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Micromyrtus Grandis
''Micromyrtus grandis'', commonly known as Severn River heath-myrtle, is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family. It is an upright, monoecious shrub with egg-shaped, oval or elliptic leaves arranged in opposite pairs and white to cream-coloured flowers arranged singly in leaf axils. Description ''Micromyrtus grandis'' grows as a monoecious shrub with an erect habit, usually reaching tall. The orange bark is stringy and shed in ribbons, which frequently curl. The leaves are long by wide. When held up to the light, their oil dots can be clearly seen in the leaf blade. The flowers are arranged singly in leaf axils on a peduncle long, with 2 bracteoles long at the base. The 5 petal-like sepals are wide and the 5 petals white to cream-coloured, long. There are 5 stamens, the filaments long and the style is long. Flowering occurs from July to September and the fruit is a brown nut long. Taxonomy and naming John T. Hunter described ''Micromyrtus grandis'' in 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian National Botanic Gardens
The Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG) is a heritage-listed botanical garden located in , Canberra, in the Australian Capital Territory, Australia. Established in 1949, the Gardens is administered by the Australian Government's Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment. The botanic gardens was added to the Commonwealth Heritage List on 22 June 2004. The botanic gardens is the largest living collection of native Australian flora. The mission of the ANBG is to "study and promote Australia's flora". The gardens maintains a wide variety of botanical resources for researchers and cultivates native plants threatened in the wild. The herbarium code for the Australian National Botanic Gardens is ''CANB''. History When Canberra was being planned in the 1930s, the establishment of the gardens was recommended in a report in 1933 by the Australian Capital Territory Advisory Council. In 1935, The Dickson Report set forth a framework for their development. A large site fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eucalyptus Crebra
''Eucalyptus crebra'', commonly known as the narrow-leaved ironbark, narrow-leaved red ironbark or simply ironbark, and as muggago in the indigenous Tharawal, Dharawal language, is a species of small to medium-sized tree Endemism, endemic to eastern Australia. It has hard, rough "ironbark" from its trunk to small branches, linear to lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, nine or eleven, white flowers and cup-shaped, barrel-shaped or hemispherical fruit. A variable species, it grows in woodland and forest from the Cape York Peninsula to near Sydney. It is an important source of nectar in the honey industry and its hard, strong timber is used in construction. Description ''Eucalyptus crebra'' is a tree that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. It has persistent thick, rough, deeply furrowed, greyish black "ironbark" from the base of its trunk to the small branches. Young plants and coppice regrowth have linear to lance-shaped or curved leaves ... [...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, pÅhutukawa, 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] |
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] |
Leucopogon Neoanglicus
''Styphelia neoanglica'', commonly known as New England beard heath, is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect shrub with egg-shaped leaves, sometimes with the narrower end towards the base, and white, tube-shaped flowers arranged singly in leaf axils and bearded inside. Description ''Styphelia neoanglica'' is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of up to , its branchlets with a rough surface. The leaves are broadly egg-shaped leaves, to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide on a petiole about long. The leaves are glabrous with 3 parallel veins in the centre and others spreading. The flowers are erect and arranged in leaf axils with bracteoles long at the base. The sepals are long, the petals white and joined at the base to form a tube long with lobes long and bearded inside. Flowering occurs from March to October and the fruit is a glabrous, reddish-brown elliptic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Micromyrtus Sessilis
''Micromyrtus sessilis'' is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle Family (biology), family, Myrtaceae and is Endemism, endemic to eastern Australia. It is a dense, spreading shrub with small, more or less linear leaves and flowers that are sometimes single in the upper leaf wikt:axil, axils or in dense clusters along the branches. It is similar to Micromyrtus ciliata, ''M. ciliata'' but has a more northerly distribution. Description ''Micromyrtus sessilis'' is a dense, spreading shrub growing to a height of and which has hairy young stems. The leaves are linear to lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and less than wide with a Petiole (botany), petiole about long. The flowers are sometimes arranged singly in upper leaf axils, sometimes form small heads and are sometimes arranged in dense clusters. There are two Bract#Bracteole, bracteoles at the base of each flower and which fall off as the flower opens. The Hypanthium, floral cup is cone-shaped and ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leptospermum Novae-angliae
''Leptospermum novae-angliae'' is a species of shrub that is endemic to eastern Australia. It has elliptical leaves that are usually crowded, single white flowers on short shoots and fruit that remain on the plant until it dies. It usually grows in rocky places. Description ''Leptospermum novae-angliae'' is a shrub that typically grows to a height of up to with flaking bark on the older stems. Younger stems are silky-hairy at first, becoming glabrous later. The leaves are crowded, broadly to very narrow elliptical, long and wide tapering to a short, broad petiole. The flowers are borne singly on the ends of side shoots that continue to grow after flowering. The flowers are white, wide with reddish brown bracts at the base of the flower bud and sometimes the open flower. The floral cup is glabrous, about long and covered with conspicuous glands. The sepals are broadly egg-shaped, about long, the petals about long and the stamens long. Flowering mainly occurs from October t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xanthorrhoea Johnsonii
''Xanthorrhoea johnsonii'' (also known as Johnson's Grass Tree) is a large plant in the genus ''Xanthorrhoea'' found in eastern Australia. The trunk can grow to 5 metres tall. Older foliage is very strong, hence one of the common names being "steel grass", and is commonly used in floral design Floral design or flower arrangement is the art of using plant material and flowers to create an eye-catching and balanced composition or display. Evidence of refined floral design is found as far back as the culture of ancient Egypt. Floral desi ... where it can be bent and looped without breaking. It was named after the Australian botanist L.A.S. Johnson. References Flora of New South Wales Flora of Queensland johnsonii Taxa named by Alma Theodora Lee {{Asphodelaceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acacia Pubifolia
''Acacia pubifolia '' commonly known as velvet wattle, is a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to northern New South Wales. It is an upright or spreading tree with bright yellow flowers. Description ''Acacia pubifolia'' is a single-stemmed shrub or tree to high with dark, rough bark. The branches are brown or orange to brown, occasionally slightly covered with a powdery, waxy coating and softly hairy. The phyllodes are elliptic or narrowly egg-shaped, straight, long, wide, velvety hairy, aging to soft, erect hairs, and prominent veins from tip to base. One or two flowers are borne in phyllode axils, more or less sessile, flower heads cylindrical, long, golden yellow, peduncle long, white and thickly hairy. The calyx is long, squared or deeply divided part of the length, white, softly hairy, corolla long and smooth. Flowering occurs from September to November and the fruit is a linear pod, more or less flattened and straight, long, wide, papery, greyi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allocasuarina Inophloia
''Allocasuarina inophloia'', commonly known as stringybark she-oak, is a species of flowering plant in the family Casuarinaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a small dioecious tree that has finely fibrous, ribbony bark, its leaves reduced to scales in whorls of seven to nine, the mature fruiting cones long containing winged seeds ( samaras) long. Description ''Allocasuarina inophloia'' is a dioecious tree with distinctive, finely fibrous, ribbony bark that typically grows to a height of . Its branchlets are up to long, the leaves reduced to scale-like teeth long, arranged in whorls of seven to nine around the branchlets. The sections of branchlet between the leaf whorls (the "articles") are long and wide. Male flowers are arranged in spikes long, in whorls of 7 to 14 per cm (per 0.4 in), the anthers long. The mature cones are long and in diameter containing dark brown samaras long. Taxonomy This she-oak was first formally described in 1882 by Ferdi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
