Flattened pod, fruit is obovate or broadly obovate, 2-3.5 mm long, with a shallowly notch at the tips and tip narrowly winged.
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After flowering obliquely obovate shaped fruit that are long and wide are formed. Within the fruits are obovate shaped seeds with a wing down a single side.
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The obovate leaves are long and wide with finely serrated margins.
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They contain two seeds each, between which lies a woody dark brown separator of similar shape to the seeds. Measuring in length, the seed is obovate, and composed of a dark brown wide membranous 'wing' and obovate seed proper which measures long by wide. The seed surface can be smooth or covered in tiny ridges. The bright green cotyledons are obovate, measuring long by wide.
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Floral bracts are yellow, imbricate toward apex of spike, obovate, 35—40 x 15 mm wide, thin, nerved. Sepals are obovate, acute, 20—22 mm x 5—7 mm, glabrous. Petals are about 5 cm long with green lobes.
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Petals are broadly obovate and prominently toothed tips. They bloom from March to April.
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The rugose to black-pusticulate fruits have an obliquely obovate shape with a curved apex. Each fruit is in length with a width of and have long horns. The seeds within have an obliquely obovate shape and a wing down one side.
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Elliptical to obovate to obpyriform chlamydospores formed in vegetative mycelium, and are abundant in cultures.
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Leaves are dark green, glossy, and up to long. They are obovate, or teardrop- shaped.
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Calyx lobes c. 3 mm long. Petals obovate, c. 6 mm long, red or purple.
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The falls are obovate or oblong shaped, long, and 2 cm wide. It has an oblong blade, which has a central white beard, that has coloured (orange, or yellow,) tips. The standards are erect, clawed and obovate shaped. They are long, with an oblong blade.
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The spores of Uncobasidium fungi are ellipsoid to obovate in shape, thin walled, and non-amyloid.
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Leaves are compound with 2–6 obovate to oblong-elliptic, smooth, somewhat glossy, somewhat thick leaflets.
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It berries are obovate the 3 seeds of which are pale yellow in colour and are long.
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Broadly obovate, base tapering, obtuse to rounded apex, veins invisible; dark green, shiny above; young flush reddish.
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Calyx with two phyllous, 5 rose-colored, obovate, 2 mm long petals. Five stamens with linear filaments.
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The species was first described as distinct by Ren-Chang Ching and You-Xing Lin in 1980. The type specimen was collected by Rev. Benjamin Couch Henry in Lianzhou (Lianxian) in 1881, but was initially determined to be Adiantum gravesii. Ching and Lin distinguished A. lianxianense from that species by its more soft and delicate habit, its slender, hairlike stalks, smaller pinnules obovate or obovate-oblong in shape (rather than broadly ovate or obovate-triangular), and a long stalk wide.
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Leaves are crowded at the root, stalked, ovate and blunt; stem leaves are obovate, lance-shaped and linear.
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The flowers are on pale green cylindrical spikelets cylindrical that are wider than the stem. The spikelets are long and with firm glumes. After flowering biconvex light brown to grey coloured nuts form that are ribbed on the margins with an obovate to broadly obovate shape that are s in length.
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Capsules short- pedicellate, obovate to oblong or ovate, 5–7 cm, apex short-beaked. Seeds (7–)9–11 mm.
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A small tree < 5 m high, typically intermediate between its parents, the generally obovate leaves 7-8 cm long, asymmetric at the base, with apices acuminate to caudate and an average of 31 teeth. The petioles are 6-8 mm long. The obovate samarae are < 20 mm long by 16 mm wide.
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The resulting seedling first grows two obovate cotyledon leaves, which may remain for several months as several more leaves appear.
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These are followed by small egg- shaped (obovate) bright red or yellow fruit, which are ripe in late summer and autumn.
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The inflorescence is slightly glandular, almost glabrous. The samarae are orbicular to obovate, with a few glandular hairs; the seed central.
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The species is tall and have 3–8 pairs of leaflets which are elliptic, obovate, sessile, and are by . The leaves are long with membranous and brown coloured stipules. Flowers are as tall as while the sepals are ovate and the apex is acute. It petals are yellow in colour and are obovate with rounded apex.
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Leaf blade ovate, elliptic, obovate-elliptic, oblong, or oblong-lanceolate; leathery to thinly leathery, pale green or glaucescent green and reddish brown glandular punctate. Axillary flowers are pale yellow. There are up to more than 10 in a corymb. The fruit is ellipsoid 2–3.5 cm in diameter and contains long obovate seeds, with a fleshy red outer layer.
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There are up to 50 follicles on each spike, each long, high and wide. When new they are covered with dense grey fur, which wears off exposed areas. The obovate (egg-shaped) seed is long and fairly flattened. It is composed of the obovate seed body (containing the embryonic plant), measuring long by wide, and a papery wing.
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Simple, borne on very short, gnarled, lateral twigs. Very small, oval to obovate, smooth, glabrous, marginally entire, dark green and glossy above.
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The plant can be distinguished from its most similar cousin I. patula by its orbicular-obovate dorsal petal, shorter pedicels and larger seeds.
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The falls have an obovate blade and narrow claw. In the centre of the fall is a beard. (which has not been described).
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Cecarria obtusifolia is an aerial, stem-parasitic shrub, and like species in the genus Muellerina, it has epicortical runners. It is glabrous throughout. The obovate or broadly obovate leaves are opposite, curvinerved, and rounded at the apex. The leaf blades are 30–55 mm long and 20–45 mm wide, and attenuate into an obscure petiole 2–6 mm long.
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Seeds 6–8 × 3–3.5 × 1–1.5 mm, more or less symmetrically obovate, face flat. Male and female plants have (2n=) 24 equally sized chromosomes .
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Fruits obovate to subglobosos, from light red to intense; with pericarpelthick, 1–3 cm wide, acidic, subcircular to obovate areoles, with yellow felt, yellow gland, and spines of ca. 1.2 cm long, deciduous, yellow; red pulp Floral scar 2.2 cm in diameter, almost flat, 0.7 cm deep, xoconostle . Reniform seeds, angled with narrow white aryl and lateral thread rate.Arias, S., Gama-López, S., L., Guzmán-Cruz, u.
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Fruits are obovate to oblong-obovate, 5–7 cm long, with diameter of 3–4 cm, averaging 26 g in weight; their skin is rather thick, lemon-yellow, fairly smooth or with transverse corrugations; the pulp is juicy, grayish and acid, while juice cells are short and blunt to long, long, slender and pointed, sometimes containing a minute, greenish nucleus. They have numerous flat, pointed, reticulate seeds.
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When in bloom, pedicels are about 4cm long, and they grow to about 9.5 cmby the time of fruiting. Each flower has five (rarely six or seven) prominent yellow sepals which turn more or less green when dried. The sepals are broadly obovate or obovate, and rarely broadly elliptic, 1.7 to 2.5 (rarely 3)cm by 1.2 to 2.5 (rarely 2.8)cm, with rounded or truncate apices.
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Plants produce one to a few ternately branched stems which bear clusters of flowers having 3 to 5 sepals that are petal-like and obovate in shape and remain after flowering. The petals are deciduous, falling away after flowering is done. They are clawed at the base and long and spatulate to obovate in shape. Flowers have numerous stamens and they are white in color.
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Rhododendron insigne (不凡杜鹃) is a rhododendron species native to southern Sichuan in China, where it grows at altitudes of 700–2000 meters. It is a shrub that grows to 1.5–6 m in height, with leathery leaves that are obovate- elliptic, obovate-lanceolate, oblong, or oblong-lanceolate, 8–13 by 2.5–4.5 cm in size. Flowers are pale to dark pink.
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Leptospermum obovatum was first formally described by in 1827 Robert Sweet in his book Flora Australasica. The specific epithet (obovatum) is a Latin word meaning "obovate".
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This Ficus can be identified in the field by its climbing habit, presence of milky latex, rhomboidal obovate coriaceious leaves, and beautiful spotted crimson-orange fruits.
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The five petals are yellow, almost rounded, curved inward at the top. This plant blooms from July to August. Fruits are oblong obovate, 12–20 mm long.
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Trees up to 45 m tall, stranglers or independent; trunks mostly unbuttressed. Leaves obovate or oblanceolate, 15–25 cm long. Figs globose, 1.5–3 cm in diameter.
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Sorbus hibernica is a small tree or shrub up to high with obovate, unlobed leaves and clusters of white flowers. The fruits are usually wider than long.
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Lamina is 5-13 x 1.5–5 cm, usually narrow obovate. The leaf is coriaceous and glabrous with entire margin. Secondary veins are in 6-9 pairs.
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Viburnum dilatatum can grow up to 3 meters tall shrub and wide. The bark of the stems are brown with some orange, the stems are pubescent, and stems change color from brown to a dark gray as they mature. The leaves are simple, arranged opposite on a branch and the shape may vary from broadly obovate, obovate, or broadly ovate. The size of the leaf ranges from long and wide.
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The flowers are in diameter, and come in shades of light blue, powder blue, lilac-blue, bluish violet. The flowers are larger than that of Iris confusa, and Iris japonica, which has similarly coloured flowers. It has 2 pairs of petals, 3 large sepals (outer petals), known as the 'falls' and 3 inner, smaller petals (or tepals, known as the 'standards'. The falls are drooping, obovate, or obovate-spathulate (spoon-like).
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The resinous shrub typically grows to a height of and has sparsely hairy and terete branchlets that are yellowish to light brown in colour that become darker toward the base. It has inequilaterally obtriangular-obovate to widely obovate-obdeltate green phyllodes. It blooms between August and October but can appear as late as March. It produces simple inflorescences of spherical flower-heads containing 12 to 15 bright yellow flowers.
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The flowers may be perfect, possessing both male and female reproductive organs, or may be staminate only. The capsules are generally oblong to obovate, and seeds are brown.
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Three species have very small, glossy black, and globose fruits, at 0.5 to 1.5 cm. Seeds are 2–7 mm large, obovate to kidney shaped, and glossy black.
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Shell minute to small (adult length 1–6 mm). Color white, hyaline; surface smooth, glossy. Shape usually elliptic, obovate, or subtriangular; weakly shouldered. Spire completely immersed to low.
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The leaf undersurface is covered with white hair. Successive leaves become more obovate and are long and wide, with dentate margins and mucronate tips. Seedling stems are hairy.
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Abarema obovata (obovate abarema) is a species of legume in the family Fabaceae. It is endemic to the wooded hillsides of east and north-central Minas Gerais, Brazil.
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Each flower is borne on a long stalk. The five obovate petals are lilac to violet. Flowering occurs from June through August. The flowers are entomophilous, pollinated by insects.
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Rumex cuneifolius (also known as Argentine dock or wedgeleaf dock) is a perennial stoloniferous herbaceous flowering dicot in the family Polygonacae. It has obovate or obovate-elepitic leaf morphology with margins entire or crisped. It has terminal and axillary paniculate inflorescences and articulated/swollen pedicels. It yields between 5 and 20 flowers whorl while maintaining ovate- deltoid/ovate-triangular morphology with a truncate/cuneate base for its inner tepals with margins entire.
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Pultenaea densifolia (common name dense leaf bush pea) is a bush pea that was first described by Ferdinand von Mueller. It has small, leathery, obovate leaves that are bunched together.
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The pinnules have an oblong to narrowly oblong, lanceolate or narrowly obovate shape and are in length and wide. It blooms from December to May and produces cream-white inflorescences.
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Column green, yellow toward the apex, arcuate, clavate, winged. Pollinarium with two narrowly obovate yellow pollinia, a narrow, slender, hialine stipe, .05 cm long, and a semicircular, yellow viscidium. Anther yellow.
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Typically it grows around tall. The leaves are small, long, wide. Oblong or obovate in shape, with a sharp tip and very short leaf stem. Flowering occurs between April and August.
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Cambridge, Cambridge University. Press, 319 pp. . Page 126. The shell has an obovate outline, anteriorly acuminate, posteriorly expanded, with the greatest width somewhat behind the median, transverse axis of the shell.
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Leaves are up to 5 cm (2 inches) long, pinnatifid with obovate leaflets. Fruits are white. Fruits are about 3 mm long, tapering at the tip.Mathias, Mildred Esther, & Constance, Lincoln. 1973.
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Calyx of five, ovato-lanceolate, very hairy, herbaceous sepals, pale and scariose at the margin. Petals five, large, broadly obovate, very glossy yellow. Stamens very numerous. Head of pistils short, oval.
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1\. Stem: Field Pennycress’s stems have edges and corners; common peppergrass has no edge. 2\. Flowers: The small flowers of Field Pennycress have 4 green sepals and 4 longer white petals is oblong-obovate, 2-4mm long; the 4 white petals of common peppergrass are always shorter than sepals or absent, sometimes reduced to filamentous or petalless. 3\. Fruit: The fruits of Field Pennycress is nearly round or inversely ovate, 8-16mm long, flat, with broadly wings around and deep notch at the tips; the fruit of common peppergrass is obovate or broadly obovate, 2-3.5 mm long, with a small notch at the tips and tip narrowly winged. 4\. Seeds: Both the seeds of Field Pennycress and common peppergrass are divided into 2 Chambers.
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It has 2 pairs of petals, 3 large sepals (outer petals), known as the 'falls' and 3 inner, smaller petals (or tepals, known as the 'standards'. The falls are 4.5–5 cm long, obovate, round tipped, with dark purple veins and a yellow claw (section of petal closest to stem). The shorted standards are erect, obovate or oblong, are brown at the base. It has an 8mm long perianth tube, which is also the length of the ovary.
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The resulting seedling first grows two asymmetrical obovate cotyledon leaves measuring long by wide, which may remain for several months as several more leaves appear. The first pairs of leaves are oppositely arranged on the stem, have 3–4 "teeth" on their margins, and are narrowly obovate in shape. They are around , and each following pair of leaves is slightly larger. The cotyledons of Banksia paludosa, B. marginata and B. integrifolia are very similar in appearance.
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Magnolia dawsoniana, known as Dawson's magnolia, is a magnolia species native to the provinces of Sichuan and Yunnan in China, usually at altitudes of 1400 to 2500 m. It is a small, ornamental deciduous tree that can grow to heights of 20 m. Leaf shape is obovate to elliptic-obovate, 7.5–14 cm-long, and is bright green above and glaucous underneath. The white to reddish flowers are large (16–25 cm wide), fragrant, and appear before leaves.
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Rhododendron charitopes (雅容杜鹃) is a species of flowering plant in the Ericaceae family. It is native to southeast Xizang and northwest Yunnan, China, where it grows at altitudes of 2500–4300 meters. It is a dwarf shrub that typically grows to 0.25–0.9 m in height, with aromatic, leathery leaves that are obovate to obovate-elliptic in shape, and 2.6–7 × 1.3–4.5 cm in size. Flowers are whitish pink to rose or purple.
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Calyx small with 4 minute, acute sepals. Petals 4, obovate-oblong. Stamens 8, free; anthers ovoid. Ovary seated on an annular disk, 2-locular; each locule with 2-collateral ovules; stigma subcapitate.
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The leaves are obovate or oblanceolate, sometimes narrow oblanceolate. They are cuneate and decurrent at base. The adaxial surface smooth of the petiole is 0.5 to 3 cm. The flowers are white.
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Their dark, small leaves are obovate to blunt-tipped (reverse triangular) or even concave at the tip. The leaves of F. natalensis are similar, though more rounded and never concave at the tip.
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Its central segments are obovate-cuneate, its lateral segments are oblique-ovate. Umbels are 4–10 cm across; bracts are either 2-3 or absent, ovate-lanceolate, 5-10 x circa 2mm, pubescent.
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Resembling those of B. coccinea, they are lined with triangular lobes or "teeth" (with a u- or v-shaped sinus) and obovate to broadly lanceolate in shape. The first set of leaves measure in length and around in width, with three or four lobes in each margin. Both upper and lower seedling leaf surfaces are covered in spreading hairs, as is the seedling stem. Juvenile leaves are obovate to truncate or mucronate with triangular lobes and measure long by wide.
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It has 2 pairs of petals, 3 large sepals (outer petals), known as the 'falls' and 3 inner, smaller petals (or tepals, known as the 'standards'). The falls are elliptic or obovate, with a spreading limb and blue or purple/violet blotching, spots, (or dots) around a central yellow signal patch around a visible yellow, or orange crest. They are long and 1.4–2 cm wide. The standards are elliptic or narrowly obovate. They are long and 1.5–2.1 cm wide.
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Plants grow to between 0.5 and 1 metre high with a similar spread. The small, grey green, obovate (or narrow obovate) leaves are lighter coloured beneath and have an acute tip. The single pea flowers have orange-yellow keels, yellow wings and a yellow standard that may have red markings. These are produced between August and October in the species' native range and are followed in November by ellipsoid fruits that are around 5.5 mm long and 4 mm wide.
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The falls are obovate shaped, cuneate (wedge shaped) at the base, they are long, and between 2.8–3.5 cm wide. In the centre of the fall, is a strip of thick hairs (the beard), which is white tipped with yellow, or orange. The standards are obovate (shaped) with a narrow claw (section of the petal closest to the stem), they are long, and between 2.5–4 cm wide. It has style branch, that is 3–4 cm long and 1.2–1.6 cm wide.
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Rhododendron arizelum (夺目杜鹃) is a species of flowering plant in the Ericaceae family. It is native to northeastern Myanmar, southeastern Tibet, and western Yunnan, China, where it grows at altitudes of 2500–4000 meters. It is a shrub or small tree that typically grows to 3–7 meters in height, with leathery leaves that are obovate or obovate-elliptic, and 9–19 × 4–8 cm in size. Flowers are white, pale yellow, or pink, with crimson basal blotch.
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Eremolaena darainensis grows as a tree up to tall. Its branches are red to gray brown and lenticellate. The bark is smooth. Its ovate to obovate leaves are chartaceous and measure up to long.
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Seeds are narrowly obovate with wings broadly down one side of seed body, narrowly down the other. The seed pods resemble warty toads or frogs giving the plant the unusual common name, the frog hakea.
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Rhodolaena bakeriana grows as a medium sized tree. Its twigs are hairy. It has small to medium leaves, obovate, elliptic or oblong in shape. The inflorescences have one or two flowers on a long stem.
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The trunks of the arborescent species can reach over a meter in diameter. The twigs are angular, and glabrous, although the terminal buds are densely and minutely puberulous. The dark green, shiny leaves are alternate, obovate to obovate-elliptic, 6-11 × 3–6 cm, glabrous, stiffly coriaceous, the base acute, rarely obtuse, margin flat, the apex rounded, the lower surface minutely but densely dotted with oil glands. Lateral veins 4-6 on each side, reticulation raised on both surfaces, petioles glabrous, 9–14 mm long.
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The panicle itself is lanceolate, open and is long. The main panicle branches are whorled and are long. Both panicle axis and branches are scaberulous with solitary spikelets. The spikelets themselves are obovate and are long.
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The sclerophyllus leaves are obovate, dark green, long and wide. Apexes are obtuse to emarginate. Upper surfaces are glossy while lower surfaces are covered in fine hairs and lack basilaminar glands. Leaves are attached to petioles.
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The flowers are yellow, with oblong sepals and longer, obovate petals. Later, it produces a fruit capsule, long cylindrical with a short beak. It contains 2 rows of yellow brown seeds, which are ovoid or ellipsoid shaped.
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C. novae-zelandiae differs from Caltha obtusa by the linear yellow rather than oblong-obovate white sepals, and by the leaf margins which are slightly scalloped to entire rather than scalloped and almost lobed at the base.
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It has larger flowers and a longer flowering season than other forms of M. thompsoniana. The elliptical to obovate leaves are 20–25 cm (8–10 in) in length, by 8–11 cm (3.2–4.2 in) wide.
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The panicle itself is open, pyramidal, and is long. Both panicle axis and branches are scaberulous with solitary spikelets. The spikelets themselves are obovate and are long. They carry 1 fertile floret with it callus being glabrous.
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The calyx is long, with five narrow triangular lobes. The petals are long, lower ones longer and the ones inside serrated. The stamens are didynamous, long, and exposed. The fruit is schizocarp, with obovate elliptical mericaps of .
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Abrus kaokoensis grows as a woody suffrutex (subshrub) tall. The leaves consist of four to eight pairs of leaflets, of oblong to obovate shape. Leaflets measure up long. Inflorescences are on a rachis measuring up to long.
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This species can grow to tall. It spreads rapidly via stolons which root at the nodes. The obovate leaves are long. The blue or white flowers are long and appear between the months of June and July.
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'Thomson' is distinguished by a single trunk bearing a vase-shaped crown, the branches forming strong wide-angled crotches; the bark is dark grey and deeply fissured. The twigs have diamond- shaped fissures that become more apparent on second-year wood, and occasionally sport corky wings. The leaves are borne on 1 cm petioles, and average 7.5 cm in length, obovate to elliptic, with the typical acuminate apex and oblique base; dark green and glabrous, they turn bright yellow in autumn. The samarae are obovate and deeply notched at the apex.
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The pubescence is located on the main vein on the bottom of the leave. The leaf shape can vary from oval to elliptic and present coriaceous leaves; leaf base and apex are rounded. Solitary flowers located at the end of the branches, colored from yellowish green to beige, with 3 to 5 deciduous floral bracts; 3 obovate thick fresh sepals; 6 to 7 obovate and fleshy petals with truncate base and acute apex. Woody fruit, elliptic, measuring from 6,9 to 8,5 cm long and 3,3 to 4,5 cm broad; the carpels split open irregularly.
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Each follicle contains one or two fertile seeds, between which lies a woody dark brown separator of similar shape to the seeds. Measuring in length, the seed is egg- to wedge- shaped (obovate to cuneate) and composed of a dark brown wide membranous "wing" and wedge- or sickle-shaped (cuneate–falcate) seed proper which measures long by wide. The seed surface can be smooth or covered in tiny ridges, and often glistens. The resulting seedling first grows two obovate cotyledon leaves, which may remain for several months as several more leaves appear.
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The seed is composed of the obovate seed body (containing the embryonic plant) and measures long by wide. One side, termed the outer surface, is pitted and dark brown and the other is brown-black and warty, sparkling slightly. The seeds are separated in the follicle by a sturdy dark brown seed separator, which is about the same shape as the seeds, with a depression where the seed body sits adjacent to it. The first pair of leaves (called cotyledons) produced by seedlings are obovate, dull green and measure long by wide.
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Flowers 1-1.3 (-1.5) cm in diameter. The petals white or pink, obovate or lanceolate, 5-7 × 4-5 mm, pubescent basal, obtuse apex. Stamens 15, as long or shorter than the petals.Flora of China Editorial Committee. 2003.
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The standards are narrowly obovate, long. They are self-fertile. It has articulated pedicels, that are long. It has a small perianth tube, 1–1.5 cm long, 2.5 cm long stamen, milky white anthers, 3 cm cylindric ovary.
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It is a more or less hairless perennial which grows up to 60 cm tall. It has rhizomes. The leaves are obovate at the base, and linear to oblong higher up. They are shiny dark green and toothed.
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Caltha obtusa differs from Caltha novae-zelandiae by the oblong-obovate white rather than linear pale yellow sepals, and by the leaf margins which are scalloped and almost lobed at the base rather than slightly scalloped to entire.
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Agouticarpa is characterized by being dioecious, having elliptic to obovate, membranaceous stipules, male flowers in a branched dichasial or thyrse-like inflorescence, a poorly developed cup-shaped calyx, pollen grains with 3-7 apertures, and large globose fruits.
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Alzatea verticillata has opposite, obovate or elliptical leaves. Its flowers are actinomorphic and bisexual, and lack a corolla. The flowers and fruit are similar to the Myrtaceae but the ovary is superior. The fruit is a loculicidal capsule.
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Seedlings have narrowly obovate bright green cotyledons 1.2–1.4 cm (0.5–0.6 in) long by 0.3–0.4 cm (0.1–0.2 in) wide, and the leaves which develop immediately afterward are linear and scattered, and the stem is hairy.
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The flower spikes are dense, and cylindrical. They are 5 to 10 cm long, pointed at the tip and rounded at the base. It flowers from May to September. The fruits are 4 to 5 mm long and obovate.
