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Eucalyptus Peninsularis
''Eucalyptus peninsularis'', commonly known as Cummins mallee, is a species of mallee that is endemic to a small area of South Australia. It has smooth, greyish or brownish bark, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of between seven and eleven, pale creamy yellow flowers and urn-shaped fruit. Description ''Eucalyptus peninsularis'' is a mallee that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. It has smooth, greyish to brownish bark that is shed in ribbons. Young plants and coppice regrowth have sessile, dull green, elliptical to egg-shaped leaves arranged in opposite pairs. Adult leaves are arranged alternately, the same shade of glossy green on both sides, lance-shaped, long and wide, tapering to a petiole long. The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils in groups of seven, nine or eleven on an unbranched peduncle long, the individual buds on pedicels long. Mature buds are long and wide, have a ribbed, urn-shaped floral cup and a beaked to horn-s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dean Nicolle
image:Dean-Nicolle-Deanei.JPG, Dean Nicolle and ''Eucalyptus deanei'' Dean Nicolle (born 1974), is an Australian botanist, arboriculture, arborist and ecologist. He is widely recognised as the leading authority on the genus ''Eucalyptus''. Nicolle was born in Adelaide, South Australia, in 1974 and developed an interest in ''Eucalyptus'' trees as a young man. After completing a Bachelor of Science at the University of Adelaide, he went on to complete his PhD in 2008 on mallee (habit), mallee trees at Flinders University. Shortly afterwards Nicolle created the Currency Creek Arboretum, on a site in the Fleurieu and Kangaroo Island, Fleurieu region in South Australia. He is currently the director and head of research at the arboretum and has cultivated over 900 species and subspecies of ''Eucalyptus''. Nicolle was awarded the Centenary Medal in 2001 and the Medal of the Order of Australia in the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours (Australia), 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours for "service ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eyre Peninsula
The Eyre Peninsula is a triangular peninsula in South Australia. It is bounded by the Spencer Gulf on the east, the Great Australian Bight on the west, and the Gawler Ranges to the north. Earlier called Eyre's Peninsula, it was named after explorer Edward John Eyre, who explored parts of the peninsula in 1839–41. The coastline was first charted by the expeditions of Matthew Flinders in 1801–02 and French explorer Nicolas Baudin around the same time. Flinders also named the nearby Yorke Peninsula, Yorke's Peninsula and Spencer Gulf, Spencer's Gulph on the same voyage. The peninsula's economy is primarily agricultural, with growing aquaculture, mining, and tourism sectors. The main towns are Port Lincoln in the south, Whyalla and Port Augusta in the northeast, and Ceduna, South Australia, Ceduna in the northwest. Port Lincoln (''Galinyala'' in Barngarla language, Barngarla), Whyalla and Port Augusta (''Goordnada'') are part of the Barngarla Aboriginal country. Ceduna is wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myrtales Of Australia
The Myrtales are an order of flowering plants in the malvid clade of the rosid group of dicotyledons. Well-known members of Myrtales include: myrtle, pōhutukawa, bay rum tree, clove, guava, acca (feijoa), allspice, eucalyptus, crape myrtles, henna tree, pomegranate, water caltrop, loosestrifes, cupheas (cigar plants), evening primroses, fuchsias, willowherbs, white mangrove, leadwood tree, African birch, Koster's curse, and velvet tree. Taxonomy Myrtales include the following nine families, according to the APG III system of classification: * Alzateaceae * Combretaceae ( leadwood family) * Crypteroniaceae * Lythraceae ( loosestrife and pomegranate family) * Melastomataceae (including Memecylaceae) * Myrtaceae (myrtle family; including Heteropyxidaceae, Psiloxylaceae) * Onagraceae ( evening primrose and Fuchsia family) * Penaeaceae (including Oliniaceae, Rhynchocalycaceae) * Vochysiaceae The APG III system places the order within the eurosids; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eucalyptus
''Eucalyptus'' () is a genus of more than 700 species of flowering plants in the family Myrtaceae. Most species of ''Eucalyptus'' are trees, often Mallee (habit), mallees, and a few are shrubs. Along with several other genera in the tribe Eucalypteae, including ''Corymbia'' and ''Angophora'', they are commonly known as eucalypts or "gum trees". Plants in the genus ''Eucalyptus'' have bark that is either smooth, fibrous, hard, or stringy and leaves that have oil Gland (botany), glands. The sepals and petals are fused to form a "cap" or Operculum (botany), operculum over the stamens, hence the name from Greek ''eû'' ("well") and ''kaluptós'' ("covered"). The fruit is a woody Capsule (botany), capsule commonly referred to as a "gumnut". Most species of ''Eucalyptus'' are Indigenous (ecology), native to Australia, and every state and territory has representative species. About three-quarters of Australian forests are eucalypt forests. Many eucalypt species have adapted to wildfire, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trees Of Australia
The flora of Australia comprises a vast assemblage of plant species estimated to over 21,000 vascular and 14,000 non-vascular plants, 250,000 species of fungi and over 3,000 lichens. The flora has strong affinities with the flora of Gondwana, and below the family level has a highly endemic angiosperm flora whose diversity was shaped by the effects of continental drift and climate change since the Cretaceous. Prominent features of the Australian flora are adaptations to aridity and fire which include scleromorphy and serotiny. These adaptations are common in species from the large and well-known families Proteaceae (''Banksia''), Myrtaceae (''Eucalyptus'' - gum trees), and Fabaceae (''Acacia'' - wattle). The arrival of humans around 50,000 years ago and the settlement by Europeans from 1788, has had a significant impact on the flora. The use of fire-stick farming by Aboriginal people led to significant changes in the distribution of plant species over time, and the large-scal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Eucalyptus Species
