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Box–ironbark Forest
Box–ironbark forest is a forest or woodland ecosystem that is largely limited to central Victoria in south-eastern Australia. Because its component tree species produce abundant nectar and pollen throughout the year, it is important for the conservation of many species of birds and other animals. History Because box–ironbark forest lies mainly within the Goldfields region of Victoria, during the main years of the gold rush (1851-1870) it underwent intensive digging and clearing in the goldfields, accompanied by extensive timber cutting for infrastructure and firewood in surrounding areas. After the gold rush subsided the forests were still heavily cut for firewood and cleared for pasture. Description Box–ironbark forest is found on rocky, often auriferous (gold-bearing), soils, in flat and undulating landscapes at altitudes of 150–600 m above sea level, and with an average annual rainfall of 500–800 mm. About 40% of the area formerly supporting the ecosys ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eucalyptus Macrocarpa
''Eucalyptus macrocarpa'', commonly known as mottlecah, is a species of mallee that is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It has smooth bark, usually sessile, heart-shaped adult leaves arranged in opposite pairs, large red flowers and broad conical fruit. Description ''Eucalyptus macrocarpa'' is a mallee that typically grows to a height of , has a sprawling or spreading habit, and forms a lignotuber. It has smooth, shiny, brownish over salmon-pink bark. Its crown is composed of juvenile leaves that are sessile, arranged in opposite pairs, heart-shaped with the bases wrapped around the stem, glaucous, long and wide. The flower buds are glaucous and are arranged singly in leaf axils on a peduncle long and a pedicel up to long. Mature buds are oval, long and wide with a beaked operculum. Flowering occurs from August to January or April or June and the flowers are red, or rarely, creamy white. The fruit is a sessile, woody, broadly conical capsule long and wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pultenaea Largiflorens
''Pultenaea largiflorens'', commonly known as twiggy bush-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a rigid, erect shrub with narrow egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and bright yellow and crimson flowers. Description ''Pultenaea largiflorens'' is a rigid erect shrub that typically grows to a height of , sometimes higher, and has softly-hairy stems. The leaves are wedge-shaped to narrow egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide with triangular stipules less than long pressed against the stem at the base. The leaves are often folded lengthwise and the upper surface is paler than the lower. The flowers are long, sessile or on a pedicel less than long. There are overlapping oblong bracts long at the base of the flowers. The sepals are long with egg-shaped bracteoles about long near the base of the sepal tube. The standard and wings are yellow to oran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xerochrysum Viscosum
''Xerochrysum viscosum'' (syn. ''Bracteantha viscosa'' (DC.) Anderb., ''Helichrysum viscosum'' Sieber ex Spreng., ''Helichrysum bracteatum'' var. ''viscosum'' Sieber ex DC., sticky everlasting) is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to Australia, growing in Victoria and New South Wales ) , nickname = , image_map = New South Wales in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of New South Wales in AustraliaCoordinates: , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , es .... It is a sticky everlasting erect viscid herb. It is usually annual, though sometimes perennial, mainly flowers in spring and summer. The plant normally grows from high, and is usually much branched. Inflorescence bracts are papery and yellow in colour. References External links * viscosum Flora of New South Wales Flora of Victoria (Australia) {{gnaphalieae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philotheca Verrucosa
''Philotheca verrucosa'', commonly known as fairy wax-flower or Bendigo wax-flower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a small shrub with prominently glandular-warty branchlets, heart-shaped or egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and white flowers usually arranged singly in leaf axils. Description ''Philotheca verrucosa'' is a shrub or undershrub that typically grows to a height of about , rarely to , and has prominently glandular warty branchlets. The leaves are sessile, heart-shaped to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide and glandular warty on the lower surface. The leaves are flat or folded lengthwise. The flowers are mostly arranged singly in leaf axils on a peduncle long, the pedicel long. The five sepals are more or less round, fleshy and about long. The five petals are white, elliptic and about long and the ten stamens are hairy. Flowering occu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheiranthera Cyanaea
''Cheiranthera'' is a genus of ten species of flowering plants in the family Pittosporaceae and are all endemic to Australia. The following is a list of species accepted by the Australian Plant Census as at April 2020: * '' Cheiranthera alternifolia'' E.M.Benn. – S.A., (presumed extinct in Vic.) * '' Cheiranthera borealis'' (E.M.Benn.) L.Cayzer & Crisp – Qld., N.S.W. * '' Cheiranthera brevifolia'' F.Muell. – W.A. * '' Cheiranthera filifolia'' Turcz. – W.A. * '' Cheiranthera linearis'' A.Cunn. ex Lindl. John Lindley FRS (5 February 1799 – 1 November 1865) was an English botanist, gardener and orchidologist. Early years Born in Catton, near Norwich, England, John Lindley was one of four children of George and Mary Lindley. George Lindley ... – N.S.W., A.C.T., Vic. * '' Cheiranthera parviflora'' Benth. – W.A. * '' Cheiranthera preissiana'' Putt. – W.A. * '' Cheiranthera simplicifolia'' (E.M.Benn.) L.Cayzer & Crisp – W.A. * '' Cheiranthera telfordii ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orchid