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Gentiana bavarica can reach a height of . This plant forms a rosette of basal obovate to spathulate yellowish-green leaves, about 1 cm long. Flowers are deep blue, long, with broad spreading lobes. They bloom from July to August.
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Spikelets are obovate, solitary, long and are pediceled. The pedicels are filiform. Besides the pedicels, the spikelets have 2 fertile florets which are diminished at the apex. The sterile florets are also present and are barren, cuneate and clumped.
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Glumes are very different. Although both are keelless, the lower glume is oblong and long while the upper one is obovate and is long. Palea have ciliolated keels and is 2-veined. Flowers have 3 anthers which are long.
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Style whole filiform to the base ovarium . The style does not extend beyond the scales of the throat and a capitate stigma. Four Nuculas with a thick ring-shaped collar at the base. The fruits are small obovate achenes.
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The tip is obtuse to apiculate. The leaf is entire, linear to obovate, glabrous, narrow and elongated, sometimes slightly broadened towards the apex. They are sometimes leathery and persistent. Lateral nerves have little or no markings on the underside.
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Salix denticulata can reach a height of . The shoots are downy when young. The dull green leaves are paler underneath, obovate, lanceolate or elliptic, with toothed margins, long, with very short petioles. Like all willows this species is dioecious.
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Himatanthus bracteatus is a species of the genus Himatanthus (Apocynaceae), native Venezuela, Colombia, the Guianas, Brazil, Peru, and Ecuador. It is a shrub with oblong, obovate and acuminate leaves, white flowers in terminal corymbs and follicles with winged seed.
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The asci are obovate (light bulb-shaped) or broadly clavate (baseball bat-shaped), have a short stalk and contain 8 spores. Phialoconidia form from the apex towards the base in the form of droplets on clustered flask-shaped cells.
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Its natural habitat is along beaches and maritime rock crevices. It is a biennial, growing to 50 cm tall. It has fleshy spathulate to obovate leaves. It produces white terminal racemes of flowers in late spring and early summer.
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The narrow adult leaves are long and across and have a rough texture. Spathulate (spoon-shaped) to obovate in shape, they have smooth, slightly down-curved margins. The undersurface of the leaves is hairy. Occasional lobed leaves are seen.
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Aster amellus reaches on average a height of . The stem is erect and branched, the leaves are dark green. The basal leaves are obovate and petiolated, the cauline ones are alternate and sessile, increasingly narrower and lanceolate. The flowers are lilac.
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The membrane is eciliated, long and is lacerate. The panicle itself is open, linear, is long and carry 4–6 fertile spikelets. Spikelets are obovate, solitary, long and have pediceled fertile spikelets. The pedicels are ciliate, curved, filiform, and hairy above.
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A. zygomeris is a vigorous, erect, medium-sized shrub. Its stems, which are usually herbaceous, are hollow, downy and greenish. It has pinnate leaves that arise from leafy, inflated, purplish stipules. The leaves have four leaflets, which are obovate and notched.
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This mussel is elliptical or obovate in shape and reaches a maximum length of 70 mm. The posterior end of males protrudes slightly, while females are more rounded. The periostracum is sunshiny, yellowish green, with green rays over the entire shell.
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The bright yellow, obovate petals are long and wide, with linear glands becoming punctiform distally. The thirty to fifty stamens are long at the most. The ovoid to cylindric ovary is long and wide. The three styles are about long.
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The falls are lanceolate shaped, long. They are dark violet, purple, or dark reddish purple, with a yellow, or yellow orange ridge. The standards are obovate or oblanceolate shaped and long. It has stamens with filaments that are 0.5-0.9cm long.
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Schizolaena isaloensis grows as a tree up to tall. The bark is thick and spongy. Its subcoriaceous leaves are elliptic to ovate or obovate in shape and coloured dark green above and pale green below. They measure up to long.
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Salix retusa can reach a height of . This plant usually develops creeping stems, rarely erect. The dull green leaves are obovate, lanceolate or elliptic, with entire margins, 2 × 1 cm, with very short petioles. Like all willows this species is dioecious.
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Stigmas 2-lobed, yellow. Fruits cylindrical, up to 30 cm long and 2–4 cm in diameter, glabrous, when unripe green, ripe (orange-)red. Seeds 4.5 × 2.5 × 1–1.2 mm (L/W/H), symmetrically obovate, face flatly lenticular. Chromosomes 2n = 24.
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There are a couple distinct features to identify Corylus colurna. Leaves are alternate, simple, broadly ovate to obovate, doubly serrate, glabrous above, and pubescent veins below. Corylus colurnas buds are 1/3 inch long, green tinted brown. and softly pubescent.
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The upper lobes are 10–14 millimeters (⅜–⅝ in.) long by 5–9 millimeters (–⅜ in.) wide and generally oblong-obovate. The outer lower lobes are oblong-lanceolate, 11–16 millimeters (¼–¾ in.) long by 4–7 millimeters (– in.) wide, narrowing at the tip.
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Inflorescences are panicles or corymbs produced terminally and axillary with many flowered branches. The flowers have no petals but have greenish colored, 1.8–4 mm long sepals sometimes tinted purple. The sepals are ovate to obovate or oval in shape.
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Phytologia 78(3): 192-194. This is a tree up to 11 m (33 feet) tall. It is distinguished from related species by its corolla tube 7–10 mm long, with obovate lobes 4–6 mm x 2–3 mm.
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Salvia clevelandii leaves Salvia clevelandii is an evergreen shrub that reaches in height and width. The fragrant, ashy green leaves are obovate and rugose, growing less than long. Flowers are on spikes, with numerous whorls of upright amethyst blooms opening in June–July.
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French broom, Genista monspessulana, grows to tall, with slender green branches. The leaves are evergreen, trifoliate with three narrow obovate leaflets, long. The flowers are yellow, grouped 3-9 together in short racemes. Like other legumes, it develops its seeds within a pod.
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The lip is three-lobed. The lateral lobes are elliptic- obovate, obtuse-rounded and erect-incurved forming a cylinder. The mid-lobe is oblong-ovate with the base hastate to subauriculate. The apex is notched with the lanceolate lobules elongate and recurved.
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Pyrenaria buisanensis is an evergreen tree that can grow tall. Bark is brown-reddish with thin and irregular slices. The leaves are alternate, more or less clustered, thick-coriaceous, elliptic or obovate and typically measure , occasionally longer. The flowers are axillary and solitary.
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Male flowers yellowish-white, 3.0-4.0 mm long, tepals 6, c. 3.0 mm long, c. 2. or 4 mm wide, elliptic to obovate slightly similar, externally glabrous or sparsely pubescent on the central portion, stamens usually 9 They are all similar, filaments c.
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Carpetweed has narrow, whorled leaves, 3-8 at each node. At maturity the plant may lose its characteristic basal rosette formation. Leaves are approximately 1–3 cm in length and possess an obovate shape. Leaf apex may vary from rounded to acute.
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The panicle is open, ovate and is long. The main branches are spread out, with the panicle axis being scabrous just like the branches. Pedicels are curved, filiform, glabrous and have fertile spikelets on them. Spikelets are compressed, obovate and are in length.
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The lower glume can either be flabellate or obovate and is long. It is also length of upper glume and is membranous and thinner above. It is even much thinner on the margins. It has no keels but is 5-7 veined.
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Florets are diminished at the apex. Its lemma is obtuse and lobed while fertile lemma is herbaceous, keelless, obovate, and long. Both low and upper glumes are oblong, scarious, yellow in colour, but are different in size. Also, both glumes have acute apexes.
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The species is an evergreen shrub that is tall. It have leaves that are by long and are elliptic and obovate to oblong. They are also green in colour and have long petioles. Females' peduncles are long and are located on the flowers.
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The membrane is eciliated and is long. The panicle is open, linear, is long and carry some spikelets. The main panicle branches are appressed with dominant and scabrous axis. Spikelets are obovate, solitary, long and have 2 fertile spikelets that are pediceled.
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The standards are obovate, and broader than the falls. It has style branches that are 2.54 cm long. It has a short perianth tube, at under 2.54 cm long. After the iris has flowered, it produces a seed capsule, in late July.
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The calyx is lime-green, and relatively longer than that of other salvias. The 2.5–4.5 inch leaves are obovate with a thick texture. The upper surface is mid-green, turning brown in cold weather, while the underside is whitish with pronounced veins.
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Globularia sarcophylla is a plant endemic to Gran Canaria, where it is rare and confined to basalt mountain cliffs of the Caldera de Tirajana, Los Leales, La Culata etc. around in elevation. Its leaves small, obovate, fleshy, about long. The flowers are blue.
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Fruit of Atractocarpus fitzalanii. Atractocarpus fitzalanii grows as a woody shrub or small tree some in height. The trunk is covered by smooth grey bark. The large glossy dark green leaves are obovate to oval-shaped and range from long by wide.
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Leaf-blades being convolute, and are long and wide. They also have scaberulous surface which is also puberulous and hairy as well. The panicle branches are oblong, scaberulous, and are long by wide. Its spikelets are obovate, pendulous, solitary and are long.
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Its eciliate membrane is long with leaf-blades being lanceolate, stiff, and are long and wide. They also have scabrous margins with apex. The panicle branches are oblong, scaberulous, and are long by wide. Its spikelets are obovate, pendulous, solitary and are long.
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The leaves are palmately compound with 7–11 leaflets arranged radially. Their stalks are numerous, erect, striated, and slightly pubescent. The leaflets are obovate, with a blunted apex or pointed spear, and sparsely pubescent. Petioles are longer than leaflets; stipules are very small.
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Pentachlaena betamponensis grows as a tree of unknown height. Its coriaceous leaves are obovate in shape and coloured brown above and greenish brown below. They measure up to long. The inflorescences bear up to 10 flowers, each with five sepals and five petals.
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The falls are obovate, with maroon, brown, or brown purple veining. They are long and 1.5–2 cm wide. In the centre of the petal, is a yellow beard. The erect standards are long and narrow, or oblanceolate, they are up to long.
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The lemma itself have ciliated margins with acute apex. Lower glume is obovate and is long while the upper is lanceolate and is long. Palea is long and is 2-veined. It sterile florets are barren, cuneate, and grow in a clump.
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The obovate leaves are usually 15 to 60 mm long and 2.5 to 8 mm wide. The species was first formally described by Carl Meissner in Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany in 1855, from material collected by James Drummond.
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Melhania annua grows as an annual herb, up to tall. The pubescent leaves are ovate to obovate and measure up to long. Inflorescences are solitary or two or three-flowered, on a stalk measuring up to long. The flowers have yellow petals.
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Schizolaena charlotteae grows as a shrub or tree up to tall. Its twigs are glabrous with small lenticels. The subcoriaceous leaves are elliptic to ovate or obovate in shape. They are coloured chocolate brown above and more orangish below, measuring up to long.
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The trunk is straight and round in cross section, usually buttressed. The bark is grey or brown and usually fairly smooth. Vertical lines of pustules are often seen. Leaves are alternate, obovate or oblong, 6 to 12 cm long, with a round tip.
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They generally have oblanceolate, elliptical, or obovate leaves that are in terminal rosettes or cauline in growth habit. Their flower petals are all free and entire. This section contains ten species in total that are all endemic to northern and eastern Australia.
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Labillardière chose the specific name obovata, in reference to the leaves of his specimen, which were obovate (egg-shaped, with the narrow end at the base).Nelson (1978): 331.Nelson (1975b) 2: A38. This leaf shape is often seen in this species.
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The deeply cupped flowers are golden yellow and measure wide. The petals are nearly obovate with denticulate margins and are longer than the stamens. The stamens are numerous and are each united into five bundles. The small, spherical anthers are orange to yellow.
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The young twig is highly reflective. The leaves are arranged alternately and are broadly obovate with 5–9 lobes, each of which is terminated by bristle-tipped teeth. The leaves mature to between in length. The surfaces are glabrous, except for the tufted vein axils.
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The falls are obovate, 3 cm long and 0.8–1.2 cm wide, it is marked with white spots, veins or white signal area. It has a white/yellow centre section. The standards are erect or slightly angled, measuring 2.5 cm long and 0.8 cm wide.
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F. vestita is a perennial herb, having a prostrate but weak stem, measuring about ~60 cm in average. It is highly branched with hairy rhizome and hirsute stems. The roots are tuberous (6 cm or longer). Leaves are pinnately compound with obovate-cuneate leaflets.
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Betula michauxii, the Newfoundland dwarf birch, is a species of birch which is native to Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and Quebec. The species is tall and have a wintergreen smell. The leaves are obovate and have a glabrous surface. Infructescence is cylindric, erect, short, and long.
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Begonia samhaensis is a species in the family Begoniaceae. Similar to Begonia socotrana but separated by the asymmetrically ovate leaves and the unequal tepals in the male flowers; outer tepals broadly orbicular, 1.5–2.2 × 1.7–2.5 cm; inner obovate elliptic, 1.4–2.0 × 0.8 × 1.4 cm.
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The prostrate and domed shrub typically grows to a height of . The branchlets are a scurfy white colour with inconspicuous stipules. The phyllodes are an obovate to obtriangular-obdeltate shape and mostly long and wide. The green phyllodes are glabrous or hairy on their margins.
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The bushy spreading shrub typically grows to a height of . It blooms from September to February and produces yellow flowers. The branches are erect, rigid, glabrous and grow outward to a diameter of . The phyllodes are thick and rigid with a linear to obovate shape.
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The viscid and spreading shrub typically growing to a height of . It flowers from May to September producing yellow flowers. The bark is red-brown minni ritchi style. The phyllodes have an oblique arrangement and a linear-obovate shape, typically in length and wide.
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Its thin leaves are two to six centimeters in length, and have a diamond to obovate shape; the deeply triangular-lobed leaves are smooth on the top surface. The inflorescence's peduncles are one to eight centimeters and the involucres measure four to seven millimeters.
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It also has a pilose and scaberulous surface. Fertile lemma is chartaceous, elliptic and is long. Sterile floret is long and is also barren, cuneate, and is clumped. Lower glumes are obovate and are long while the upper glumes are lanceolate and are long.
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The five large petals are shaped either obovate or obcordate, long and wide. The petals are colored white to pink with streaks of red, the anthers yellow, the stigma yellow/orange, and the filaments white. The stamens and style become erect once the petals fall.
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The large flowers reach a diameter of up to 4 centimetres. The five bright magenta-coloured petals are obovate and 15 to 26 millimeters long. Around the ovary with four to nine whitish scars are about 50 stamens. Capsules and seeds are not visible.
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Schizolaena raymondii grows as a tree up to tall. Its subcoriaceous leaves are elliptic to obovate in shape and coloured greenish brown above and khaki green below. They measure up to long. The inflorescences are found near branch tips, each bearing up to 12 flowers.
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The simple, elliptic or obovate leaves are said to be shaped like mouse ears, hence the name Mouse-eared combretum. The leaves are glabrous above and velvety below, and are carried on short lateral twigs. They usually have 3 to 4 pairs of lateral nerves.
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D. viscosa is a shrub growing to tall, rarely a small tree to tall. The leaves are variable in shape: generally obovate but some of them are lanceolate, often sessile,Dodonaea viscosoides Berry, U. S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper, Volume 84, page 142, 1914.
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Rhodolaena leroyana grows as a shrub or small tree up to tall. The twigs are hairless. Its subcoriaceous leaves are elliptic to obovate in shape and measure up to long. The solitary inflorescences have one or two flowers on a peduncle measuring up to long.
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Magnolia rimachii has chartaceous elliptic leaves 12–26 cm long and 5–10 cm broad. Flowers are fragrant and can have 6 or 7 obovate petals 2–4.5 cm long and 1–2 cm wide. The elliptic fruit can be ca. 3.5 cm long.
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The sepals are obovate (with the base slightly tapered) and by . When they are pollinated, the green pistils in the middle of the flower become a rounded to slightly lengthened seed head. The seeds are achenes, with an almost round body and a beak.
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Obovate leaves, about 4-10 per plant, form a basal rosette. The leaves are generally 5–12 mm long and 2.5-5.5 mm wide. This species generally has one to two scapes and cymose inflorescences that are 4–15 cm long. Flowers are white.
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Suregada aequorea is a plant species of the family Euphorbiaceae, endemic to the coastal thickets of Taiwan. It is a shrubs or small tree, growing to about 3 meters in height. Its leaves are elliptic to obovate-oblong, 3.5-9 × 2-3.5 cm in size.
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It is attached to the host tree by a globular woody base. The stems and foliage are smooth. The thick leathery leaves are spear-shaped (lanceolate) to oval or obovate and measure in length and across. Flowers can be seen at any time of year.
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Perrierodendron occidentale grows as a tree up to tall. Its chartaceous leaves are obovate to elliptical in shape. They are coloured brown above, green below and measure up to long. The inflorescences bear one to five flowers, each with five sepals and five petals.
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Perrierodendron capuronii grows as a tree up to tall. Its chartaceous to subcoriaceous leaves are obovate in shape. They are coloured brown above, greenish brown below and measure up to long. The inflorescences bear one to seven flowers, each with five sepals and five petals.
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Saurauia montana is a tropical tree found in Honduras, Costa Rica, and Panama. It grows between 3 and 10 meters tall. The obovate leaves are toothed and can reach 30 cm in length. The Latin specific epithet montana refers to mountains or coming from mountains.
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It is a tree species, 1.5–5 m high, open branching, sometimes with a canopy almost 2 m in diameter. Defined trunk, 200 x 20 cm, grayish to blackish, spiny, bark with scales in wavy longitudinal bands. Widely obovate cladodios, 22-35 x 15-25 x 1–3 cm, bright, greenish yellow to dark green blue, coated with white wax, pruinous. Epidermis glabra, opaque. Areolas arranged in 10-16 series, 2–3 cm distant from each other, circular pyriforms at the base of the cladode and obovate to piriforms at the top, inclusive, 4–6 mm x 2 mm, brown felt in the center and blackish around the areola.
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E. brachyglossum is a sympodial epiphyte with slender, simply-branching or pairedSchweinfurth "Orchids of Peru" Fieldiana: Botany 30(1960)415 stems which produce thick roots from a short section at the base. The stems are covered in loose, dry sheaths and bear two to several linear-oblong leaves, up to 12 cm × 2 cm, on the upper part. The elongate inflorescence arises from the apex of the stem, through one or two spathes, and terminates in a many-flowered raceme. The fleshy flowers are mostly green: the concave obovate-oblong to obovate-oblong sepals a darker shade, and the linear-oblanceolate-acute, three-nerved petals a lighter shade.
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Both the upper and lower glumes may have apices ranging from blunt to abruptly pointed. The lower glume is 5 to 7 mm long with 3 to 7 veins and an oblong to elliptical outline. The upper one is slightly larger, measuring 6 to 9 mm long with 5 to 9 veins and an ovate to broadly elliptical shape. Bromus interruptus flowers, separated from a seed head or spikelet, each showing a ripe seed (caryopsis) and a deeply split palea The lemmas, the outer of the two husks enclosing a flower, measure 7.5 to 9 mm long by 5 to 5.5 mm wide and have an obovate to obovate-elliptic outline.
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The large obovate (shaped like an egg), drooping 'falls' have reddish-purple veins on a white or yellowish signal. The smaller, erect obovate standards are 4–5 cm long and 1.5 cm wide. It has perianth tube of 8–10 mm long, 3 cm long white filaments, yellow anthers, a cylindric ovary 1.5–2 cm long by 3–4 mm wide, and a reddish- purple style branches 3.5 cm long by 5 mm wide. In July and September (after the iris has flowered), it produces a seed capsule, which is ellipsoid / cylindric in form and measures 3.5–5 cm long by 1.2–1.5 cm wide.
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Plants of M. burchellii without leaves resemble M. coriacea plants without leaves and it is almost impossible to separate the two taxa in this condition. M. burchellii can be distinguished from M. coriacea by the linear or narrowly elliptic or very narrowly obovate leaves with a single main vein and entire margins; in M. coriacea, the leaves are mostly obovate, sometimes elliptic to broadly elliptic with 3 to 5 main veins and entire or apically few, broad dentate margins. Although M. coriacea mostly has solitary or 2-headed synflorescences while M. burchellii usually has corymbosely arranged capitula, solitary capitula are also sometimes found in M. burchellii.
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The Cadellia tree grows to be about 10 m - rarely 25 m in height. It has leaves that are alternate, undivided and obovate or "oval" in shape. Flowering occurs from about October to December. The flowers have five white petals, about 5–7 mm in length.
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Toihaan Publishing Company, Kota Kinabalu. Climbing plant with upper pitchers The leaves of N. bicalcarata are petiolate and coriaceous in texture. The lamina is obovate-lanceolate in form and also reaches huge dimensions, growing to 80 cm in length and 12 cm in width.Danser, B.H. 1928. 4.
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They have a pale yellowish-brown color, dotted with dull purple spots. The outer surface is downy. The obovate, dorsal sepal is erect, while the lateral sepals are fused (synsepals) with a small split at their apex. The elliptic petals are much shorter and with ciliated margins.
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The inflorescence is composed by a cluster with four cup-shaped broad flowers. Each flower is carried by a rather long pedicel. Flowers may be white, pink or purplish. Petals are 18 to 23 mm long, obovate, usually somewhat wrinkled and three times longer than the calyx.
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Adenodolichos rupestris grows as a woody herb, measuring up to long. The leaves consist of three elliptic or obovate leaflets, measuring up to long, glabrous above and pubescent below. Inflorescences, in racemes, feature purplish flowers. The fruits are oblanceolate or falcate pods measuring up to long.
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Rhodoleia championii is a small evergreen tree growing to a height of about . The bark is smooth and dark brown. The leathery, glossy-green leaves are stalked, oblong or obovate, measuring by . The leaf base is broadly tapering and the apex is obtuse or widely acute.
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The obovate petals are deep purple, long and up to wide, and have notched margins. The filaments are long, bearing anthers. The pistils are 2–2.5 mm long and bear a rough stigma. Fertilized flowers mature to form a by egg-shaped, two-parted seed capsules.
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It has a sharply reflexed blade and dense central beard of white hairs, which are tipped in purple or lilac. The haft (section closest to the stem) is whitish veined with purple. The erect standards are narrowly obovate and long, and between 1–1.25 cm wide.
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A medium size slender shrub reaching , often unbranched with reddish brown petioles. Leaves compound, even pinnate reaching meter in length. Each compound leaf consists of 30 to 40 leaflets, lanceolate to obovate-lanceolate. Each leaflet is about long, wide, and much paler on the ventral side.
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The tree grows up to 25 meters in height. The bark is gray with fissures. Leaf blade is obovate elliptic with light green midrib and dense black dots at under surface. Leaf apex has a clear mucronate spike and leaf stalk is 2–3 cm long.
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Shell minute to small (adult length 1,5 to 6.0 mm). Color white, hyaline; surface smooth, glossy. Shape cylindrical, elliptic, or obovate; weakly to distinctly shouldered. Suture rapidly descending on last half of last whorl, then abruptly sweeping upward just before lip, giving characteristic shape to adult shell.
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Its leaves are sessile (having no stem), and are elliptic to obovate, with margins which are usually toothed (dentate). They are from 8–30 mm long by 2–9 mm wide. It flowers in spikes which are to 12 cm long. The bracts are leaf- like.
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The fruit is purplish. The cladodes are uniquely shaped, obovate with a neck. The original description claimed the plants were yellowish green, but they may be green or rarely blue-green. As with any largish Opuntia in the USA, O. anahuacensis has been mistaken for other species.
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Fruit is between in diameter, globose and green when ripe. Seeds are obovate, narrowly winged at the apex and acute at the base, pale brown, pubescent with hair-like outgrowths of the integument cell radial walls, which give the surface a silky appearance. Chromosome number: n=12 .
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The cactus consists of smooth obovate to orbicular shaped pads that are connected to each other by the bottom edge or pad margin. Each pad is from in width and in length, but is usually wider than it is long.Opuntia macrocentra in Flora of North America @ efloras.org .
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The species' rachis is scaorus while it branches are scabrous. It spikelets are obconic and are violet in colour. It also have filiform pedicels which are curved and puberulent. The species' lower glume is long and wide and is also either obovate or flabelliform and papery-membranous.
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Stylidium longicornu is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the genus Stylidium (family Stylidiaceae). It is an annual plant that grows from 10 to 30 cm tall. The obovate to spathulate leaves form a basal rosettes around the stem. The leaves are around 4–6 mm long.
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Alyssum troodi is a 10–25 cm high perennial subshrub. Leaves 5–10 mm long obovate-spatulate, covered with a silvery indumentum. Flowering and sterile shoots on the same plant, On the sterile shots the leaves form terminal clusters. Flowers have 3 mm long golden-yellow petals.
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Leaves are alternate, up to 4 cm long and 1 cm wide. The shape of lower cauline leaves is quite variable. Usually they are obovate-obtuse, but in some cases may be spatulate-lanceolate. The upper cauline leaves are gradually reduced in width to become almost linear.
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Leaves are bipinnately compound, the leaflets pinnately lobed with broad obovate lobes. Flowers are white, borne in dense compound umbels at the top of the flowering stalk.Davidse, G., M. Sousa Sánchez, S. Knapp & F. Chiang Cabrera. 2009. Cucurbitaceae a Polemoniaceae. 4(1): i–xvi, 1–855.
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The outer staminodes are shorter than the labellum. The labellum is yellowish, with a yellow ribbon in its center and it is obovate, with a length from . Three carpels are under a constant, trilobed ovary adherent, which is sparsely hairy. The fruit capsule opens with three compartments.
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Gunniopsis zygophylloides, commonly known as the twin-leaf pigface, is a succulent plant in the iceplant family, Aizoaceae. It is endemic to Australia. The greenish perennial shrub typically grows to a height of . It has green to yellow-green leaves that are ovate to obovate in shape.
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Petals on B. elongata are bright yellow to orange yellow with its apex rounded and mostly obovate. It reaches about and its sepals to about in length. The filaments are in length with anthers. The fruits have a valvular section with 5–11 seeds per locule.
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Pedicels are up to 10 mm long and have a filiform bracteole. Sepals are obovate to oblong in shape and up to 4 mm long. Inflorescences have a dense indumentum of short hairs. Developing pitchers are also densely covered with short hairs, but most of these are caducous.
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Axinaea affinis is a large shrub or small tree. The inflorescences are terminal pannicles of flowers with parts in five. The calyx is blunt and the petals are oblong or obovate and white or flushed with pink, red or purple. The stamens are black with bright orange inflated appendages.
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This is a shrub or small tree, growing to a height of about 5m. It has obovate leaves ; these are shiny green above, and as with all whitebeams, are whitish below. Flowers are white, while the fruits are red globose berries ca.1cm across, usually dappled with pale lenticels.
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Hakea prostrata is a shrub which grows to between in height with spreading branchlets. The oblong-obovate stem-clasping leaves have prickly edges and a central vein. Plentiful sweetly scented white or cream flowers are produced in axillary racemose inflorescences between July and October in its native range.
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It also has a peduncle which is terete, tuberculate and is thick and long. The species spathe is white in colour, is obovate, and is tall. It is also blunt or shortly mucronate with flowering spadix being deep green to greenish gold coloured and is long and thick.
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Its lemma have ciliated margins and truncate apex while the fertile lemma is chartaceous, keelless, obovate and is . Its palea is long while the rhachilla internodes are long. Flowers are long, fleshy, oblong and truncate. They also grow together, have 2 lodicules and 3 anthers which are long.
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S. nervosum in Hong Kong The leaves of S. nervosum are elliptical, obovate and glaborous, measuring 7–9 cm in length. Flowers cluster as greenish white trichomatous pannicles. The blossoms have 4 petals. The 7–12 cm diameter fruits are ovoid with a concave tip and a wrinkled texture.
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They are pinnately divided, with 4-9 obovate, alternate, leaflets, on a flattened rachis. The inflorescence bears one or two yellow to orange or red pealike flowers, each with a corolla one half to one centimeter across. The fruit is a legume pod 1 to 3 centimeters long.
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They are hardy, surviving in dry to very dry environments or cold spells. The small, alternate, entire leaves are elliptic to obovate. They have short petioles at the base of the stem but are sessile in the upper half. The solitary inflorescence grows at the top of the branches.
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Quercus edithiae is a tree up to 20 m. tall with hairless twigs. The leathery leaves are glabrous, oblong-elliptic to obovate, 50-160 × 20–60 mm, with a 20–30 mm petiole. The acorn is ellipsoid to cylindric-ellipsoid, 30-45 × 20–30 mm, with a scar approx.
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Grevillea cheilocarpa is a shrub of the genus Grevillea native to a small area in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia. The shrub typically grows to in height and has non-glaucous branchlets. It has simple undissected flat leaves that have an obovate shape and are long and wide.
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Leaves are roundish or obovate, 7 to 15 cm long, 4 to 8 cm wide. Leaf edges are somewhat wavy toothed (crenate), other leaves not toothed. The underleaf is a glaucous white with small hairs, particularly on the leaf veins. The leaf stem is 3 to 6 mm long.
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The lamina or leaf blade is obovate-lanceolate to lanceolate in shape. It measure up to 30 cm in length by 7.5 cm in width. The apex of the lamina is rounded or shortly acuminate and may be slightly peltate. The lamina is abruptly attenuate towards the base.
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The falls are obovate (in shape), with markings or veins around a central yellowish or whitish beard. They are long and 1.2–1.5 cm wide, and have curled up edges. The erect standards are oblanceolate, and are long and 0.8–1.0 cm wide. They also have curled up edges.
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Grevillea victoriae is a shrub that grows to between 0.2 and 4 metres in height. It has obovate to ovate leaves that range between 1.5 and 14 cm in length and 0.5 to 4.5 cm in width. Pendant clusters of red or orange flowers appear in spring and summer.
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The petiole is long and has membranous wings lined on each side. Leaves are obovate or elliptic or more broadly, about by . The base of leaves is gradually small and blade margin is slightly undulate to serrate and broad-acute to rounded at apex. Margins have soft hairs.
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140px The tree has a broader crown than its siblings', whilst the generally obovate leaves, < 11 cm long by 7 cm wide, are less acuminate at the apex. Like 'Lobel', the tree flushes markedly later than most other elms, and is rarely in full leaf before mid-May.
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The style protrudes out and the stigma is somewhat spherical. The fruits are obovate and furrowed on each side, with their color ranging from red to brown, with a dark pink being the prominent color when ripe. The flowering season of the plant is from July to August.
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The prostrate perennial herb often forms a low growing mat. It is usually pubescent or sometimes glabrous and roots at nodes. The deep green leaves are in length and wide. The leave blade is oblong, elliptic or linear in shape or the lower ones ovate or obovate in shape.
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Ardisia elliptica is a tropical understory shrub that can reach heights of up 5 meters. Undamaged plants in forest habitats are characterized by a single stem, producing short, perpendicular branches. Leaves are elliptic to elliptic-obovate, entire, leathery and alternate. Umbellate inflorescences develop in leaf axils of branch leaves.
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The green to grayish leaf blades can be elliptic, ovate, obovate, spatulate, or linear-oblanceolate, with entire margins and prominent midveins. Espacially at the tips, the leaves are hariy with simple or branched hairs. The leaves have a "normal" (non-Kranz) anatomy. The plants are dioecious or monoecious.
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The ovary is broadly ovate and tapers upwards, terminating into five styles that are recurved at their apex. The stigma is obtuse and downy. The calyx is composed of five large, lax, and obovate sepals. The sepals are united at their base and their membranous margins are denticulate.
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Rhododendron campylogynum (独龙杜鹃) is a rhododendron species native to northeast India and northeast Myanmar, where it grows at altitudes of 3500–4500 metres. It is a small creeping or prostrate shrub that grows 0.05–0.3 m in height, with leathery leaves, obovate to obovate-lanceolate in shape, up to 2.5 cm by 1.5 cm but often much smaller. The leaves are glandular and are strongly scented of myrrh when crushed. Flowers are purplish red or pink colour and of a distinctive simple, somewhat nodding, bell shape borne singly or in pairs on a short stalk. In cultivation in the UK the cultivar group ‘Myrtilloides Group‘ has gained the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit.
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The petals are elliptic to obovate, also only 1mm long and hairy. The flowers have 35 to 45 stamens each, with 1.5mm long filaments and 0.5 to 0.7mm long anthers. The fruits are purplishblack when ripe, have thick mesocarps, and endocarps which are glabrous inside. Its seeds have glabrous testa.
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The fleshy, bare, obovate, wedge-shaped leaf blade is 3 to 9 centimetres long and 1.8 to 4 centimetres wide. The sharp-edged leaf margins are often reddish. Numerous varieties and cultivars have been selected, of which C. ovata 'Hummel's Sunset' has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
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It is found in coastal areas as a wild plant, and is frequently planted in gardens. It has a low-growing and sprawling habit. It can form dense stands and become invasive. The leaves are obovate or obcordate in outline, about 2in long, thick, glossy, and deep green in color.
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Reddish in mass, the spores are obovate (egg-shaped, with the broad extremity located away from the base), smooth, thick-walled, and measure 11–16 (typically 12–15) by 7–10 μm. They have a beaked pedicel that is 2–4 by 2–5 μm, and a basal germ pore.
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Detail of flowers of the Dune crow-berry. It is a multibranched evergreen shrub or small tree, reaching a height of 3 metres and a similar spread. The leaf stalks (petioles) are about 2 mm in length. Each leaflet is obovate-cuneate with three distinct bumps at the broad tip (tricrenate).
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The peduncle is thick and erect. It has inflorescences of three, secund, 30 cm tall or more. There are few bracts on this plant and they are all very close together, are obovate, acuminate, keeled, are 18 mm thick, and are pruinose. Pedicels are very short (up to 3 mm thick).
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Tree, 5-10m high: young branchlets acutely quad-rangular or very narrowly quadrialate. Leaves simple, opposite, elliptic or obovate, 3–8 cm wide, 6–16 cm long: petiole acutely ridged. Inflorescence in terminal and axillary spike; flower small, yellowish white. Fruit dry, thinly quadrialate: seed brownish red, ellipsoid, 4- angled.
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They are cm long and 2.4–4 cm wide. They have a central whitish crest area, which is spotted with darker lilac and a deep yellow, or orange-yellow. The edges of the petal are wavy, frilled or ruffled. The standards are narrowly obovate, cm long and 1-1.3 cm wide.
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The panicle is contracted, linear, long and wide. The main panicle branches are whorled and are long with scabrous axis. Spikelets are solitary and obovate with fertile spikelets being pedicelled, pedicels of which are ciliated, curved, and filiform. The spikelets have two fertile florets which are diminished at the apex.
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4.0~6.0 mm; oblong, obcordate- trilobate, narrowly oblong to elliptic, dark green to yellow-green, sometimes mottled; alternate on young branchlets or confined to the tips of brachyblasts;coriaceous or submembranous; adult lamina: 2.8~4.0 ?3.0~4.0 mm; orbicular, obovate, apex obcordate or obtuse; confined to the tips of brachyblasts; coriaceous.
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Ardisia solanacea is a 1.5 to 6 meters high evergreen shrub or small tree. The thick branches are usually colored red. The bark is smooth and brown. The glabrous leaves are inversely lanceolate, obovate-elliptical or elongated, they are 7.5 to 17 cm long and 2.5 to 7 cm wide.
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The shrub is high and wide and is pale yellow in colour. Its stems are erect and terete while its stipules are triangular and are in height. Its petioles are long with obovate to obcordate leaflets. Flowers are scattered 6-10 racemes and are long with axillar peduncles which are .
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The radical leaves have a long petiole, whilst the leaves on the flowering stalks are usually sessile or with short petioles. The glossy leaves are alternate, ternate, consisting of three obovate leaflets with serrated margins. The paired stipules are leaflike and palmately lobed. There are 2–8 dry, inedible fruits.
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It is a dense shrub growing to 3 m in height. The glossy, bright green, obovate to elliptic leaves are 20–70 mm long, 35 mm wide, with slightly recurved edges. The flowers are small and green, 6–8 mm long. The egg-shaped green fruits are 6–7 mm long.
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This species is a shrub, growing up to 3 metres in height. Its leaves are narrow-obovate to round or elliptic to narrow-elliptic . The flowers which are red, or occasionally pink, appear predominantly from late winter to late spring (August to November in Australia) but appear sporadically throughout the year.
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The obovate to oblong seedling leaves are long by wide with serrated margins, v-shaped sinuses and sharp teeth. The related Banksia caleyi is similar in appearance but can be distinguished by its recurved (downward curving) leaf margins, and smaller follicles and perianths. Its flowers appear from October to December.
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The shape is elliptical to oblong or obovate, moderately to strongly shouldered (pl V bottom). The spire is immersed or near so (pl V top). The aperture is narrow to moderately broad, wider anteriorly. The lip is moderately strongly thickened, weakly to strongly denticulate in adults, with a distinct external varix.
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The bark is grey, shiny and smooth, with paler patches where pieces have peeled off. The leaves are alternate and pinnate, with five to seven oblong or obovate leaflets with pointed tips. The tree flowers during the dry season. The flowers are hermaphrodite, small, yellowish-green in axillary or terminal panicles.
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The members of the genus grow as shrubs to small trees, with simple green obovate to elliptical leaves and new growth covered in reddish hairs. The flowers are fragrant and arranged in terminal racemes. Flowers are followed by small round red fruit, which are highly toxic. The seeds are round.
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Stylidium darwinii is a small, erect annual plant that belongs to the genus Stylidium (family Stylidiaceae). It grows up to tall. Elliptic-oblong or obovate to orbicular leaves are scattered and alternate along the simple, glabrous stem. The leaves are generally 2–3 mm long and 1.5-1.8 mm wide.
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The spur (an extension of the floral tube) is conical and reaches a length of 3–4 mm. Fertilized flowers form an obovate to elliptic seed pod 2–4 mm long and 2–3 mm wide. The chromosome count for the species is 2n=18, another unique feature within the genus.
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Schizolaena capuronii grows as a tree up to tall with a trunk diameter of up to . Its subcoriaceous leaves are elliptic to obovate in shape, coloured dark brown and measure up to long. The inflorescences are small and have six to ten flowers, each with five petals. The fruits are unknown.
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It is a tree, and sometimes the dominant canopy tree, that typically grows to 12–15 meters in height, with leathery leaves that are elliptic to obovate in shape and usually about 1 foot in length. Flowers are white to cream, pale yellow, or pinkish, with a prominent purple blotch.
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Pseudowintera traversii is a densely branched shrub growing up to high. It has coriaceous leaves that are long and ovate or obovate. The leaves are green- blue underneath and matte green on top, close-set and on stout petioles. The leaves may have reddish margins, but lack the picturesque blotches of P. colorata.
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Leaves are elliptic, narrowly ovate-round or obovate-elliptic 4.2-10.5 cm long and 2.2-4.0 cm wide, and glabrous; the petioles are 5–8 mm long. The fruit has one seed in it, the seed is only 8 mm long. Flowers have five petals and they are yellow or yellowish-green.
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The leaf blades are leathery, obovate or elliptical, with entire margins, and are borne on short, grooved petioles. They measure up to and have wedge-shaped bases and either tapering or blunt apexes. The inflorescence is a cyme growing in the axil of a leaf. The individual flowers are either male or female.
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The leaves are simple, spirally arranged, obovate, 10–16 cm long and 5–8 cm wide. The base is acutely acuminate, long cuneate, apex rounded caudate. Glossy and dark green, the petioles are short with short soft hairs. Fruits are in capsule form in flat circular outline containing four large winged seeds.
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Branchlets Young branchlets angular, glabrous. Leaves Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; petiole ca. 0.3 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, glabrous; lamina 7-10 x 4.5–5 cm, elliptic to obovate, apex obtuse, base subcordate and asymmetric, margin serrate, glabrous; midrib canaliculate above; secondary nerves ca. 8 pairs; tertiary nerves obliquely distantly percurrent.
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Young leaves are pressed tightly together. The obovate to oblate lanceolate leaf blade is pointed toward its apex and wedge-shaped at the base. It is 5 to 15 inches long, 1 to 4.5 inches wide and 1.5 to 3 millimeters thick. The green, usually purple-colored, glossy leaf surface is almost bare.
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Binukaw is an evergreen tree growing to a maximum height of around with a trunk around in diameter. The leaves are oblong to obovate around long and wide. The flowers are reddish to creamy white in color. The fruits are round berries, around in diameter with a juicy pulp and numerous seeds.
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The light grey bark is fairly smooth, though lumpy and folded. The smooth leaves are up to 13 cm long and oblong-obovate. They have parallel sides and are carried on slender petioles. The large (up to 5 cm), bitter-tasting figs appear in groups of 2 or 3 during the summer months.
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Macrotyloma uniflorum is a perennial climbing plant with a rhizome, growing to a height of about . The stem sprouts from the rhizome each year. It is clad in varying amounts of whitish hairs and bears alternate, trifoliate leaves with petioles up to long. The leaflets are obovate or elliptical, and up to long.
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The color of the petals can range from darkish pink to purple. The flower shape is obovate with 3-5 x 1.5-3 millimeters in size. The stamens in size of 5-12 millimeters but can reach up to 37 millimeters. The stigmas can be of the size of between 3-6 millimeters.
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The Cassia tora is an herbaceous annual foetid herb. The plant can grow tall and consists of alternative pinnate leaves with leaflets mostly with three opposite pairs that are obovate in shape with a rounded tip. The leaves grow up to 3–4.5 centimeters long. The stems have distinct smelling foliage when young.
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The panicle is open, linear, is long with scaberulous axis. Spikelets are obovate, solitary and have fertile spikelets that are pediceled. The pedicels are filiform, curved, pubescent, and hairy above. The spikelets have 1 fertile floret which is diminished at the apex while the sterile florets are barren, cuneate, clumped and are long.
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The yellow forms can sometimes have spots, of brown-purple. Like other irises, it has two pairs of petals, three large sepals (outer petals), known as 'falls' and three inner, smaller petals (or tepals), known as 'standards'. The obovate or cuneate falls, curl under themselves, and are flaring. They can be long.
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Magnolia boliviana is a tree of 30 m with a trunk of 50–75 cm in diameter. The smooth ovate-elliptic leaves are 12–29 cm long and 7.5–12 cm wide. The flowers have 6 obovate white petals ca. 6 cm long; the ovoid fruit can be 11–14 cm long.
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Yermo xanthocephalus is a perennial, herbaceous plant growing up to in height with alternate, leathery leaves. The leaves are lanceolate to obovate, up to in length and in width. The leaves produce a mild numbing sensation in the mouth when ingested. Numerous flowerheads (25–180) are crowded at the top of the stem.
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P. tanneri have an emarginated and lanceolated lobes which are obovate to oblong with a light to deep purple colored corolla which can also be blue or white. Tubes of these species can be long while the limb is wide. Flowers are heterostyly with stamens toward the apex and bloom in May.
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Each leaf is typically linear-obovate (though this varies greatly), and has a slightly waxy surface. During drought or sun exposure, the leaves can develop a purple colour. Its slender spike-like inflorescence bears pale yellow-white flowers. The key distinguishing character of this species is its roughly canaliculate dorsal petal appendage.
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Sagenopteris trapialensis comprises palmately arranged leaves with 4 ovate to obovate leaflets with anastomosing venation. The central leaflets are almost symmetrical, whereas the lateral ones are markedly asymmetrical. Various types of anastomoses are present, and dichotomies are simple. Leaves of various sizes and forms were found, ranging from less than 5 mm.
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The perianth of each flower is tubular and purplish-black, long, with two whorls of three perianth lobes, the outer three narrowly oblong and the inner three broadly obovate. The fruits are fleshy berries some long, and the seeds, which have six longitudinal ridges, have the remains of the perianth lobes still attached.
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The flowers have five petals, sepals, and stamens. The white petals are often obovate to oblong. The inflorescences contain fifteen to forty-five pubescent rays, 1–10 cm in length, which surround about thirty small disk flowers. The peduncles which hold the entire inflorescence are glabrous or pubescent and 5–20 cm long.
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The lower nodes on the stem have greatly reduced rudimentary leaves. The calyx tube is obovate in shape and 1 mm long, covered with densely pubescent hairs along with grayish white appressed trichomes. Stamens are very short, being 1 mm long. The anthers are yellowish white in color, narrowly ovoid in shape.
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The leaves are alternate or whorled along the stems, and spear- to egg-shaped (lanceolate to obovate) in shape. They measure 4–13 cm (1.6–5.2 in) long and 1–3 cm (0.4–1.2 in) wide. The leaf margins are entire or have occasional serrations. The leaf undersurface is white, with a midrib.
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These are dull green with three veins, and the margin of the wedge may be red and crenulated (lined with small teeth). The hypocotyl is red and measures high. Seedlings have hairy stems and leaves that are oppositely arranged (arising from the stem in pairs) that are obovate with triangular-lobed serrate margins.
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Hakea nitida is an erect shrub typically grows to a height of and does not form a lignotuber. It blooms from July to September and produces white-cream and yellow flowers. The plant has glabrous branchlets that are not glaucous. The flat rigid leaves are subpetiolate with a narrowly elliptic to obovate shape.
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In the form of a reversed cone. Oblique. Slanting, as the aperture of some shells when not parallel to the longitudinal axis. Obovate. Reversed ovate, as some shells when the diameter is greater near the upper than at the lower part. Obtuse. Dull or blunt, as the apex of some gastropods. Olfactory.
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In 2007, a second species, Condylago furculifera, was described from Panama. The differences from Condylago rodrigoi include sepals which are more sparsely developed and less white more villous (shaggy), the absence of decurrent basal lobes on the obovate-pan-durate petals, and a viscid lip-callus that is ovate rather than orbicular.
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Schizolaena gereaui grows as a shrub or tree up to tall with a trunk diameter of up to . Its subcoriaceous leaves are elliptic to obovate in shape and coloured chocolate brown above and khaki brown below. They measure up to long. The inflorescences have one to three flowers, each with five petals.
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Wahlenbergia saxicola, commonly known as the rock bluebell, is a herbaceous plant in the family Campanulaceae native to Tasmania in Australia. The perennial herb forms loose mats of foliage typically grows to a height of . The leaves have a spathulate to obovate or lanceolate shape. It blooms throughout the year producing blue flowers.
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This cycad contains reddish seed cones with a distinct acuminate tip. The leaves are long, with 5-30 pairs of leaflets (pinnae). Each leaflet is linear to lanceolate or oblong-obovate, 8–25 cm long and 0.5–2 cm broad, with distinct teeth at the tip. They are often revolute, with prickly petioles.
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The oblanceolate-oblong dorsal sepal is 5 mm long, the obovate-oblong lateral sepals are slightly longer and noticeably broader. The lanceolate- liner petals are shorter than the sepals. The trilobate lip is adnate to the column to its apex. The lateral lobes of the lip are shaped like a half-moon.
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This species is a perennial herb. Its rhizome is creeping, and measures in diameter. Its leaves are apart, its strong petiole measuring about ; the lamina is obovate and acuminate, measuring about . Its peduncle measures long; its perigone is campanulate and purple, measuring long and in diameter, possessing 6 lobes, each with 2 keels.
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Perrierodendron quartzitorum grows as a shrub or small tree up to tall. Its chartaceous to subcoriaceous leaves are obovate to elliptical in shape. They are coloured dark green above, pale green below and measure up to long. The inflorescences bear one to three flowers, each with five sepals and five white petals.
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It is robust tree, usually 5 to 10m tall. Its bark is a dark purplishbrown with prominent lenticles. Young spring leaves are an attractive bronze color. The serrated leaves have a 0.8 to 1.2cm petiole, and are obovate-oblong or broadly elliptic, from 4.5 to 12cm long and 2.7 to 5.5cm wide.
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The shrub usually has many branches and can have an erect or straggling form. It will typically grow to a height of . The leaves appressed to slightly spreading against the stem, fat and succulent, with a linear to narrowly obovate shape. They are approximately in length and wide with an obtuse apex.
