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Micromyrtus Blakelyi
''Micromyrtus blakelyi'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae and is endemic to a small area near Sydney Australia. It is a low, cushion-like shrub with overlapping, keeled, linear leaves and small pink flowers arranged singly in upper leaf axils. Description ''Micromyrtus blakelyi'' is a spreading, cushion-like shrub that typically grows to a height of , its young branches densely woolly-hairy. The leaves are more or less sessile, overlap each other, linear, long, about wide and deeply keeled with a channelled upper surface. The flowers are more or less sessile and arranged singly in upper leaf axils, forming loose clusters near the ends of branches with bracteoles at the base. The sepals are long and tinged with pink and the petals are pink, elliptic or egg-shaped and long. There are five stamens, the filaments long. Flowering occurs from August to October. Taxonomy ''Micromyrtus blakelyi'' was first formally described in 1983 by John Green in the jour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muogamarra Nature Reserve
The Muogamarra Nature Reserve () is a protected nature reserve that is located in the Sydney region of New South Wales, in eastern Australia. The reserve is situated in the northern edge of Sydney and lies between the suburb of to the south, and the Hawkesbury River to the north. Features The vegetation is mainly dry sclerophyll forest and shrubs on rocky areas, as well as mangroves along the river. The reserve is closed to the public for most of the year, and opens for six weekends each year in spring, when there are prolific displays of wildflowers. At other times of the year it is available to groups such as the scouts or to schools for education or special events. During the weekends that the reserve is open to the public, volunteers provide guided walks around some of the trails. Access to the Muogamarra Nature Reserve is via the Pacific Highway (not the M1 Pacific Motorway), approximately north of Cowan, near the Pie in the Sky cafe. A small gravel road with a ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Botanical Nomenclature
Botanical nomenclature is the formal, scientific naming of plants. It is related to, but distinct from taxonomy (biology), taxonomy. Plant taxonomy is concerned with grouping and classifying plants; Botany, botanical nomenclature then provides names for the results of this process. The starting point for modern botanical nomenclature is Carl Linnaeus, Linnaeus' ''Species Plantarum'' of 1753. Botanical nomenclature is governed by the ''International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants'' (''ICNafp''), which replaces the ''International Code of Botanical Nomenclature'' (''ICBN''). Fossil plants are also covered by the code of nomenclature. Within the limits set by that code there is another set of rules, the ''International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants, International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants (ICNCP)'' which applies to plant cultivars that have been deliberately altered or selected by humans (see cultigen). Botanical nomenclature is indep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Micromyrtus
''Micromyrtus'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Myrtaceae and is endemic to Australia. Plants in the genus ''Micromyrtus'' are shrubs with simple leaves arranged in opposite pairs, and white, pink or yellow flowers arranged in upper leaf axils, the flowers with five sepals five petals and five or ten stamens. Description Plants in the genus ''Micromyrtus'' are shrubs typically less than high. They have crowded, overlapping, simple leaves arranged in opposite pairs, oblong to lance-shaped and usually less than long. The flowers are arranged singly or in groups of up to three on a common peduncle, often forming clusters on the ends of branches. The flowers usually have five, (rarely six) small sepals and five (rarely six) white, pink or yellow, elliptic to round petals that are free from each other, and five or ten (rarely six or twelve) stamens. The fruit is a small, dry, indehiscent nut, usually containing a single seed. Taxonomy The genus ''Micromyrtus'' was fi ... [...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] |
Climate Change
Present-day climate change includes both global warming—the ongoing increase in Global surface temperature, global average temperature—and its wider effects on Earth's climate system. Climate variability and change, Climate change in a broader sense also includes previous long-term changes to Earth's climate. The current rise in global temperatures is Scientific consensus on climate change, driven by human activities, especially fossil fuel burning since the Industrial Revolution. Fossil fuel use, Deforestation and climate change, deforestation, and some Greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, agricultural and Environmental impact of concrete, industrial practices release greenhouse gases. These gases greenhouse effect, absorb some of the heat that the Earth Thermal radiation, radiates after it warms from sunlight, warming the lower atmosphere. Carbon dioxide, the primary gas driving global warming, Carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere, has increased in concentratio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 (NSW)
The ''Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016'' (''BC Act'') is a state-based act of parliament in New South Wales (NSW). Its long title is ''An Act relating to the conservation of biodiversity; and to repeal the Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995, the Nature Conservation Trust Act 2001 and the animal and plant provisions of the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974''. It supersedes the ''Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995'', and commenced on 25 August 2017. The purpose of the Act was to effect biodiversity reform in New South Wales, in particular to provide better environmental outcomes and reduce burdensome regulations. The Act lists many more purposes under the rubric of "ecologically sustainable development" than the former Act, and specifically mentions "biodiversity conservation in the context of a changing climate". and since mid-2019, the BC Act is administered by the NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment. Threatened Species Scientific Committ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Environment Protection And Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
