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Verticordia Sect. Jugata
''Verticordia'' sect. ''Jugata'' is one of seven sections in the subgenus ''Chrysoma''. It includes seven species of plants in the genus ''Verticordia''. Plants in this section are mostly bushy shrubs to tall with bright yellow flowers which in some species turn red as they age. They have sepals with fringed lobes, petals which have lobes arranged like the fingers of a hand and bracteoles which are joined together and remain attached to the flower after it opens. When Alex George Alexander or Alex George may refer to: *Alex George (botanist) (born 1939), Australian botanist * Alexander L. George (1920–2006), American political scientist * Alexander George (philosopher), American philosopher *Alex George (motorcyclist), Sc ... reviewed the genus in 1991, he described the section and gave it the name ''Jugata''. The name ''Jugata'' is from the Latin word ''jugis'' meaning "yoked together" referring to the arrangement of the bracteoles in these species. The type species f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verticordia Chrysantha
''Verticordia chrysantha'', commonly known as yellow featherflower or yellow Morrison, is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is a small, slow-growing, rather bushy shrub with bright yellow flowers which often turn reddish-brown as they age. It is widespread in the south-west of the state. Description ''Verticordia chrysantha'' is a shrub which grows to a height of , sometimes almost as wide and which has a single, branching stem at its base. The leaves are linear in shape, approximately circular in cross-section, long and have a pointed, sometimes hooked end. The flowers are usually scented, arranged in a corymb-like groups on the ends of the branches, bright yellow but ageing to bronze or brown, sometimes only in the centre. The flowers are held erect on stalks long. The floral cup is shaped like half a sphere about long, with 10 ribs, glabrous and slightly warty. The sepals are bright yellow, long, with 7 or 10 densely ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latin
Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the Roman Republic it became the dominant language in the Italian region and subsequently throughout the Roman Empire. Even after the fall of Western Rome, Latin remained the common language of international communication, science, scholarship and academia in Europe until well into the 18th century, when other regional vernaculars (including its own descendants, the Romance languages) supplanted it in common academic and political usage, and it eventually became a dead language in the modern linguistic definition. Latin is a highly inflected language, with three distinct genders (masculine, feminine, and neuter), six or seven noun cases (nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, ablative, and vocative), five declensions, four verb conjuga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verticordia Laciniata
''Verticordia laciniata'' is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an openly branched shrub with linear, slightly hairy leaves and heads of scented, bright yellow flowers which turn red then bronze-coloured as they age. Description ''Verticordia laciniata'' is an openly branched shrub which grows to a height of and a width of . The leaves are linear in shape, semi-circular in cross-section, long, wide with a pointed end and covered with short hairs. The flowers are scented, arranged in corymb-like groups on the ends of the branches, each flower on an erect stalk long. The sepals are spreading, bright yellow, about long with 11 or 12 feathery lobes. The petals are long, egg-shaped to almost round and deeply lobed, bright yellow at first but turning red as they age. The staminodes are narrow, tapering and deeply divided into narrow, pointed lobes. The style is about , straight or slightly curv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verticordia Amphigia
''Verticordia amphigia'' commonly known as pixie ears is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is usually an open, much-branched shrub with narrow leaves and yellow flowers which sometimes produce a "sea" of colour in the wild. The flowers are surrounded by boat-shaped bracteoles which give the plant both its common and scientific names. Description ''Verticordia amphigia'' is a shrub which grows to a height of , a width of and has one or several main stems with a number of branches. The leaves are linear to narrow lance-shaped, concave to almost circular in cross-section, long and have a pointed end. The flowers are scented, in rounded groups on erect stems long. Persistent, boat-shaped bracteoles with short hairs on their rim surround the flower. The sepals are yellow, about long, spread widely with 5 to 7 lobes covered with fine hairs. The petals are yellow, becoming red with age, long with spr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verticordia Coronata
''Verticordia coronata'' is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a small shrub with leaves whose shape depends on their position on the plant, and groups of yellow flowers near the ends of the branches. Description ''Verticordia coronata'' is a shrub which grows to a height and width of about and which has several to many stems at its base. The leaves on the lower part of the plant are linear in shape, roughly round in cross section, long and have a hooked tip while those further up the stem are elliptic to egg-shaped, dished, long and have a rounded end with a sharp tip. The flowers are lightly scented and arranged in round or corymb-like groups on erect stalks long. The floral cup is shaped like half a sphere, long, glabrous and slightly warty. The sepals are pale to bright yellow colour, long, with 5 to 7 lobes which have a fringe of coarse hairs. The petals are a similar colour to the sepal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verticordia Brevifolia
