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Verticordia Albida
''Verticordia albida'' 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 main stem with many branches and spike-like groups of scented, white feathery flowers with a pink centre. Description ''Verticordia albida'' is a shrub which grows to a height of and a width of and has a single, highly branched stem. The leaves are elliptic in shape, dished, long, wide and lack a stalk. The flowers are scented, arranged in dense spikes, each flower white with a pink centre and a stalk about long. The sepals are about long and have 10 to 13 feathery lobes. The petals are long and have a fringe about long. The style is about , curved near the top with a few hairs less than long. Flowering time is from November to January. Taxonomy and naming ''Verticordia albida'' was first formally described by Alex George in 1991 from specimens collected near Three Springs and the description was published in ''N ... [...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 Lepidophylla
''Verticordia lepidophylla'' is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is usually a bushy shrub with small leaves and spikes of creamish-green to yellow flowers in spikes along the branches in late spring to early summer. Description ''Verticordia lepidophylla'' is a shrub which grows to a height of usually with one highly branched main stem. Its leaves are egg-shaped, dished long, have a rounded end and a few irregular teeth along the edge. The flowers are scented and are arranged in spike-like groups along the stems on erect stalks long. The floral cup is a top-shaped, long, 5-ribbed and glabrous with rounded green appendages about long. The sepals are deep yellow or cream-coloured, long, with 6 to 10 feathery lobes and ear-shaped appendages. The petals are a similar colour to the sepals, sometimes with red spots, egg-shaped to almost round, long and have long, pointed, finger-like appendages. The sty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verticordia Grandis
''Verticordia grandis'' is a large woody shrub that occurs in Southwest Australia. The name ''grandis'', Latin for large, is a reference to its large flowers, leaves, and height. It is well known for its large flowers, which are collected and cultivated, and given the informal name of scarlet featherflower. It was the first species of the family Myrtaceae to have been genetically modified. Description ''Verticordia grandis'' is a species of ''Verticordia'', a genus of the family Myrtaceae, which are noted for their exquisite flowers. It has been described as the most well known and desirable species of the genus. The large size and bright red flowers of this plant distinguish from it from its near relations. These shrubs are erect and may attain a height between 0.7 and 4.0 metres and one, or several, main stems that branch out 0.3 metres to 3.0 metres across. Some specimens may be tall and erect, but is more commonly bushy regrowth from a lignotuber. This is the result of exposu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verticordia Etheliana
''Verticordia etheliana'' 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 highly branched main stem, egg-shaped to almost round leaves and spike-like groups of bright red flowers with greenish-cream centres. Description ''Verticordia etheliana'' is a shrub which grows to a height of and which has one highly branched stem at its base, although the plant is often openly branched. The leaves are broadly egg-shaped, elliptic or almost round, long, sometimes with a few irregular teeth on the edges. The flowers are arranged in spike-like groups on stalks long. The floral cup is top-shaped, long, glabrous and smooth with curved green appendages. The sepals are bright red, often creamish-green on their lower parts, long, with 8 to 16 feathery lobes. The petals are cream-coloured to pink when they open but become bright red, long, with a feathery edge and 2 ear-shaped appendages at their base. The s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verticordia Oculata
''Verticordia oculata'' is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is a sprawling woody shrub with large, circular leaves with white edges and silver-white flowers with a dark centre of lilac and purple, the largest flowers of the genus ''Verticordia''. The botanist Ferdinand von Mueller reportedly became entranced by its floral display when he visited the northern sandplains area in 1877, later describing the shrub as the 'princess of Australian flora'. Description ''Verticordia oculata'' is a shrub which grows to a height of between and sprawls to a width of . It has a lignotuber, from which several or many main stems emerge. The leaves are almost circular in shape, in diameter with a distinct white margin, lack a stalk and attach directly to the stem. The flowers are in diameter and are grouped in a spreading arrangement at the upper parts of the stem on stalks long. The sepals are long and have 12-14 deeply divided, fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verticordia Serotina
''Verticordia serotina'' is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the north-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with egg-shaped leaves and bright pink flowers with long, curved styles in spring. Description ''Verticordia serotina'' is a shrub with a single main branch and many side-branches and which usually grows to a height of . The leaves are elliptic, egg-shaped or almost round and long. The flowers are scented and arranged in spike-like groups near the ends of the branches, each flower on a spreading stalk long. The floral cup is top-shaped, long, rough, glabrous and has curved green appendages. The sepals are long, spreading, deep pink with 12 or 13 feathery lobes. The petals are a similar colour to the petals, long, with pointed lobes around its edge. The style is long, curved and hairy on one side. Flowering time is from August to September, sometimes later. Taxonomy and naming ''Verticordia serotina'' was first formally describ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verticordia Forrestii