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Salix serpillifolia, also known as thyme-leaved willow, can reach a height of and a length of about . This plant develop woody, dark brown, longitudinally striated, creeping stems. The leaves are tiny, simple, subsessile, spathulate to obovate, without stipules. The upper side is glabrous, glossy dark green covered with a thin waxy layer.
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The leaves grow in an alternate arrangement. Leaf shape can range from oblong, broadly obovate to ovate. Leaf edges are commonly dentate (toothed) or irregularly lobed. Many leaves tend to droop downward, giving the tree the appearance that it is wilting, when in fact it could have a sufficient amount of water available.
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There are five subspecies of B. elongata: elongata, imdrhasiana, integrifolia, pinnatifida and subscaposa. The stems extend out from the base and are branched basally. The basal leaves are obovate to elliptic () and its margins are sub-entire to dentate. The cauline leaves have oblong or lanceolate leaves that are up to in length.
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Perrierodendron rodoense grows as a tree up to tall with a trunk diameter of up to . Its chartaceous to subcoriaceous leaves are obovate in shape. They are coloured dark brown above, light brown below and measure up to long. The inflorescences bear a single flower with five sepals and five whitish petals.
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Sargent's cherry in 300px Prunus sargentii is a deciduous tree that grows 20–40 feet or 6-12 meter in height. Its crown spreads to a width of 20–40 feet. New growth is a reddish or bronze in color, which changes to shiny dark green. The leaves are obovate and have serrated margins.
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The falls have an obovate limb (part of the petal beside the stem), they are long and 1.5 cm wide. In the centre of the petal is a beard. The erect standards are oblanceolate and long and 4 cm wide. It has 1.5 cm long stamens, and style branches that are 3.5 cm long.
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The common name, cat-thorn, refers to the thorns that look like a cat's claw. Leaves are ovate to obovate in shape, often notched at the apex, but always with mucronulate tip, opposite with usually entire margin, sometimes wavy. The fruit is a berry with black skin and white flesh containing 2 to 3 seeds.
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The filament is 0.53mm long, dilated and concave. The anthers are oblong-linear and 3.5mm long. The apical glands are 0.28 in length, ovate in shape, with a somewhat sharp tip (subacute), and somewhat swollen on the inner face. The ovary is 2.1mm long, obovate-oblong in shape, and covered in long, reddish-yellow hairs.
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It has a rounded crown with spreading branches with smooth, grey bark. Twigs are dark red/brown in colour, hairless and somewhat shiny. It has large buds, either hairless or with stiff, erect hairs. Leaves are oblong to narrow/obovate, normally between 7 and 12 cm long and 2 to 3 cm in width.
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Leaves are ovate to orbicular or reniform, rigid, 1-4.5 cm long, 1–3 cm wide. Inflorescence is a three-flowered dichasium, or just a single flower; calyx-lobes deltoid, blunt-tipped, 3.5–4 mm. wide at base, about 3.5 mm. long, externally covered by tiny coarse hairs; petals 4, obovate, about 7 mm.
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The obovate shaped, standards are long,. They widen gradually to from haft to a rounded apex. It has a 2.5 cm long perianth tube, which is green with a purple tinge. It has short pedicels (flower stalks), and oblong shaped styles, which are 2.5 cm long, and similar in colour to the flower petals.
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Duboisia myoporoides, or corkwood, is a shrub or tree native to high-rainfall areas on the margins of rainforest in eastern Australia. It has a thick and corky bark. The leaves are obovate to elliptic in shape, 4–15 cm long and 1–4 cm wide. The small white flowers are produced in clusters.
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The falls are obovate or cuneate shaped, and long. They often curl under, or are reflexed.Kelly Norris They have 'hafts' (section near to the stem) that are veined with brown, or brownish purple. In the centre of each of the falls, is a white beard tipped with yellow, or yellow, or dark yellow beard.
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Catalano, M. 2010. Nepenthes suratensis M. Catal. sp. nov. In: Nepenthes della Thailandia: Diario di viaggio. Prague. p. 36. The lamina shape is also distinct, being linear to lanceolate. Both N. kerrii and N. kongkandana have obovate laminae, whereas those of N. bokorensis are wider (up to 8 cm versus up to 3.5 cm).
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The stem of N. beccariana is glabrous and 10 to 12 mm wide. A lower pitcher of N. cf. beccariana with sympatric N. ampullaria and N. gracilis Leaves are subcoriaceous and petiolate. The lamina or leaf blade is elliptic-lanceolate to obovate in shape. It is up to 40 cm long by 9 cm wide.
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The main panicle branches are indistinct and almost racemose. Spikelets are oblong, solitary, and have fertile spikelets that have filiformed pedicels. Both the upper and lower glumes are keelless, membranous, with obtuse apexes. Their other features are different though; Lower glume is obovate and is long while their upper one is lanceolate and is long.
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Trees or shrubs from high, with irregular to conical shaped crown and branches growing almost horizontally, giving the tree the appearance of a Chinese pagoda. Leaves dark green, leathery, obovate, of long, wide; borne on short twigs. Inflorescences in corymbs of long; flowers greenish white to pale yellow; fruits green, ca. wide, with numerous seeds.
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Smooth aster is tall. Its leaves are arranged alternately on the stems, and their shape varies between lanceolate, oblong-ovate, oblong-obovate, and ovate. They measure from long and from wide. They are usually hairless, and the leaf edges are entire or bluntly or sharply toothed (crenate or serrate), sometimes with smaller teeth (serrulate).
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After the iris has flowered, between July and September. it produces a yellow green, ellipsoid, or obovate seed capsule, which is 4 cm long and 2 cm wide, with a short beak, and yellow green with 6 ribs. Inside the capsules, are reddish brown, pyriform (pear-shaped) seeds, which are about 7 mm long.
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It grows in "sparsely vegetated washes, steep slopes, hilltops, gravelly, clayey, and sandy soils composed of volcanic ash." It is characterized as an erect perennial herb with white-hairy stems. Plants are generally between 6-14 inches tall. The leaves are up to 3 inches long, are obovate to lanceolate, and have serrate margins.
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They are lanceolate or obovate, with a light middle veins. There are sloping stipules present. The leaves and flowers are also edible.JTA Oliveira, IM Vasconcelos, LCNM Bezerra, SB Silveira, ACO Monteiro, RA Moreira (2000) Composition and nutritional properties of seeds from Pachira aquatica Aubl, Sterculia striata St Hil et alud and Terminalia catappa Linn.
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Chionanthus quadristamineus is a pale-barked, evergreen tree, growing to 15 m in height. The leathery, broadly elliptic to narrowly obovate leaves are 5–12 cm long and 3–6 cm wide. The small green flowers are 5 mm in diameter. The egg-shaped fruits are 5–6 cm long and dark blue when ripe.
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They are long and wide, obovate in shape with mucronate tips. The dentate (toothed) margins are lined irregularly with long teeth, separated by u-shaped sinuses. The leaves are undulate (wavy) with white undersurfaces, the midrib raised underneath and depressed above. The cylindrical yellow inflorescences (flower spikes), arise from one- to three-year-old branches.
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A large and impressive tree, growing to 45 metres tall, and 150 cm in trunk diameter. The outer bark is smooth, grey and thin with corky irregularities. The trunk is cylindrical though very buttressed, particularly in larger trees. Leaves are obovate or elliptical, alternate and toothed in the upper two thirds of the leaf.
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Image showing relative size This species grows up to 40 metres tall. It has gray-brown, fissured bark, with mottled streaks.Edible Nut Trees - Rhora's Nut Farm & Nursery The branchlets are a purplish-brown colour, and are slender and sparsely villous. The leaves range from ovate to obovate-elliptic and have a doubly serrated, irregular margin.
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Stylidium javanicum is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the genus Stylidium (family Stylidiaceae). It is an erect annual plant that grows from 5 to 21 cm tall. Obovate or elliptical leaves, about 10-30 per plant, are scattered along the stems. The leaves are generally 1.7-4.5 mm long and 0.9-2.1 mm wide.
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The fragrant flowers, come in shades of violet, or purple. Like other irises, it has 2 pairs of petals, 3 large sepals (outer petals), known as the 'falls' and 3 inner, smaller petals (or tepals), known as the 'standards'. The falls are obovate to cuneate (wedge shaped), and long, and 2.2–3 cm wide.
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Stylidium cordifolium is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the genus Stylidium (family Stylidiaceae). It is an erect annual plant that grows from 15 to 45 cm tall. Obovate or orbicular leaves, about 8-40 per plant, are scattered along the stems. The leaves are generally 3.5–8 mm long and about as wide.
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The holotype was found on Kentia palms, and only the female of this species is known. Its cephalothorax is long and wide. The opisthosoma is long and wide. Cephalothorax obovate, broad, well arched, yellow, with two dark-brown wavy lines behind the eyes, and with black lateral margins, close to which are smoky-brown patches.
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Unlike other Japanese Elms, the growth habit of 'Discovery' is symmetrical, upright, and vase-shaped. The leaves are obovate to oval, and slightly smaller than is typical of the species, their colour dark green turning yellow in autumn. The tree grows to over 15 m in height, with a spread of much the same dimension.
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Hippocrepis emerus reaches on average of height, with a maximum of . The plant has a lignified stem with green branches bearing five to nine leaflets. These leaves are glossy, obovate, and imparipinnate, with their maximum width being above the middle and often larger extremities. The pale yellow flowers are arranged in groups of 1 to 5, and measure long.
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It is an evergreen perennial growing to tall by wide. The leaves are obovate and stalkless, with a cartilaginous edge, all growing in a basal rosette, and sometimes covered in a mealy white bloom. The yellow flowers grow in clusters on long stalks. The specific epithet auricula means "ear-shaped", and refers to the shape of the leaves.
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Herb, tufted, 7.5 to 45 cm high. Stems fleshy, sparsely hairy, tapering, curved ascending, unbranched but proliferating from the base. Procumbent, ascending after rooting. Latex white. Leaves alternate, to 9 x 2.5 cm, obovate or oblanceolate, acute, base attenuate or cuneate, membranous, distantly toothed, sparsely hirsute along the nerves beneath, nerves 8-13 pairs; petiole 1 cm long.
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The falls are wide, obovate often retuse (rounded), and long, and wide. The falls narrow to a pale, cuneate (wedge shaped) haft (section of petal near stem). They are also striped with white, or the hafts are striped. In the centre of the petal is a whitish, or white tinged with blue, or pale blue beard.
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They often have blue markings, and yellow-green veining, especially on the hafts (section of petal near the stem). In the centre of the fall, is a dense, narrow, white beard of hairs, tipped with yellow. The standards are obovate, oblong or elliptic shaped, long and wide. They have a short yellowish haft, and sometimes have a sparse beard.
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Habit An erect shrub, to 5 m tall but often much shorter. It has spreading branches, with leaves that tend to cluster towards the ends of the branches. The bark is dark brown to black in colour. Leaves Broad leathery leaves that are obovate to elliptic-oblong in shape, often with sharp tips (acute to apiculate).
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Siparuna lozaniana is an evergreen dioecious shrub which usually grows to 8 m in height (exceptionally to 16 m). It is found in wet montane forest habitats in central Colombia. It can be distinguished from Colombian congeners such as Siparuna calantha and Siparuna petiolaris by the combination of leathery oblanceolate or obovate leaves and smooth rather than spiny fruits.
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This emergent tree species grows up to 40 m high, with obovate-elliptic leaves up to 250 mm long and has seeds with winged lobes that are 150–180 mm long. D. baudii has been recorded from Burma, Cambodia, Malesia, Thailand and Vietnam (Da Nang to Dong Nai Provinces), where it may be called dầu Baud.
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The wood of E. falcata is called wallaba and is often used in construction. E. falcata Aubl. occurs in Suriname, French Guiana and Guyana, a 30 m high jungle tree called Wallaba or Bijlhout by the natives. The bark is grey brown, and the leaves pinnately compound with 2-4 pairs of obovate leaflets ~ 18 cm long.
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The blades of the leaves may be anything from cordate, ovate, obovate, elliptic, or oblong in shape to spatulate, oblanceolate, or lanceolate. They are usually gradually reduced distally, meaning they taper towards the apex. The leaf margins can be entire or serrate, i.e. toothed, though they may also occasionally be spinulose-serrate, that is being toothed with small spines.
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Stems 5–10 cm, erect to ascending, slender, many, arising from the base, purplish-brown, glabrous. Leaves 5-15 x 3-5 somewhat thick, obovate to spathulate, basal leaves forming a rosette, cauline apparently whorled at the nodes, at the point of branching. Stipules lanceolate, lacerate, acuminate. Flowers sessile in dense, terminal spikes with long peduncles.
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This plant is an evergreen shrub to tall, with simple, obovate, blue-green leaves and clusters of tiny yellow flowers. It is in flower from June to September, and the seeds ripen from August to October. The flowers are hermaphrodite (have both male and female organs) and are pollinated by wasps. The plant is self-fertile.
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Antiaris toxicaria is monoecious. It is a large tree, growing to 25–40 m tall, with a trunk up to 40 cm diameter, often buttressed at the base, with pale grey bark. The leaves are elliptic to obovate, 7–19 cm long and 3–6 cm broad. The African tree bears larger fruit than Asian and Polynesian populations.
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Black sage is a perennial shrub that grows approximately tall. It is covered with simple hairs with some glandular hairs, which makes it highly aromatic. The leaves are oblong-elliptic to obovate in shape and are about long. The upper surface of the leaf is somewhat glabrous, while the lower surface of the leaf is hairy.
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The species' rhachilla is scaberulous while callus is pubescent. Both the upper and lower glumes are keelless and membranous. Their other features are different though; Lower glume is obovate, long with an obtuse apex, while the upper one is lanceolate, long, and have an acute apex. The species' lemma have ciliated and hairy margins with obtuse apex.
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The open pendulous shrub typically grows to a height of . It has slightly ridged densely hairy branchlets that become terete. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The evergreen phyllodes are quite crowded and have a circular to broadly elliptic or obovate shape with a length of and a width of .
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Ludia mauritiana is a small evergreen tree or large shrub growing to a height of or more. The bark is grey and the twigs have numerous lenticels. The leaves are alternate with short stalks and oblong to obovate blades about by . The leaves are leathery and glossy, with entire margins, wedge-shaped bases and obtuse apexes.
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Packera obovata, the roundleaf ragwort or spoon-leaved ragwort, is an erect perennial herb native to Eastern North America. It was previously called Senecio obovatus. Basal and lower leaves are obovate with toothed margins, while upper leaves are pinnately divided. The ray flowers are yellow and the disk flowers orange-yellow, the inflorescences being held well above the foliage.
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Nepenthes smilesii appears most closely allied to N. kongkandana and may be difficult to distinguish from that species. It differs primarily in the shape of its laminae, which are linear to lanceolate with an acute apex, as opposed to obovate with an acuminate apex in the latter. Nepenthes smilesii also differs in having shorter tendrils and a narrower peristome.
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The tree produces large fruit, ellipsoid to very slightly obovate; basal area slightly depressed and radially furrowed; apical nipple suppressed or indistinct. Color lemon-yellow when ripe. Rind very thick and fleshy, sweet with some bitter after-taste; surface rather rough, bumpy, and commonly somewhat ribbed. Flesh crisp and solid; lacking in juice; flavor sweet without acid.
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S. debile rosette with vegetative clone or "daughter" plant from the root system. Stylidium debile is an herbaceous annual plant that grows from 15 to 30 cm tall. Oblanceolate or obovate leaves, about 20-200 per plant, form a basal rosette with stems absent or present. The leaves are generally 8–30 mm long and 3–7 mm wide.
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The bushy glabrous shrub has a rounded to spreading habit and normally in height, sometimes reaching and usually to a width of . The bark is smooth and a light grey colour. The narrowly elliptic to oblong- elliptic or obovate to oblanceolate, phyllodes have a length of and a width of . It produces yellow flowers from April to November.
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Cyathodes straminea is a shrub with leaves arranged in pseudowhorls. Leaves are obovate-elliptic 7–16 mm long, 3-4.5 mm wide, often with a membranous margin, and a soft, blunt point. The upper surface is glabrous, but the lower surface is covered in white wax (glaucous) with prominent parallel veins (Fig.1). Petiole 1.6-2.4 mm long.
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The erect open non-lignotuberous shrub or tree typically grows to a height of . The branchlets can be either glabrous or hairy and ferruginous The narrow obovate leaves are long and wide. It produces red brown or white or cream-yellow flowers from September to January. Each inflorescence is umbelliform containing five, seven or nine flowers with obscure rachis.
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Hakea lasiocarpha is an upright spreading shrub typically growing to high and forms a lignotuber. The branchlets are densely covered with long soft hairs. The evergreen rigid leaves are elliptic in cross-section and have a narrowly obovate shape with a length of and a width of . It blooms from May to July and produces white flowers.
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The peristome is a flattened cylinder in cross section and is up to 5 mm wide. The lid or operculum is ovate-obovate in shape and lacks appendages. It has a rounded apex, a truncate base, and measures up to 6 cm by 5 cm. Large nectar glands are concentrated along the midrib of the lid.
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Banksia plagiocarpa grows as a shrub to high with greyish broken bark. The new growth is covered in red velvety fur, which falls off after two or three years. The long narrow lanceolate (spear-shaped) to obovate leaves are arranged alternately along the stems. Measuring long by wide, they have recurved margins lined with blunt serrations.
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Sterculia balanghas is a species of plant in the family Malvaceae. It is native to India and Sri Lanka. Leaves are simple, alternate; swollen at base and tipped; lamina elliptic, obovate, oblong, elliptic-ovate or oblong-ovate; base subcordate or round; apex acuminate; with entire margin. Flowers may be unisexual or polygamous are yellow or greenish-purple in color.
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Inflorescence are erect and sometimes from old wood, they contain 10–16 flowers with simple rachis that are long. The inflorescence is glabrous or appressed-pubescent with pedicels approximately long. The fruit are formed in an obliquely obovate shape, long and wide. The fruit are black-pusticulate with a toothed crest found on either side of suture.
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It sterile lemma though is truncate. The glumes are all keelless but are different in size and texture. Lower glume is obovate and is long and 7-11 veined, while the upper one is lanceolate and is long and 5-7 veined. Lower glume also have an acute apex while the upper one have an obtuse one.
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Flowers are unisexual; male catkins are greenish-yellow forming spreading or pendulous clusters at the tips of the branches; female are axillary, solitary or in groups of 2–3. Acorns are narrowly obovate or subcylindrical, usually tapering towards base, 2–2.5 cm long and 0.8–1.2 cm wide, with a woody endocarp and cupule with strongly recurved scales.
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Fruit an indehiscent, asymmetric, winged legume, 1-6 per head, 7.5-17.5 x 7.0-12.5 mm, reniform to flabellate, with an acute tip, pericarp red brown, pubescent, raised ridge forming a ring above the seed(s), style and stigma sometimes persistent on the fruit. Seeds 1-2 per fruit, obovate, 2.5-3.0 x 4.5–5 mm.
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Sorbus leighensis is a small tree or shrub reaching a height of 10 m. Like other whitebeams, the upper surface of the leaf is a light green, while the underside is white or greyish white. Leaves are obovate, and range from 7-10.5 cm long and 5–7 cm wide.Rich, T.C.G., Houston, L., Robertson, A. and Proctor, M.C.F., 2010.
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It has large, thick, glaucous and glabrous leaves. These leaves are in length and broad at the widest parts, although they are only 4.2mm wide at the base (where they connect to the petiole). The shape of the leaves is obovate and cuneate, and the ends of the leaves are rounded (obtuse). The leaves are distinctly veined.
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S. tenerum is an erect annual plant that grows from 3 to 20 cm tall. Obovate or orbicular leaves, about 4-10 per plant, form basal rosettes. The leaves are generally 4-17.5 mm long and 3–8 mm wide. This species generally has one to seven scapes and cymose inflorescences that are 3–20 cm long.
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Rhododendron maoerense (猫儿山杜鹃) is a rhododendron species native to northeastern Guangxi, China, where it grows at altitudes of 1800–1900 meters. It is a tree that typically grows to 8–12 meters in height, with leaves that are oblanceolate, rarely obovate, and 14–16 × 4–5 cm in size. Flowers are white.
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The Quercus breviloba tree grows to a height of 12 m, with an 81 cm diameter at breast height and gray flaking bark. Leaves range from 3–8 cm long by 2–4.5 cm wide, with "broadly rounded and bristless" tips. Leaf shapes are "narrowly obovate to oblanceolate or narrowly elliptic". Twigs are glabrous or may have "scattered hairs".
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They are collected in terminal or axillary cymes. The five sepals are contiguous to the tube of the corolla and carry 10 basal glands. The hypocrateriform corolla consists of a tube 6-10mm long, with an enlarged throat, and five obovate lobes, as long as the tube. The stamens are inserted into the throat of the corolla tube.
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Stylidium dunlopianum is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the genus Stylidium (family Stylidiaceae). It is an erect perennial plant that grows from 15 to 50 cm tall. Obovate leaves, about 6-12 per plant, form a basal rosette with some scattered along the stem. The leaves are generally 20–60 mm long and 7–19 mm wide.
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The pink primrose has glabrous (smooth) to pubescent stems that grow to in height. The pubescent leaves are alternate with very short or no petiole (sessile), reaching long to broad. They are variable in shape, from linear to obovate, and are toothed or wavy-edged. It produces single, four-petaled, cup-shaped flowers on the upper leaf axils.
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The blades have smooth upper surfaces and densely haired undersides. The flowering stem (peduncle) has no leaves on it but is covered in long woolly hairs. It bears a single flower with up to 11 obovate petals which are usually white but may be shades of yellow or cream. In the middle are many stamens tipped with yellow anthers.
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It is a hardy herbaceous tuberous perennial with a wiry stem that grows up to tall. It climbs through or over other plants to a sunlit position where it flowers profusely. The leaves are palmately lobed with five to seven obovate leaflets. The scarlet, funnel-shaped flowers are spurred and grow on long stalks from the leaf axils.
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Stylidium rotundifolium is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the genus Stylidium (family Stylidiaceae). It is an erect annual plant that grows from 4 to 18 cm tall. Obovate or oblanceolate leaves, about 4-17 per plant, form a basal rosette around the compressed stem. The leaves are generally 5–29 mm long and 3–10 mm wide.
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The stems are hairless and four sided. Its leaves are long, with 6–8 per whorl, and are lanceolate or obovate in shape. The mountain ringlet butterfly uses the plant for nectar.Biota of North America Project Galium saxatile is widespread across much of northern and central Europe from Portugal and Ireland to Scandinavia, France, Germany, Poland, Ukraine and Russia.
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Zamia integrifolia produces reddish seed cones with a distinct acuminate tip. The leaves are 20–100 cm long, with 5-30 pairs of leaflets (pinnae). Each leaflet is linear to lanceolate or oblong-obovate, 8–25 cm long and 0.5–2 cm broad, entire or with indistinct teeth at the tip. They are often revolute, with prickly petioles.
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Drosera madagascariensis flower Drosera madagascariensis forms one or two slightly pubescent inflorescences which are tall and bear 4-12 flowers on 2–5 mm long peduncles. The sepals are ovate and slightly pubescent. The pink petals are obovate, long and 4–6 mm wide. The seed capsules are dehiscent and bear numerous seeds up to 0.6 mm long.
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Stylidium capillare is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the genus Stylidium (family Stylidiaceae). It is an annual plant that grows from 6 to 13 cm tall. Obovate or orbicular leaves, about 4-7 per plant, form basal rosettes around the compressed stems. The leaves are generally 1.5–5 mm long and 1–3 mm wide.
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Stylidium inconspicuum is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the genus Stylidium (family Stylidiaceae). It is an annual plant that grows from 5 to 20 cm tall. Obovate or elliptical leaves, about 5-30 per plant, are scattered along the elongate, glabrous stem. The leaves are generally 4–8 mm long and 2–5 mm wide.
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It typically does not grow longer than 3 mm. Its leaves are linear with a narrow midrib between 2-3 rows of translucent cells on either side. The leaves do not sheath at the stem and have an entire to slightly crenellate sobarnis margin. Capsules are 0.4-0.5-mm long and obovate-hemispheric when moist, becoming obconic when dry.
