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Black Andrew Nature Reserve
The Black Andrew Nature Reserve is a state park, protected nature reserve located on the South West Slopes, south west slopes of New South Wales, Australia. The reserve is situated on the southern shore of Burrinjuck Dam on the Murrumbidgee River, an important reservoir for the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area. History The reserve was created in 2001 and is managed by the New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service under the provisions of the Southern Regional Forest Agreement (SRFA). Prior to creation of the reserve, it was Crown land#Australia, Crown land and was managed by the then-New South Wales Department of Land and Water Conservation. Ecology Flora Seven distinct forest ecosystems have been identified in the reserve: * Blue gum - peppermint dry grass/shrub forest. This ecosystem exists on soils underlain by granite rock. Common plant species include blue gum (''Eucalyptus bicostata''), broad-leaved peppermint (''Eucalyptus dives''), red stringybark (''Eucalyptus ma ...
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Wee Jasper, New South Wales
Wee Jasper is a locality and former village in the Yass Valley Council, Yass Valley Shire in New South Wales, Australia, about 90 km north-west of Canberra and 60 km south-west of Yass, New South Wales, Yass. It is in the Goodradigbee River, Goodradigbee valley at the western foot of the Brindabella Ranges, near Burrinjuck Dam. At the , Wee Jasper and the surrounding area had a population of 127. Name Wee Jasper The origin of the name Wee Jasper is unknown but it is possibly of Aboriginal origin. It has been in use since at latest 1848 when it appeared as "Weejasper". In 1970, the place name was changed, officially, from Weejasper to Wee Jasper. History The Ngunnawal people once lived over the site of Wee Jasper and the surrounding Goodradigbee River valley. Diseases decimated aboriginal populations ahead of colonial settlement. The New South Wales colonial government ineffectually prohibited settlement in the area and others outside the Nineteen Counties but livestoc ...
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Acacia Dealbata
''Acacia dealbata'', the silver wattle, blue wattle or mimosa, is a species of flowering plant in the legume family, Fabaceae. It is native to southeastern Australia and widely introduced in other warm climates. Description It is a fast-growing evergreen tree or shrub growing up to tall, typically a pioneer species after fire. The leaves are bipinnate, glaucous blue-green to silvery grey, and the leaves resemble those of a fern. They are , occasionally up to 17 cm, in length and 1–11 cm broad, with 6–30 pairs of pinnae. Each pinna is divided into 10–68 pairs of leaflets, which are 0.7–6 mm long and 0.4–1 mm broad. The flowers are produced in large racemose inflorescences made up of numerous smaller globose bright yellow flowerheads of 13–42 individual flowers. The fruit is a flattened pod 2–11.5 cm long and 6–14 mm broad, containing several seeds.Flora of Australia Online''Acacia dealbata'' Trees generally do not live longer th ...
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Eucalyptus Stellulata
''Eucalyptus stellulata'', commonly known as black sallee or black sally, is a species of small tree or a mallee that is endemic to higher altitude regions of south-eastern Australia. it has rough bark on the lower part of the trunk smooth greenish bark above, lance-shaped to elliptical leaves, flower buds in group of between nine and fifteen, white flowers and cup-shaped or shortened spherical fruit. Description ''Eucalyptus stellulata'' is a tree or mallee that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. It has rough, shortly fibrous greyish bark on the lower trunk, smooth olive green bark that is somewhat oily above. Young plants and coppice regrowth have sessile, elliptical leaves arranged in opposite pairs, long and wide. Adult leaves are arranged alternately, the same glossy green on both sides, lance-shaped to elliptical, long and wide tapering to a petiole long. The leaf veins are almost parallel. The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils in a star ...
