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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] |
Hill River (Western Australia)
Hill River is a river in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia. Geography The headwaters of the Hill River rise near Dinner Hill, approximately east of Badgingarra. It then flows in a westerly direction, crossing the Brand Highway just north of Badgingarra, passing through the Hill River Nature Reserve and the northern boundary of the Southern Beekeeper's Nature Reserve and finally discharging into the Indian Ocean south of Jurien Bay. The river has four tributaries; Coomallo Creek, Winjardie Creek, Munbinea Creek and Boothendara Creek. History The river was seen and named by the explorer George Grey on 14 April 1839 during his second disastrous expedition along the Western Australian coast. It was likely named after Rowland Hill, well known for his inception of the Uniform Penny Post, but importantly for Grey, Secretary to the Colonization Commissioners for South Australia (under the South Australia Act 1834). Grey's friend and promoter William Hutt M.P. was als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Botanical Name
A botanical name is a formal scientific name conforming to the '' International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants'' (ICN) and, if it concerns a plant cultigen, the additional cultivar or Group epithets must conform to the ''International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants'' (ICNCP). The code of nomenclature covers "all organisms traditionally treated as algae, fungi, or plants, whether fossil or non-fossil, including blue-green algae ( Cyanobacteria), chytrids, oomycetes, slime moulds and photosynthetic protists with their taxonomically related non-photosynthetic groups (but excluding Microsporidia)." The purpose of a formal name is to have a single name that is accepted and used worldwide for a particular plant or plant group. For example, the botanical name ''Bellis perennis'' denotes a plant species which is native to most of the countries of Europe and the Middle East, where it has accumulated various names in many languages. Later, the plant was intro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avon Wheatbelt
The Avon Wheatbelt is a bioregion in Western Australia. It has an area of . It is considered part of the larger Southwest Australia savanna ecoregion. Geography The Avon Wheatbelt bioregion is mostly a gently undulating landscape with low relief. It lies on the Yilgarn Craton, an ancient block of crystalline rock, which was uplifted in the Tertiary and dissected by rivers. The craton is overlain by laterite deposits, which in places have decomposed into yellow sandplains, particularly on low hills. Steep-sided erosional gullies, known as breakaways, are common. Beecham, Brett (2001). "Avon Wheatbelt 2 (AW2 - Re-juvenated Drainage subregion)" in ''A Biodiversity Audit of Western Australia’s 53 Biogeographical Subregions in 2002''. Department of Conservation and Land Management, Government of Western Australia, November 2001. Accessed 15 May 2022/ref> In the south and west (the Katanning subregion), streams are mostly perennial, and feed rivers which drain westwards to empty in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coorow, Western Australia
Coorow is a town in the Mid West region of Western Australia, north of Perth. History The townsite of Coorow was gazetted in 1893. Its name is derived from the Aboriginal name of a nearby spring, first recorded in 1872. The meaning of the name may be from the word "Curro", which is the Aboriginal word for a variety of ''Portulaca''; another source gives it as "many mists". The town experienced some flooding in 1918 following a deluge of of rain overnight. The Moore River broke its banks and caused much more severe flooding downstream at Moora. After rapid growth through the early 1920s local settlers began to seek obtaining a hotel licence for the town in 1927. The licence was granted in 1929 to Alexander Gloster who put forward a tender of £1,750, and submitted his plans for approval. The hotel was erected at a cost of £13,000 and constructed of cement blocks and brick. The two storey building held fifteen rooms for accommodation on the top floor and more accommodation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three Springs, Western Australia
Three Springs is a town located north of Perth, Western Australia on the Midlands Road, which until the opening of the Brand Highway in 1975 was the main road route from Perth to the state's north. The town is the seat of the Shire of Three Springs. Its economy is based on agriculture (mainly broad acre grain cropping and sheep farming) and mining. History The first Europeans to pass near the Three Springs area were government Assistant Surveyor Augustus Charles Gregory and Francis Thomas Gregory (both attached to the department of the Surveyor-General) and their brother Henry Churchman Gregory, on a public-private funded expedition to search for new agricultural land beyond the settled areas. On 14 September 1846 they camped at Eneabba Springs, southwest of Three Springs, while returning to Perth from the Irwin River. In 1867, government Assistant Surveyor Charles Cooke Hunt, while undertaking a road survey recorded the words "Three Springs" at the site of the current town af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coomallo Important Bird Area
Coomallo Important Bird Area is a 21 km2 fragmented tract of land in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia. The western section includes the eastern end of the Coomallo Nature Reserve, while the eastern section comprises several separated remnants of eucalypt woodland. It lies about 200 km north of Perth and 40 km east of coastal Jurien Bay. It was identified and classified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because it supports up to 40 breeding pairs of the endangered Carnaby's black-cockatoo which nest in large tree hollows in the woodlands and in isolated paddock trees, and feed in native shrublands. It also supports western corellas, regent parrots, rufous treecreepers, blue-breasted fairywrens and western spinebill The western spinebill (''Acanthorhynchus superciliosus'') is a honeyeater found in the heath and woodland of south-western Australia. Ranging between long, it weighs around . It has a black head, gray ba ... [...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 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] |
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] |
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