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Oxylobium
''Oxylobium'', commonly known as shaggy-peas, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, all of which are endemic to Australia. Plants in the genus ''Oxylobium'' are prostrate or erect shrubs with simple leaves with the edges turned down, flowers in racemes, clusters or corymbs with 5 sepals, the standard petal longer than the wings and keel, and inflated oval or oblong pods. Description Plants in the genus ''Oxylobium'' are prostrate or erect shrubs with usually hairy young stems. The leaves are simple, usually arranged in opposite pairs or whorled and often warty, the edges rolled down and sometimes with stipules at the base of the petiole. The flowers are arranged in racemes, clusters or corymb with bracts and bracteoles that often fall off as the flowers open. There are 5 sepals with upper lobes broader and higher up, the standard petal broad and more or less notched and longer than the wings and the keel. The stamens are free from each other and the pods are ov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oxylobium Ellipticum
''Oxylobium ellipticum'', commonly known as the common shaggy-pea, is a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It has dense clusters of yellow pea flowers and elliptic-shaped leaves. It grows in south-eastern Australia. Description ''Oxylobium ellipticum'' is a spreading much branched shrub up to high. The leaves are in irregular whorls of three or four, elliptic, sometimes lance-shaped, rarely heart-shaped, long, wide, leathery, brown tomentose beneath, dark green, reticulate veins and margins recurved, apex blunt, often with an abrupt point. It has golden yellow pea flowers in dense terminal clusters. Flowering occurs in spring and summer and the fruit is a rounded, grey-brown, oval-shaped Pod (fruit), pod about long and covered with long, silky hairs. Taxonomy and naming ''Oxylobium ellipticum'' was first formally described in 1811 by R.Br., Robert Brown and the description was published in ''Hortus Kewensis''. The binomial nomenclature, specific epithet (''ellipticum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oxylobium Robustum
''Oxylobium robustum'', commonly known as tree shaggy pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a shrub or small tree with linear to narrowly lance-shaped leaves with a sharp point, and yellow-orange flowers in racemes. Description ''Oxylobium robustum'' is a shrub or small tree that usually grows to a height of up to , and has stems with woolly yellow or white hairs. The leaves are usually arranged in whorls and sometimes in opposite pairs, and are linear to lance-shaped, long and wide, with a sharp point on the end, and the sides curved down. The flowers are borne in racemes in leaf axils and on the ends of branches, with lance-shaped bracts and linear bracteoles at the base. The sepals are about long and the petals are yellow-orange and long. Flowering occurs from late winter to early summer, and the seed pods are about long, with a beaked tip and covered with soft hairs. Taxonomy ''Oxylobium robustum'' was fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oxylobium Pulteneae
''Oxylobium pulteneae'', commonly known as wiry shaggy pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern New South Wales. It is a low, spreading to prostrate shrub with linear to triangular or elliptic leaves and orange-red flowers. Description ''Oxylobium pulteneae'' is a low, spreading to prostrate shrub that usually grows to a height of , and has stems with soft hairs. The leaves are usually arranged in whorls of three, sometimes arranged alternately or in opposite pairs, and are linear to triangular or elliptic, long and wide, with the tip and sides curved down. The flowers are borne in umbel-like racemes with egg-shaped to lance-shaped bracts and linear bracteoles at the base. The sepals are long and the petals orange-red and about long. Flowering occurs in late spring and summer, and the seed pods are about long and covered with soft hairs. Taxonomy ''Oxylobium pulteneae'' was first formally described in 1825 by Alphonse Pyramus de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oxylobium Arborescens
''Oxylobium arborescens'', commonly known as the tall shaggy-pea, is a species of flowering shrub to small tree in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It has elliptic dark green leaves and yellow pea flowers. Description ''Oxylobium arborescens'' is an upright shrub to high with stems covered in soft, silky hairs. The dark green leaves may be in irregular whorls of three or arranged opposite, linear, narrowly elliptic or oblong, usually long, wide, petiole about long, margins rolled under. The upper surface is covered in warty protuberances, smooth with veins, underside covered in soft, matted hairs, and tapering to a sharp, short point. The yellow flowers are in short racemes borne at the end of branches or in the leaf axils. The bracts are lance shaped and short, bracteoles linear and long. The flower corolla long, yellow with red markings and covered with short, soft hairs on a pedicel about long, standard almost flat and circular, yellow wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oxylobium Cordifolium
''Oxylobium cordifolium'', commonly known as the heart-leaved shaggy pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is a small, prostrate shrub with long, wiry branches, heart-shaped leaves and orange-red flowers. Description ''Oxylobium cordifolium'' is a small, spreading shrub to about high with branches up to long and are densely covered with long, soft, straight hairs. The heart-shaped leaves are arranged opposite or whorled, long, wide, margins and apex curved downward, upper surface covered with warty protuberances, underside sparingly hairy. The orange-red flowers are borne at the end of branches in racemes, usually in groups of three, standard petal long, bracts lance-shaped and taper to a point. The soft, oval-shaped seed pod is covered in soft, silky hairs, sessile, long and tapering to a point. Flowering occurs from spring to early summer. Taxonomy ''Oxylobium cordifolium'' was first formally described in 1807 by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirbelioids
The Mirbelioids are an informal subdivision of the plant family Fabaceae that includes the former tribes Bossiaeeae and Mirbelieae. They are consistently recovered as a monophyletic clade in molecular phylogenies. The Mirbelioids arose 48.4 ± 1.3 million years ago (in the early Eocene). Members of this clade are mostly ericoid ( sclerophyllous) shrubs with yellow and red ('egg and bacon') flowers found in Australia, Tasmania, and Papua-New Guinea. The name of this clade is informal and is not assumed to have any particular taxonomic rank like the names authorized by the ICBN or the ICPN. Members of this clade exhibit unusual embryology compared to other legumes, either enlarged antipodal cells in the embryo sac or the production of multiple embryo sacs. There has been a shift from bee pollination to bird pollination several times in this clade. Mirbelioids produce quinolizidine alkaloids, but unlike most papilionoids, they do not produce isoflavones. Many of the Mirbelioids have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bract
In botany, a bract is a modified or specialized leaf, associated with a reproductive structure such as a flower, inflorescence axis or cone scale. Bracts are usually different from foliage leaves in size, color, shape or texture. They also look different from the parts of the flower, such as the petals or sepals. A plant having bracts is referred to as bracteate or bracteolate, while one that lacks them is referred to as ebracteate or ebracteolate. Variants Some bracts are brightly coloured which aid in the attraction of pollinators, either together with the perianth or instead of it. Examples of this type of bract include those of '' Euphorbia pulcherrima'' (poinsettia) and '' Bougainvillea'': both of these have large colourful bracts surrounding much smaller, less colourful flowers. In grasses, each floret (flower) is enclosed in a pair of papery bracts, called the lemma (lower bract) and palea (upper bract), while each spikelet (group of florets) has a further pair o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fabaceae Genera
Fabaceae () or Leguminosae,International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants. Article 18.5 states: "The following names, of long usage, are treated as validly published: ....Leguminosae (nom. alt.: Fabaceae; type: Faba Mill. [= Vicia L.]); ... When the Papilionaceae are regarded as a family distinct from the remainder of the Leguminosae, the name Papilionaceae is conserved against Leguminosae." English pronunciations are as follows: , and . commonly known as the legume, pea, or bean family, is a large and agriculturally important family (biology), family of flowering plants. It includes trees, shrubs, and perennial or annual plant, annual herbaceous plants, which are easily recognized by their fruit (legume) and their compound, stipule, stipulate leaves. The family ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joy Thomps
Joy is the state of being that allows one to experience feelings of intense, long-lasting happiness and contentment of life. It is closely related to, and often evoked by, well-being, success, or good fortune. Happiness, pleasure, and gratitude are closely related to joy but are not identical to it. Distinction vs similar emotions saw a clear distinction between joy, pleasure, and happiness: "I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for Joy", and "I call it Joy, which is here a technical term and must be sharply distinguished both from Happiness and Pleasure. Joy (in my sense) has indeed one characteristic, and one only, in common with them; the fact that anyone who has experienced it will want it again... I doubt whether anyone who has tasted it would ever, if both were in his power, exchange it for all the pleasures in the world. But then Joy is never in our power and Pleasure often is." Michela Summa says that the distinction between joy and happiness ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vent
Vent or vents may refer to: Science and technology Biology *Vent, the cloaca region of an animal *Vent DNA polymerase, a thermostable DNA polymerase Geology *Hydrothermal vent, a fissure in a planet's surface from which geothermally heated water issues *Volcano, a point where magma emerges from the Earth's surface and becomes lava Moving gases *Vent (submarine), a valve on a submarine's ballast tanks *Automatic bleeding valve, a plumbing valve used to automatically release trapped air from a heating system *Drain-waste-vent system or plumbing drainage venting, pipes leading from fixtures to the outdoors *Duct (flow), used to deliver and remove air *Flue, a duct, pipe, or chimney for conveying exhaust gases from a furnace or water heater *Gas venting, a safe vent in the hydrocarbon and chemical industries *Medical ventilator, mechanical breathing machine *Touch hole, a vent on a cannon *Vent shaft or ventilation shaft People *Vents (musician), Australian hip hop MC *Vents Feldman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Plant Census
The Australian Plant Census (APC) provides an online interface to currently accepted, published, scientific names of the vascular flora of Australia, as one of the output interfaces of the national government Integrated Biodiversity Information System (IBIS – an Oracle Co. relational database management system). The Australian National Herbarium, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Australian Biological Resources Study and the Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria coordinate the system. The Australian Plant Census interface provides the currently accepted scientific names, their synonyms, illegitimate, misapplied and excluded names, as well as state distribution data. Each item of output hyperlinks to other online interfaces of the information system, including the Australian Plant Name Index The Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) is an online database of all published names of Australian vascular plants. It covers all names, whether current names, synonyms or invalid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stamen
The stamen (: stamina or stamens) is a part consisting of the male reproductive organs of a flower. Collectively, the stamens form the androecium., p. 10 Morphology and terminology A stamen typically consists of a stalk called the filament and an anther which contains sporangium, microsporangia. Most commonly, anthers are two-lobed (each lobe is termed a locule) and are attached to the filament either at the base or in the middle area of the anther. The sterile (i.e. nonreproductive) tissue between the lobes is called the Connective (botany), connective, an extension of the filament containing conducting strands. It can be seen as an extension on the dorsal side of the anther. A pollen grain develops from a microspore in the microsporangium and contains the male gametophyte. The size of anthers differs greatly, from a tiny fraction of a millimeter in ''Wolfia'' spp up to five inches (13 centimeters) in ''Canna iridiflora'' and ''Strelitzia nicolai''. The stamens in a flower ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