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Eucalyptus Bridgesiana
''Eucalyptus bridgesiana'', commonly known as apple box, apple, apple gum or but-but, is a medium to large sized tree. It has rough, fibrous bark on the trunk and larger branches, smooth grey bark above, glossy green, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, white flowers and hemispherical fruit. Description ''Eucalyptus bridgesiana'' is a tree that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. It has rough, fibrous, mottled grey and white, sometimes tessellated bark on the trunk and larger branches, with rough, grey, fibrous bark on its trunk and larger branches. Thinner branches have smooth grey bark with whitish patches, shed in short ribbons. Young plants and coppice regrowth have sessile, egg-shaped, heart-shaped or almost round leaves arranged in opposite pairs, long, wide, with wavy edges and covered with a powdery white bloom. The adult leaves are lance-shaped, the same glossy green on both sides, long and wide on a petiole long. The f ...
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Colluvium
Colluvium (also colluvial material or colluvial soil) is a general name for loose, unconsolidated sediments that have been deposited at the base of hillslopes by either rainwash, Sheet erosion , sheetwash, slow continuous downslope creep, or a variable combination of these processes. Colluvium is typically composed of a heterogeneous range of rock types and sediments ranging from silt to Rock (geology), rock fragments of various sizes. This term is also used to specifically refer to sediment deposited at the base of a hillslope by unconcentrated surface runoff or sheet erosion. Location Colluviation refers to the buildup of colluvium at the base of a hillslope.Jackson, JA, J Mehl, and K. Neuendorf (2005) ''Glossary of Geology'' American Geological Institute, Alexandria, Virginia. 800 pp. Goodie, AS (2003) ''Colluvium'' in A. S. Goodie, ed., pp. 173, Encyclopedia of Geomorphology Volume 1, A–I. Routledge, New York, New York. 1200 pp. Colluvium is typically loosely consolidat ...
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Microlaena Stipoides
''Microlaena stipoides'', synonym ''Ehrharta stipoides'', is a species of grass. It occurs naturally in all states of Australia as well as in New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and the Philippines.''Microlaena stipoides''.
Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk, Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk. Retrieved 2010-04-03.
It has also been introduced into Hawaii and Reunion Island and has been reported as invasive in both.PLANTS profile for ''Microlaena stipoides'' (weeping grass).
USDA PLANTS. Retrieved 2010-04-03.
Common names used include weeping grass, weeping rice grass and weeping meadow grass.
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Poa Meionectes
''Poa meionectes'', known as the fine-leaved snow grass, is a tufted grass native to south eastern Australia. It grows to 70 cm high, leaves are 0.3 mm wide. It occurs south of Orange, New South Wales. Flowering occurs in spring and summer. Often found on eucalyptus woodland in coastal ranges. The original specimen was collected in 1970 by J. Vickery near Six Mile Creek, Tantawangalo mountain, in South East Forest National Park The South East Forests National Park is a national park located in between the Monaro (New South Wales), Monaro and South Coast (New South Wales), South Coast regions of New South Wales, Australia. The national park is situated southwest of Syd .... References meionectes Poales of Australia Flora of New South Wales Flora of Victoria (state) {{Australia-plant-stub ...
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Dichondra Repens
''Dichondra repens'', commonly known as kidney weed, Mercury Bay weed, tom thumb, or yilibili in the Dharawal language, is a species of flowering plant in the family Convolvulaceae and is native to Australia, New Zealand, and the Indian Ocean islands, Mauritius, Réunion and Rodrigues. It is a perennial, herb with kidney-shaped to round leaves and small, greenish-yellow, star-shaped flowers. Description ''Dichondra repens'' is a perennial herb with a creeping habit, forming roots at the nodes. The leaves are kidney-shaped to circular, mostly long and wide on a petiole long. The base of the leaf is heart-shaped and its apex round or slightly notched. Both surfaces of the leaves are covered with soft, greyish hairs. The flowers are borne singly on a pedicel usually long, the sepals joined at the base with lobes long. The petals are pale greenish-yellow and joined at the base, forming a short tube with lobes about the same length as the sepal lobes. Flowering occurs througho ...