''Verticordia brevifolia'' is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a small shrub with shortly cylindrical leaves and bright yellow flowers which turn red as they age. There are two subspecies, both of which have limited distributions and a priority conservation rating. Description ''Verticordia brevifolia'' is a shrub which grows to a height of and which usually has more than one main stem at its base. Its leaves are linear in shape, circular in cross-section, long, mostly crowded on short upper branches and have a short, sometimes hooked point on their end. The flowers are usually scented and arranged in rounded groups near the ends of the branches, each flower on an erect stalk long. The floral cup is shaped like half a sphere, about long and has a slightly warty surface. The sepals are bright yellow fading to red, long, with 6 or 7 feathery lobes. The petals are also bright yellow, , with long, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verticordia Galeata
''Verticordia galeata'' is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a woody shrub with thin, pointed cylinder-shaped leaves and heads of bright yellow flowers on the ends of the branches in spring. Description ''Verticordia galeata'' is a shrub which grows to high and wide and which is irregularly branched. Its leaves are linear in shape, almost circular in cross-section, long with a pointed end. The flowers are honey-scented and arranged in corymb-like groups near the ends of the branches, each flower on an erect stalk long. The floral cup is shaped like half a sphere, about long, glabrous and has a slightly warty surface. The sepals are bright yellow, spreading, long, with 7 to 9 densely hairy lobes. The petals are also bright yellow, erect , with long, spreading, finger-like projections. The stamens possess an inflated appendage, a hood, that nearly covers their tips and the staminodes are pointe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verticordia Chrysanthella
''Verticordia chrysanthella'', commonly known as little chrysantha, is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with cylinder-shaped leaves and small groups of lemon-yellow to gold-coloured flowers which fade to orange, red or brown. Description ''Verticordia chrysanthella'' is a shrub with a single stem at the base but highly branched, growing to a height of and a width of up to . Its leaves are linear in shape, round in cross-section, long with a hooked tip. The flowers are usually scented, arranged in corymb-like groups on the ends of the branches, lemon-yellow or golden-yellow but ageing to orange, red or brown. The flowers are held erect on stalks long. The floral cup is shaped like half a sphere, long, glabrous and slightly warty. The sepals are bright yellow, long, with 6 or 7 feathery lobes. The petals are bright yellow, and have long, spreading finger-like lobes. The style is long, stra ... [...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] |
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] |
Section (botany)
In botany, a section ( la, sectio) is a taxonomic rank below the genus, but above the species. The subgenus, if present, is higher than the section, and the rank of series, if present, is below the section. Sections may in turn be divided into subsections.Article 4 in Sections are typically used to help organise very large genera, which may have hundreds of species. A botanist wanting to distinguish groups of species may prefer to create a taxon at the rank of section or series to avoid making new combinations, i.e. many new binomial names for the species involved. Examples: * ''Lilium'' sectio ''Martagon'' Rchb. are the Turks' cap lilies * ''Plagiochila aerea'' Taylor is the type species of ''Plagiochila'' sect. ''Bursatae'' See also * Section (biology) References Section Section, Sectioning or Sectioned may refer to: Arts, entertainment and media * Section (music), a complete, but not independent, musical idea * Section (typography), a subdivision, especially ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bract
In botany, a bract is a modified or specialized leaf, especially one associated with a reproductive structure such as a flower, inflorescence axis or cone scale. Bracts are usually different from foliage leaves. They may be smaller, larger, or of a different color, shape, or texture. Typically, they also look different from the parts of the flower, such as the petals or sepals. A plant having bracts is referred to as bracteate or bracteolate, while one that lacks them is referred to as ebracteate and ebracteolate, without bracts. Variants Some bracts are brightly-coloured and serve the function of attracting pollinators, either together with the perianth or instead of it. Examples of this type of bract include those of ''Euphorbia pulcherrima'' (poinsettia) and ''Bougainvillea'': both of these have large colourful bracts surrounding much smaller, less colourful flowers. In grasses, each floret (flower) is enclosed in a pair of papery bracts, called the lemma (lower bract) and p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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