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Balaustion Baiocalyx
''Balaustion baiocalyx'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae and is endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ... to the Southwest Australia, south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and usually white flowers with 22 to 24 stamens. Description ''Balaustion baiocalyx'' is a shrub that typically grows to high, wide and is single-stemmed at it base. Its leaves are egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, usually long and wide on a Petiole (botany), petiole long. The flowers are usually in diameter, each flower on a Pedicel (botany), pedicel long. The Hypanthium, floral tube is long and wide and the sepals are often difficult to see, long and wide. The petals are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Lynette Rye
Barbara Lynette Rye is an Australian botanist born in 1952. Barbara Rye has been associated with the Western Australian Herbarium, where her work as a taxonomist has been the source of many new descriptions of plants. The number of taxa recorded as described by women authors is historically very low, of the terrestrial plant species this amount is around three percent, yet in analysis published in 2019 Rye is amongst the ten most prolific women taxonomists. Born in Perth, Western Australia, she spent her childhood investigating the local flora and fauna of the Southwest Australia region, a biodiversity hotspot, and later began studies at the University of Western Australia. Barbara Rye entered the fields of zoology and botany, taking a special interest in genetics and evolutionary biology. The first description of a new species was a ''Darwinia'', a genus of the family Myrtaceae that Rye investigated for her doctoral thesis, separating '' Darwinia capitellata'' from a more widely ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |