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Nocoleche Nature Reserve
The Nocoleche Nature Reserve is a conservation area in New South Wales on the Paroo River located 20 kilometres south of the town of Wanaaring, New South Wales. It was created in 1979,'''' and has an area of 711.08 km². History The traditional owners of the Paroo are the Budjair, Kunja, and Mardgany in the north and the Paruntiji, meaning people belonging to the Paroo, in the south. Aboriginal people are known to have lived along the Paroo for at least 14,000 years. Graziers came as squatters to the Paroo in the 1840s. They met resistance from the Aboriginal land owners, and tensions in the area continued well into the 1860s. From the 1850s however a shortage of white labour caused by the exodus to the gold fields saw many in the Aboriginal communities join the pastoral workforce. Aboriginal people continued to be a significant part of this work force for many decades whilst still maintaining their cultural traditions and attending local and regional ceremonies until ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Parks And Wildlife Service (New South Wales)
The National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) is a directorate of the New South Wales Department of Planning and Environment responsible for managing most of the protected areas in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Despite its name the NPWS is a state agency rather than a national one, with similarly named counterparts fulfilling comparable functions in other states and territories. History The NPWS was established in 1967 when the Fauna Protection Panel and the Parks and Reserves Branch of the NSW Lands Department were amalgamated under Lands Minister Tom Lewis . Lewis also established a charity, the National Parks Foundation, to assist the NPWS in raising funds for conservation. The first Director of the NPWS was Sam P. Weems, formerly of the US National Park Service. Seven years after the founding of the NPWS, various state laws regulating flora and fauna were consolidated together into the '' National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974'', which remains the enabling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Grey Kangaroo
The western grey kangaroo (''Macropus fuliginosus''), also referred to as a western grey giant kangaroo, black-faced kangaroo, mallee kangaroo, sooty kangaroo and (when referring to the Kangaroo Island subspecies) Kangaroo Island grey kangaroo, is a large and very common kangaroo found across almost the entire southern part of Australia, from just south of Shark Bay through coastal Western Australia and South Australia, into western Victoria, and in the entire Murray–Darling basin in New South Wales and Queensland. Taxonomy Long known to the Aboriginal Australians, for Europeans, the western grey kangaroo was the centre of a great deal of sometimes comical taxonomic confusion for almost 200 years. It was first noted by European explorers when Matthew Flinders landed on Kangaroo Island in 1802. Flinders shot several for food, but assumed that they were eastern grey kangaroos. In 1803, French explorers captured several Kangaroo Island western grey kangaroos and shipped them to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Kangaroo
The red kangaroo (''Osphranter rufus'') is the largest of all kangaroos, the largest terrestrial mammal native to Australia, and the largest extant marsupial. It is found across mainland Australia, except for the more fertile areas, such as southern Western Australia, the eastern and southeastern coasts, and the rainforests along the northern coast. Taxonomy The initial description of the species by A.G. Desmarest was published in 1822. The type location was given as an unknown location west of the Blue Mountains. The author assigned the new species to the genus ''Kangurus''. In 1842, Gould reassigned the species to the genus '' Osphranter'', a taxon later submerged as a subgenus of '' Macropus''. A taxonomic restructure in 2015 in ''Taxonomy of Australian Mammals'' by Jackson and Groves promoted ''Osphranter'' back to genus level, redefining the red kangaroo, among others, as species within the genus ''Osphranter''. This was further supported by genetic analysis in 2019 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hakea Ivoryi
''Hakea ivoryi'' , commonly known as Ivory's hakea, corkwood or the corkbark tree, is a shrub or small tree in the family ''Proteaceae'' and is endemic to an area in the South West region of Queensland and the north west of New South Wales. Description ''Hakea ivoryi'' is shrub or small tree typically grows to a height of with white flat silky hairs becoming smooth along branchlets and forms a lignotuber. It has simple needle-like leaves long with silky hairs becoming hairless with age. Young trees often have highly divided segmented leaves. The bark is brown, rough and corky. The inflorescence consists of 20–50 white-cream flowers on a short stem and appear in leaf axils from October to January. The fruit are smooth, egg-shaped long and wide ending with a short beak. Taxonomy and naming ''Hakea ivoryi'' was first formally described by Frederick Manson Bailey in 1901 as part of the work ''The Queensland Flora'' and the description was published in The Queensland Flora. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eremophila Bowmanii
''Eremophila bowmanii'', also known as silver turkeybush, Bowman's poverty bush and flannel bush, is a flowering plant in the figwort family, Scrophulariaceae and is endemic to New South Wales and Queensland in Australia. It is a low to medium, spreading shrub with silvery-grey, hairy foliage and blue to lilac flowers, and sometimes grows in dense thickets with mulga. Description ''Eremophila bowmanii'' is a shrub which usually grows to a height and width of grows but sometimes as high as . Its branches, leaves, flower stalks and sepals are all covered with tangled, silvery hairs making the plant appear silvery-grey. The leaves are long, wide and range in shape from linear to egg-shaped or almost circular. The flowers are usually borne singly in leaf axils on a stalk long. There are 5 pointed, green to purple sepals which are long and are covered with silvery hairs. The petals are about long and joined at their lower end to form a tube. The tube is a shade of pur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maireana Cheelii
''Maireana cheelii'', common name - chariot wheels, is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae, native to Victoria, New South Wales, and Queensland (where it is extinct). It is found on seasonally wet, heavy loams and clay soils. It was first described in 1934 by Robert Henry Anderson as ''Kochia cheelii'',Anderson, R.H. (1934)Notes on Australian Chenopodiaceae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 59: 270, textfigs 3, 4 but in 1975 Paul Wilson re-assigned it to the genus, '' Maireana''. It is a "vulnerable" species under the EPBC Act.https://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/publicspecies.pl?taxon_id=8008 Threats to its current populations include: weed invasion, grazing by stock, roadworks, and recreational vehicle usehttps://www.dcceew.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/maireana-cheelii.pdf References External links''Maireana cheelii'' images & occurrence datafrom GBIF The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuphonotus Andraeanus
''Cuphonotus andraeanus'' is a species of plant in the Brassicaceae family, and was first described in 1885 by Ferdinand von Mueller Baron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller, (german: Müller; 30 June 1825 – 10 October 1896) was a German-Australian physician, geographer, and most notably, a botanist. He was appointed government botanist for the then colony of Vic ... as ''Capsella andraeana''.Mueller, F.J.H. von (March 1885)Definitions of some new Australian plants (continued) Southern Science Record n.s 1(3): 49 It was reassigned to the genus, '' Cuphonotus'', in 1974 by Elizabeth Anne Shaw.Shaw, E.A. (1974)Revisions of some genera of Cruciferae native to Australia Contributions of the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University 205: 157 It is found throughout inland Australia. Description It is an annual herb growing to 25 cm tall, and is spreading or erect. It has simple hairs, which may be flattened, terete or twisted. The leaves at the base are entire and up to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elytrophorus Spicatus
''Elytrophorus spicatus'' (common name spikegrass) is a small plant in the Poaceae family native to Africa, the Indian subcontinent, south-east Asia and Australia. Description ''Elytrophorus spicatus'' is a tufted, annual or perennial plant with bristly culms. The leaves are loosely sheathed, and the blades are rolled in bud. The inflorescence spike (length of up to 26 cm by 5–9 mm wide) consists of globular clusters of spikelets, which are 4 mm long, with bisexual florets. The glumes are shortly awned, about 2 to 3 mm long, and have translucent margins translucent which are sparingly fringed with hairs. The awn and keel are rough. The plant flowers in response to flooding or rain. Distribution It is native to Bangladesh, Benin, Botswana, Burkina, Cameroon, Chad, China, East Himalaya, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Hainan, India, Ivory Coast, Lesser Sunda Is., Mali, Mauritania, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Australia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, South Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chara Braunii
''Chara braunii'' is one of only several ecorticated species of the genus '' Chara'' occurring in Europe and the only species without cortication known from Poland.Jacek Urbaniak, "Distribution of ''Chara braunii'' Gmellin 1826 (''Charophyta'') in Poland",link retrieved November 30, 2015), ''Acta Societatis Botanicorum Polonae'', vol. 76, no. 4, pp. 313-320, 2007 ''Chara braunii'' is the first Charophyceae for which the whole nuclear genome has been sequenced and published. The findings of ''C. braunii'' in southern Poland only in fish ponds may have suggested that this species is restricted only to this type of ecosystem, but this is not true. Description The plant is small to medium size. Fresh green to brownish green when found in the muddy bottom. Transparent and richly branched. Plants are entirely ecorticate (i.e., without cortex). The main axis slender up to 1200 µm in diameter. The stipulodes (single cell organs present in one or more rows in the branchlets of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yapunyah
''Eucalyptus ochrophloia'', commonly known as the yapunyah, is a species of eucalypt native to inland New South Wales and Queensland in eastern Australia. Description The tree typically grows to a height of but can reah as high as and forms a lignotuber. It has rough and tessellated or box-type bark on lower end of the trunk. The older bark is dark grey to black that becomes smooth, grey to coppery, pink, yellow or brown higher up. The concolorous, glossy, green adult leaves are alternately arranged forming a loose canopy. The leaf blade is a lanceolate shape with a length of and a width of with a base that tapers to the petiole. It blooms between May and November producing terminal compound inflorescences with seven buds per umbel. The elongated, curved, oblong to fusiform mature buds are in length and , The green to yellow buds have so scarring and are ribbed longitudinally with a conical to pyramidal shaped operculum with inflexed stamens and white flowers. The fruits ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