The ''Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999'' (Cth) is an Act of the Parliament of Australia that provides a framework for protection of the Australian environment, including its biodiversity and its natural and culturally significant places. Enacted on 16 July 2000, it established a range of processes to help protect and promote the recovery of threatened species and ecological communities, and preserve significant places from decline. The Act is administered by the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. Lists of threatened species are drawn up under the Act, and these lists, the primary reference to threatened species in Australia, are available online through the Species Profile and Threats Database (SPRAT). As an Act of the Australian Parliament, it relies for its constitutional validity upon the legislative powers of the Parliament granted by the Australian Constitution, and key provisions of the Act are largely ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cowan, New South Wales
Cowan is a small outer suburb of in the state of New South Wales, Australia, approximately north of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Hornsby Shire. Cowan shares the postcode of 2081 with Berowra. History The suburb takes its name from an Aboriginal word meaning ''big water''. The 1828 census lists two convicts called Cowan, and it is also thought possible that Cowan was named after one of them. Still another suggestion is that it was named after a small town in Scotland. Material was copied from this source, which is available under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Generic 2.0license. Besides the English botanist George Caley, who explored the area in 1805, the first Europeans to visit the area were timber-getters. The timber from Cowan was used for coach building, one of the first industries in the area. The railway stop at Cowan was originally a crossing loop to allow trains on the single-line north track to pass each other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maroota
Maroota is a suburb to the NNWest of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Maroota is located 49 kilometres from the Sydney central business district, in the local government areas of The Hills Shire and Hornsby Shire. Maroota along with its surrounding suburbs, including Wisemans Ferry on the Hawkesbury river to its north, are geographically the northern most suburbs in Sydney. Maroota is located at a high point, about 200 m above sea-level, on the ridge-following Great Northern Road (now renamed Old Northern Road). This was the main early road, constructed by convict gangs, from Sydney north to Singleton in the Hunter Valley. Maroota is situated on, and owes its nature to, Chris Nesci (the Maroota Sand) which geologists think may be the oldest known remnant of the largest waterway in the Sydney region, the Nepean-Hawkesbury system. History The first attempt to settle Maroota, as a soldier-settlement, failed totally. Some of the soldiers leaving the Army during an across-the- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hawkesbury River
The Hawkesbury River, or Hawkesbury-Nepean River (Dharug language, Dharug: Dyarubbin) is a river located northwest of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The Hawkesbury River and its associated main tributary, the Nepean River, almost encircle the metropolitan region of Sydney. The river between Wisemans Ferry and the Pacific Ocean marks the boundary of Sydney, Greater Metropolitan Sydney in the south and the Central Coast (New South Wales), Central Coast region to the north. The Hawkesbury River has its origin at the confluence of the Nepean River and the Grose River, to the north of Penrith, New South Wales, Penrith and travels for approximately in a north–easterly and then a south–easterly direction to its river mouth, mouth at Broken Bay, about from the Tasman Sea. The Hawkesbury River is the main tributary of Broken Bay. Secondary tributaries include Brisbane Water and Pittwater, which, together with the Hawkesbury River, flow into Broken Bay and thence into the Tasm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Blakely
William Faris Blakely (November 1875 – 1 September 1941) was an Australian botanist and collector. From 1913 to 1940 he worked in the National Herbarium of New South Wales, working with Joseph Maiden on ''Eucalyptus''. Maiden named a red gum in his honour, ''Eucalyptus blakelyi''. His botanical work centred particularly on ''Acacias'', Loranthaceae and Eucalyptus, Eucalypts. The standard author abbreviation ''Blakely'' is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. Some published names (incomplete) * ''Acacia abrupta'' Maiden & Blakely ''Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia'' 1927 * ''Acacia acellerata'' Maiden & Blakely ''Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia'' 1927 * ''Astrotricha crassifolia'' Blakely—Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 1925, 1. 385.. * ''Olearia stilwellae'' Blakely—Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 1925, 1.385. * ''Hibbertia dentata ''var. ''calva'' Blakely—Contr. New South Wales ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gosford
Gosford is a waterfront city at the northern end of Brisbane Water on the Central Coast in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The Gosford Waterfront is known for its boating and scenic views on the shores of Brisbane Water. Gosford is the main commercial hub and gateway of the Central Coast. It is situated approximately north of Sydney and south of Newcastle. Gosford is located in the local government area of the Central Coast Council. Gosford, locally nicknamed 'Gossie', is located in the north-eastern part of the Sydney Basin in the traditional Darkinjung Country. The regional city is one of the two shared administrative hubs of the Central Coast Council, along with Wyong. Gosford is the central business district of the Central Coast region and is the third largest urban area in the state of New South Wales after Sydney and Newcastle. Gosford has been deemed a vital CBD spine under the NSW Metropolitan Strategy following the merging of City of Gosford Council an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
