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Calytrix Glutinosa
''Calytrix glutinosa'' is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a more or less glabrous shrub with linear leaves and clusters of pink to mauve flowers with about 10 to 20 white stamens in one or two rows, becoming reddish-purple as they age. Description ''Calytrix glutinosa'' is a glabrous shrub that typically grows to a height of up to . Its leaves are spreading to erect, linear, long and wide on a petiole long. There are no stipules. The peduncle is long with egg-shaped to lance-shaped lobes long. The floral tube is long, free from the style and has 5 ribs. The sepals are joined for up to at the base, the lobes more or less circular to broadly egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide with an awn up to long. The petals are pink to mauve with a white base, lance-shaped or elliptic, long and wide with about 10 to 20 white stamens in 1 or 2 rows, becoming reddi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 was a nurseryman and pomologist and ran a commercial nursery garden. Although he had great horticultural knowledge, the undertaking was not profitable and George lived in a state of indebtedness. As a boy he would assist in the garden and also collected wild flowers he found growing in the Norfolk countryside. Lindley was educated at Norwich School. He would have liked to go to university or to buy a commission in the army but the family could not afford either. He became Belgian agent for a London seed merchant in 1815. At this time Lindley became acquainted with the botanist William Jackson Hooker who allowed him to use his botanical library and who introduced him to Sir Joseph Banks who offered him employment as an assistant in his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Sketch Of The Vegetation Of The Swan River Colony
"A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony", also known by its standard botanical abbreviation ''Sketch Veg. Swan R.'', is an 1839 article by John Lindley on the flora of the Swan River Colony. Nearly 300 new species were published in it, many of which are still current. It appeared as Part Three of ''Appendix to the first twenty three volumes of Edward's Botanical Register'', the first two parts being indices of previous volumes of ''Edwards's Botanical Register'', of which Lindley was editor. It contained 58 pages, issued in three parts. Pages 1 to 16 were issued on 1 November 1839; pages 17 to 32 on 1 December 1839; and the remaining 26 pages on 1 January 1840. It also contained four woodcuts based on sketches by Lindley, and nine hand-coloured lithographic plates, the artist and lithographer of which are unacknowledged and are now unknown. According to Helen Hewson, the woodcuts are of high quality, but the plates "do not measure up to the standard of contemporary ill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calytrix
''Calytrix'' is a genus of about 83 species of flowering plants, commonly known as star flowers, in the family Myrtaceae and is endemic to Australia. Plants in the genus ''Calytrix'' are small to large shrubs with small, spreading and more or less round leaves, the flowers arranged singly in leaf axils. The flowers are Monoicy, bisexual with 5 overlapping sepals with a long Awn (botany), awn, and many stamens. Description Plants in the genus ''Calytrix'' are dwarf to large shrubs with overlapping or widely-spaced leaves, but with stipules absent or small. The flowers are arranged singly in leaf axils with 2 Bract#Bracteole, bracteoles at the base. The Hypanthium, floral tube is usually long and tube-shaped with 5 overlapping sepals with a long awn on the end and 5 lance-shaped to elliptic petals that are free from each other and fall from the flower as it develops. There are many stamens, in one to several Whorl (botany), whorls. The fruit is a small, dry Nut (fruit), nut conta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plants Described In 1839
Plants are the eukaryotes that form the kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly photosynthetic. This means that they obtain their energy from sunlight, using chloroplasts derived from endosymbiosis with cyanobacteria to produce sugars from carbon dioxide and water, using the green pigment chlorophyll. Exceptions are parasitic plants that have lost the genes for chlorophyll and photosynthesis, and obtain their energy from other plants or fungi. Most plants are multicellular, except for some green algae. Historically, as in Aristotle's biology, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi. Definitions have narrowed since then; current definitions exclude fungi and some of the algae. By the definition used in this article, plants form the clade Viridiplantae (green plants), which consists of the green algae and the embryophytes or land plants (hornworts, liverworts, mosses, lycophytes, ferns, conifers and other gymnosperm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
