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Seringia Macrantha
''Seringia '' is a genus of about 18 species of plants in the family Malvaceae. Species of ''Seringia'' are native to Australia, New Guinea, and Madagascar.''Seringia'' J.Gay ''Plants of the World Online''. Retrieved 24 June 2023. They are small shrubs with soft silken leaves. The flowers are purple or mauve and appear in profusion. The calyx (botany), calyx is the most conspicuous part of the flower. The following is a list of ''Seringia'' species recognised by the Plants of the World Online: * ''Seringia adenogyna'' Carolyn F. Wilkins, C.F.Wilkins – skinny-leaved fire-bush (Western Australia) * ''Seringia adenolasia'' F.Muell. – northern Northern Territory and north-central Queensland * ''Seringia arborescens'' W.T.Aiton [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seringia Arborescens
''Seringia arborescens'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect, spreading shrub or small tree with egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves and cream-coloured or greenish-white flowers, usually in groups of 10 to 40. Description ''Seringia arborescens'' is an erect, spreading shrub that typically grows up to high and wide, but sometimes a small tree up to . Its young branches are covered with rust-coloured, woolly hairs. The leaves are egg-shaped to lance-shaped, long and wide on a petiole long, with narrow stipules long at the base of the petiole. The upper surface of the leaves is more or less glabrous, the lower surface with raised veins and a dense covering of fine, star-shaped hairs. The flowers are cream-coloured or greenish-white, in cymes of 10 to 40 on a hairy peduncle long, each flower on a hairy pedicel long with bracts less than long, but that fall off as the flowers open. The sepal lobes are lon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Ann Whitlock
Barbara Ann Whitlock (born 1967) is an American botanist. She earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University, with her dissertation ''Systematics and evolution of chocolate and its relatives (Sterculiaceae or Malvaceae s.l.)'' , an interest which continues. She has been working in the Department of Biology, University of Miami from at least 2015, where she works on tropical (plant) biology, and ecology and evolutionary biology. Much of her work centres on Malvaceae and related phylogeny. She has published 39 names, including '' Androcalva fraseri, and Commersonia borealis.'' (See also Taxa named by Barbara Ann Whitlock.) The standard author abbreviation Whitlock is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name A botanical name is a formal scientific name conforming to the ''International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants'' (ICN) and, if it concerns a plant cultigen, the additional cultivar or cultivar group, Group epithets must conform t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seringia × Katatona
''Seringia'' × ''katatona'', commonly known as red dune fire-bush, is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family and is endemic to northern Western Australia. It is an erect, compact, suckering shrub, with hairy young branches, egg-shaped to elliptic leaves and purple flowers arranged in groups of 9 to 17. Description ''Seringia'' × ''katatona'' is an erect, compact shrub with many stems, and that typically grows up to high, wide, and sometimes forms suckers. The leaves are arranged alternately, at first trilobed or egg-shaped, about long and wide, later oblong, long and wide on a petiole long with narrowly egg-shaped stipules long at the base. The flowers are arranged in a cyme long with 9 to 17 flowers on a peduncle long, each flower on a pedicel long. The flowers are purple with petal-like, broadly egg-shaped sepals and joined at the base to form a tube with lobes half the length of the tube. Petals are absent, the staminodes tiny, and the filaments ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seringia Integrifolia
''Seringia integrifolia'', commonly known as common firebush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a compact shrub, its new growth densely covered with star-shaped hairs, and has mostly narrowly leaves and many deep blue to purple flowers arranged in groups of 4 to 10. Description ''Seringia integrifolia'' is a compact, suckering shrub that typically grows to a height of and wide and often forms dense, extensive colonies, its new growth densely covered with pale or rust-coloured hairs. The leaves are narrowly oblong, sometimes narrowly elliptic, long and wide on a less than petiole long with leaf-like stipules long sometimes present at the base. The flowers are arranged in groups of 4 to 10 on a linear peduncle long, each flower on in diameter on a pedicel long. The flowers are deep blue to purple, the petals are absent, and the stamens have golden filaments and tiny staminodes. Flowering occ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seringia Hookeriana
''Seringia hookeriana'' is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family and is endemic to Queensland. It is a compact suckering shrub with rusty-hairy new growth, oblong leaves and deep purple flowers arranged in groups of 2 to 4. Description ''Seringia hookeriana'' is a compact, suckering shrub that typically grows to a height of and wide, its new growth densely covered with rust-coloured hairs. The leaves are oblong to lance-shaped, long and wide on a petiole long with narrow stipules up to long at the base. The flowers are arranged in groups of 2 to 4 flowers on a linear peduncle long, each flower on in diameter on a pedicel long. The flowers are deep purple, with broadly-lobed sepals tapering to a sharp point. The petals are absent or tiny, and the anthers are held on yellow filaments alternating with the staminodes. Flowering occurs in most months, and the fruit is a bristly capsule up to in diameter. Taxonomy This species was first formally described in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benth
George Bentham (22 September 1800 – 10 September 1884) was an English botanist, described by the weed botanist Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century". Born into a distinguished family, he initially studied law, but had a fascination with botany from an early age, which he soon pursued, becoming president of the Linnaean Society in 1861, and a fellow of the Royal Society in 1862. He was the author of a number of important botanical works, particularly flora. He is best known for his taxonomic classification of plants in collaboration with Joseph Dalton Hooker, his ''Genera Plantarum'' (1862–1883). He died in London in 1884. Life Bentham was born in Stoke, Plymouth, on 22 September 1800. His father, Sir Samuel Bentham, a naval architect, was the only brother of Jeremy Bentham to survive into adulthood. His mother, Mary Sophia Bentham, was a botanist and author. Bentham had no formal education but had a remarkable linguistic aptitude. By ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seringia Hillii
''Seringia hillii'' is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a single-stemmed shrub with hairy new growth, egg-shaped leaves and usually mauve flowers arranged in groups of 2 to 9. Description ''Seringia hermanniifolia'' is a single-stemmed shrub that typically grows to a height of and wide, its new growth covered with rust-coloured hairs. The leaves are egg-shaped to linear or lance-shaped, long and usually wide on a petiole up to long with narrow, leaf-like stipules long at the base. The flowers are arranged in a cyme with 2 to 9 flowers up to wide, on a peduncle long, each flower on a pedicel long. The flowers are mauve, sometimes white or pink, with deeply divided sepals. There are no petals, the stamens alternate with the staminodes, and the filaments are yellow and twice as long as the anthers. Flowering occurs in most months with a peak in spring and summer, and the fruit is a spherical capsule in diamet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seringia Hermanniifolia
''Seringia hermanniifolia'', commonly known as crinkle-leaved firebush, is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a low-growing or prostrate, suckering shrub with hairy new growth, hairy, wavy, oblong to egg-shaped leaves and mauve to bluish flowers arranged in groups of 3 to 8. Description ''Seringia hermanniifolia'' is a low-growing or prostrate, suckering shrub that typically grows to a height of and wide, and has densely hairy new growth. The leaves are oblong to egg-shaped with wavy edges, long and wide on a petiole long with narrow stipules long at the base. The flowers are arranged in a cyme up to long with 3 to 8 flowers on a peduncle long, each flower on a pedicel long. The flowers are mauve to bluish with petal-like sepals and joined at the base to form a tube with lobes less than half the length of the tube. There are no petals, the staminodes tiny or absent, and the filaments are br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seringia Exastia
''Seringia exastia'', also known as fringed fire-bush, is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family and is endemic to northern Western Australia. It is an erect, compact shrub with hairy young branches, narrowly egg-shaped, elliptic or oblong leaves and purple flowers arranged in groups of 7 to 9. Description The species grows as an erect, compact and multi-stemmed shrub that typically grows to a height of and has hairy stems. The leaves are arranged alternately, narrowly egg-shaped, elliptic or oblong, mostly long and wide on a petiole long with egg-shaped stipules long at the base. The flowers are arranged in a cyme long with 7 to 9 flowers on a peduncle long, each flower on a pedicel long. The flowers are purple with petal-like sepals and joined at the base to form a tube with lobes 65–80% the length of the tube. Petals are usually absent, the staminodes narrowly triangular and long, and the filaments and anthers are yellow. Flowering occurs from April ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyril Tenison White
Cyril Tenison White (17 August 1890 – 15 August 1950) was an Australian botanist. Early life White was born in Brisbane, Queensland, to Henry White, a trade broker, and Louisa (''nee'' Bailey). He attended school at South Brisbane State School, and was appointed pupil-assistant to the Colonial Botanist of Queensland in 1905, a position previously held by his grandfather on his mother's side, Frederick Manson Bailey. White also succeeded his uncle, John Frederick Bailey, in becoming Queensland's Government Botanist in 1917. Personal life White married Henrietta Duncan Clark, a field naturalist and avid hiker, at South Brisbane on 21 October 1921. They married in Baptist tradition. Career As the Government Botanist, White aided farmers and naturalists in identifying noxious weeds and evaluating native species for pastures and fodder. Between 1915 and 1926, he worked on a 42-part series on weeds which appeared in the '' Queensland Agricultural Journal''. His books, ''An Elem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