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Velleia montana is a perennial herbaceous plant that is native to New South Wales, Victoria, and Tasmania in Australia, growing mainly in woodland and sub-alpine grasslands, and at higher altitudes south from Boonoo Boonoo. It has oblanceolate to obovate leaves that are long and wide. The yellow flowers have a corolla. It blooms from November to February.
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Spikelets are oblong, solitary, long, and carry pedicelled fertile spikelets whose florets have a diminished apex. The glumes are chartaceous, lanceolate and keelless. Their size and apexes are different though; the upper one is obovate and is long with an obtuse apex, while the lower one has an acute apex. Fertile lemma is chartaceous, lanceolate, keelless, and is long.
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The leaves vary in size from 9–23 cm long, entire, with shapes ranging from elliptic to ovate and obovate-lanceolate. The dense inflorescence develops at the ends of stems, usually with 10-15 flowers, but sometimes with 30 or more. The flowers are showy and rose-like, 3–5 cm in diameter. Flower Detail of the flower.
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It has 2 pairs of petals, 3 large sepals (outer petals), known as the 'falls' and 3 inner, smaller petals (or tepals), known as the 'standards'. The falls are obovate or spatulate (spoon-like) shaped, long and 2 cm wide. In the centre of the petal is a yellow, or white beard. They also have a dissected yellow crest.
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The falls are oblanceolate (top wider than the bottom) or slightly obovate, long and 1–2 cm wide. They are veined with a darker shade and have a white or cream (occasionally yellow), signal area (central area). The single coloured standards are also oblanceolate, erect, long and 7–8 mm wide. It has a long, slender perianth tube of long.
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Petals: Bright yellow petals, with 18-30 per flower head being 5 mm long and 1.5 mm wide. The flowers have a yellow centre borne on leafy slender stalks (Cunningham et al. 1992). Leaves: Oblong leaves that are between 10-65 mm long and 7-15 mm in width. Seeds: Obovate, flat and warty on each face, 2-3 mm long.
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The stem ranges in colour from green to red. Leaves are sessile and coriaceous in texture. The lamina (leaf blade) is obovate, measures up to 31 cm in length by 3 cm in width, and is around 0.5 mm thick. Its apex is acuminate and it is attenuate at the base, clasping the stem for around three- quarters of its circumference.
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The top of the cone carries microsporophylls, the lower part megasporophylls, and both types may intercallated midlength. Sporophylls are disposed from the bottom up. Both types are obovate, with a round to ovoid sporangium and a tongue-like extension nearer to the tip on the upper/inner side. The trilete microspores are hollow, round and 30–40 μm in diameter.
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Branches on the flower stem are up to 40 mm long and bear up to 15 flowers. Sepals are either obovate or lanceolate and up to 4 mm long. A study of 120 pollen samples taken from a herbarium specimen (Fosberg 43860, altitude not recorded) found the mean pollen diameter to be 28.9 μm (SE = 0.4; CV = 7.5%).Adam, J.H. & C.C. Wilcock 1999.
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The kerrawang grows as a shrub reaching 1 to 4 metres (3–13 ft) in height. The dark green leaves are prominently wrinkled, and measure 3–7 cm (1–3 in) in length by 0.5–3 cm (0.2-1.2 in) wide. They are lanceolate to obovate in shape with dentate or lobed margins. The stems are covered in fine hairs.
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Olearia phlogopappa is a small, erect shrub that grows high with greyish foliage. The leaves are arranged alternately, leaf shapes differ from narrow egg-shaped or narrow obovate long and wide on a short stalk. The upper leaf surface is a dull grey-green, smooth or with fine minute star- shaped hairs. The underside has a whitish or yellowish appearance.
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A tree some 6-15m tall, with tortuous twigs, the bark is grayish and smooth, exfoliating. Branches are glabrous and stout. Leaves are deciduous, petiolate, oblong to obovate-oblong, glabrous, 30-5cm long, flowers appear before the leaves, 2–7 in number, yellow coloured petals, flowering starts in April-May. Fruit is globose, 0.5cm in diameter, black ovoid seed, exarillate.
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The falls are obovate, and long, and 1–1.5 cm wide. It has in the centre of the petal, is a white patch, and a beard, with blue-white, or white hairs, tipped with yellow, or yellow hairs. The erect, or tilting outwards, standards are oblanceolate, and long and 0.4–0.7 cm wide. They are darker shade than the falls.
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Rhododendron coriaceum (革叶杜鹃) is a rhododendron species native to southeast Xizang and northwest Yunnan, China, where it grows at altitudes of 2900–3400 meters. It is a shrub or small tree that grows to 3–10 m in height, with leathery leaves that are obovate-elliptic to oblanceolate, 9–19 by 4–8 cm in size. Flowers are predominantly white.
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Rhododendron hancockii (滇南杜鹃) is a rhododendron species native to Guangxi and Yunnan, China, where it grows at altitudes of 1100–2000 meters. It is a shrub or tree that grows to 2–7 m in height, with leathery leaves that are obovate or oblong-oblanceolate, 7–13 by 1.5–5 cm in size. Flowers are white with yellowish flecks.
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Rhododendron vialii (红马银花) is a rhododendron species native to Laos, Vietnam, and southern Yunnan, China, where it grows at altitudes of 1200–1800 meters. It is a shrub that grows to 2–4.5 m in height, with leaves that are lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate or obovate-lanceolate, 4–9 by 1.8–4 cm in size. Flowers are dark red.
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Leaves and fruit of Tutcheria virgata Tutcheria virgata is a shrub or medium-sized tree reaching a height of approximately . Leaves are dark green, leathery, elliptic, obovate or oblong-lanceolate, margin serrate, about long. Flowers are axillary, solitary, with five white petals, about in diameter. Fuits are ovoid or globose capsules about long, with three chestnut brown seeds per locule.
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Sassafras tzumu is a deciduous tree reaching heights of up to 35 meters (115 ft). The longitudinally fissured wood is colored yellow-green, but changes to gray or brown when the plant is mature. The branching is sympodial. The leaves are alternate, gray-green, ovate or obovate, 9–18 cm long and 6–10 cm broad with 2-7 centimeter, slender, reddish petioles.
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The stout, ~3 dm long, terminal peduncle is covered with rough imbricate sheathes and ends in a short raceme of green flowers. The dorsal sepal is obovate, and the lateral sepals are oblong. The two petals are linear-subcuneate. The subrotund lip has two calli at the base, and is tridentate at the apex; the middle tooth is smaller than the lateral teeth.
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The species grows up to 12 metres high. It has glossy, elliptic to obovate leaves which have whitish undersides. Younger leaves and branchlets are covered with brown hairs. It has small, 2 mm long flowers followed by rounded, black fruits which are about 8 mm in diameter and ripen from mid-autumn to early winter (April to June in Australia).
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The leaves are alternate, simple, with a serrated margin and a 5 mm petiole; they are mostly 3–9 cm long and 2–5 cm broad and obovate to elliptic, but the leaves subtending inflorescences are smaller, 2–5 cm long and 1–2 cm broad. The inflorescences are 3–5 cm long, bearing three to five flowers with five petals.
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Symplocos nairii is a species of plant in the family Symplocaceae. It is endemic to India. Known to be a shrub or small tree, up to 8 m tall; young branchlets angular, glabrous. Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, 7-10 x 4.5–5 cm, elliptic to obovate, apex obtuse, base subcordate and asymmetric, margin serrate, glabrous; midrib canaliculate above; secondary nerves ca.
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The obovate, falls are long and 0.8 cm wide. They taper towards the claw (section closest to the stem). They have a white signal patch, which has a deep violet margin, and 3 central, orange, gold, or yellow and white toothed (or fimbriated – fringed) ridges (or crests). The signal patch guides bumblebees in to the middle of the flower, to pollinate it.
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It is one of 25 species of trees in the genus Stenocarpus from rainforests of eastern Australia and New Caledonia. It grows as a single-trunked buttressed tree to tall. Its green juvenile leaves are compound (bipinnate) and lobulated, and may reach in length. The adult leaves are simple and obovate and measure in length and are on petioles long.
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The falls are oblong, or obovate shaped, with a narrow claw (section near the stem). They are long and 1.5 cm wide. In the centre of each of the falls is a yellow 'beard' of hairs, but it can be sometime white on the blade (the wide part of the petal). The erect, oblanceolate shaped standards, are long and 0.5 cm wide.
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Randia nicaraguensis is a plant species endemic to Nicaragua. It occurs in tropical drought-deciduous forests at elevations below 850 m. Randia nicaraguensis is a dioecious, deciduous shrub or small tree up to 3 m tall, with a spiny trunk, spiny twigs and exfoliating bark. Leaves are thick and leathery, obovate to lanceolate with winged rachis, the blade up to 10 cm long.
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Lumnitzera racemosa is a small to medium-sized evergreen tree, growing to a maximum height of . It develops pneumatophores and often has stilt roots. The leaves are arranged spirally at the tips of the shoots; they are simple and obovate, with slightly toothed margins. The inflorescences grow in short spikes in the axils of the leaves or at the tips of the shoots.
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It bracteole is linear, long, and have long pedicels which are slender as well. It receptacle is broadly funneled and is long. Petals are green in colour, are either obovate or oblong, and are long while its claw is . The species have three fertile stamens which are long and glabrous while the staminodes are two in number with silky hairs.
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The woody fruit are egg-shaped long and wide. The grey smooth fruit appear in clusters of 3-16 on a long stem or attached directly onto the branch. Each fruit is divided into a thick body ending a blunt beak. The blackish or brown seeds are obliquely obovate with a length of and a width of with a single wing.
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The branches are long. The stems (and the branches) hold between 2 and 3 flowers, in spring between May to June. Like other irises, it has 2 pairs of petals, 3 large sepals (outer petals), known as the 'falls' and 3 inner, smaller petals (or tepals), known as the 'standards'. The falls are obovate or spathulate (spoon-like), long and wide.
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Nepenthes sumatrana produces sub-cylindrical climbing stems up to 15 m long and 0.9 cm thick. These have internodes up to 20 cm long. Leaves are coriaceous and petiolate. The lamina is lanceolate-obovate in form and grows to 55 cm in length and 9 cm in width. Longitudinal veins are present in 6–8 pairs together with numerous pinnate veins.
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Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The grey to blue grey to dull green variable phyllodes have an elliptic or obovate to oblanceolate shape and are usually somewhat twisted or slightly undulate. The straight phyllodes have a length of and a width of with many longitudinal nerves. The simple inflorescences are long cylindrically shaped flower-spikes.
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Rhododendron veitchianum is a rhododendron species native to Burma, Thailand, and Laos, where it grows at altitudes of 900–2400 meters. It is a shrub that grows to 2–3 m in height, with leaves that are obovate or narrowly elliptic, 65-100 x 28–40 mm in size. Flowers are fragrant and white, often with a yellow blotch at the base.
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The leaves are obovate, round or slightly emarginate at the apex, and contracted into a short, stout, grooved petiole; they are 3.5-5.0 in long, 1.5-2.0 in broad, bright deep green, and lustrous. The flowers open in the autumn, and the fruit ripens in March and April, when it is bright crimson, soft, and fleshy, and is eaten by many birds.
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The shrub typically grows to a height of to around wide and has a tangled appearance. The branchlets tha caducous deltate stipules. The evergreen phyllodes have an obovate or suborbicular shape are usually asymmetrical with a length of and a width of . The inflorescences occur on twinned or solitary flower-spikes with an oblong or cylindrical shape and a length of .
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Flowering occurs in September–October in southern China with 40–90 mm inflorescences which are terminal or axillary at twig tips. Flower petals are 5–6 mm, with stamens as long as the petals. The bracts are triangular, ovate, or lanceolate, 5–6 mm; bracteoles obovate; pedicel 3–5 mm. Sepals are narrowly lanceolate, 6–7 mm, abaxially grey hairy and adaxially glabrous.
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The falls are obovate, or ovate, with purple or brown veins, leading to the haft (the section closest to the stem), and have a central yellow, or golden beard. They are 4 cm long and 2 cm wide. The upright standards are oblanceolate and 3–4.5 cm long and 1-1.2 cm wide. They are narrower and shorter than the falls.
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The flowers are in diameter, come in yellow, or bright yellow. It has 2 pairs of petals, 3 large sepals (outer petals), known as the 'falls' and 3 inner, smaller petals (or tepals), known as the 'standards'. The falls are obovate, with brown veins, lines or stripes, and a central yellow, or pale yellow beard. They are long and 1.5 cm wide.
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Pultenaea daphnoides (large-leaf bush-pea) is a shrub which is endemic to Australia. It is a member of the genus Pultenaea and the family Fabaceae. The species is an erect shrub that can grow to between 1 and 3 metres high. The leaves are cuneate to obovate and 5 to 40 mm in length and 2 to 11 mm in width.
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Rhododendron haematodes (似血杜鹃) is a rhododendron species native to northeastern Myanmar, and southeastern Xizang and western Yunnan in China, where it grows at altitudes of 3100–4000 meters. It is a shrub that grows to 1.5–3 m in height, with leathery leaves that are oblong to obovate, 2.7–7.5 by 0.7–3.2 cm in size. Flowers are red.
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Bracts lanceolate, densely ribbed. Bracts in the first whorl as long as the pedicels, in the other whorls they are a third shorter. Pedicels 1 - 3.5 cm long, sepals broadly ovate, leather-like, densely ribbed, 5 – 6 mm long, petals white, obovate, 15 – 18 mm long, stamens 20 - 24, filaments longer than the anthers, pistils numerous, style longer than the ovary.
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Hakea incrassata is a spreading or low compact shrub typically growing to a height of and forms a lignotuber. The branchlets have white flattened and matted fine hairs. The flat, rigid and evergreen leaves are twisted at the base and have a narrowly obovate shape and are in length and wide.It blooms from June to November and produces white-cream-pink flowers.
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The plant stems are long and are erect. Leaves grow in 2-4 pairs and are long and membranous with by long obovate and spatulate leaflets. The plant flowers in spring when the Inflorescence carries 4-12 flowers that have a long peduncle which have ascending bracteoles and are often deciduous. Pedicels are long with long calyx that is glabrous.
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The shrub typically grows to in height and has an erect to spreading habit. It has angled reddish to brown branchlets that are appressed-hairy when young and becoming glabrescent with age. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. It has variable foliage and the phyllodes are generally thin with a narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate or obovate shape.
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Aegiceras corniculatum grows as a shrub or small tree up to high, though often considerably less. Its leaves are alternate, obovate, long and wide, entire, leathery and minutely dotted. Its fragrant, small, white flowers are produced as umbellate clusters of 10–30, with a peduncle up to 10 mm long and with pedicels long. The calyx is long and corolla long.
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Ambrosia dumosa, a form of ragweed, is a highly branched shrub 20 to 90 cm in height. The younger stems are covered with soft gray-white hairs. Approximately obovate leaves are 1 to 3 times pinnately compound or deeply lobed and generally clustered on short branches. The leaves are 0.5 to 4 cm long and also covered in soft gray-white hairs.
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Hakea ruscifolia is a dense shrub typically growing to high, wide and forms a lignotuber. Usually branches grow in a columnar habit where the flowers envelop the stems. It blooms from December to June and produces sweetly scented white flowers in leaf axils on short lateral outer branchlets. Thickly crowded leaves are small and elliptic to obovate ending with a fine sharp point.
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Actinodaphne quinqueflora (previously Litsea quinqueflora) is a species of plant in the family Lauraceae. It is native to Southern Western Ghats of India and parts of Sri Lanka. Its leaves are simple, alternate; lamina obovate to oblanceolate or elliptic; apex obtuse to acute; base acute to cuneate with entire margin.Biotek.org The flowers show umbel inflorescence, and the fruit is a one-seeded berry.Biodiversity.
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B. ser. Quercinae was first published in 1856, in Carl Meissner's chapter on the Proteaceae in A. P. de Candolle's Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis. It was one of four series into which the subgenus Eubanksia was divided. These four series were defined in terms of leaf characters, with series Quercinae containing the species with strongly dentate, cuneate to obovate leaves.
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Once the thorns have been on the tree for two years they are a shiny purplish black, and 4 to 7cm long. Typically older branches and the trunk do not have thorns. Its deciduous leaves are glabrous and coriaceous. The dark green leaf blades are more or less narrowly obovate to broadly elliptic or rhombic- elliptic, 4 to 5cm long, with serrate margins.
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Rhododendron selense (多变杜鹃) is a rhododendron species native to southwestern Sichuan, eastern Xizang, and western Yunnan in China, where it grows at altitudes of 2700–4000 meters. It is a shrub that grows to 1–2 m in height, with leaves that are oblong-elliptic or obovate to elliptic, 4–8 by 2–4 cm in size. Flowers are pink.
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Toxicodendron parviflorum fruit Toxicodendron parviflorum commonly known as small-flowered poison sumac is a much-branched shrub bearing stalked leaves with three leaflets; the end leaflet is larger than the other two. The leaflets are obovate, with rounded tips, tapering bases and irregularly toothed margins. The flowers are tiny, yellowish and fragrant. The fruit is small, round and red when ripe.
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This species grows into a low, squat, woody, densely-branched shrub up to 0.5 1.8 or 2 m tall. The branches are glabrous. The leaves are glaucous (or yellowish when dry or during droughts), indistinctly veined, minutely rugulose (having a finely wrinkled surface and texture), long, and 6 to 13 mm broad. Their shape is either narrowly obovate-cuneate or oblanceolate.
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The leaves are aromatic, simple, opposite (or fascicled), elliptic to obovate or spatulate, 5–10 mm long, with revolute margins. The flowerheads are axillary, sessile, few-flowered, with a strigose calyx; the corolla is whitish, about 2 mm long, four-lobed, and with four stamens. The fragrant foliage and tiny white flowers are highly attractive to pollinators, in particular the Atala butterfly.
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Stylidium schizanthum is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the genus Stylidium (family Stylidiaceae) that was described by Ferdinand von Mueller in 1859. It is an erect annual plant that grows from 9 to 30 cm tall. Obovate, orbicular, or oblanceolate leaves, about 3-13 per plant, form basal rosettes. The leaves are generally 3.5–23 mm long and 1.5–12 mm wide.
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It is a herbaceous perennial plant growing tall, with biternate, glaucous leaves with obovate lobes. In spring it bears large, single, bowl- shaped lemon-yellow flowers in diameter, the ovary pubescent, the two to four carpels white, pink or yellow, and the stamen filaments yellow-green. In cultivation in the UK it has been given the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit.
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Berberis agricola is a plant species endemic to Xizang (Tibet). It grows on mountain slopes at elevations of 3200–3600 m.Flora of China v 19 p 758 Berberis agricola is a deciduous shrub up to 2 m tall, with spines up to 15 mm long along the younger twigs. Leaves are obovate, up to 25 mm long, dark green above, lighter green below.
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Ceriops australis is a small evergreen tree or shrub growing to a maximum height of about . The growth habit is columnar or multi-stemmed and it develops large buttress roots. The bark is silvery-grey to orangeish-brown, smooth with occasional lenticels. The leaves are in opposite pairs, glossy yellowish-green above, obovate with entire margins, up to long and wide.
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The labellum is located along the column and trilobed (three lobes). The lateral lobes are small and raised beside the column, although never involving it. The intermediate lobe is much bigger and quite variable between species. They can have either lanceolate or obovate shape, occasionally be fleshy, flat or bending backwards; in some species they have denticulated edges but are smooth in others.
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Flowers have salver-form, meaning starting from a narrow tube and suddenly flaring into a flat arrangement of petals. Flowers are white or pale lemon- yellow, orange when fading. Flower tube is about 2 inches long, with 5-9 obliquely obovate petals, about 1/2 as long as the tube. Stigma is club- shaped, thick, and fleshy, bipartite, segments bifid.
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There are yellow forms, which are known as Iris barnumiae f. urmiensis and brownish-purple in I. barnumiae f. protonyma. Like other irises, it has 2 pairs of petals, 3 large sepals (outer petals), known as the 'falls' and 3 inner, smaller petals (or tepals), known as the 'standards'. The falls are obovate or cuneate (oval or wedge shaped), long and wide.
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The perianth has a pink claw, grey limbs and white interior. Woody fruit are egg-shaped with the widest part nearer the stem long and wide. Alternatively egg-shaped with the wider section toward the apex, both shapes having two small horns at the back of the fruit. The black-brown seeds have an obliquely obovate shape and a length of .
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Goodenia lanata is a prostrate herb that is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is known as trailing goodenia in Victoria and native primrose in Tasmania. Plants grow up to 10 cm high and have obovate leaves that are about 6 cm long and 2 cm wide. Five-petalled yellow flowers appear between November and February in the species' native range.
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The falls are elliptic or obovate (ovate with the narrower end at the base) in shape, they are long and 2.5 cm wide. In the centre of the petal, is a narrow, sparse beard. The standards are narrow and ovate (oval-like) shaped, they are 2.8 cm long and 1.6 cm wide. It has 1.3 cm long stamens, 1.5 cm long ovary.
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Stylidium floribundum is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the genus Stylidium (family Stylidiaceae). S. floribundum's distribution ranges from the Kimberley region of Western Australia across northern Australia to northwestern Queensland. It is an herbaceous annual plant that grows from 7 to 18 cm tall. Oblanceolate or obovate leaves, about 6-30 per plant, form a basal rosette with stems absent.
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It has 2 pairs of petals, 3 large sepals (outer petals), known as the 'falls' and 3 inner, smaller petals (or tepals), known as the 'standards'. The falls are spatulate (spoon shaped), or obovate, between long and 1.5 cm wide. They have ovate blades. In the centre of the petal is a dense beard of white hairs, with yellow, or orange tips.
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The falls are spoon-shaped, or obovate (rounded), and reflexed, or concave. They are long, and 2.7–6.5 cm wide. In the center of the falls, is a velvet-like, dark, deep rich purple, black-purple, brown, or blackish blotch or signal patch. Also, in the middle of the falls, is a row of short hairs called the 'beard', which are brown, or purplish brown.
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Grevillea quinquenervis, also known as the five-nerved grevillea, is a shrub of the genus Grevillea native to a small area on the western end of Kangaroo Island in South Australia. The erect dense shrub typically grows to a height of and has angular and ridged branchlets. It has sublinear to oblong-elliptic or narrowly obovate leaves with a blade that is long and wide.
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The blade is coriaceous, leathery, and medium green. It has a midrib that is above pale green and shiny and beneath pale and glaucous, smooth without hairs. The pale green midrib and dark green reticulate venation is visible when the blade is fresh. When dried, the blade is papery, ovate to obovate or narrowly so, and 1.4 to 3 times as long as it is wide.
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'Columella' makes a tall, fastigiate tree with very upright branches, but broadens in later years . The rough, rounded, and curiously twisted leaves, < 7 cm long, are the result of a recessive gene inherited from its Exeter Elm ancestor, and are arranged in asymmetric clusters on short branchlets. The samarae, broadly obovate, are 13–17 mm long by 10–12 mm wide. Image:Columella leaves 1.
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Rhododendron erosum (啮蚀杜鹃) is a rhododendron species native to eastern Bhutan, southern Tibet, and southern Xizang, China, where it grows at altitudes of 3000–3700 meters. It is a shrub or small tree that grows to 4.5–6 m in height, with leathery leaves that are elliptic to obovate-oblong, 8–10.5 by 3.7–4.5 cm in size. Flowers are red.
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Illustration Rhododendron fulgens (猩红杜鹃) is a rhododendron species native to Bhutan, northeast India, Nepal, Sikkim, and southern Xizang in China, where it grows at altitudes of 3700–4500 meters. It is a shrub that grows to 1.5–4 m in height, with leathery leaves that are oblong-ovate to obovate, 6–11 by 4.5–7 cm in size. Flowers are red.
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Ericameria obovata (Rydberg's goldenbush) is a North American species of flowering shrubs in the daisy family. It has been found only in the state of Utah in the western United States.Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map Ericameria obovata is a shrub up to 40 cm (16 inches) tall. It has obovate to spatulate leaves up to 30 mm (1.2 inches) long.
