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Verticordia Sect. Catocalypta
''Verticordia'' sect. ''Catocalypta'' is one of eleven Section (botany), sections in the subgenus Verticordia subg. Verticordia, ''Verticordia''. It includes seven species of plants in the genus ''Verticordia''. Plants in this section are small, bushy shrubs which grow to a height of up to , have thick, fleshy, leaves which are triangular in cross-section. The flowers are arranged in open, Panicle, corymb-like heads of relatively large flowers. Importantly, their sepals have down-turned, tufts of hair which surround the Hypanthium, floral cup. In 1843, Johannes Conrad Schauer described ''Verticordia'' subg. ''Catocalypta'' and published the description in ''Monographia Myrtacearum Xerocarpicarum''. In 1856, Carl Meissner relegated the subgenus to a section. Schauer did not provide an etymology for ''Catocalypta'' but in Ancient Greek, ''kato'' means "down below" and ''kalyptos'' means "covered", probably referring to the tufts of hair covering the floral cup. When Alex George ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johannes Conrad Schauer
Johannes Conrad Schauer (16 February 1813 – 24 October 1848) was a botanist interested in Spermatophytes. He was born in Frankfurt am Main and attended the gymnasium of Mainz from 1825 to 1837. For the next three years he worked at the Hofgarten of Würzburg. Schauer then gained a position as assistant at the botanical garden at Bonn where he worked until 1832 when he was placed in charge of the botanic garden in Breslau, (now Wrocław in Poland) with C.G. Nees. He gained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg 1835 and was appointed professor of botany at the University of Greifswald from 1843 until his death in 1848. Although he never visited Australia, many Australian botanists and plant collectors sent him plant specimens, especially eucalypts and other members of the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. For example, when Allan Cunningham died in 1839, Schauer received many botanical specimens from the executor of Cunningham's estate, , including ... [...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] |
Verticordia Pritzelii
''Verticordia pritzelii'', commonly known as Pritzel's featherflower, is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a compact, woody shrub with several main stems, small, linear to club-shaped leaves, and rounded groups of deep pink flowers from late spring to mid-summer. Description ''Verticordia pritzelii'' is a shrub which grows to a height of and with several stems at its base. The leaves are linear to club-shaped, semi-circular in cross-section, long with a small point on the end. The flowers are scented and arranged in rounded groups, each flower on a stalk long. The floral cup is hemispherical in shape, about long and there is a swelling beneath each sepal. The sepals are spreading, deep pink but fade to white as they age. They are long, have 4-6 long, long, thin lobes and two hairy appendages. The petals are a similar colour to the sepals, long, erect and more or less round with small teeth on th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verticordia Lehmannii
''Verticordia lehmannii'' is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is slender shrub with only a few branches, well-spaced, oppositely arranged leaves and small heads of pale pink to silvery flowers with a dark pink centre. Description ''Verticordia lehmannii'' is a slender shrub with few side-branches which grows to a height of and a width of . Its leaves are arranged in opposite pairs and are elliptic to oblong in shape, roughly triangular in cross-section and long. The flowers are arranged in small, round, corymb-like groups on the ends of the branches, each flower on an erect stalk long. The floral cup is long and hairy near the base. The sepals are pale pink to silvery-white, long with hairy lobes and ear-shaped appendages with a densely hairy tip. The petals are long, egg-shaped, dished, widely spreading and pale pink with a deeper pink centre. The style is about , straight but bent near the tip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verticordia Habrantha
''Verticordia habrantha'', commonly known as hidden featherflower, is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a slender shrub with short, leafy side-branches and long flowering stems with rounded heads of mostly white flowers. Its hairy sepals are mostly hidden by the round, unfringed petals, and as a result, the plant looks like shrubs in the genus ''Chamelaucium'', to which it is closely related. Description ''Verticordia habrantha'' is a shrub which grows to high and wide and which has a few main stems with many short, leafy side-branches. The leaves on the side branches are linear to narrow elliptic in shape, roughly triangular in cross-section, long, while those on the flowering stems are elliptic to egg-shaped and up to long. The flowers are arranged in rounded or corymb-like groups near the ends of the long flowering stems, each flower on an erect stalk, long. The floral cup is about long and c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verticordia Apecta
''Verticordia apecta'', commonly known as scruffy verticordia or Hay River featherflower, is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a slender shrub with linear lower stem leaves, narrow elliptic upper stem leaves and elliptic to egg-shaped leaves near the flowers. There are only a few flowers in the upper leaf axils on relatively long stalks and the sepals are deep pink with fine, white fringes. Description ''Verticordia albida'' is a slender, erect shrub with a single main stem and which grows to a height of between . Its leaves differ from each other, depending on their position on the plant. The lower leaves are linear in shape, triangular in cross-section and long. Those further up the stems are elliptic in shape and about long. Leaves near the flowers are elliptic or egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base and triangular in cross section. The flowers are few in number, arranged in some ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verticordia Inclusa
