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Balaustion Spenceri
''Balaustion spenceri'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae and is endemic to the a restricted part of the south-west of Western Australia. It is shrub forming a low dome, with egg-shaped, narrowly egg-shaped or narrowly elliptic leaves, and white flowers with 20 to 24 stamens. Description ''Balaustion spenceri'' is a shrub that forms a low dome wide and wide, the flowering branchlets with usually one flower or sometimes a pair of flowers. Its leaves are narrowly egg-shaped, sometimes with the narrower end towards the base, or narrowly elliptic, long and wide on a petiole long, the lower surface narrowly keeled near the tip with usually one or two main rows of oil glands each side of the midvein. The flowers are in diameter on a peduncle long, each flower on a pedicel long. The floral tube is long and wide, the free part about long and deep reddish. The sepals are broadly egg-shaped, long, wide and deep red with a whitish border. 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] |
Malcolm Eric Trudgen
Malcolm Eric Trudgen (born 1951) is a West Australian botanist. He has published some 105 botanical names. He currently runs his own consulting company, ''ME Trudgen and Associates''. He has worked in the Pilbara. Some publications * *. * * * * * * * Honours *A daisy, '' Pilbara trudgenii'', which he and Colma Keating discovered in 1985 east of Paraburdoo in the Hamersley Range and which has been named in his honour. *'' Micromyrtus trudgenii'', a Myrtaceae species, *a wattle, '' Acacia trudgeniana'' (Trudgen's wattle) and *a trigger plant, '' Stylidium trudgenii'', also honour Trudgen, because it was he who drew attention the existence of these plants. Some published names * '' Aluta'' Rye & Trudgen, Nuytsia 13(2): 347 (2000). * '' Angasomyrtus'' Trudgen & Keighery, Nuytsia 4(3): 435 (1983). (not accepted, synonymous with ''Kunzea'') * '' Astartea granitica'' Rye & Trudgen, Nuytsia 23: 239 (2013). * ''Astus'' Trudgen & Rye, Nuytsia 15(3): 502 (498-503) (2005). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plants Described In 2022
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] |
Flora Of Western Australia
The flora of Western Australia comprises 10,842 published native vascular plant species and a further 1,030 unpublished species. They occur within 1,543 genus, genera from 211 Family (biology), families; there are also 1,335 naturalised alien or invasive plant species more commonly known as weeds. There are an estimated 150,000 cryptogam species or nonvascular plants which include lichens, and fungi although only 1,786 species have been published, with 948 algae and 672 lichen the majority. History Indigenous Australians have a long history with the flora of Western Australia. They have for over 50,000 years obtained detailed information on most plants. The information includes its uses as sources for food, shelter, tools and medicine. As Indigenous Australians passed the knowledge along orally or by example, most of this information has been lost, along many of the names they gave the flora. It was not until Europeans started to explore Western Australia that systematic written de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Department Of Biodiversity, Conservation And Attractions (Western Australia)
The Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions (DBCA) is the Government of Western Australia, Western Australian government department responsible for managing lands and waters described in the ''Conservation and Land Management Act 1984'', the ''Rottnest Island Authority Act 1987'', the ''Swan and Canning Rivers Management Act 2006'', the ''Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority Act 1998'', and the ''Zoological Parks Authority Act 2001'', and implementing the state's conservation and environment legislation and regulations. The Department reports to the Minister for Environment and the Minister for Tourism. DBCA was formed on 1 July 2017 by the merger of the Department of Parks and Wildlife (DPaW), the Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority, the Zoological Parks Authority and the Rottnest Island Authority. The former DPaW became the Parks and Wildlife Service. Status Parks and Wildlife Service The Formerly Department of Parks and Wildlife. the Parks and Wildlife Servi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
