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Castanospora
''Castanospora'' is a monotypic genus (i.e. a genus containing only one species) in the maple and lychee family Sapindaceae. The sole species is ''Castanospora alphandii'', commonly known as brown tamarind, which grows naturally in rainforests of eastern Australia from about Coffs Harbour in mid north New South Wales, as far north as Rossville in far north Queensland Queensland ( , commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a States and territories of Australia, state in northeastern Australia, and is the second-largest and third-most populous state in Australia. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Austr .... References External links View a mapof herbarium records of this species at the Australasian Virtual Herbarium View observationsof this species on iNaturalist See images of this species on Flickriver.com Sapindaceae Monotypic Sapindaceae genera Sapindales of Australia Flora of New South Wales Flora of Queensland Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller {{Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferdinand Von Mueller
Baron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller, (; 30 June 1825 – 10 October 1896) was a German-Australian physician, geographer, and most notably, a botanist. He was appointed government botanist for the then colony of Victoria, Australia by Governor Charles La Trobe in 1853, and later director of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne. He also founded the National Herbarium of Victoria. He named many Australian plants. Early life Mueller was born at Rostock, in the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. After the early death of his parents, Frederick and Louisa, his grandparents gave him a good education in Tönning, Schleswig. Apprenticed to a chemist at the age of 15, he passed his pharmaceutical examinations and studied botany under Professor Ernst Ferdinand Nolte (1791–1875) at Kiel University. In 1847, he received his degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Kiel for a thesis on the plants of the southern regions of Schleswig. Mueller's sister Bertha had been advi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
