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Nacaduba Biocellata
''Nacaduba biocellata'', the double-spotted line blue, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Australia (including New South Wales, the Northern Territory, South Australia, Victoria and Western Australia), Singapore, the New Hebrides, Sumba and Bali. The wingspan is about 20 mm. Adult females have a brown upperside, while the males are blue with narrow black margins. The underside of both sexes is pale brown with light and dark wavy lines. The larvae feed on the shoots, flowers and buds of various ''Acacia'' species, including '' A. aneura'', '' A. betchei'', '' A. brachybotrya'', '' A. deanei'', '' A. erinaceae'', '' A. irrorata'', '' A. karroo'', '' A. ligulata'', '' A. osswaldii'', '' A. penninervis'', '' A. rigens'', '' A. salicina'', '' A. sclerophylla'', '' A. sowdenii'' and '' A. victoriae''. They can have a wide range of colours depending on their host plant, including pink, orange, yellow or green. They are attended by ants, mostly ''Iridomyrmex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baron Cajetan Von Felder
Baron Cajetan von Felder (; 19 September 1814 – 30 November 1894) was an Austrian lawyer, entomologist and Liberalism in Austria, liberal politician. He served as List of mayors of Vienna, mayor of Vienna from 1868 to 1878. Life and career Felder was born in Wieden, today the fourth district of Vienna. An orphan from 1826, he attended the Gymnasium (Germany), ''Gymnasium'' of Seitenstetten Abbey, as well as schools in Brno and Vienna, and began to study law at the University of Vienna in 1834. He completed his legal internship in Brno and articled clerk in Vienna, obtaining his doctorate in 1841. Since 1835 he had made intensive travels throughout Western and Southern Europe, mostly on foot, and studied foreign languages. From 1843 he also worked as an assistant at the Theresianum academy and as a court interpreter in Vienna, before passing the Austrian bar examination in 1848, only a few days before the outbreak of the Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire, March Revo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acacia Aneura
''Acacia aneura'', commonly known as mulga, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to inland Australia. It is a variable shrub or small tree with flat, narrowly linear to elliptic phyllodes, cylindrical spikes of bright yellow flowers and more or less flat and straight, leathery Pod (fruit), pods. Description ''Acacia aneura'' is a variable shrub or small tree that typically grows to a height of , sometimes up to and is often multistemmed with a bushy Crown (botany), crown. Its phyllodes are flat, narrowly linear to narrowly elliptic, long and mostly wide, straight or slightly curved. The flowers are borne in a cylindrical head in the axils of phyllodes on a hairy Peduncle (botany), peduncle long. The heads are long and bright yellow. Flowering occurs from March to May or August and the pod is more or less straight and flat, long and wide with a winged edge. The pods are papery, brown to greyish-brown, containing elliptic to oblong or e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acacia Sowdenii
''Acacia'', commonly known as wattles or acacias, is a genus of about of shrubs and trees in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the pea family Fabaceae. Initially, it comprised a group of plant species native to Africa, South America, and Australasia, but is now reserved for species mainly from Australia, with others from New Guinea, Southeast Asia, and the Indian Ocean. The genus name is Neo-Latin, borrowed from Koine Greek (), a term used in antiquity to describe a preparation extracted from ''Vachellia nilotica'', the original type species. Several species of ''Acacia'' have been introduced to various parts of the world, and two million hectares of commercial plantations have been established. Description Plants in the genus ''Acacia'' are shrubs or trees with bipinnate leaves, the mature leaves sometimes reduced to phyllodes or rarely absent. There are 2 small stipules at the base of the leaf, but sometimes fall off as the leaf matures. The flowers are borne in spikes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acacia Sclerophylla
''Acacia sclerophylla'', commonly known as the hard-leaf wattle, is a shrub of the genus ''Acacia'' and the subgenus ''Plurinerves'' and is endemic to southern parts of Australia. Description The shrub typically grows to a height of and a width of and has a moderately open habit. It has glossy green phyllodes with an oblanceolate shape and are slightly sticky. The ascending to erect phyllodes are straight to shallowly incurved with a length of and a width of . It blooms from August to October and produces yellow flowers. The golden-yellow spherical flowers are prolifically produced in the leaf axils. Each simple inflorescence has a diameter of and contains 12 to 20 flowers. After flowering linear to curved to openly coiled seed pods form with a length of and a width of that contain longitudinal seeds with an oblong to oblong-ovate shape. Taxonomy The species was first formally described by the botanist John Lindley in 1838 as part of Thomas Mitchell's work ''Three Expediti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acacia Salicina
''Acacia'', commonly known as wattles or acacias, is a genus of about of shrubs and trees in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the pea family Fabaceae. Initially, it comprised a group of plant species native to Africa, South America, and Australasia, but is now reserved for species mainly from Australia, with others from New Guinea, Southeast Asia, and the Indian Ocean. The genus name is Neo-Latin, borrowed from Koine Greek (), a term used in antiquity to describe a preparation extracted from ''Vachellia nilotica'', the original type species. Several species of ''Acacia'' have been introduced to various parts of the world, and two million hectares of commercial plantations have been established. Description Plants in the genus ''Acacia'' are shrubs or trees with bipinnate leaves, the mature leaves sometimes reduced to phyllodes or rarely absent. There are 2 small stipules at the base of the leaf, but sometimes fall off as the leaf matures. The flowers are borne in spikes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acacia Rigens
