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Isoetes Australis
''Isoetes australis'' is quillwort (in the family, Isoetaceae) and was first described in 1943 by Samuel Williams. It is endemic to south-west Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to ..., where it is found in ephemeral pools on granite outcrops. The plants begin to grow during winter when the pools fill with water and die back completely when the water dries up (late spring / summer). References {{taxonbar, from=Q17024244 australis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isoetaceae
Isoetaceae is a family including living quillworts (''Isoetes ''Isoetes'', commonly known as the quillworts, is the only extant genus of plants in the family Isoetaceae, which is in the class of lycopods. There are currently 192 recognized species, with a cosmopolitan distribution but with the individual ...'') and comparable extinct herbaceous lycopsids ('' Tomiostrobus''). References External links * * {{Authority control Lycophytes Plant families ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Australia
Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east, and South Australia to the south-east. Western Australia is Australia's largest state, with a total land area of . It is the second-largest country subdivision in the world, surpassed only by Russia's Sakha Republic. the state has 2.76 million inhabitants percent of the national total. The vast majority (92 percent) live in the south-west corner; 79 percent of the population lives in the Perth area, leaving the remainder of the state sparsely populated. The first Europeans to visit Western Australia belonged to the Dutch Dirk Hartog expedition, who visited the Western Australian coast in 1616. The first permanent European colony of Western Australia occurred following ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