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Acaena Novae-zelandiae
''Acaena novae-zelandiae'', commonly known as red bidibid, bidgee-widgee, buzzy and piri-piri bur, is a small Herbaceous plant, herbaceous, prostrate Perennial plant, perennial, native to New Zealand, Australia and New Guinea, of the family Rosaceae. Description ''Acaena novae-zelandiae'' is a small Herbaceous plant, herbaceous Perennial plant, perennial. It is stoloniferous with prostrate stems of 1.5 – 2 mm diameter. Damage to stolons encourages new shoots to be produced. It has Pinnation, imparipinnate leaves, with 9–15 toothed, oblong Leaflet (botany), leaflets, which are approximately 2 –11 cm long. The adaxial surface of the leaves is dark green and shiny, and the abaxial surface is hairy and glaucous green in colouration. The rachis of the leaves is often red. The scape is 10 – 15 cm long and bears a globular, terminal inflorescence, of 20 – 25 mm diameter, with 70 – 100 flowers. The flowers lack petals and can range in colour from gre ...
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Eucalyptus Viminalis
''Eucalyptus viminalis'', commonly known as the manna gum, white gum or ribbon gum, is a species of small to very tall tree that is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It has smooth bark, sometimes with rough bark near the base, lance-shaped to curved adult leaves, flower buds in groups of three or seven, white flowers and cup-shaped or hemispherical fruit. Description ''Eucalyptus viminalis'' is a tree that typically grows to a height of , sometimes to , and forms a lignotuber. It has smooth, often powdery, white to pale brown bark that is shed in long ribbons, sometimes hanging on the upper branches, and sometimes with rough, fibrous bark on the lower trunk. Young plants and coppice regrowth have sessile, lance-shaped to curved or oblong leaves long, wide and arranged in opposite pairs. Adult leaves are arranged alternately, the same shade of green on both sides, lance-shaped to curved, long and wide, tapering to a petiole long. The flower buds are arranged in groups of th ...
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Basalt
Basalt (; ) is an aphanite, aphanitic (fine-grained) extrusive igneous rock formed from the rapid cooling of low-viscosity lava rich in magnesium and iron (mafic lava) exposed at or very near the planetary surface, surface of a terrestrial planet, rocky planet or natural satellite, moon. More than 90% of all volcanic rock on Earth is basalt. Rapid-cooling, fine-grained basalt is chemically equivalent to slow-cooling, coarse-grained gabbro. The eruption of basalt lava is observed by geologists at about 20 volcanoes per year. Basalt is also an important rock type on other planetary bodies in the Solar System. For example, the bulk of the plains of volcanism on Venus, Venus, which cover ~80% of the surface, are basaltic; the lunar mare, lunar maria are plains of flood-basaltic lava flows; and basalt is a common rock on the surface of Mars. Molten basalt lava has a low viscosity due to its relatively low silica content (between 45% and 52%), resulting in rapidly moving lava flo ...
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Monotoca Scoparia
''Monotoca scoparia'', commonly known as prickly broom heath, is a widespread native species across south-eastern Australia. ''Monotoca scoparia'' was formerly in the family Epacridaceae but now belongs to the family Ericaceae. Monotoca is an endemic Australian genus with 17 described species occurring in all states. Description ''Monotoca scoparia'' is a lignotuberous shrub that grows usually between 30–120 cm high. The alternating leaves are erect and prickly, and narrowly oblong to elliptic in shape. Leaves are 0.6-2.2 cm long and 1–4 mm wide. The adaxial (upper) surface of the leaf is dark green in colour and the abaxial (lower) surface in a pale green to whitish colour, with 3-5 prominent veins. Leaf tips are sharp and branchlets are rough to hairless. The male and female flowers occur on different plants. Flowers are tubular and white to cream in colour. Flowers in 2-9 clusters occur in axillary spikes or the lowermost occurs solitary. The corolla of ...
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