''Acacia rigens'', commonly known as nealie, is an erect or spreading shrub or small tree that is endemic to Australia. Other common names include needle wattle, needlebush acacia, nealia and nilyah. Description Plants typically grows to a height of and have rigid, terete phyllodes that are between in length. The bright yellow flowerheads appear in groups of up to four in the axils of the phyllodes. The simple inflorescences have resinous and spherical flower-heads with a diameter of and contain 20 to 30 bright yellow coloured, 5-merous flowers that appear between July and December in the species' native range, followed by curled, twisted or coiled seed pods which are long and wide. Taxonomy The species was first formally described in 1832 by botanist Allan Cunningham. It resembles '' Acacia havilandiorum'' but has longer phyllodes and 4-merous flowers. The specific epithet is thought to be a reference to the rigidity of the phyllodes. Distribution The species occurs on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acacia Penninervis
''Acacia penninervis'', commonly known as mountain hickory wattle, or blackwood, is a perennial shrub or tree is an ''Acacia'' belonging to subgenus ''Phyllodineae'', that is native to eastern Australia. Description The shrub or tree typically grows to a height of and has an erect to spreading habit. It has finely or deeply fissured bark that is usually a dark grey colour. The glabrous branchlets are more or less terete and occasionally covered in a fine white powdery coating. Like most species of ''Acacia'', it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The glabrous and evergreen phyllodes have a narrowly oblanceolate or narrowly elliptic shape and are straight to slightly curved with a length of and a width of with a prominent midvein and marginal veins and are finely penniveined. The plant blooms throughout the year producing pale yellow flowers. Taxonomy The species was first formally described by the botanist Augustin Pyramus de Candolle in 1825 as part of the work ''Legum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acacia Osswaldii
''Acacia'', commonly known as wattles or acacias, is a genus of about of shrubs and trees in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the pea family Fabaceae. Initially, it comprised a group of plant species native to Africa, South America, and Australasia, but is now reserved for species mainly from Australia, with others from New Guinea, Southeast Asia, and the Indian Ocean. The genus name is Neo-Latin, borrowed from Koine Greek (), a term used in antiquity to describe a preparation extracted from ''Vachellia nilotica'', the original type species. Several species of ''Acacia'' have been introduced to various parts of the world, and two million hectares of commercial plantations have been established. Description Plants in the genus ''Acacia'' are shrubs or trees with bipinnate leaves, the mature leaves sometimes reduced to phyllodes or rarely absent. There are 2 small stipules at the base of the leaf, but sometimes fall off as the leaf matures. The flowers are borne in spikes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acacia Ligulata
''Acacia ligulata'' is a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It is a dense, rounded shrub with bright yellow flower heads and is widespread in all states of mainland Australia. Its common names include sandhill wattle, umbrella bush, marpoo, dune wattle, small coobah, wirra, and watarrka (also spelt watarka). Etymology and naming The genus ''Acacia'' is derived from the Greek ''akakia'', referring to sharp thorns. The shape of the phyllodes named the species ''ligulata'', meaning strap-like or with a small tongue in Latin.Simmons, M. H. (1988). Acacias of Australia, vol. 2. Ringwood, Australia: Penguin Books Australia Ltd. p. 166. Common names include sandhill wattle, umbrella bush, marpoo, dune wattle, small coobah,Cunningham, G. M., Mulham, W. E., Milthorpe, P. L., & Leigh, J. H. (1992). Plants of western New South Wales. Melbourne & Sydney, Australia: Inkata Press. p. 365. wirra,Moore, P. (2005). A guide to plants of inland Australia. Sydney, Australia: New Holland Publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acacia Karroo
''Vachellia karroo'', (synonym ''Acacia karroo'') commonly known as the sweet thorn, common acacia, Karoo thorn, Cape gum or cockspur thorn, is a species of ''Vachellia'', in the Mimosa sub-family (Mimosoideae) of the Fabaceae or pea family, which is native to southern Africa from southern Angola east to Mozambique, and south to South Africa. It is a shrub or small to medium-sized tree which grows to height of 12m. It is difficult to tell apart from ''Vachellia nilotica'' subsp. ''adstringens'' without examining the seed pods. The Botanical Society of South Africa has accepted a name change to ''Vachellia karroo''. Common names in various languages include ''doringboom'', ''soetdoring'', ''cassie'', ''piquants blancs'', ''cassie piquants blancs'', ''deo-babool'', ''doorn boom'', ''kaludai'', ''kikar'', ''mormati'', ''pahari kikar'', ''umga'' and ''udai vel''. Identification It is a shrub or small to medium-sized tree which grows to height of 12m. ''Vachellia karroo'' has a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acacia Irrorata
''Acacia irrorata'', known colloquially as green wattle or blueskin, is a species of ''Acacia'' which is native to eastern Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl .... References irrorata Fabales of Australia Flora of New South Wales Flora of Queensland {{Australia-rosid-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acacia Erinaceae
''Acacia'', commonly known as wattles or acacias, is a genus of about of shrubs and trees in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the pea family Fabaceae. Initially, it comprised a group of plant species native to Africa, South America, and Australasia, but is now reserved for species mainly from Australia, with others from New Guinea, Southeast Asia, and the Indian Ocean. The genus name is Neo-Latin, borrowed from Koine Greek (), a term used in antiquity to describe a preparation extracted from ''Vachellia nilotica'', the original type species. Several species of ''Acacia'' have been introduced to various parts of the world, and two million hectares of commercial plantations have been established. Description Plants in the genus ''Acacia'' are shrubs or trees with bipinnate leaves, the mature leaves sometimes reduced to phyllodes or rarely absent. There are 2 small stipules at the base of the leaf, but sometimes fall off as the leaf matures. The flowers are borne in spikes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
