Myrtaceae and is Endemism, endemic to the Southwest Australia, south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with a single stem at the base, small leaves and creamy white or occasionally pink flowers in dense Panicle, corymb-like groups. It is common in small areas near Geraldton, Western Australia, Geraldton. Description ''Verticordia brevifolia'' is a shrub which grows to a height of and a spread of and which has a single, highly branched stem at its base. Its leaves are linear to club-shaped, roughly circular in cross-section, long, with the leaves near the flowers more club-shaped than those further down the stems. The flowers are lightly scented and arranged in corymb-like groups, each flower on an erect stalk long. The Hypanthium, floral cup is shaped like half a sphere, wikt:constrict, constricted above the middle, about long and hairy. The sepals are creamy-white, occasionall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verticordia Eriocephala
''Verticordia eriocephala'', commonly known as lambswool, and common, native or wild cauliflower is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with one densely branching, spreading main stem, small leaves and dense heads of creamy-white flowers, giving rise to the common names "lambswool" and "cauliflower". It is widespread over its range but becoming less common because of land clearing and illegal collecting of the flowers. Description ''Verticordia eriocephala'' is a shrub which grows to a height of or more and a spread of and which has a single, highly branched stem at its base. Its leaves are elliptic in shape, dished and long, becoming shorter and broader near the flowering parts at the top. The flowers are scented and arranged in dense corymb-like groups, each flower on a stalk about long. The floral cup is hemispherical, long, constricted above the middle and hairy near its base. The sepals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verticordia Brownii
''Verticordia brownii'', commonly known as pink brownii or pink cauliflower is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae, and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It has small, neatly arranged, oval leaves and heads of pale pink to magenta or white flowers. It was one of the first verticordias to be collected, although it was not initially known by that name. The collection was made by Robert Brown on the Bass and Flinders circumnavigation of the Australian mainland on HMS Investigator. Description ''Verticordia brownii'' is an erect or rounded shrub which grows to a height of , spreading to , and which has one main stem at its base. The main stem divides into small branches, upward to a flattened top. The leaves are oblong to egg-shaped, with the narrower end towards the base, concave, long, and blunt-ended. Leaves near the flowers are shorter than those further down the stems. The flowers are usually scented and arranged in corymb-like groups near th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