''Verticordia inclusa'' is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a small shrub with small, thick leaves and groups of scented, mostly white to pale pink flowers with a red centre on the ends of the branches in spring. Description ''Verticordia inclusa'' is a shrub which grows to high, sometimes spreading to wide and is usually openly, but irregularly branched. Its leaves are elliptic in shape, roughly triangular in cross-section, long with a rounded end. Leaves near the flowers tend to be smaller The flowers are sweetly scented and arranged in rounded, corymb-like groups on the ends of the branches on erect stalks long. The floral cup is top-shaped, about long, more or less smooth and is hairy near its base. The sepals are white to pale pink, long, spreading with 4 or 5 lobes which have long, straight, feather-like hairs. The petals are egg-shaped to almost round, white to pink and red ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verticordia Roei
''Verticordia roei'', commonly known as Roe's featherflower is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with narrow leaves and is often covered with masses of creamy-white coloured flowers in late spring. Description ''Verticordia roei'' is a shrub which grows to a height of with a single main stem at its base. The leaves on the stems are linear to narrow elliptic in shape, triangular in cross-section, long and have a rounded end. The flowers are scented and arranged in corymb-like groups on erect stalks from long. The floral cup is a broadly hemispherical in shape, about long, ribbed and covered with short hairs. The sepals are creamy-white, sometimes pink, long, with 5 to 7 long-hairy or feathery lobes. The petals are a similar colour to the sepals, long, dished with small teeth around its edge. The style is long, with a few short hairs. Flowering time is from October to November. Taxonomy an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verticordia Insignis
''Verticordia insignis'' is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an open, irregularly-branched shrub with small leaves and heads of relatively large pink, or white and pink flowers on the ends of the branches in spring. Description ''Verticordia insignis'' is an open, irregularly-branched shrub that grows to high. Its leaves are linear to elliptic in shape, roughly triangular in cross-section, long with a rounded end. Leaves near the flowers tend to be wider than those further down the stems. The flowers are scented and arranged in rounded, corymb-like groups on the ends of the branches on erect stalks long. The floral cup is top-shaped, about long, covered with short, soft hairs with a swelling beneath each sepal. The sepals are white to pale or deep pink, long, spreading with five to seven lobes that have long, spreading hairs. The petals are egg-shaped to almost round, pale to deep pin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Type Species
In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen(s). Article 67.1 A similar concept is used for suprageneric groups and called a type genus. In botanical nomenclature, these terms have no formal standing under the code of nomenclature, but are sometimes borrowed from zoological nomenclature. In botany, the type of a genus name is a specimen (or, rarely, an illustration) which is also the type of a species name. The species name that has that type can also be referred to as the type of the genus name. Names of genus and family ranks, the various subdivisions of those ranks, and some higher-rank names based on genus names, have such types. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Dark Ages (), the Archaic period (), and the Classical period (). Ancient Greek was the language of Homer and of fifth-century Athenian historians, playwrights, and philosophers. It has contributed many words to English vocabulary and has been a standard subject of study in educational institutions of the Western world since the Renaissance. This article primarily contains information about the Epic and Classical periods of the language. From the Hellenistic period (), Ancient Greek was followed by Koine Greek, which is regarded as a separate historical stage, although its earliest form closely resembles Attic Greek and its latest form approaches Medieval Greek. There were several regional dialects of Ancient Greek, of which Attic Greek developed into Koine. Dia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Meissner
Carl Daniel Friedrich Meissner (1 November 1800 – 2 May 1874) was a Swiss botanist. Biography Born in Bern, Switzerland on 1 November 1800, he was christened Meisner but later changed the spelling of his name to Meissner. For most of his 40-year career he was Professor of Botany at University of Basel. He made important contributions to the botanical literature, including the publication of the comprehensive work ''Plantarum Vascularum Genera'', and publications of monographs on the families Polygonaceae (especially the genus ''Polygonum''), Lauraceae, Proteaceae, Thymelaeaceae and Hernandiaceae. His contributions to the description of the Australian flora were prolific; he described hundreds of species of Australian Proteaceae, and many Australian species from other families, especially Fabaceae, Mimosaceae and Myrtaceae. His health deteriorated after 1866, and he was less active. He died in Basel on 2 May 1874. See also * Meissner's taxonomic arrangement of Banksia Carl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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