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The narrow, and tucked, falls are obovate. In the middle of the falls, is a row of short hairs called the 'beard', which is white, or yellow, with purple tips. The standards are oblanceolate-oblong, with round tips. It has style branches that are a similar length to the falls and a perianth tube which is 4–5 times as longer than the ovary.
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H. annamensis is an evergreen tree, some 7-30m tall, with gray-brown bark. Leaves are either obovate, elliptic-long or oblong-lanceolwate, some 17-35cm by 7-12cm. The flowers are either solitary or in 2's or 3's, greenish, appearing April to May in Zhōngguó/China. The berry is reddish or brownish, seeds numerous, fruit appears December to January in Zhōngguó/China.
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Wester collected ripe fruit specimens of biasong (small-flowered papeda, Citrus micrantha var. micrantha) on islands of Cebu, Bohol, Dumaguete, Negros, and in the Zamboanga and Misamis provinces in Mindanao. The fruits were collected throughout the year, indicating that the plant is ever-bearing. Biasong is characterized by small flowers (thus the "small-flowered" moniker) with fewer stamens than other papedas and oblong-obovate, few-loculed fruits.
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The basic physical difference between E. coca and E. novogranatense is that the E. coca (sometimes called E. bolivianum) has larger leaves that are elliptical, oval and broader near the middle (broad-elliptic) and darker green color above. The E. novogranatense has smaller, narrower leaves, broadest near the apex (oblong-obovate), and bright green color above. To identify E. novogranatense var. novogranatense from E. novogranatense var.
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Other forms found include pale blue, lilac, lavender or blue-purple, the purple forms may not hybrids. The white forms are very similar to Iris albicans. Like other irises, it has 2 pairs of petals, 3 large sepals (outer petals), known as the 'falls' and 3 inner, smaller petals (or tepals), known as the 'standards'. The falls are obovate, rounded or cuneate (wedge-shaped), long and wide.
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Berberis dictyophylla, the netleaf barberry, is a deciduous shrub in the genus Berberis which is native to Western China (Qinghai, Sichuan, Tibet, Yunnan).Flora of China 刺红珠 ci hong zhu, Berberis dictyophylla Berberis dictyophylla grows to 150 cm in height. The young shoots are covered in a white bloom and bear branching spines. The obovate leaves turn red or yellow in Autumn.
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Grevillea makinsonii is a shrub of the genus Grevillea native to an area in the Mid West region of Western Australia. The erect shrub typically grows to a height of and has non-glaucous branchlets. It has simple obovate undissected leaves with a blade that is in length and wide. It blooms in September and produces a terminal raceme irregular inflorescence with cream yellow flowers.
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The yellow flowers have been reported as having an unpleasant odour variously described as similar to mothballs or animal urine or sweet but with "a pronounced faecal element". The leaves are elliptic or obovate and average 6 cm in length. The fruits consist of segments of bright orange flesh, each surrounding a black seed. While the flesh looks attractive enough to eat, it is best not to.
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Habranthus robustus are relatively large rain lilies. They grow from ovate to obovate bulbs around in diameter. They bear solitary lavender to pale pink, funnel- shaped flowers, long, held at a slight angle on scapes, with a leaf-like bract long at the base. Flowers typically appear after rain from late summer to early fall and are followed by large deep green leaves, measuring wide and long.
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Obovate juvenile leaves may also be present. Apricot to brown-red pea flowers are produced between August and October in the species' native range in South Australia and Victoria. These are followed by inflated pods which are about 15 mm long and 10 mm wide. The species was first formally described by English botanist John Lindley in 1838 in Three Expeditions into the interior of Eastern Australia.
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It can be distinguished from this species on the basis of its laminae, which are linear to lanceolate as opposed to obovate in the latter. It also differs in having a variable indumentum covering all vegetative and floral parts. In contrast, the indumentum of N. kerrii is restricted to the leaf axils. The androphore of N. kerrii is also considerably shorter than that of N. bokorensis.
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The leathery, hairless leaves grow at the tips of the twigs and have short stalks. They are up to long, obovate, with entire margins, cuneate bases and notched or obtuse apexes. The small flowers have parts in fives and grow in the axils of the leaves, either singly or in small groups. The petals are creamy-white and hairy on the outside with membranous edges.
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The slightly fragrant, flowers come in shades of violet, light blue violet, dark violet, and dark purple. It sometimes has bi-toned flowers. Like other irises, it has 2 pairs of petals, 3 large sepals (outer petals), known as the 'falls' and 3 inner, smaller petals (or tepals), known as the 'standards'. The falls are obovate or cuneate (wedge shaped), and long and 4.5 cm wide.
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An erect shrub, Dampiera linearis grows to between 15 and 60 cm (6 in–2 ft) in height, with a suckering habit. New growth is hairy and becomes smooth with maturity. The leaves are obovate to elliptical and can be entire or lobed, measuring 1–4 cm long by 1–10 mm wide. It produces flowers between July and December in its native range.
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Its lemma have a dentate apex while its surface is scaberulous. Fertile lemma is long and wide. Both the lower and upper glumes are keelless, obovate and purple in colour, but have different size, apexes and surfaces. The lower glume is long with asperulous surface and erosed apex, while the upper glume is long and have a puberulous surface, and erosed as well as obtuse apex.
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The flowers are light green with reddy-brown spots. Sepals are similar, usually concave, oblong-elliptic, 4.5-5 × 2.5–3 mm, apex obtuse. Petals are somewhat obovate, slightly smaller than sepals, tip blunt, lip with an epichile and a saccate hypochile. Epichile is nearly suborbicular, about 3 × 5 mm, adaxially hairless, with a central cushion, near base with 2 conic calli, entire, obtuse at apex.
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Alternate glossy leaves are bunched together at the ends of branches. Margins (edges of the leaf) bluntly toothed in the leaf's upper half, though sometimes not toothed at all. Leaves of varying shapes, often obovate, 6 to 13 cm long with a long tip and is commonly 2 to 4 cm wide. Leaf venation is conspicuous and raised on both the upper and lower surface.
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The standards are also obovate, but often retuse (rounded), they are also paler than the falls, but have red-brown veining on the hafts. It has long, style branches that are colourless with a violet keel, they also have a semi-ovate crests. It also has blue filaments, which are long and bluish or white anthers, that are long. It has a long perianth tube.
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They have an orbicular to broadly obovate or oblong shape and have a rounded tip usually with three main longitudinal nerves. The simple inflorescences occur singly in the axils with cylindrical clusters that have a length of and a diameter of and are packed with yellow coloured flowers. The pods broad and flat seed pods that form after flowering resemble the pods of the hop plant.
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The woody red-brown to purple-brown seed pods that form after flowering are erect with a narrowly oblanceolate shape and have straight sides. The glabrous, flat pods have are in length and wide but are paler over the seeds and can have a powdery white coating. The brown-black seeds have an elliptic to obovate shape with a length of and a turbinate aril.
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The tree typically grows to a height of and has an erect and wispy habit. The glabrous branchlets are coated in a fine white powder and are angled at extremities. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The evergreen phyllodes have an elliptic or obovate shape and a length of and a width of and have prominent marginal nerves and midrib.
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A closeup of the stem and leaves of the lectotype Leaves vary in shape from linear-lanceolate to narrowly obovate. The lamina or leaf blade measures up to 26 cm in length by 3 cm in width. Its apex is acute to acuminate. The base of the lamina is amplexicaul and decurrent into two wings that extend up to 2.5 cm down the stem.
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The blue daisy can be distinguished from other Felicia species by the fact that all its leaves are opposite, with an entire margin, the plants have a very regular branching, and the involucral bracts are very long. Other Felicia species with only opposite leaves are F. denticulata, F. cymbalariae (toothed leaves), F. joubertinae (small and narrow leaves) and F. flaneganii (small, obovate, petioled leaves).
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Phyllanthopsis arida, the trans-Pecos maidenbush, is a rare plant species endemic to western Texas.Rare Plants of Texas, Texas A&M; University, a field guide, p 80 Phyllanthopsis arida is a thornless, dioecious, deciduous, highly branching shrub up to 100 cm tall. Leaves are ovate to obovate, up to 1.0 cm long. Flower solitary or in small clusters, yellow-green, up to 3 mm in diameter.
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The leaves are obovate-oblong, 20–50 cm long and 10–13 cm broad, with a leathery texture. The flowers are fragrant, with nine tepals up to 9 cm long, the inner tepals white, the outer ones greenish; they are produced in April to May. The fruit is 13–15 cm long, composed of an aggregate of 40-80 follicles. The wood is "very soft and worthless".
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Rhododendron watsonii (无柄杜鹃) is a rhododendron species native to southern Gansu and western Sichuan in China, where it grows at altitudes of 2500–3000 meters. It is a shrub or small tree that grows to 1.5–6 m in height, with leathery leaves that are oblong-elliptic to broadly oblanceolate or obovate, 10–33 by 4–10 cm in size. Flowers are white.
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The lamina (leaf blade) is linear, oblong, or narrowly obovate, and measures up to 9 cm in length by 2.5 cm in width. Its apex is usually acute, but may also be obtuse. The base of the lamina is attenuate and clasps the stem for around half to three-quarters of its circumference. Three prominent longitudinal veins are present on either side of the midrib.
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The fruit may weigh , and fruit shape varies from oval, spheroid, obovate, pear, oblate, to elliptic. Improved types tend to be spheroid, oblate or flat. The rind varies in color from a light to dark green when immature and a light orange to beige when mature, and can be smooth or warted. The inside flesh is green-yellow to orange in color and is about thick.
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The erect loose non-lignotuberous shrub typically grows to a height of . The branchlets have a patchy covering of pale rusty-brown coloured hairs. The flat curved evergreen leaves have a linear to narrowly obovate shape with a length of and a width of and have three or rarely four longitudinal veins. It blooms from September to November and produces white-yellow or white-pink flowers.
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It has sometimes been misspelt "lehmanniana" after being mistakenly attributed to the German botanist Johann Lehmann. Common names include yellow lantern banksia and Lemann's banksia. Meissner placed B. lemanniana in series Quercinae in his 1856 arrangement of the genus on account of its strongly dentate, cuneate to obovate leaves. As they were defined on leaf characters alone, all of Meissner's series were highly heterogeneous.
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It hairs are long while fertile lemma is being chartaceous, elliptic, keelless, and is long. The glumes are all keelless but are different in size and texture. Lower glume is obovate and is long and 7-9 veined, while the upper one is lanceolate and is long and 5 veined. Lower glume also have an emarginated apex while the upper one have an obtuse one.
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Stylidium ceratophorum is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the genus Stylidium (family Stylidiaceae). It is an annual plant that is endemic to the Kimberley region of Western Australia and northern parts of the Northern Territory. It attains a height of 12–30 cm with a basal rosette of small leaves. The leaves are petiolate, obovate, or lanceolate and are only 0.2–1 cm long.
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An erect non-sprouting shrub typically grows to a height of . Racemes of fragrant blooms appear from July to August in profusion in white or pale pink-red along the branchlets in the leaf axils. Inflorescences are solitary with 12 to 18 scented flowers with glabrous pedicels. Blue-grey leaves are obovate to elliptic and sometimes undulate long and wide and narrowly cuneate at the base.
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The shrub typically grows to a height of and a width of . It blooms from July to September and produces plentiful large pendulous pink-white flowers that hang from short branched stems on old wood. The terete dark green leaves are long by about wide ending with a sharp point. Smooth grey obovate fruit, sometimes with darker grey speckling are about long and wide.
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Stylidium semipartitum is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the genus Stylidium (family Stylidiaceae). It is an herbaceous annual or perennial that grows from 9 to 40 cm tall. Oblanceolate, elliptical, or obovate leaves, about 10-30 per plant, form a terminal rosette with stems present and glandular- hairy. The glandular-hairy leaves are generally 11–68 mm long and 3–21 mm wide.
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Stylidium paniculatum is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the genus Stylidium (family Stylidiaceae). It is an herbaceous annual that grows from 10 to 35 cm tall. Oblanceolate or obovate leaves, about 6-30 per plant, form either a basal rosette with stems absent or in terminal rosettes when plant stems are present. The leaves are generally 10–31 mm long and 3–9 mm wide.
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A deciduous tree growing to 30 m with a crown comprising several ascending branches. The bark of the trunk is grey-brown, furrowed longitudinally. The leaves range from 6-13 cm long by 2.5-6 cm broad, elliptic-acuminate in shape, and with a glabrous upper surface, on petioles 5-10 mm long. The samarae are orbicular to obovate, 10-13 mm in diameter, the seed central.
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The yellow, pale yellow or yellow/white flowers, are in diameter. It has 2 pairs of petals, 3 large sepals (outer petals), known as the 'falls' and 3 inner, smaller petals (or tepals), known as the 'standards'. The larger falls are obovate, 6-6.5 cm long and 1.5 cm wide, with purple-brown stripes or veins and spots on the blade (the widest part of the petal).
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The flowers are between in diameter. It has 2 pairs of petals, 3 large sepals (outer petals) known as the falls and 3 – 4 smaller petals known as the standards. The falls are larger, drooping, pendant shaped (in botany terms – obovate) and have a large white/yellow signal patch with violet or dark blue veining. The standards are smaller, narrower (oblanceolate), plain coloured, upright, and usually horizontal.
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Leaf color can be variable, even within a population. Oaxaca, Mexico The leaf blades of the summer rosettes of P. moranensis are smooth, rigid, and succulent, varying from bright yellow-green to maroon in colour. The laminae are generally obovate to orbicular, between 5.5 and 13 centimeters (2–5 in.) long and supported by a 1 to 3.5 centimetre (⅜–1 ⅜ in.) petiole.Zamudio 2001, p. 158.
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The corolla flares open into five lobes, two upper lobes and three lower lobes. The upper lobes are 7–16 millimeters (¼–⅜ in.) long by 4–9 millimeters (–⅜ in.) wide and generally oblong, obovate, or cuneate. The lower lobes are similarly shaped and are 7–20 millimeters (¼–¾ in.) long by 4–18 millimeters (–¾ in.) wide. The central lower lobe is usually slightly longer than its neighbors.
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Stylidium divergens is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the genus Stylidium (family Stylidiaceae) that was described as a new species in 2000. The specific epithet divergens means diverging or separating, referring to the widely spreading posterior petals. It is an erect annual plant that grows from 7 to 27 cm tall. Obovate, orbicular, or elliptical leaves, about 2-6 per plant, form a basal rosette.
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Rhododendron sanguineum (血红杜鹃) is a rhododendron species native to southeast Xizang and northwest Yunnan, China, where it grows at altitudes of 2800–4300 meters. It is a dwarf shrub that typically grows to 0.3–1.5 m in height, with leathery leaves that are obovate, widely elliptic to narrowly oblong in shape, and 3.8–8 × 1.8–3 cm in size. Flowers are red.
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Covered with a fine grey fur, they are elliptical in shape and measure in length, and in width. The obovate (egg-shaped) seed is long and fairly flattened. It is composed of the triangular seed body (containing the embryonic plant), measuring long by wide, and a papery wing. One side, designated the outer surface, is deeply pitted and the other is brown and smooth.
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It is a glabrous, succulent annual, with a slender or stout taproot. It has a branched stem prostrate or ascending, growing up to . The lobed leaves, are flesh-like and alternate (spaced), they are different from top and bottom of the stem, the lower leaves are obovate or oblancelate, while the upper ones are oblong. It blooms in the UK, between June and August.
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Old flower spikes develop into "cones" that consist of up to thirty follicles that develop from the flowers that were pollinated. Old withered flower parts remain on the cones, giving them a hairy appearance. Each follicle is oval in shape, wrinkled in texture, covered with fine hair and long, thick, and wide. The obovate seed is long, fairly flattened, has a papery wing and weighs around .
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In China the nominate variety grows as shrub or small tree, some 2 to 8 m tall. Its light olive to greyish-green leaves are elliptic, oblong-elliptic, oblong- lanceolate, even obovate, some 3.5-13 cm by 1.5-4.5 cm in size. The inflorescences grow terminally or axillary. The drupes are a laterally compressed ellipsoid shape, 5-6 by 4-6 mm in size.
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P. moscalii is a prostrate shrub that spreads to around a metre in diameter, with its main branches growing horizontally before bearing side branches that rise up 4–5 cm off the ground. The tallest it gets is around 10 cm (4 in). The obovate to spathulate leaves are 6–15 mm long and 2–4 mm wide. Their upper surface is flat to concave.
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Stylidium pachyrrhizum is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the genus Stylidium (family Stylidiaceae) that was described by Ferdinand von Mueller in 1859. It is an erect annual plant that grows from 15 to 40 cm tall. Obovate or oblanceolate leaves, about 5-30 per plant, are scattered along the stems. The leaves are generally 13–100 mm long and 3.5–24 mm wide.
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Syzygium paniculatum, the magenta lilly pilly or magenta cherry, is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae, native to New South Wales, Australia. A broad dense bushy rainforest tree, it grows to a height of with a trunk diameter up to . The leaves are long, opposite, simple and slightly obovate, tapering at the leaf base. They are dark glossy green above, and paler below.
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The stem (and branch) hold between 1 and 2 flowers, which bloom between May to June. The flowers are in diameter, and come in shades of violet, or blue purple. It has 2 pairs of petals, 3 large sepals (outer petals), known as the 'falls' and 3 inner, smaller petals (or tepals), known as the 'standards'.} The falls are obovate, and are long and 1.5 cm wide.
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Bark is greenish-grey, peeling and leaving smooth, concave, rounded depressions. Oppositely arranged, or whorled leaves have very short stalks, and are oval to obovate, smooth, with a small hairy gland in the axils of the veins on the underside, 6–8 in long, by about 3 in broad. Flowers appear singly at the end of branches. Sepal cup is bell-shaped, segments or teeth very irregular.
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Sedum alfredii is a perennial herb in areas of Asia, The herb has top or tip branched stems that ascend from between 10 and 20 cm in length. Leaves of Sedum alfredii are deciduous and alternate proximally on the stem. Leaf blades are wedge-shaped with straight lines. Leaf blade shape may also be characterized as being oval (obovate) or broad with a tapered base.
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Flower of Drosera nidiformis Leaves on mature specimens are obovate and range from 1 to 2 cm in length. Petioles can grow 1.5 to a maximum of approximately 5 cm. D. nidiformis exhibits a reddish tint if grown in the correct light conditions. Upon capture of prey, the leaf curls around it to bring it into contact with as many digestive glands as possible.
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This perennial rhizomatous herb typically forms a grayish-green mat with more or less hairy stems reaching a maximum height of 1.5 centimeters to around 20 centimeters. The ovate or obovate basal leaves are long by wide, entire or pinnately lobed. They are borne on petioles about as long as the leaf. Leaves on the flower stem are similar but smaller and borne alternately on short petioles.
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Trifolium breweri is a mat forming perennial herb that grows upright or decumbent in form, with dense, hairy herbage. The leaves are cauline, each with three obovate leaflets that are generally 5–20 mm, and can be either entire or serrate. The inflorescence is umbel-like with 5-15 flowers, and is often turned to the side. The flowers are small, bilaterally symmetrical, and range from yellowish white to pink-lavender.
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Cladostemon kirki has leaves that are trifoliolate with obovate leaflets that are glabrous with a thin texture and a common petiole up to 200 mm long. Twigs and branches are flexible and herbaceous. The fragrant inflorescences are terminal or axillary, greenish at first, then white with pink venation, and finally turn yellow with age. The individual flowers are asymmetric, the two upper petals being much larger than the lower.
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A species of Lepidium, with white flowers that appear around May. The height of the shrub-like perennial is most often recorded as 15–30 cm, but may reach up to one metre. Leaves are only persistent the stem, glabrous and with a form that is triangular or rounded and lanceolate or obovate. Flowers are presented in a corymbose arrangement, this inflorescence becomes extended through the flowering period.
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It is a herbaceous, perennial plant with a stem up to 8 cm long. It grows in the form of a compact rosette, commonly less than 5 cm in diameter, with fleshy, obovate-oblanceolate, full-margin and accumulated apex leaves. The inflorescence is a simple, reddish zinc, 10 to 22.5 cm high, with several alternate ascending, succulent, green, reddish or pink-orange bracts. The corolla includes petals similar to bracts.
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This genus has green phyllaries in two to three generally equal series, lanceolate to obovate, with margins widely scarious, and a naked receptacle. The white, yellow or red corolla may be simplified to a tube. The disk shaped flowers manifest linear, acute style tips. Fruits are 1.5 to 3.0 millimeters in diameter and are generally compressed in an oblong-fusiform shape and are typically covered with small hairs.
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Elizabeth Lawrence The flowers come in shades of lavender blue, or bluish violet, or blue-lilac, or purple-blue, or sky blue. There is also a white form. It has 2 pairs of petals, 3 large sepals (outer petals), known as the 'falls' and 3 inner, smaller petals (or tepals), known as the 'standards'. The falls are obovate (egg-like), or ovate, with darker (or brownish purple/violet).
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The lamina or leaf blade is obovate-oblong in shape and measures up to 15 cm in length by 6 cm in width. Its apex is acute to obtuse and may even be slightly peltate. The base of the lamina is gradually attenuate towards the petiole. The petiole (≤4 cm long) is grooved lengthwise and bears a pair of narrow wings that form a semi-amplexicaul sheath around the stem.
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The leaves are obovate with margin entire and wavy, conspicuous net veining, crowded at ends of branches. Often with a single mis-formed leaf. The midrib has a yellow colour and the leaf has a brilliant green colour when viewed against the light. Fruit borne in clusters at the end of branches, yellow becoming brown, dehiscent with four bright red seeds covered with a sticky exudate with a faintly sweet smell.
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Vaccinium praestans is a herbaceous, slow growing perennial shrub, that can grow up to tall in an average growing season. The bark of the stem is a yellowish, gray color and grows almost horizontal with the ground. It has small leafy branches, approximately in length, that extend out, away from its stem. Its leaves are shaped either obovate or orbicular around the head and then taper to a narrower base.
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The plants carry a dense canopy of simple leaves of a dull grey- green colour and a rigid, leathery lineament. Variation in terms of colour, shape, texture and arrangement is however considerable. Foliage colour varies from a greyish green to distinctly blue, and the leaf shape varies from lanceolate to obovate. New branches and foliage are covered in rust-brown scales (gland granules), while mature leaves may be hairy or glabrous.
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Each seed is separated from the others by a membranous separator, and has a long rectangular wing, which is much longer than the seed itself. The seedlings have obovate cotyledons that are 0.8–1 cm (0.3–0.4 in) wide by 1 cm (0.4 in) long. Alloxylon flammeum can be distinguished from the co-occurring Alloxylon wickhamii by its hairy stems and petioles. It also has brighter flowers than the latter species.
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At the base of each floret are numerous pappus bristles of two lengths, the shorter ones white, scaly, persistent and about long. When mature, the dry, one-seeded, indehiscent fruits called cypselae are dark brown with a lighter margin, long and wide, narrowly obovate in outline, with a scaly epidermis, and loosely evenly silky hairy. Felicia fruticosa is a diploid having nine sets of homologue chromosomes (2n=18).
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Saxifraga spathularis, the St Patrick's-cabbage, is a species of saxifrage native to Portugal, Ireland and Spain. It is a member of the so-called Lusitanian flora, a small set of plants which are native to Ireland but inexplicably absent from Britain. It consists of a basal rosette of elongate obovate succulent leaves around an upright leafless flowering stem. It seems to grow best in humic alpine habitats among acidic rocks.
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The glumes are dissimilar and are keelless and membranous, with other features being different; Lower glume is obovate, long with an obtuses apex, while the upper one is lanceolate, long and have an acute apex. Lemma have ciliated margins, scaberulous surface, acute apex with the hairs being long. It fertile lemma is chartaceous, elliptic and is long by wide. The species' palea have ciliolated keels, smooth surface and dentated apex.
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Eryngium amethystinum, the amethyst eryngo, Italian eryngo or amethyst sea holly, is a clump-forming, perennial, tap-rooted herb. Its stem is 30 to 50 cm long and is light blue to purple in colour. It has a basal circle of obovate, pinnate, spiny, leathery, mid-green leaves. It flowers in mid to late summer with cylindrical umbels, 2–3 cm long atop silvery blue bracts and branching stems.
