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Poa Clivicola
''Poa clivicola'', commonly known as fine-leaved snow grass, is an endangered Australian grass species, VicFlora 2023, Poa clivacola Vickery: Fine-leaved snow-grass, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, viewed 1 April 2024, https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/b91fdf5f-17fc-4e67-b8f1-cd22dbbd12e4#close. restricted to alpine grassy vegetation. ''Poa'' from the Greek ''poa'' (grass), ''clivicola''- from the Latin ''clivus'' (hill) and -''cola'' (dweller). Description ''Poa clivicola'' is a perennial, tufted, tussock grass, growing up to 60cm tall. Leaf sheaths are bleached at the base, herbaceous, pallid, and glabrous. Leaves are tightly in-rolled, tough to the touch, and very fine at 0.2-0.4mm wide. Leaves are mostly basal. Leaf-sheaths can be smooth or scaberulous and glabrous on surface. Ligules are 0.5-1.5mm long, truncate and firm. Panicles are open and pyramidal. Lemmas are 3-4mm long, hairless or with sparse localised hairs. Distribution and habitat Endemic to Aust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joyce Winifred Vickery
Joyce Winifred Vickery (15 December 190829 May 1979) was an Australian botanist who specialised in taxonomy and became well known in Australia for forensic botany. Early life and education Joyce was born in the Sydney suburb of Strathfield. She attended the Methodist Ladies' College, Burwood, and went on to study at the University of Sydney graduating B.Sc. in 1931. Following graduation she was made a botany demonstrator and worked on her Masters, which she received in 1933. She became a member of both the Linnean and Royal societies of New South Wales. Career Vickery was offered the position of assistant botanist at the National Herbarium of New South Wales in August 1936, she refused the position on the grounds that she would not be paid the same wage as a man with her qualifications.Claire HookerVickery, Joyce Winifred (1908 - 1979) Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 16, Melbourne University Press, 2002, pp 452-453. After negotiations which increased the pay offered, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