The following is an alphabetical list of ''Eucalyptus'' species accepted by the Australian Plant Census as at February 2019. Several species only occurring outside Australia, including ''Eucalyptus orophila, E. orophila'', ''Eucalyptus urophylla, E. urophylla'' and ''Eucalyptus wetarensis, E. wetarensis'' are listed at the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. A * ''Eucalyptus abdita'' Ian Brooker, Brooker & Stephen Hopper, Hopper * ''Eucalyptus absita'' Grayling & Brooker – Badgingarra box * ''Eucalyptus acaciiformis'' H.Deane & Joseph Maiden, Maiden – wattle-leaved peppermint * ''Eucalyptus accedens'' W.Fitzg. – powderbark wandoo * ''Eucalyptus acies'' Brooker – Woolburnup mallee * ''Eucalyptus acmenoides'' Johannes Conrad Schauer, Schauer in W.G.Walpers – white mahogany * ''Eucalyptus acroleuca'' L.A.S.Johnson & K.D.Hill – Lakefield coolibah * ''Eucalyptus adesmophloia'' (Brooker & Hopper) D.Nicolle & M.E.French * ''Eucalyptus aequioperta'' Brooker & Hopper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vulnerable Species
A vulnerable species is a species which has been Conservation status, categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as being threatened species, threatened with extinction unless the circumstances that are threatened species, threatening its survival and reproduction improve. Vulnerability is mainly caused by habitat loss or destruction of the species' home. Vulnerable habitat or species are monitored and can become increasingly threatened. Some species listed as "vulnerable" may be common in captivity (animal), captivity, an example being the military macaw. In 2012 there were 5,196 animals and 6,789 plants classified as vulnerable, compared with 2,815 and 3,222, respectively, in 1998. Practices such as cryoconservation of animal genetic resources have been enforced in efforts to conserve vulnerable breeds of livestock specifically. Criteria The International Union for Conservation of Nature uses several criteria to enter species in this category. A taxon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Union For The Conservation Of Nature
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources. Founded in 1948, IUCN has become the global authority on the status of the natural world and the measures needed to safeguard it. It is involved in data gathering and analysis, research, field projects, advocacy, and education. IUCN's mission is to "influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable". Over the past decades, IUCN has widened its focus beyond conservation ecology and now incorporates issues related to sustainable development in its projects. IUCN does not itself aim to mobilize the public in support of nature conservation. It tries to influence the actions of governments, business and other stakeholders by providing information and advice and through building partnership ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wharminda Conservation Park
__NOTOC__ Wharminda Conservation Park is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located on the Eyre Peninsula in the gazetted locality of Wharminda about north of Port Lincoln and about south of Lock. It was constituted as a conservation park under the ''National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972'' on 7 November 1985 on land all in Section 94 of the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Verran. It was dedicated to “conserve remnant vegetation” which is “dominated by mallee and shrubland” and has “no provision for access under state mining legislation.” Its name is derived from nearby features such as the “Wharminda Railway Siding.” As of 2007, the Wharminda Conservation Park partially contains a shrubland including the following plant associations and species of conservation concern. A “mallee community” dominated by ''Eucalyptus peninsularis'' which was considered to be “a state endangered ecosystem” was present in the conservation park. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verran Tanks Conservation Park
__NOTOC__ Verran Tanks Conservation Park is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia, located on the Eyre Peninsula in the gazetted locality of Verran about north of Port Lincoln and about south-east of Lock. It was proclaimed on 28 July 1983 under the ''National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972'' to “conserve remnant vegetation” on land all in Section 71 of the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Verran and which was previously gazetted as a water reserve. The proclamation excluded “access under state mining legislation.” Its name is derived from a water storage facility known as the “Verran Tank.” As of 2007, the Verran Tanks Conservation Park was reported as being “dominated by mallee and shrubland” and included the following plant associations and species of conservation concern. A “mallee community” dominated by '' Eucalyptus peninsularis'' considered to be “a state endangered ecosystem” was present in the conservation park. Four spec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hambidge Wilderness Protection Area
Hambidge Wilderness Protection Area is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located in the gazetted locality of Hambidge about north of Port Lincoln and north east of Lock. The wilderness protection area was proclaimed under the ''Wilderness Protection Act 1992'' on 30 September 2004 on land previously proclaimed under the ''National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972'' as the Hambidge Conservation Park. It was, with Hincks Wilderness Protection Area, among the first reserves on mainland South Australia, being declared Flora and Fauna Reserves in 1941. Pressure from primary producers resulted in the selling of substantial areas: from Hambidge in 1954–1955 and from Hincks in 1960. Pressure for further excisions was resisted by Government. The following qualities have been identified by the government agency managing the wilderness protection area:This area comprises an extensive system of parallel dunes with ridges (6 to 12 metres in height) running north w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eucalyptus Calycogona
''Eucalyptus calycogona'', commonly known as the gooseberry mallee or square fruited mallee, is a mallee that is endemic to southern Australia. It has smooth bark, narrow lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds that are square in cross-section arranged in groups of seven in leaf axils, creamy white, sometimes pink flowers, and fruit that are square in cross-section. Description ''Eucalyptus calycogona'' is mallee that typically grows to a height of , or rarely a small tree, and forms a lignotuber. It has smooth cream-coloured grey, pinkish, sometimes powdery bark and sometimes has rough bark near the base. Young plants and coppice regrowth have dull greyish green leaves arranged in opposite pairs, lance-shaped to oblong, long and wide. The adult leaves are arranged alternately, narrow lance-shaped, the same glossy green on both sides, long and wide on a petiole long. The flowers buds are arranged in groups of seven in leaf axils on a peduncle long, the individual buds on pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
