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Lysiosepalum
''Lysiosepalum'' is a genus of 5 species of flowering plants in the genus of plants in the family Malvaceae, all endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. Description All species of ''Lysiosepalum'' are shrubs up to high. The leaves are mostly linear to egg-shaped with 2 leaf-like stipules at the base of the petiole. There are petal-like sepals alternating between broad to narrow, and tiny, scale-like petals. Three egg-shaped or lance-shaped bracteoles are below the sepals, bracts at the base of the pedicels, the stamens are joined at the base and there are tiny staminodes. Taxonomy The genus ''Lysiosepalum'' was first formally described in 1858 by Ferdinand von Mueller in his ''Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae'', and the first species he described (the type species) was '' Lysiosepalum barryanum''. The genus name means a "setting-free sepal", referring to the sepals, which are almost free or separated. Species list The following is a list of names of ''Lysio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lysiosepalum Involucratum
''Lysiosepalum involucratum'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is dense, compact or spreading shrub with its young branches covered with woolly, star-shaped hairs, and has narrowly egg-shaped leaves and purple flowers usually in groups of 2 to 6. Description ''Lysiosepalum involucratum'' is a dense, compact or spreading shrub that typically grows to high and wide, its young branches covered with woolly, star-shaped hairs. The leaves are narrowly egg-shaped, long and wide on a petiole long, sometimes with stipules long and wide at the base. The flowers are purple, usually borne in groups of 2 to 6 on a peduncle long with spoon-shaped bracts long at the base, each flower on a pedicel long with linear to egg-shaped bracts long and hairy bracteoles wide at the base of the sepals. The six sepal lobes are narrowly egg-shaped, long and wide, and there are usually tiny, dark red petals. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lysiosepalum Abollatum
''Lysiosepalum abollatum'', also known as woolly lysiosepalum, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to a small area in the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, dense shrub covered with white, woolly hairs, and has narrowly egg-shaped leaves and pink, blue or purple flowers usually in groups of four or five. Description ''Lysiosepalum abollatum'' is an erect, dense shrub that typically grows up to high and wide, and has most parts covered with white, woolly, star-shaped hairs. The leaves are narrowly egg-shaped, long and wide on a petiole wide, usually with stipules long at the base. The flowers are pink, purple or blue, borne in groups of four or five on a peduncle long with linear or spoon-shaped bracts long at the base, each flower on a pedicel long. The five sepals are egg-shaped, elliptic or oblong, long and wide. Petals are usually present, and are dark red, long. Flowering occurs in August and September. Taxonomy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lysiosepalum Rugosum
''Lysiosepalum rugosum'', also known as the wrinkled-leaf lysiosepalum, is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is shrub with its young branches covered with woolly, star-shaped hairs, and has narrowly egg-shaped leaves and blue, purple of pink flowers usually in groups of 4 to 6. Description ''Lysiosepalum rugosum'' grows is a shrub that typically grows to a height of and has its young branches with woolly, star-shaped hairs. The leaves are narrowly egg-shaped, long and wide on a petiole long with stipules about long and wide at the bottom of the petiole. The flowers are blue, purple of pink, usually borne in groups of 6 to 8 on a peduncle long with linear or spoon-shaped bracts long at the base, each flower on a pedicel long with linear to egg-shaped bracteoles long at the base of the sepals. The six sepal lobes are egg-shaped or elliptic, long and wide, and there are sometimes dark red petals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lysiosepalum Hexandrum
''Lysiosepalum hexandrum'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is dense, erect shrub with its young branches covered with woolly, star-shaped hairs, and has linear or narrowly elliptic leaves and blue, purple or pink flowers usually in groups of five. Description ''Lysiosepalum hexandrum'' is a dense, erect shrub that typically grows to high and wide, its young branches covered with woolly, star-shaped hairs and scattered red, club-shaped glandular hairs. The leaves are linear to narrowly elliptic, long and wide on a petiole long, usually with stipules long and wide at the base. The flowers are blue, purple or pink, usually borne in groups of five on a peduncle long with spoon-shaped bracts long at the base, each flower on a pedicel long with egg-shaped bracts long and wide at the base of the sepals. The five sepal lobes are narrowly elliptic or narrowly egg-shaped, long and wide, and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lysiosepalum Aromaticum
''Lysiosepalum aromaticum'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to a small area in the south-west of Western Australia. It is thick, bushy shrub with a strong, aromatic scent, most parks covered with white, star-shaped hairs and red-tipped, club-shaped hairs, and has egg-shaped to broadly egg-shaped leaves and pinkish-purple flowers usually in groups of two to four. Description ''Lysiosepalum aromaticum'' is a thick, bushy shrub that typically grows to a height of up to and has a strong aromatic or peppery scent. Most part of the plant are covered with white, star-shaped hairs and red-tipped, club-shaped glandular hairs. The leaves are egg-shaped to broadly egg-shaped, long and wide on a petiole long, usually with stipules long at the base. The flowers are pinkish-purple, borne in groups of two to four on a peduncle long with spoon-shaped bracts long at the base, each flower on a pedicel long. The five sepal lobes are elliptic, about ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malvales Of Australia