Orchids are plants that belong to the family Orchidaceae (), a diverse and widespread group of flowering plants with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant. Along with the Asteraceae, they are one of the two largest families of flowering plants. The Orchidaceae have about 28,000 currently accepted species, distributed in about 763 genera. (See ''External links'' below). The determination of which family is larger is still under debate, because verified data on the members of such enormous families are continually in flux. Regardless, the number of orchid species is nearly equal to the number of bony fishes, more than twice the number of bird species, and about four times the number of mammal species. The family encompasses about 6–11% of all species of seed plants. The largest genera are ''Bulbophyllum'' (2,000 species), ''Epidendrum'' (1,500 species), ''Dendrobium'' (1,400 species) and ''Pleurothallis'' (1,000 species). It also includes ''Vanilla'' (the genus of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eucalyptus Nortonii
''Eucalyptus nortonii'', commonly known as bundy, mealy bundy or long-leaved box, is a species of small tree that is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It has rough, thick, fibrous or flaky bark on the trunk and larger branches, smooth greyish bark on the thinnest branches, lance-shaped to curved adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, white flowers and cup-shaped or cylindrical fruit. Description ''Eucalyptus nortonii'' is a tree that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. It has rough, coarse, thick, fibrous or flaky bark on the trunk and larger branches, sometimes smooth greyish bark on the thinnest branches. Young plants and coppice regrowth are glaucous and have sessile, heart-shaped to more or less round leaves that are long, wide and arranged in opposite pairs. Adult leaves are the same shade of dull bluish or greyish green to glaucous on both sides, long and wide, tapering to a petiole long. The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils in gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eucalyptus Goniocalyx
''Eucalyptus goniocalyx'', commonly known as long-leaved box, olive-barked box or bundy, is a species of small to medium-sized tree that is endemic to southeastern Australia. It has rough, fibrous or flaky bark, lance-shaped to curved adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, white flowers and cup-shaped, cylindrical or barrel-shaped fruit. Description ''Eucalyptus goniocalyx'' is a tree that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. It has more or less rough, fibrous, greyish bark, although the thickness and nature depends on subspecies. Young plants and coppice regrowth have sessile, more or less round leaves long and wide arranged in opposite pairs. Adult leaves are lance-shaped to curved, long and wide on a petiole long. The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils in groups of seven on an unbranched peduncle long, the individual buds usually sessile. Mature buds are oblong to oval, long and wide with a conical to rounded operculum. Flowering occurs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eucalyptus Melliodora
''Eucalyptus melliodora'', commonly known as yellow box, honey box or yellow ironbark, is a species of medium-sized to occasionally tall tree that is Endemism, endemic to south-eastern, continental Australia. It has rough, flaky or fibrous bark on part or all of the trunk, smooth greyish to yellowish bark above. The adult leaves are lance-shaped to egg-shaped, the flower buds are arranged in groups of seven and the fruit is more or less hemispherical. Description ''Eucalyptus melliodora'' is a tree that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. The bark is variable ranging from smooth with an irregular, short stocking, to covering most of the trunk, fibrous, dense or loosely held, grey, yellow or red-brown, occasionally very coarse, thick, dark brown to black. The smooth bark above is shed from the upper limbs to leave a smooth, white or yellowish surface. Young plants and coppice regrowth have lance-shaped to elliptic leaves that are long and wide and Petiole (b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eucalyptus Macrorhyncha
''Eucalyptus macrorhyncha'', commonly known as the red stringybark, is a species of medium-sized tree that is endemic to eastern Australia. It has rough, stringy, grey to brown bark, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of between seven and eleven, white flowers and hemispherical fruit. Description ''Eucalyptus macrorhyncha'' is a tree that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. It has rough, stringy, grey to reddish brown bark on the trunk and branches. Young plants and coppice regrowth have egg-shaped leaves long and wide. Adult leaves are lance-shaped to curved, the same dull to glossy green colour on both sides, long and wide on a petiole long. The flower buds are arranged in groups of seven, nine or eleven in leaf axils on an unbranched peduncle long, the individual buds on pedicels In botany, a pedicel is a stem that attaches a single flower to the inflorescence. Such inflorescences are described as ''pedicellate''. Description P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eucalyptus Leucoxylon
''Eucalyptus leucoxylon'', commonly known as yellow gum, blue gum or white ironbark, is a species of small to medium-sized tree that is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It has smooth yellowish bark with some rough bark near the base, lance-shaped or curved adult leaves, flower buds in groups of three and cylindrical, barrel-shaped or shortened spherical fruit. A widely cultivated species, it has white, red or pink flowers. Description ''Eucalyptus leucoxylon'' is a tree that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. It has smooth white, yellow or bluish-grey bark, usually with of rough fibrous to flaky bark the base of the trunk. Young plants and coppice regrowth have leaves mostly arranged in opposite pairs, egg-shaped to broadly lance-shaped, long and wide. Adult leaves are arranged alternately, the same slightly glossy shade of green on both sides, lance-shaped to curved, long and wide, tapering to a petiole long. The flower buds are arranged ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