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N. kerrii has a persistent indumentum restricted to the leaf axils,Catalano, M. 2010. In: Nepenthes della Thailandia: Diario di viaggio. Prague. p. 32. and N. kongkandana has persistent hairs covering the whole plant. The lamina shape is also distinct, being linear to lanceolate. Both N. kerrii and N. kongkandana have obovate laminae, whereas those of N. bokorensis are wider (up to 8 cm versus up to 4 cm).
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The flowers are in diameter, measuring from the tip of the fall to that of a standard. They come in shades of blue-purple, The falls are narrow, obovate, long and wide. It has a white section beneath the style, that is crossed with purple lines. In the centre of the fall, is a dense beard of white hairs that are slightly tipped with blue in front and yellow behind.
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Primula bracteosa have dimorphic leaves, the outer of which are long and are spoon-shaped to obovate-spoon-shaped. The species have tapering and flat to heart-shaped base which goes into a short winged stalk which have a rounded tip and carries long inner leaves. Leaf blades are ovate to oblong-ovate and are long. The species' margin is irregularly toothed and have rounded tip just like its winged stalk.
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Flowers with thin pedicels up to 6 cm long, petals pinkish, lavender or bluish-white, blue-veined; lower petal obovate, the upper ones oblong-ovate or oblong- elliptic; up to 9 mm long and 4.5 mm wide; all petals with rounded apex; spur ca 1 mm long; anthers and ovary about almost 2 cm long. Fruit, an ellipsoid capsule 6–7 mm long containing seeds ca 1 mm long.
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The leaves are opposite, approximately pentagonal and palmate and the leaf lobes have two to three deep cuts making it similar in shape to a pigeon's foot (hence the Latin epithet columbinus). The flowers are pink to purple, in size, with five obovate-heart-shaped petals as long as the sepals. The petals are 7–9 mm long, with distinctive veining. The flowering period extends from March to September.
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The five unequal sepals are long and wide and are erect in bud and fruit. The sepals each have five to seven veins and six to twenty black punctiform laminar glands. The five bright yellow petals of each flower are tinged with red dorsally and are long and wide, typically about twice the length of the sepals. The petals are obovate to oblanceolate and bear few punctiform laminar glands.
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Rhododendron wallichii (簇毛杜鹃) is a rhododendron species native to northeastern India, eastern Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, and southern Xizang in China, where it grows at altitudes of 3000–4300 meters. It is a shrub that grows to 2–4 m in height, with leathery leaves that are elliptic to oblong-obovate, 7–12 by 2.5–5 cm in size. Flowers are purple-red to white, with red spots.
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It grows as a resinous, multi-stemmed shrub or small tree, in height, with grey or reddish-brown minni ritchi bark. The plant normally has a V shaped form with a openly branched spreading crown at times with sparse foliage present. The evergreen phyllodes have an elliptic to obovate shape and are slightly asymmetrical. The blade is in length and wide and has three to five main longitudinal nerves.
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It is a small deciduous tree, to 20 m in height with pale grayish brown to blackish brown, exfoliating bark. Young twigs are pale yellowish brown. The dark green leaves are obovate, 10–18 cm long and 4.5–10 cm broad, with a 1–3 cm petiole. Fragrant flowers appear before leaves, erect, cup-shaped, 15 cm wide, with 12-14 tepals that are white to rosy-red.
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The plant is no more than 4 centimeters long with a single leaf and three-seven slender stems. Eltoroensis stands apart from its genus of Lepanthes orchids due to its comparatively long inflorescence, obovate leaves ( 0.4-0.9 in long x 0.2-0.4 in wide) and ciliate sepals. The solitary flowers with red/orange petals (two lobed petals; three lobed lip) lie against the leaf and are just a few millimeters long.
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Banksia canei grows as a woody shrub to in height, usually with many branches. Its bark is smooth with horizontal lenticels, initially reddish-brown before fading to grey tones. The stiff leaves are arranged alternately along the stems and show significant variation in shape and size. Adult leaves are linear or narrowly obovate in shape, and generally measure , though some populations have leaves as short as or as long as .
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The erect dense shrub typically grows to a height of . It is often has multiple slender stems and has a woody rootstock with hairy branchlets and narrowly triangular stipules with a length of . It has green elliptic to broadly elliptic or obovate shaped phyllodes with a length of and a width of and prominent midrib and marginal nerves. It blooms from March to September and produces white-cream-yellow flowers.
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The spreading shrub typically grows to a height of . It can have a rounded habit and a rather dense crown with hairy branchlets. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The patent to undulate, coriaceous green phyllodes are usually slightly asymmetric and have an obovate, ovate or elliptic shape with a length of and a width of with one main nerve per face.
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Salvia grandifolia is a perennial plant that is native to Yunnan and Sichuan provinces in China, found growing in gorges at elevation. S. grandifolia grows on erect stems to tall, with large obovate leaves that are up to long and wide. Inflorescences are 2-flowered widely spaced verticillasters that form many-branched terminal panicles, with a purple-red corolla that is yellowish at its base, typically about long.
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Scaevola nitida is a spreading shrub growing up to 3 m tall, glabrous, and is sticky when young. The leaves have no stalk and are obovate to narrowly elliptic, and toothed, with the leaf blade itself being from 2 to 8.7 cm long by 7–40 mm wide. The flowers occur in terminal spikes which are up to 6.5 cm long. The sepals are rim-like and 0.3 mm high.
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The shrub typically grows to a height of around and has an erect, openly branched habit. It has ribbed branchelets that are densely hairy and has persistent stipules that are in length. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The evergreen dimidiate phyllodes have a widely elliptic or occasionally widely obovate shape with a rounded upper margin and a more or less straight lower margin.
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The small, scented flowers, are in diameter, come in shades of blue, from violet, blue-violet, deep purple, blue-purple, deep blue-purple, pale purple, deep blue, to mid-blue. Like other irises, it has 2 pairs of petals, 3 large sepals (outer petals), known as the 'falls' and 3 inner, smaller petals (or tepals), known as the 'standards'. The falls are obovate or cuneate shaped, they are long and wide.
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Leaves are tufted (fascicled) or opposite, and densely tomentose and grey. They are simple and elliptic to obovate, up to 4 cm long, and with coarsely dentate or scalloped margins. The white or pink flowers, produced after rain, are about 10 cm in length, fragrant, showy or specious, 5-lobed, and with a yellow throat. Inside the tube there is a broad, villous band below the origin of the filaments.
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Ajuga genevensis is a perennial plant (flowering between April and July) growing to a height of between 10 and 30 cm.Tomanová, 178 Evergreen, it has long-stalked, obovate, basal leaves which are shallowly lobed or toothed. It has an upright stem with flowers arranged in dense, terminal, spike-like inflorescences. The flowers are usually violet-blue, though can be pink or white, and the uppermost flowers are often flushed with blue.
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Rhododendron thomsonii (半圆叶杜鹃) is a rhododendron species native to northern India, Bhutan, Nepal, Sikkim, and southern Xizang in China, where it grows at altitudes of 3000–4000 meters. It is a shrub that grows to 2–4 m in height, with leathery leaves that are oblong-elliptic to ovate or orbicular to obovate, 3–7 by 2–6 cm in size. Flowers are red.
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Stylidium muscicola is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the genus Stylidium (family Stylidiaceae) that was described by Ferdinand von Mueller in 1859. It is an erect annual plant that grows from 5 to 33 cm tall. Obovate or orbicular leaves, about 4-20 per plant, form terminal rosettes with some scattered along the stems. The leaves are generally 6–33 mm long and 5–28 mm wide.
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Stylidium lobuliflorum is a dicotyledonous plant, with a native range is concentrated in and around Kimberley in Western Australia and extends to the Northern Territory. It belongs to the genus Stylidium (family Stylidiaceae) that was described by Ferdinand von Mueller in 1859. It is an erect annual plant that grows from 12 to 20 cm tall. Obovate or orbicular leaves, about 4-15 per plant, form basal rosettes.
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Cotoneaster nitidus (两列栒子) is a species of deciduous or semi-evergreen shrub in the family Rosaceae endemic to altitudes of 1600–4000 meters in northeastern India, Bhutan, Nepal, Sikkim, and northern Myanmar, as well as the Sichuan, Xizang, and Yunnan provinces in China. It grows to 2.5 m in height, with leaves broadly ovate or broadly obovate, and typically 0.8–1.5 × 0.7–1.3 cm in size.
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Leaves have an obovate shape with a pointed tip, a smooth, or glabrous, leaf underside, and smooth, even edges. Leaves are 8–15 cm (3–6 in) long, in an alternating arrangement. In autumn, the leaves take on a yellow color and drop from the tree. Magnolia kobus in flower, with a singular blossom in the foreground eclipsing an array of blossoms in the midground, over the backdrop of a waterway.
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New branchlets are hairy, remaining so for two to three years. Leaves are usually crowded together at the upper end of branches, giving the canopy a thin, sparse appearance. The leaves themselves are dark glossy green above and light green below, (rarely up to ) long by (rarely up to ) wide, and oblong to obovate (egg-shaped) in shape. The leaf margins are serrated, except near the base, with lobes between deep.
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Rhododendron kesangiae is a rhododendron species endemic to Bhutan, where it grows at altitudes of 2890–3450 meters in the Fir and Hemlock forests. It is called Tala (ཏ་ལ) in Dzongkha. It is a tree that typically grows to 15 meters in height, with leaves that are broadly elliptic to almost obovate, and 20-30 x 10–16 cm in size. Flowers are rose pink, fading to purple.
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Daphniphyllum majus grow from 2m to 10m tall. Its grayish-brown branchlets are stout and densely covered in lenticels. The leaf blade is green when dry, glaucous below, oblong-elliptic or obovate-oblong in shape, (16-)20-37 × 7-14 cm, apex acuminate, reticulate veins are prominent on both surfaces. Along with some others species of the genus, D. majus has loosely arranged conical to round palisade cells in its leaves.
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The shrub typically grows to a height of and has a spindly habit. It has smooth brown coloured bark and angled glabrous branchlets that are dark red when immature and age to a grey colour. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The evergreen phyllodes have a narrowly elliptic or occasionally obovate shape and are mostly dimidiate with straight or slightly convex lower margin.
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The leaves are in opposite pairs, glossy yellowish-green above, obovate with entire margins, up to long and wide. The flowers are borne singly in the leaf axils; each has a long stalk and a short calyx tube, and parts in fives or sixes. The paired stamens are enclosed in the petals which open explosively when disturbed. The ovoid fruits are up to long suspended from the shrunken calyx tube.
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It contains a poorly developed pseudostem and can contain 2 to 7 leaves on each shoot. The leaves are obliquely and narrowly obovate, they are arranged distichously. There are small hairs on the apex and near the midrib on the bottom side of its leaves, other than these small hairs the leaves are glabrous on both sides. The apex of the leaves are acute and the base is attenuate.
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The shrub can grow as high as but is typically smaller. The glossy green phyllodes have an obliquely obovate shape with the lower margin that is almost straight. It has fissured and fibrous, grey-black coloured bark and stout, angular branchlets The phyllodes have a length of up to . It blooms between March and September producing rod shaped flowers are bright yellow that are found in pairs in the leaf axils.
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It is an evergreen, perennial dwarf shrub with the stature heights of 25 to 50 centimeters. The leaves measure 5 to 10 × 1 to 4 inches and are glandular fluffy, sessile, elliptical, slightly succulent, narrow obovate and entire or serrated. The heads are on 15 to 20 centimeters long stems and have a diameter of 5 to 8 centimeters. The bracts are 13 to 16 millimeters long and glandular.
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The low dense shrub typically grows to a height of and to a width of around . It has numerous slender main stems separating from each other at ground level that are covered in smooth or finely fissured, grey coloured bark. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The dull-green to greyish green phyllodes have an asymmetrically elliptic-obovate shape and are usually slightly sigmoid.
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In certain lights the flowers appears to be nearly black. Like other irises, it has two pairs of petals: three large sepals (outer petals), known as the 'falls', and three inner, smaller petals (or tepals), known as the 'standards'. The upright standards are obovate or unguiculate (claw-like) in shape, with dark veining. The falls are oblong or ovate shaped with a signal patch that is virtually black.
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Roussea simplex is a woody climber of 4–6 m high, that is endemic to the mountain forest of Mauritius. It is the only species of the genus Roussea, which is assigned to the family Rousseaceae. It has opposing, entire, obovate, green leaves, with modest teeth towards the tip and mostly pentamerous, drooping flowers with yellowish recurved tepals, and a purse-shaped orange corolla with strongly recurved narrowly triangular lobes.
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The flowers are in diameter, come in shades of blue, from blue-violet, lilac, lavender-blue, to blue-purple, or purple. Very rarely, there is a white form. It has 2 pairs of petals, (like other irises) 3 large sepals (outer petals), known as the 'falls' and 3 inner, smaller petals (or tepals), known as the 'standards'. The falls are obovate to elliptic in shape, with a retuse (or rounded) apex.
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Levenhookia octomaculata, the dotted stylewort or eight-spotted stylewort, is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the genus Levenhookia (family Stylidiaceae). The specific epithet octomaculata refers to the eight red dots this plant produces on each flower. It is an ephemeral annual that grows from tall with a simple or branched stem. There are very few leaves that are obovate to spathulate and mostly around the base of the stem.
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The shrub has an open to spindly habit and typically grows to a height of . The dull grey-green phyllodes are flat or slightly twisted with an elliptic to broadly elliptic shape that can sometimes be broadly obovate. The phyllodes have a length of and a width of . The shrub blooms between September and November producing up to 20 inflorescences on axillary racemes along an axis of around in length.
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The upright standards are oblanceolate, elliptic, or obovate shaped, are between long and 1 cm wide. The standards are paler than the falls. It has pedicels that are between 1 and 1.5 cm long, trumpet shaped perianth tube that long, which is longer than spathe. It has 2.5–3.2 cm long and 5–6 mm wide, style branches, it is dark in the centre and paler at the edges.
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Levenhookia dubia, the hairy stylewort, is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the genus Levenhookia (family Stylidiaceae). It is an ephemeral annual that grows from tall with obovate leaves that are generally long. Flowers are white and bloom from September to October in its native range. L. dubia is most closely related to L. sonderi, which has been described as a variety of L. dubia in the past.
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The twigs are slender, zigzag, brown, glabrous or slightly pubescent; lateral buds are about 6 mm long, ovoid, acute but not sharp-pointed, smooth or sparingly downy, chestnut-brown. Leaves are deciduous, simple, alternate, short- petioled, 2-ranked, dark green (closest to 006600 on HTML True Color Chart), 10-15 cm (4-6 inches) long, 2.5-5 cm (1-2 inches) wide and oblong-obovate to elliptical, the margin coarsely doubly serrate, the apex acuminate while the base is typically inequilateral; surfaces glabrous (smooth) or slightly scabrous (roughened) above, usually pubescent below; veins alternate, ascending, parallel and extending from central vein to apex of longest serrations. The perfect apetalous wind-pollinated flowers are vernal, appearing before the leaves unfold, born in long-pedicelled fascicles of 3 or 4. The fruit is a samara maturing in the spring as the leaves unfold; about 12 mm (½ inch) long, oval to oblong-obovate, deeply notched at apex, margin ciliate with smooth surfaces.
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A large number of terms are used to describe seed shapes, many of which are largely self-explanatory such as Bean-shaped (reniform) – resembling a kidney, with lobed ends on either side of the hilum, Square or Oblong – angular with all sides more or less equal or longer than wide, Triangular – three sided, broadest below middle, Elliptic or Ovate or Obovate – rounded at both ends, or egg shaped (ovate or obovate, broader at one end), being rounded but either symmetrical about the middle or broader below the middle or broader above the middle. Other less obvious terms include discoid (resembling a disc or plate, having both thickness and parallel faces and with a rounded margin), ellipsoid, globose (spherical), or subglobose (Inflated, but less than spherical), lenticular, oblong, ovoid, reniform and sectoroid. Striate seeds are striped with parallel, longitudinal lines or ridges. The commonest colours are brown and black, other colours are infrequent.
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Floral diagram of Oxalis These plants are annual or perennial. The leaves are divided into three to ten or more obovate and top notched leaflets, arranged palmately with all the leaflets of roughly equal size. The majority of species have three leaflets; in these species, the leaves are superficially similar to those of some clovers. Some species exhibit rapid changes in leaf angle in response to temporarily high light intensity to decrease photoinhibition.
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Baeckea gunniana is a smooth, compact shrub growing to 1.5 m high, although can reach up to 2 m at lower altitudes. It is sometimes prostrate or spreading over rocks and boulders. Branchlets are brown with a flat segment on a papery or fibrous brown bark. Leaves are small (2–4 mm long; 0.6-0.8 mm wide) and crowded, obovate to oblong shaped with a blunt apex, and with entire margins and petioles c.
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Behind the blade, it has a longer law (part of the petal closest to the stem) with a greenish stripe. Unlike other spuria plants from Slovakia, the flowers have conspicuous distinctive veining on the blade, the enlarged end portions of the falls. The standards are erect, lanceolate, narrowly obovate and long. It has a violet stigmata, that has 2 acute and erect lobes, and it also has an ovary with narrow peak.
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However, C. cotyledonis can always be distinguished by the cilia on the margins of the infertile bracts lower on its peduncle, which are not in one single row. The cilia on the margins near the tips of the leaves is similarly irregular and not in a single line. Other key diagnostic characters are the obovate or oblanceolate leaves having rough, backwards-curved hair, and the inflorescence having 3 to 6 infertile bracts near its base.
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The stems hold short pedicels (flower stalks), and 2–5 flowers, in spring, between March and April. The flowers are in diameter, come in shades of lilac-violet, and purple. It has 2 pairs of petals, 3 large sepals (outer petals), known as the 'falls' and 3 inner, smaller petals (or tepals), known as the 'standards'. The falls are oblong or lanceolate-obovate shaped, and are long and 0.6-0.9 cm wide.
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The tree grows usually 4 to 12m high, but specimens have been found up to 30m tall. The trunk can measure 10–20 cm in diameter (exceptionally up to 70 cm), with thin, smooth to rugose bark that slips off in bands, the young parts are softly tawny-pubescent. The leaves are 5-12 by 3–5.5 cm, ovate- or obovate-oblong in shape. Flowers are greenish-yellow or white, in groups of 10–12.
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Spores 8—10.5 × 8—8.25 μm, obovate, verrucous, warts of unequal size, up to 0.5 μm tall, sometimes aligned or joined by a connective end, distinctly amyloid ; hiliferous appendage 1.25—1.75 × 1.25—1.5 μm; supra-appendicular spot more or less rounded, measuring for example 3 microns, verrucous at the margin, clearly amyloid. Basidia 45—52 × 11—12.7 μm. Narrow cystida, 8.5—10-(11.7) × 65—90 μm, cylindrical, with rounded appendix, well differentiated.
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It is a shrub that grows to 2 m in height, with leaves that are ovate, elliptic-ovate or obovate to oblanceolate, 1.5–5 by 0.5–3 cm in size. Flowers range from white to dark red. Some species of Rhododendron simsii are poisonous due to presence of grayanotoxin. Poon WT, Ho CH, Yip KL, Lai CK, Cheung KL, Sung RY, Chan AY, Mak TW Grayanotoxin poisoning from Rhododendron simsii in an infant.
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Ericameria juarezensis is a plant species in the sunflower family, found only in the mountains of northern Baja California.Flora of North America, Goldenbush, Ericameria Nuttall Ericameria juarezensis is a branching shrub up to 60 cm (2 feet) tall and 120 cm (4 feet) across. Stems can be as much as 3 cm (1.2 inches) in diameter at the base, with gray-brown, shedding bark. Leaves are obovate or oblanceolate, with no teeth on the edges.
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They are between in diameter. It has 2 pairs of petals, 3 large sepals (outer petals), known as the 'falls' and 3 inner, smaller petals (or tepals, known as the 'standards'. The falls are obovate (egg-shaped), long and wide, with a horseshoe shaped mark (in a darker colour) surrounding a paler signal area and a yellow crest. The standards are the same colour as the falls, erect, oblanceolate, long and wide.
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The smaller and shorter standards are paler (than the falls), almost erect (or vertical) and have a notch at the ends. The style branches are the same colour as the standards but narrow and acuminate (end in a sharp point). In June and July (after the flowers have faded), it produces green, globose (spherical) seed capsules. Inside are obovate or occasionally circular, smooth, glabrous (without hair) and brown or dark henne coloured seeds.
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It has 2 lanceolate (lance-like) long and wide, spathes (leaves of the flower bud). The small fragrant, flowers are in diameter, and white or off-white. It has 2 pairs of petals, 3 large sepals (outer petals), known as the 'falls' and 3 inner, smaller petals (or tepals, known as the 'standards'. The falls are obovate (egg-like), long and wide, with a central yellow signal patch, spreading towards the centre of the flower.
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The bark is grey to brown in colour and sheds in coarse flakes. Leaf blades are narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate in shape with length of and a width of . The inflorescences are long producing dry winged fruit with a flattened, elliptic to obovate shape and a length of . It is in a variety of habitats over laterite or sandstone in the Kimberley region of Western Australia and the Northern Territory growing in sandy-stony soils.
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Rhododendron macgregoriae is a rhododendron species native to Indonesia and Papua New Guinea at altitudes of 500 to 3350 m. It is a shrub or small tree that grows to 15 m in height, with leaves that are ovate-elliptic or obovate- elliptic, 40–140 × 25–50 mm in size. Flowers are light yellow to orange. R. macgregoriae is relatively easy to grow in cultivation and a popular parent for hybrid cultivars.
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Up to 25 in number, these are covered in fur and oval, measuring long, by high, and wide. The obovate (egg- shaped) to cuneate (wedge-shaped) seed is long. It is composed of the wedge- shaped seed body (containing the embryonic plant), measuring long by wide, and a papery wing. One side, termed the outer surface, is convex and pale greyish brown with irregular pits and the inner surface is dark brown and smooth.
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The calyx is made up of 4–5 imbricate sepals; the corolla has 3–5 composite petals; the androecium has 8-10 stamens; the gynoecium has a superior ovary with 2 carpels and white stigmas. The fruit is a leathery obovate capsule which is divided in two. In autumn the capsule turns bright red, and is 6–9 mm long and 2 mm wide. It opens in the middle between the styles.
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Including greenish yellow, mid-yellow, yellow, white, off-white and yellow/brown bi-tones. The fragranced flowers, are similar in form to Iris germanica flowers. Like other irises, Iris schachtii has 2 pairs of petals, 3 large sepals (outer petals), known as the 'falls' and 3 inner, smaller petals (or tepals), known as the 'standards'. The dark veined, or brown veined, falls are obovate or obtuse shaped, up to long and 2.5 cm wide.
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KOCIS Royal Azalea (8573227639) Rhododendron schlippenbachii, the royal azalea, is a species of Rhododendron native to the Korean Peninsula and adjacent regions of Manchuria (Liaoning, Nei Mongol), Japan, and the Russian Far East. It is the dominant understory shrub in many Korean hillside forests, growing at altitude. It is a dense deciduous shrub growing to in height, but more commonly tall. The leaves are obovate, long and broad, with scattered glandular hairs.
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Nepenthes longifolia is a strong climber; the stem often grows to 10 m and can attain a length of up to 12 m. It is up to 9 mm in diameter. Internodes are sub-cylindrical in cross section and up to 12 cm long. A lower pitcher Leaves are coriaceous in texture. The lamina is lanceolate to lanceolate-spathulate or lanceolate-obovate in shape and up to 55 cm long and 9 cm wide.
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Packera obovata is an erect perennial herb growing to a height of up to . It has fibrous roots and a basal rosette of leaves up to across. They are mid-green and hairless, circular, oval or obovate in shape and have crinkly toothed margins. The leaf stalks are about the same length as the leaf blades, green or purplish in colour and usually hairless; some have slight winging and may be cobwebby-pubescent.
