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Westringia Eremicola
''Westringia'' is a genus of Australian shrubs. As with other members of the mint family their upper petal (or lip) is divided into two lobes. There are four stamens - the upper two are fertile while the lower two are reduced to staminodes. The leaves are in whorls of 3 or 4.Guerin, G.R. (2009). A revision of ''Westringia'' section ''Cephalowestringia'' (Lamiaceae: Westringieae). Australian Systematic Botany 22: 121-136. Distribution ''Westringia'' has been found in the wild in all 6 states of Australia, as well as on Norfolk Island, but not in the Northern Territory. Species list The following is a list of the species of ''Westringia'' described and recognised by the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families at Kew Gardens *'' Westringia acifolia'' G.R.Guerin (W.A.) *'' Westringia amabilis'' B.Boivin (N.S.W., Qld.) *'' Westringia angustifolia'' R.Br. - scabrous westringia (Tas.) *'' Westringia blakeana'' B.Boivin - Blake's mint-bush *'' Westringia brevifolia'' Benth. - gre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Edward Smith (botanist)
__NOTOC__ Sir James Edward Smith (2 December 1759 – 17 March 1828) was an English botanist and founder of the Linnean Society. Early life and education Smith was born in Norwich in 1759, the son of a wealthy wool merchant. He displayed a precocious interest in the natural world. During the early 1780s he enrolled in the medical course at the University of Edinburgh where he studied chemistry under Joseph Black and natural history under John Walker. He then moved to London in 1783 to continue his studies. Smith was a friend of Sir Joseph Banks, who was offered the entire collection of books, manuscripts and specimens of the Swedish natural historian and botanist Carl Linnaeus following the death of his son Carolus Linnaeus the Younger. Banks declined the purchase, but Smith bought the collection for the bargain price of £1,000. The collection arrived in London in 1784, and in 1785 Smith was elected Fellow of the Royal Society. Academic career Between 1786 and 1788 Smit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westringia Capitonia
''Westringia capitonia'' is a species of plant in the mint family that is endemic to Western Australia. Description The species grows as a shrub. The leaves are 4–20 mm long and 0.8–1.7 mm wide. The flowers are white, appearing in December. Distribution and habitat The species occurs in the Avon Wheatbelt IBRA bioregion of Southwest Australia Southwest Australia is a biogeographic region in Western Australia. It includes the Mediterranean-climate area of southwestern Australia, which is home to a diverse and distinctive flora and fauna. The region is also known as the Southwest Aus .... References capitonia Lamiales of Australia Eudicots of Western Australia Plants described in 2009 {{Australia-asterid-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westringia Fitzgeraldensis
''Westringia fitzgeraldensis'' is a species of plant in the mint family that is endemic to Western Australia. Etymology The specific epithet ''fitzgeraldensis'' refers to the type locality. Description The species grows as an erect, open shrub to 1.2 m in height. The leaves are 7.5–11.1 mm long and 1.1–1.6 mm wide, occurring in crowded whorls of four. The flowers are white, appearing in September. Distribution and habitat The species occurs in the Esperance Plains IBRA bioregion of south-western Australia. It is known only from a single population, in a valley west of Hopetoun, in the Fitzgerald River National Park. There it is found on alluvial, orange-brown, loam soils with quartzite fragments, in open mallee woodland, in association with ''Eucalyptus uncinata ''Eucalyptus uncinata'', commonly known as the hook-leaved mallee, is a species of mallee that is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It has smooth bark, lance-shaped adult lea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Bentham
George Bentham (22 September 1800 – 10 September 1884) was an English botanist, described by the weed botanist Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century". Born into a distinguished family, he initially studied law, but had a fascination with botany from an early age, which he soon pursued, becoming president of the Linnaean Society in 1861, and a fellow of the Royal Society in 1862. He was the author of a number of important botanical works, particularly flora. He is best known for his taxonomic classification of plants in collaboration with Joseph Dalton Hooker, his ''Genera Plantarum'' (1862–1883). He died in London in 1884. Life Bentham was born in Stoke, Plymouth, on 22 September 1800.Jean-Jacques Amigo, « Bentham (George) », in Nouveau Dictionnaire de biographies roussillonnaises, vol. 3 Sciences de la Vie et de la Terre, Perpignan, Publications de l'olivier, 2017, 915 p. () His father, Sir Samuel Bentham, a naval architect, was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allan Cunningham (botanist)
Allan Cunningham (13 July 1791 – 27 June 1839) was an English botany, botanist and List of explorers, explorer, primarily known for his travels in Australia to collect plants. Early life Cunningham was born in Wimbledon, London, Wimbledon, Surrey, England, the son of Allan Cunningham (head gardener at Wimbledon Park House), who came from Renfrewshire, Scotland, and his English wife Sarah (née Juson/Jewson née Dicken). Allan Cunningham was educated at a Putney private school, Reverend John Adams (educational writer), John Adams Academy and then went into a solicitor's office (a Lincoln's Inn Conveyancer). He afterwards obtained a position with William Townsend Aiton superintendent of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Kew Gardens, and this brought him in touch with Robert Brown (Scottish botanist from Montrose), Robert Brown and Joseph Banks, Sir Joseph Banks. Brazil and Australia (New South Wales) On Banks' recommendation, Cunningham went to Brazil with James Bowie (botani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westringia Eremicola
''Westringia'' is a genus of Australian shrubs. As with other members of the mint family their upper petal (or lip) is divided into two lobes. There are four stamens - the upper two are fertile while the lower two are reduced to staminodes. The leaves are in whorls of 3 or 4.Guerin, G.R. (2009). A revision of ''Westringia'' section ''Cephalowestringia'' (Lamiaceae: Westringieae). Australian Systematic Botany 22: 121-136. Distribution ''Westringia'' has been found in the wild in all 6 states of Australia, as well as on Norfolk Island, but not in the Northern Territory. Species list The following is a list of the species of ''Westringia'' described and recognised by the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families at Kew Gardens *'' Westringia acifolia'' G.R.Guerin (W.A.) *'' Westringia amabilis'' B.Boivin (N.S.W., Qld.) *'' Westringia angustifolia'' R.Br. - scabrous westringia (Tas.) *'' Westringia blakeana'' B.Boivin - Blake's mint-bush *'' Westringia brevifolia'' Benth. - gre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westringia Discipulorum
''Westringia discipulorum'', also known as white button bush, is a species of plant in the mint family that is endemic to Western Australia. Description The species grows as an erect shrub to 0.6–1.2 m in height. The flowers are white, appearing from September to October. Distribution and habitat The species grows on sandy soils in the Avon Wheatbelt and Mallee IBRA bioregions of Southwest Australia Southwest Australia is a biogeographic region in Western Australia. It includes the Mediterranean-climate area of southwestern Australia, which is home to a diverse and distinctive flora and fauna. The region is also known as the Southwest Aus .... References discipulorum Lamiales of Australia Eudicots of Western Australia Taxa named by Spencer Le Marchant Moore Plants described in 1921 {{Australia-asterid-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Conn
Barry John Conn (Barry Conn, born 1948), is an Australian botanist. He was awarded a Ph.D. from Adelaide University in 1982 for work on ''Prostanthera''. Career Conn's first appointment as a botanist was with the Lae Herbarium in 1974. He then became herbarium curator and a lecturer at the Papua New Guinea Forestry College, Bulolo (1976–1979). He is a scientific advisor to the Food and Agriculture Organisation. In Australia, he has been senior botanist at the National Herbarium of Victoria (1982–1987), and botanist (and principal research scientist) at the National Herbarium of New South Wales (1987–2015). In 1994-1995, he was Australian Botanical Liaison Officer at Kew. While with the National Herbarium of New South Wales, he managed the Australia’s Virtual Herbarium Project for New South Wales, and was scientific editor of the journal ''Telopea'' from 2013 to 2015. Some published names *'' Acacia aureocrinita'' B.J.Conn & Tame, Austral. Syst. Bot. 9(6): 851 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westringia Davidii
''Westringia davidii'', also known as David's Westringia, is a species of plant in the mint family that is endemic to Australia. Description The species grows as a shrub to about 2 m in height. The oval leaves are 7–20 mm long and are grouped around the stem in whorls of three. The white or mauve flowers grow in clusters of up to 12 and can appear at any time of year. Distribution and habitat The species is found in the coastal ranges of south-eastern New South Wales, west of Pambula and Eden. There it is restricted to shallow, organic loam soils in the ecotone between rocky outcrops vegetated with shrubland and herbs, and open forest dominated by Silvertop Ash. Conservation The species is listed as Vulnerable under both Australia's EPBC Act and New South Wales' Biodiversity Conservation Act. Threats include browsing by goats and introduced deer, as well as anthropogenic changes in the frequency of wildfire A wildfire, forest fire, bushfire, wildland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westringia Dampieri
''Westringia dampieri'', commonly known as shore westringia, is a flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, it grows in South Australia and Western Australia. It is a small, dense shrub with white, mauve, cream or purple flowers. Description ''Westringia dampieri'' is a small shrub with more or less circular stems in cross section. The leaves are simple, arranged in whorls, long and wide with simple surface hairs. The corolla may be cream, white, purple or mauve, markings in the throat, long, simple hairs and on a pedicel long. The calyx is moderately thick, has five lobes long and simple hairs. Flowering occurs in late summer, winter and early to mid spring. Taxonomy naming ''Westringia dampieri'' was first formally described in 1810 by Scottish botanist Robert Brown based on specimens collected at King George Sound and the description was published in ''Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen''. The name has been misapplied to ''Westringia eremicola'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westringia Cremnophila
''Westringia cremnophila'', commonly known as Snowy River westringia, is a flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, a rare shrub that is endemic to Victoria, Australia. It is a small shrub with leaves mostly in groups of three and white flowers. Description ''Westringia cremnophila'' is a shrub to high, much-branched and thickly covered with slightly flattened white hairs, and found growing out of steep cliffs. The leaves are arranged in whorls mostly in groups of three, oblong or almost linear shaped, long, wide, thickly hairy when young, becoming smooth, margins distinctly rolled under, apex rounded occasionally sharply points and on a petiole long. The flowers are in racemes, the corolla about long, white with a mauve tinge and yellow-brown spotted throats. The calyx tube long, lobes about long and up to wide and the outer surface thickly covered with white hairs. Flowering occurs in spring. Taxonomy and naming ''Westringia cremnophila'' was first formally descri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westringia Crassifolia
''Westringia crassifolia'', commonly known as whipstick westringia, is a flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae and is endemic to Victoria, Australia. It is a rare shrub with narrow leaves and lavender-purple or pink flowers in spring. Description ''Westringia crassifolia'' is a upright, slender shrub growing to high, and branches with occasional or moderately covered in short, soft hairs. The dark green leaves are arranged in whorls of 3, narrowly oblong or elliptic, long, wide, surface covered moderately to thinly with short hairs, margins minutely toothed, apex rounded with a slightly hardened point on a short pedicel. The calyx is green, outer surface thickly to moderately hairy, lobes triangular-shaped, long, about wide. The corolla is blue-mauve or pink, hairy on the outside, long, orange yellow dots in the throat and borne at the end of branches. Flowering occurs in August and September, and the fruit is a dry four-seeded nutlet. Taxonomy and naming ''Westrin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