''Verticordia forrestii'', commonly known as Forrest's featherflower, is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the north-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with small, egg-shaped leaves and massed displays of scented pink to red flowers in spring. Description ''Verticordia forrestii'' is a highly branched, often dense shrub which grows to a height of . Its leaves are egg-shaped to almost round but have a pointed end and are long. The flowers are scented and arranged in short, spike-like groups on thick, spreading stems long and the flowers open at about the same time as each other. The floral cup is broadly top-shaped, long, glabrous, warty and has 5 ribs and green appendages about long. The sepals are pale to bright pink or dark reddish-pink, fading to white, or sometimes white, long, with 9 to 13 feathery lobes and two small, hairy, ear-like appendages. The petals are erect and a similar colour to the sepals, long, with a hairy fringe. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verticordia Venusta
''Verticordia venusta'' 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 small, egg-shaped leaves and spikes of pink to maroon-coloured flowers in spring and early summer. Description ''Verticordia venusta'' is an openly branched shrub which grows to high and wide with one main stem at the base. Its leaves are egg-shaped to elliptic and long. The flowers are sometimes scented and are arranged in spike-like groups, each flower on a stalk long. The flowers open in succession, the lowest first, and are pale mauve or pink to maroon, fading as they age. The floral cup is top shaped, long, ribbed, glabrous and has small green appendages. The sepals are spreading, long, with 8 to 13 feathery lobes. The petals are erect, almost circular in shape long and have teeth around their edges. The style is long, curved and hairy near the tip. Flowering time is from September to January. Taxonom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verticordia Fragrans
''Verticordia fragrans'', commonly known as hollyhock verticordia, 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 egg-shaped leaves and spikes of sweetly scented, pink and white flowers in spring and early summer. Description ''Verticordia fragrans'' is a shrub which grows to a height of and a width of and has a single, openly branched stem at its base. The leaves are thin, egg-shaped to elliptic or almost round in shape, long. The flowers are sweetly scented, arranged in spreading spike-like groups, each flower on a stalk about long. The sepals are pink, rarely white, long and have 6 to 9 white feathery lobes. The petals are erect, deep to pale pink or rarely white, long, about wide with a few short hairs around the edge. The style is , curved near the top with a few hairs near the tip. Flowering time is from October to November or December. Taxonomy and naming ''Vertic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verticordia Aereiflora
''Verticordia aereiflora'' is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a thin but bushy shrub with small leaves and greenish-yellow flowers with red spots and red fringes on the sepals. Description ''Verticordia aereiflora'' is a shrub which grows to a height of and a width of and has a single, highly branched stem. The leaves are almost circular in shape, in diameter with a dark brown stalk less than long. The flowers are scented, arranged singly or in groups of up to 3 in leaf axils, often in several groups along the branches and have stems that are long. Each flower-cup is top-shaped, long, glabrous and has 5 ribs. The sepals are about long, greenish-yellow or yellow with a red fringe. The petals are egg-shaped and crown-like, about long and yellow with red spots. Flowering time is from November to January. Taxonomy and naming The species was first formally described by Elizabeth George and Ale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verticordia Argentea
''Verticordia argentea'' is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, open shrub with almost circular leaves and scented, pink and white flowers. It usually grows in sand and is found near Eneabba. Description ''Verticordia argentea'' is an erect, usually open, spindly shrub which grows to a height of with a single main stem. The leaves are broadly egg-shaped to almost circular, long and have a slightly bluish tinge. The flowers are scented, in spike-like groups each with a short stalk about long. Persistent, pointed bracteoles surround the flower. The floral cup is top-shaped, about long and has 5 ribs. The sepals are pale pink, occasionally cream-coloured, long, with 5 to 7 feather-like lobes with a silvery fringe. The petals are pale pink, rarely creamy-white and have fine lines and scattered spots. They are about long and have deeply divided lobes. The style is about long, straight and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verticordia Muelleriana
''Verticordia muelleriana'' 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 relatively large, egg-shaped to circular leaves and long spikes of deep maroon coloured flowers in spring and early summer. Description ''Verticordia muelleriana'' is a shrub which grows to a height of up to with a single main branch with a few side branches. Its leaves are egg-shaped to almost circular, long and have thin edges. The flowers are arranged in spikes along the branches, opening in sequence from the lowest flowers, each flower on a stalk about long. The floral cup is top-shaped, long, glabrous and slightly rough with green appendages about long. The sepals are a deep maroon colour, spreading, long and have 8 or 9 feathery lobes and two large, hairy, ear-like appendages. The petals are a similar colour, erect, long, wide with a fringe a further and also have small, hairy, ear-like appendage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |