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Vittadinia Australis
''Vittadinia'' is a genus of Australian and New Zealand plants in the tribe Astereae within the family Asteraceae.Richard, Achille (1832). ''Voyage de découvertes de l'Astrolabe. Botanique 1: Essai d'un Flore de la Nouvelle-Zélande.'p. 250 Retrieved 19 January 2015. Taxonomy The genus ''Vittadinia'' is attributed to the French botanist Achille Richard in 1832. He described a species collected in New Zealand as '' Vittadinia australis'', noting that although it had similarities to the genus ''Aster'', there were sufficient differences to distinguish it. Two he considered significant were that ''Vittadinia'' has only two rows of involucral bracts and that its anthers are free and bent into a shape resembling a bayonet. Although species of ''Vittadinia'' were described from Hawaii by Asa Gray, and are accepted by some sources, these are now considered to belong to the genus '' Tetramolopium'' by the online ''Flora of the Hawaiian Islands'', so that ''Vittadinia'' does not occ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vittadinia Arida
''Vittadinia arida'' is an annual, herbaceous plant in the family Asteraceae, found in arid, rocky areas of the Australian outback The Outback is a remote, vast, sparsely populated area of Australia. The Outback is more remote than the bush. While often envisaged as being arid, the Outback regions extend from the northern to southern Australian coastlines and encompass a .... A small plant, 10 to 30 cm tall. References Astereae Asterales of Australia Flora of New South Wales Flora of South Australia Flora of Queensland Flora of Western Australia Flora of the Northern Territory Plants described in 1982 {{Astereae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Territory
The Northern Territory (commonly abbreviated as NT; formally the Northern Territory of Australia) is an Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory shares its borders with Western Australia to the west ( 129th meridian east), South Australia to the south ( 26th parallel south), and Queensland to the east ( 138th meridian east). To the north, the territory looks out to the Timor Sea, the Arafura Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria, including Western New Guinea and other islands of the Indonesian archipelago. The NT covers , making it the third-largest Australian federal division, and the 11th-largest country subdivision in the world. It is sparsely populated, with a population of only 249,000 – fewer than half as many people as in Tasmania. The largest population center is the capital city of Darwin. The archaeological history of the Northern Territory may have begun more than 60,000 years ago when humans first se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vittadinia Constricta
''Vittadinia'' is a genus of Australian and New Zealand plants in the tribe Astereae within the family Asteraceae.Richard, Achille (1832). ''Voyage de découvertes de l'Astrolabe. Botanique 1: Essai d'un Flore de la Nouvelle-Zélande.'p. 250 Retrieved 19 January 2015. Taxonomy The genus ''Vittadinia'' is attributed to the French botanist Achille Richard in 1832. He described a species collected in New Zealand as ''Vittadinia australis'', noting that although it had similarities to the genus '' Aster'', there were sufficient differences to distinguish it. Two he considered significant were that ''Vittadinia'' has only two rows of involucral bracts and that its anthers are free and bent into a shape resembling a bayonet. Although species of ''Vittadinia'' were described from Hawaii by Asa Gray, and are accepted by some sources, these are now considered to belong to the genus '' Tetramolopium'' by the online ''Flora of the Hawaiian Islands'', so that ''Vittadinia'' does not occur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
India
India, officially the Republic of India ( Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand, Myanmar, and Indonesia. Modern humans arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa no later than 55,000 years ago., "Y-Chromosome and Mt-DNA data support the colonization of South Asia by modern humans originating in Africa. ... Coalescence dates for most non-European populations average to between 73–55 ka.", "Modern human beings—''Homo sapiens''—originated in Africa. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tasmania
) , nickname = , image_map = Tasmania in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Tasmania in AustraliaCoordinates: , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , established_date = Colony of Tasmania , established_title2 = Federation , established_date2 = 1 January 1901 , named_for = Abel Tasman , demonym = , capital = Hobart , largest_city = capital , coordinates = , admin_center = 29 local government areas , admin_center_type = Administration , leader_title1 = Monarch , leader_name1 = Charles III , leader_title2 = Governor , leader_n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria (Australia)
Victoria is a state in southeastern Australia. It is the second-smallest state with a land area of , the second most populated state (after New South Wales) with a population of over 6.5 million, and the most densely populated state in Australia (28 per km2). Victoria is bordered by New South Wales to the north and South Australia to the west, and is bounded by the Bass Strait to the south (with the exception of a small land border with Tasmania located along Boundary Islet), the Great Australian Bight portion of the Southern Ocean to the southwest, and the Tasman Sea (a marginal sea of the South Pacific Ocean) to the southeast. The state encompasses a range of climates and geographical features from its temperate coastal and central regions to the Victorian Alps in the northeast and the semi-arid north-west. The majority of the Victorian population is concentrated in the central-south area surrounding Port Phillip Bay, and in particular within the metr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vittadinia Australasica
''Vittadinia'' is a genus of Australian and New Zealand plants in the tribe Astereae within the family Asteraceae.Richard, Achille (1832). ''Voyage de découvertes de l'Astrolabe. Botanique 1: Essai d'un Flore de la Nouvelle-Zélande.'p. 250 Retrieved 19 January 2015. Taxonomy The genus ''Vittadinia'' is attributed to the French botanist Achille Richard in 1832. He described a species collected in New Zealand as ''Vittadinia australis'', noting that although it had similarities to the genus '' Aster'', there were sufficient differences to distinguish it. Two he considered significant were that ''Vittadinia'' has only two rows of involucral bracts and that its anthers are free and bent into a shape resembling a bayonet. Although species of ''Vittadinia'' were described from Hawaii by Asa Gray, and are accepted by some sources, these are now considered to belong to the genus '' Tetramolopium'' by the online ''Flora of the Hawaiian Islands'', so that ''Vittadinia'' does not occur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
