On the Proteaceae - the evolution and classification of a southern family. From Wordnik.com. [Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Site, Australia] Reference
Note 3: The scientific family names of the plants are Restionaceae, Ericaceae, and Proteaceae. back. From Wordnik.com. [Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa] Reference
In the karri forests, the most important families are Fabaceae, Mimosaceae, Orchidaceae, Myrtaceae, and Proteaceae. From Wordnik.com. [Jarrah-Karri forest and shrublands] Reference
The Protea lamp is named for the Proteaceae group of flowers which change their shape during the day based on sunlight. From Wordnik.com. [“BLOOMING” PROTEA LAMP | Inhabitat] Reference
The proteoids belong to another Gondwanan family, the Proteaceae, and are known for their showy blooms and their height. From Wordnik.com. [Montane fynbos and renosterveld] Reference
The Banksia plants of the family Proteaceae are among the most distinctive of the flowering plants found in this hotspot. From Wordnik.com. [Biological diversity in Southwest Australia] Reference
Its four main components are heaths, the Proteaceae, reedlike Restionaceae and geophytes (bulb-plants) including many Iridaceae. From Wordnik.com. [Cape Floral Protected Areas, South Africa] Reference
The proteoids are the tallest fynbos shrubs from 2 m to 4 m in height, and comprise showy members of the Proteaceae, another Gondwanan family. From Wordnik.com. [Lowland fynbos and renosterveld] Reference
Proteaceae are susceptible to dieback disease caused by Phytophthora spp, and its spread through the wildflower heathlands is a serious concern. From Wordnik.com. [Swan Coastal Plain scrub and woodlands] Reference
Woody plants from the Proteaceae, Epacridaceae, and Myrtaceae combine with some gymnosperms to form evergreen shrub communities at high altitudes. From Wordnik.com. [Tasmanian Central Highland forests] Reference
The area is a stronghold for Australian members of the Proteaceae, with 13 genera and 40 species locally endemic, including Placospermum coriaceum, one of the most primitive members of this family. From Wordnik.com. [Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Site, Australia] Reference
The ten largest families in the hotspot (including the Myrtaceae with 785 species, of which 92 percent are endemic, and Proteaceae with 684 species, with 96 percent endemism) comprise 61 percent of the flora. From Wordnik.com. [Biological diversity in Southwest Australia] Reference
The odds are high that a local endemic will be a member of a limited number of families (e.g. Ericaceae, Proteaceae, Rutaceae); will be a habitat specialist (usually edaphic); and will be a low, fire-killed shrub with restricted gene dispersal. From Wordnik.com. [Lowland fynbos and renosterveld] Reference
Root disease is now spreading to other habitats, including kwongan shrublands, and in particular Stirling Range National Park, where it has caused mortality among susceptible plants like the peculiar grass trees (Xanthorrhoea spp.) and members of the Proteaceae, especially the banksias (Banksia spp.). From Wordnik.com. [Biological diversity in Southwest Australia] Reference
Agricultural development is encroaching on natural areas even in the mountains, where impoverished soils previously limited agriculture; farming of rooibos tea, (Aspalathus linearis), honeybush tea (Cyclopia spp.), cut flowers (mainly Proteaceae), and, of course, vineyards pose a significant threat to the remaining vegetation. From Wordnik.com. [Biological diversity in the Cape Floristic Region] Reference
Banksia prionotes is a species of shrub or tree of the genus Banksia in the Proteaceae family. From Wordnik.com. [GoodShit] Reference
In Labiatae seven gigantic genera balance all others (viz. 113), and in Proteaceae five genera balance all others. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference
Flowering plants such as lilium or lilies, Proteaceae family called Spider Flower and genus of perennial shrubs Hibbertia also thrive the place. From Wordnik.com. [EzineArticles] Reference
Proteaceae, -- that is, the orders which, when divided quite equally, do not accord with my rule, and in which a very few genera balance all the others. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference
I examined the wood of all the arborescent Proteaceae which I met with, and observed in all of them, with the exception of Persoonia, the great development of the medullary rays, as it exists in several species of. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845] Reference
The extensive families of Epacrideae, Stylideae, Restiaceae, and the tribe of Decandrous Papilionaceae, hardly exist, and the still more characteristic and extensive family of Proteaceae is reduced to a few species of Grevillea, Hakea, and Persoonia. From Wordnik.com. [Expedition into Central Australia] Reference
Thus if Australia were destroyed, Didelphys in S. America would be wonderfully anomalous (this is your case with Proteaceae), whereas now there are so many genera and little sub-families of Marsupiata that the group cannot be called aberrant or anomalous. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference
The high diversity of scleromorphic taxa is spread over 20 plant families, among them the Fabaceae (149 species), Myrtaceae (150 species), Orchideae (77 species), Poaceae (57 species), Asteraceae (69 species), Proteaceae (77 species), Cyperaceae (43 species), and Acacia (64 species). From Wordnik.com. [Greater Blue Mountains Area, Australia] Reference
It will suffice to quote the highest authority, Robert Brown, who in speaking of certain organs in the Proteaceae, says their generic importance, "like that of all their parts, not only in this but, as I apprehend, in every natural family, is very unequal, and in some cases seems to be entirely lost.". From Wordnik.com. [On the origin of species] Reference
Proteaceae), with leathery leaves often deeply cut and handsome dense spikes of flowers. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
Ants take the seeds to eat the lipid deposits; about 28% of the Region’s flora including over half of the Proteaceae is dispersed by them. From Wordnik.com. [Cape Floral Protected Areas, South Africa] Reference
I suppose you think that the Restiaceae, Proteaceae (290/4. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference
Acanthaceae, and Proteaceae. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference
Proteaceae: Hakea arborescens. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1] Reference
Proteaceae: Cenarrhenes nitida. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1] Reference
Proteaceae, former extension of. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference
Proteaceae. From Wordnik.com. [Explorations in Australia The Journals of John McDouall Stuart] Reference
Fumariaceae, 2 Proteaceae, 1. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
Proteaceae, Thymeleae, Haemodoraceae, Acacia. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference
Exceptions include Proteaceae, Lythraceae, Combretaceae, and Styraceae. From Wordnik.com. [Borneo peat swamp forests] Reference
Shrub communities include Proteaceae, Myrtaceae, Rutaceae, Compositae, Leguminosae, and Podocarpaceae. From Wordnik.com. [Australian Alps montane grasslands] Reference
They are species-rich with the families Epacridaceae, Myrtaceae, Rutacaea, Fabaceae, Proteaceae, and Cyperaceae well-represented. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Australian temperate forests] Reference
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