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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] |