The Malvales are an order of flowering plants. As circumscribed by APG II-system, the order includes about 6000 species within nine families. The order is placed in the eurosids II, which are part of the eudicots. The plants are mostly shrubs and trees; most of its families have a cosmopolitan distribution in the tropics and subtropics, with limited expansion into temperate regions. An interesting distribution occurs in Madagascar, where three endemic families of Malvales (Sphaerosepalaceae, Sarcolaenaceae and Diegodendraceae) occur. Many species of Malvaceae, '' sensu lato'' (in the broad sense), are valued for their wood, with that of '' Ochroma'' (balsa) being known for its lightness, and that of ''Tilia'' (lime, linden, or basswood) as a popular wood for carving. Fruit of the cacao tree (''Theobroma cacao'') are used as an ingredient for chocolate. Kola nuts (genus ''Cola'') are notable for their high caffeine content and were commonly used in the past in preparation of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ravensthorpe, Western Australia
Ravensthorpe is a town 541 km south-east of Perth and 40 km inland from the south coast of Western Australia. It is the seat of government of the Shire of Ravensthorpe. At the , Ravensthorpe had a population of 2,085. In 1848, the area was surveyed by Surveyor General John Septimus Roe who named many of the geographical features nearby, including the nearby Ravensthorpe Range that the later town was named after. There was one of the Western Australian Government Railways isolated branch lines between Hopetoun, Western Australia, Hopetoun and Ravensthorpe. This line, the Hopetoun to Ravensthorpe railway line, opened in 1909. Alluvial gold was discovered at the Phillips River in 1892. At the goldfield a ''de facto'' town emerged, known as ''Phillips River''. The government completed construction of a copper and gold smelter about 2 km south east of the town in 1906, used to cast copper and gold ingots. History A temporary pastoral lease ("Free Run") was regis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuna, Western Australia
Yuna is a small town in the Mid West region of Western Australia, in the Shire of Chapman Valley, northeast of the city of Geraldton. The state government was petitioned in 1910 by the Yuna Farmer's Association to survey lots in 1910. The government delayed acting on the request until the Upper Chapman railway line extension route was decided on. This was completed in 1912 and then some wrangling over the best townsite ensued. One site to the west near a spring and close to the railway line was dubbed ''West Yuna'' and a siding was built; it was gazetted as West Yuna in 1913, then changed to Whelarra in 1918 and finally cancelled in 1968. The Yuna Agricultural Hall was built in 1919 then gutted by fire and then completely collapsing in 1922. Because of the site at West Yuna, development of the current site was initially opposed by the government and mined for pottery clay. A school was erected in 1927 and then the government decided to assist with development with lots be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benth
George Bentham (22 September 1800 – 10 September 1884) was an English botanist, described by the weed botanist Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century". Born into a distinguished family, he initially studied law, but had a fascination with botany from an early age, which he soon pursued, becoming president of the Linnaean Society in 1861, and a fellow of the Royal Society in 1862. He was the author of a number of important botanical works, particularly flora. He is best known for his taxonomic classification of plants in collaboration with Joseph Dalton Hooker, his ''Genera Plantarum'' (1862–1883). He died in London in 1884. Life Bentham was born in Stoke, Plymouth, on 22 September 1800. His father, Sir Samuel Bentham, a naval architect, was the only brother of Jeremy Bentham to survive into adulthood. His mother, Mary Sophia Bentham, was a botanist and author. Bentham had no formal education but had a remarkable linguistic aptitude. By ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Claridge Druce
George Claridge Druce (23 May 1850 – 29 February 1932) was an English botanist and a Mayor of Oxford. Personal life and education G. Claridge Druce was born at Potterspury on Watling Street in Northamptonshire. He was the illegitimate son of Jane Druce, born 1815 in Buckinghamshire. He went to school in the village of Yardley Gobion. At 16, he was apprenticed to P. Jeyes & Co., a pharmaceutical firm in Northampton. In 1872, he passed exams to become a pharmacist. In 1909, Druce moved to 9 Crick Road. He named the house "Yardley Lodge", after the village in which he spent his youth. He died at his home aged 81 and was buried in Holywell Cemetery. Career as a pharmacist In June 1879, Druce moved to Oxford and set up his own chemist's shop, Druce & Co., at 118 High Street, which continued until his death. He also featured as a shopkeeper in the Oxford novel '' Zuleika Dobson'' by Max Beerbohm. A plaque to Druce was erected on this shop by the Oxfordshire Blue Plaque ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