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Clethra scabra is a shrub or tree growing in habitats from in altitude, native to the eastern Andes and adjacent montane woodlands and Chaco of Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, and northwest Argentina. It is able to reach in height, and is known to flower during March. It bears simple ovate to elongate and slightly obovate leaves in length and in width. These leaves tend to bear stellate hairs, and have prominent veins upon their abaxial face.
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The shrub can have a bushy or straggly habit and typically grows to a height of around . It has glabrous or hairy branchlets that are angled at extremities. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The glabrous or hairy, evergreen phyllodes often have an asymmetric oblong-elliptic, broadly obovate or circular shape and have a length of and a width of with an obscure or absent midrib obscure or absent.
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Dampiera purpurea is an erect multi-stemmed plant to high with obovate to elliptic leaves which are long and wide. The stems and undersides of leaves are covered in fine hair and rough in texture, while the leaves are bare of hair when mature. The flowers are mainly produced between August and January in the species' native range. Three to five flowers arise each on groups of two to nine flower-bearing branches.
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The seeds of Torreya clarnensis are fusiform and bilaterally symmetrical with a pointed tip and base. The seeds have an overall length raging between and a width between . The seeds are identified as from a Torreya species by several features of the exterior morphology. The overall cross section shape is obovate, with an acutely rounded base where an aril would have attached, a keeled apex, and a pair of vascular scars near the tip.
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Banksia because its inflorescence is a typical Banksia flower spike shape, in B. sect. Banksia because of its straight styles, and in B. ser. Banksia because of its robust inflorescence and hairy pistil that is prominently curved before anthesis. He added that its follicles resembled those of Banksia ornata, while the muricate seed body resembled those of B. speciosa and B. baxteri, though its obovate, crinkled cotyledons suggested an affinity with the series Cyrtostylis.
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Hakea lasianthoides is an upright shrub or tree typically grows to a height of and does not form a lignotuber. The flat evergreen leaves have a linear to narrowly elliptic or obovate shape and are in length and wide. It blooms from September to November and produces white-cream flowers. Each inflorescence is composed of 2 to 8 flowers with cream coloured with hairs extending onto the perianth which is in length.
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Some follicles open spontaneously, but most remain closed until burnt by bushfire. Each follicle contains one or two fertile seeds, between which lies a woody dark brown separator of similar shape to the seeds. Measuring in length, the seed is obovate, and composed of a dark brown wide membranous "wing" and sickle-shaped (falcate) seed proper which measures long by wide. The seed surface can be smooth or covered in tiny ridges, and often glistens.
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Grevillea pimeleoides is a shrub which is endemic to the south west region of Western Australia. It grows to between 0.6 and 2.5 metres in height and produces flowers between July and November (mid winter to late spring) in its native range. These are light orange in bud becoming yellow in flower, ageing to orange. The leaves are elliptic to obovate and are 2 to 6.5 cm long and 7 to 20 mm wide.
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An erect dense spreading shrub typically growing to a height of . It blooms from July to August and produces sweetly scented red-purple flowers with a light green style in clusters in leaf axils or along stems on old wood. The leaves are obovate, thick, rigid and stem clasping with a prominent sharp point. The pale green leaves vary from being entire to shallowly divided having 3, 5 or 9 small very sharp, prickly teeth.
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It produces yellow flowers. The rudimentary inflorescences usually occur on single headed racemes and have spherical flower-heads containing 15 to 20 golden coloured flowers. The thinly coriaceous, glabrous and red to brown coloured seed pods that form after flowering resemble a string of beads up to a length of and a width of . The black and cream coloured seeds inside have an oblong to obovate shape with a length of with a conical aril.
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Hakea marginata is an erect, rounded to spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of and does not form a lignotuber. It blooms from August to October and produces sweet scented white or creamy yellow flowers in clusters in leaf axils in upper branchlets. The stiff flat leaves are narrowly elliptic to narrowly obovate long by wide ending in a sharp point. The marginal and central veins are a prominent yellow.
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It grows as a small shrub to high, and has hairy new branches and leaves. The narrow leaves measure long, and 0.4–1.9 cm wide and are spathulate or obovate in shape, with margins turning downwards. Appearing in summer, the inflorescences are composed of single yellow flowers and have hairy perianths. The proportion of flowers going on to develop fruit appears to be unusually high in P. rigida compared with other members of the genus.
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The grey-green trifoliate leaves are arranged alternately, and are further divided into clover-like leaflets that are obovate in shape, or wider towards the apex. Flower spikes appear in early summer. Emerging at the pinnacle are short, upright terminal racemes with pea-like flowers that vary in colour from light blue to deep violet. The flowers, which bloom from spring to summer depending on the region, are bisexual and are roughly long.
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The alternate leaves usually form dense whorls at the shoot tips, but may clothe entire branches. The leaves are oblanceolate to obovate-oblanceolate, 2–13 cm long and 1–3 cm wide. They are glabrous (smooth), dark green and glossy on the upper surface and lighter in color beneath. The inconspicuous yellow-green axial flowers, usually hidden among the leaf bases, may be strongly fragrant, or may exhibit no scent at all.
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Phialemonium obovatum is a saprotrophic filamentous fungus able to cause opportunistic infections in humans with weakened immune systems. P. obovatum is widespread throughout the environment, occurring commonly in sewage, soil, air and water. Walter Gams and Michael McGinnis described the genus Phialemonium to accommodate species intermediate between the genera Acremonium and Phialophora. Currently, three species of Phialemonium are recognized of which P. obovatum is the only one to produce greenish colonies and obovate conidia.
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They are bi-coloured, and are pale lilac, creamy, cream-yellow, light tan, or white background. They are then covered in purple brown, or purple, or purple-pink, veining, spots or speckling. Like other irises, it has 2 pairs of petals, 3 large sepals (outer petals), known as the 'falls' and 3 inner, smaller petals (or tepals), known as the 'standards'. The falls are obovate and very recurved, and they measure long and wide.
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The flowers are similar to Iris japonica but with shorter basal leaves and larger white flowers. The flowers are in diameter, and come in shades of white, or lilac, light purple, or lavender, or pale blue. It has 2 pairs of petals, 3 large sepals (outer petals), known as the 'falls' and 3 inner, smaller petals (or tepals), known as the 'standards'. The falls are obovate, 4–5 cm long and 2.5 cm wide.
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Balanites pedicellaris is a multi-stemmed shrub or small tree, although some specimens may have a single fluted trunk. The branches are yellowish or greyish-green, bearing simple green spines. The leaves are alternate or grow on the spines, bifoliolate; the leaflets obovate, pale green, rather fleshy, down covered with a short downy petiole. The greenish-white flowers have 6 petals and are bunched in small, axillary clusters, approximately 1.4 cm in diameter.
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The leaves are obovate to elliptic in shape and between 4 and 13 cm long and 2 to 4 cm wide. These are shiny with wavy edges and a duller undersurface and have petioles that are 7 to 14 mm in length. Greenish-white to cream flowers are produced in spring and summer. These are followed by blue or mauve fruits which are 5 to 7 mm in diameter and ripen between December and June.
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Grevillea velutinella is a shrub of the genus Grevillea native to an area in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. The erect shrub typically grows to a height of and has non-glaucous branchlets. It has simple undissected flat obovate leaves with a blade that is in length and wide. It blooms between March to July and produces an axillary or terminal raceme regular inflorescence with green, cream or yellow flowers with green, cream or yellow styles.
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Aponogeton abyssinicus is an amphibious plant found in east and central Africa, from Ethiopia to Malawi and Zaire. Root stock tuberous or oblong, up to 2.5 cm diameter. Submersed leaves initially strap-shaped, up to 12 cm long and 6 mm wide, continuing lanceolate to obovate, up to 8.5 cm long, 2.6 cm wide and up to 10 cm long petiolate. Blade thin and slightly transparent, with a narrowing or decurrent base and acute or obtuse apex.
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Rhododendron facetum (绵毛房杜鹃) is a species of flowering plant in the Ericaceae family. It is native to northeast Myanmar, northern Vietnam, and western Yunnan, China, where it grows at altitudes of 2100–3600 meters. It is a shrub or small tree that grows to 3–7 m in height, with leathery leaves that are oblong-elliptic to obovate-elliptic, 8.5–20 by 3–6 cm in size. Flowers are red with deeper colored spots.
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Isopogon latifolius grows as a woody shrub with an erect habit to 3 m (10 ft) high. The new growth is covered in fine hairs. The thick narrow leaves are 4–14 cm long and obovate to oval in shape. They are glabrous (smooth) with faint veins and end in a sharp point (apex), Flowering takes place between September and December, the showy pink flower heads, known as inflorescences, appear at the ends of branches above the foliage.
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Grevillea polybotrya is a shrub of the genus Grevillea native to an area in the Mid West and Wheatbelt regions of Western Australia. The erect, bushy and non lignotuberous shrub typically grows to a height of and has non-glaucous branchlets. It has simple undissected flat obovate leaves with a blade that is long and wide. It blooms from September to December and produces a terminal raceme irregular inflorescence with white, cream or rarely pink flowers and styles.
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This fast-growing tree can reach up to in its native range of Melanesia and Polynesia; however, it usually averages in other areas. Spondias dulcis has deciduous, pinnate leaves, in length, composed of 9 to 25 glossy, elliptic or obovate-oblong leaflets long, which are finely toothed toward the apex. The tree produces small, inconspicuous white flowers in terminal panicles. Its oval fruits, long, are borne in bunches of 12 or more on a long stalk.
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The flowers are small, about in diameter. They come in yellow shades, between bright yellow to pale yellow. It has 2 pairs of petals, 3 large sepals (outer petals), known as the 'falls' and 3 inner, smaller petals (or tepals, known as the 'standards'. The larger falls are obovate (egg or tear-drop shaped), held at a horizontal angle, have pleated edges and have brown markings on the hafts (the thinner part of the petal heading towards the centre).
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Plant arises from fleshy, forked roots and ranges in height from 10–55 cm. The leaves of C. viride are 5–14 cm long and 2–7 cm wide; leaves at the base of the orchid are obovate to elliptical, while leaves higher on the stem become lanceolate. Two to six leaves are found on one plant, and leafing is alternate. Inflorescence of the orchid is a dense raceme (spike-like cluster) containing 7 to 70 small flowers.
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Trees are up to 12 m tall. Bark is smooth, and dark brown in color; blaze white. Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; petiole 0.6-1.5 cm long, canaliculate, sheathing at base, glabrous; lamina 6.5-15 x 3.5-8 cm, usually elliptic, sometimes narrow obovate, apex acute to acuminate, base attenuate; coriaceous or subcoriaceous, glabrous; secondary_nerves 6-8 pairs; tertiary_nerves obscure. Flowers show inflorescence and are dioecious; male flowers in fascicles, axillary; female flowers larger than male, solitary, axillary.
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Prunus × incam, sometimes called the Okamé cherry, although that name rightly belongs to its Okamé cultivar, is a hybrid species of flowering cherry, the result of a cross between Prunus incisa (Fuji cherry) and Prunus campanulata (Taiwan or bellflower cherry). It is a small tree, reaching 8m, with silver bark and showy pink flowers. Its leaves are obovate or oblanceolate, 47 to 70mm long and 22 to 31mm wide. Its fall foliage is an attractive bronze- orangish-red.
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The calyx is covered with spreading, white hairs. The petals are red. The standard slightly exceeds the calyx, and the wings and keel are shorter. The pod is oblong and silky, about 3–7 mm long, pointed at apex, and usually contains two seeds. The branches are covered with appressed white hairs; leaves peltate, 3–5 cm long; leaflets 7-9, obovate-cuneate, 8-13 x 2–5 mm, mucronate, sericeous on both sides; stipules c.
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The stout stem is hairy and has longitudinal grooves. Leaves are trifoliate with a 2-8.5 cm long petiole, leaflets 3-13 x 2–5 cm and elliptical to obovate. Flowers are yellow, often reddish-brown veined and borne on 15–40 cm long racemes, each with 20-30 flowers. Fruits are 3-5 x 0.6-0.8 cm, 30-40 seeded that are heart-shaped, 3 x 2 mm, shiny, mottled ochre and dark grey-green or brown.
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The pedicels are filiform, curved, pubescent, and hairy above. The spikelets have 1-2 fertile florets which is diminished at the apex while the sterile florets are barren, cuneate, and clumped with its floret callus being glabrous. Both the upper and lower glumes are keelless, membranous and have acute apexes. Their other features are different; Lower glume is obovate, long and have an erosed apex while the upper one is lanceolate, long and have obtuse apex.
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The falls are obovate-oblong shaped and nearly 2 cm wide, yellow with purple or chestnut brown veins, which are darker closer to the apex. It has a yellow beard in the centre on the lower part of the fall, the standards are erect, (vary in colour) from pale yellow to bright yellow and gold. It has a seed capsule measuring 2.2–2.8 cm long by 1–1.3 cm wide, with 6 ribs along the edge.
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Both the upper and lower glumes are keelless and membranous while the other features are different; Lower glume is obovate, long and have an erosed apex while the upper one is cuneate, long and have obtuse apex. The species' lemma have ciliated margins that are hairy in the middle. The lemma also have an acute apex and have chartaceous and lanceolated fertile lemma that is long and wide. Its palea have ciliolated keels, is long and have scaberulous surface.
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The falls are obovate (with a narrower end at the base), with a narrow haft (portion of the petal near the stem), they are long and wide. They are wider than the standards. They can sometimes have brown purple veining on the haft. In the middle of the falls, is a row of short hairs called the 'beard', which is generally blue, purple, or violet, but can fade to white, or dull yellow, or dark yellow on the haft.
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The leaves are opposite, elliptical or obovate, up to 16 cm long and 10 cm broad, with an entire margin and an emarginate (notched) apex. The flowers are small, pale whitish-yellow, fragrant, with a four-lobed corolla. The fruit is a globose to turbinate drupe 2–3 cm diameter, apiculate, bright yellow ripening dark purple, drying hard, dark brown, slightly rough with a single pyriform, dark russet seed, 10–12 mm long. The cotyledons are unequal.
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Young plants have a much more erect habit than other members of the genus Telopea and their stems have a distinct reddish tinge. The shiny dark green leaves are arranged alternately along the stems. The leaves are narrow-obovate to spathulate, and measure long and wide. They have a sunken midrib on the upperside (and corresponding ridge on the underside) with four to six pairs of lateral veins visible at a 45 degree angle to the midline.
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On the Kew herbarium specimen Augustin Ley added the description: "All parts [of the shoots and upper leaf-surface] very glabrous and smooth; [on the leaf underside] axils and leaf-surface along mid-rib hairy; non glandular".Ulmus campestris var. cretensis herbarium specimen, Kew Gardens, herbariaunited.org specimen 289491 The specimen shows obovate leaves, 4 to 6 cm long by 3 to 5 wide, with a small tapering tip, biserrate or triserrate margin, and a 5 mm petiole.
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It has 2 pairs of petals, 3 large sepals (outer petals), known as the 'falls' and 3 inner, smaller petals (or tepals, known as the 'standards'. The falls are sub- orbicular or obovate. They have a yellow, yellow-greenish or white centre patch that is veined with violet, reddish-brown or brown. They have very narrow dark purple claws (section closest to the stem). Measuring up to 45–55 mm long and 15–18 mm wide.
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Colonies of M. thermophila initially appear cottony-pink, but rapidly turn cinnamon-brown and granular in texture. It can be distinguished from the closely related Myceliophthora lutea by the thermophilic character of the former, and its more darkly pigmented, markedly obovate conidia. Microscopic examination reveals septate hyphae with several obovoidal to pyriform conidia arising singly or in small groups from conidiogenous cells. Conidia are typically 3.0-4.5μm x 4.5-11.0μm in size, hyaline, smooth, and thick-walled.
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Rhododendron lapponicum (Lapland rosebay, 高山杜鹃) is a rhododendron species found in subarctic regions around the world, where it grows at altitudes ranging from sea level to 1900 meters. It is a shrub that grows to 0.2–0.45 m in height, with leaves that are oblong-elliptic or ovate-elliptic to oblong- obovate, 0.4–1.5 by 0.2–0.5 cm in size. Flowers are reddish or purple. And fragrant, scent somewhat like Lily-of-the-Valley.
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The stems (and many branches) hold between 1 and 3 flowers, in late spring, between March and May, or June. The large flowers, are in diameter, come in various shades, from lavender, lilac, red-lilac, to dark purple. Like other irises, it has 2 pairs of petals, 3 large sepals (outer petals), known as the 'falls' and 3 inner, smaller petals (or tepals), known as the 'standards'. The falls are obovate and cuneate, or wedge shaped.
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Flower of Asimina reticulata Flower of Asimina triloba Pawpaws are shrubs or small trees to tall. The northern, cold-tolerant common pawpaw (Asimina triloba) is deciduous, while the southern species are often evergreen. The leaves are alternate, obovate, entire, long and broad. The flowers of pawpaws are produced singly or in clusters of up to eight together; they are large, 4-6 cm across, perfect, with six sepals and petals (three large outer petals, three smaller inner petals).
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Flower of E. macrophyllus Petioles 2 - 3 x longer than the blade, membraneously alate on the base, thin to densely pilose under the blade. Pubescence simple or stellate and absent on young or submerged plants. Blade membraneous, sagittato-cordate or triangularly obovate with long blunt lobes, approximately as wide as the midrib length and widest at the base. Blade (6.5) - 20 – 30 cm long and (7_ - 20 – 30 cm wide with 11 - 13 veins (7 - 15 are possible).
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The erect non-lignotuberous dense rounded shrub typically grows to a height of . It blooms from May to September and produces white flowers and have woolly white or yellowish brown perianths with a deep red style in clusters in the leaf axils. The leaves are flat, elliptic or obovate,about long by young leaves and branchlets are clothed in rusty-woolly hairs. The smooth narrowly elliptic fruit are normally 2.5-3cm (1 inch) long and only a slight beak.
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Oval in shape, wrinkled in texture and covered with fine hair, they can reach 4.5 cm (1.8 in) long, 3 cm (1.2 in) high, and 3 cm (1.2 in) wide. The obovate seed is long and fairly flattened, and is composed of the wedge-shaped seed body proper, measuring long and wide, and a papery wing. One side, termed the outer surface, is dark brown and wrinkled, while the other is black and smooth. Both surfaces sparkle slightly.
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The overall form of Opuntia engelmannii is generally shrubby, with dense clumps up to high, usually with no apparent trunk. The pads are green (rarely blue-green), obovate to round, about 15–30 cm long and 12–20 cm wide. The glochids are yellow initially, then brown with age. Spines are extremely variable, with anywhere from 1-8 per areole, and often absent from lower areoles; they are yellow to white, slightly flattened, and 1–6 cm long.
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The erect single-stemmed shrub typically grows to a height of . The dwarf subshrub has prominently ribbed and glabrous branchlets with shallowly triangular stipules with a length of around . Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The thin green phyllodes are crowded on the branchlets with an elliptic to obovate shape and a length of and a width of with one or sometimes two main nerves and a few obscure lateral nerves.
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Grevillea drummondii, or Drummond's grevillea, is a shrub which is endemic to the south west region of Western Australia. It grows to between 0.2 and 1 metre in height and produces flowers between June and December (early winter to early summer) in its native range. These are cream in bud, ageing to pink or red. The leaves are narrow-elliptic to narrow-obovate and are 1 to 3 cm long and 1.5 to 3 mm wide.
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The leaves are variable in shape, but typically narrowly obovate to oblanceolate, 25mm to 45mm long and 10mm to 25mm wide with a toothed margin, usually on the upper half of the leaf, sometimes emarginate. Flowers are borne in heads, small, white with strong odour. The fruit is a more or less spherical, 3 lobed capsule, about 10mm diameter, green-yellow becoming grey-brown and wrinkled when dry. It grows in forests, scrub, grassland, woodland and riverine habitats.
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Rhododendron uvariifolium (紫玉盘杜鹃) is a rhododendron species native to southwestern Sichuan, southeastern Xizang, and northwestern Yunnan in China, where it grows at altitudes of 2100–4000 meters. It is a shrub or tree that grows to 2–10 m in height, with leathery leaves that are oblanceolate to oblong-oblanceolate or obovate, 11–24 by 3.5–6.5 cm in size. Flowers are white, pink, or rose, with crimson basal blotch and purple spots.
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Stylidium velleioides is a species that belongs to the genus Stylidium (family Stylidiaceae). The specific epithet velleioides is a reference to how sterile material of this species resembles Velleia spathulata. It is an herbaceous annual that grows from 15 to 30 cm tall. Obovate leaves, about 6-30 per plant, either form a terminal rosette with stems present or a basal rosette when stems are absent. The leaves are generally 8–33 mm long and 3.5–9 mm wide.
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Rhododendron eudoxum (华丽杜鹃) is a species of flowering plant in the Ericaceae family. It is native to the bamboo forests of southeast Xizang and northwest Yunnan, China, where it grows at altitudes of 3300–4300 meters. It is a dwarf shrub that typically grows to 0.3–1.2 m in height, with leathery leaves that are long-elliptic to oblong-obovate in shape, and 2.3–3 × 0.8–1.4 cm in size. Flowers are red.
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In a review of D. whittakeri and related species, Lowrie and John Godfrey Conran reestablished it at the species rank, arguing that the morphology is dissimilar enough from D. whittakeri that it requires its own species epithet. Lowrie and Conran note that D. praefolia is distinct from D. whittakeri (whose opposing characteristics presented in parentheses) by its white tubers (orange), leaves emerging after flowering (before flowering), and the ovate to obovate leaf shape (broadly spathulate), among other differences.
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Primula poissonii (海仙花 hai xian hua) is a species of perennial Candelabra primula flower, native to wet areas at altitudes of 2500–3100 meters in western Sichuan and central and northern Yunnan, China. Its leaves form a rosette, with leaf blades obovate-elliptic to oblanceolate, strongly tapering to base. The corolla is deep purplish crimson or rose-purple, tubular, 0.9 to 1.1 cm in length, rising from a scape of 20–45 cm in length.
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The firm and large flower heads sit individually on top of an almost leafless, hairy stalk of up to long. The involucre is about across, and consisting of two strict rows of equally long bracts. Those in the outer row are about 1 mm (0.04 in) wide, lance-shaped, roughly and glandular hairy with a fringe of hairs near the tip. Those in the inner row narrowly obovate, 1 mm wide, with a broad papery margin and eventually hairless.
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The obovate (narrower end at the base) or elliptic shaped falls, can curl gently under, and they are long, and wide. They can be more veined, speckled than the standards, or the falls having spots while the standards having vein markings. The massed purple dots or lines on a creamy white background creates a soft grey flower, when seen from a distance. The ovate or rounded shaped standards, are long, and wide, and slightly paler than the falls.
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This species is a perennial herb. Its rhizome is creeping. Its leaves are solitary, the petiole measuring about ; the lamina is obovate, measuring , being narrowly cuneate, tapering towards the petiole. Its decumbent peduncle measures long; its flowers are solitary or in groups of 2 or 3; perigone tube is urceolate, twice as wide as high, its diameter measuring up to , counting with 11 or 12 whitish and purplish mottled lobes, each one counting with a basal white appendage.
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Macroscopically Ramaria primulina closely resembles R. flavosaponaria, but the former produces larger spores, has clamps, and flesh that is more gelatinous than soapy. R. flavosaponaria has fruiting bodies up to in size that are broadly obovate to circular in shape and cespitose or scattered. The irregularly shaped stipe grows up to with much aborted branching, giving an appearance like cauliflower. The flesh is white to yellow, does not bruise, but has a soapy texture without being gelatinous.
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It is a deciduous large shrub or small tree growing to 7–10 m tall. The leaves are variable in shape, obovate, elliptic-ovate or broadly ovate, 10–24 cm long and 5–14 cm broad, glossy dark green above, paler and slightly downy below, and with a bluntly acute apex. The flowers are creamy white, 6-7.6 cm wide, with the 9-12 tepals all about the same size; they are fragrant, nodding or pendent, and have a rounded, globose profile.
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The scented flowers, are in diameter, and come in shades of pale violet, lilac, pale blue, or purple. It has 2 pairs of petals, 3 large sepals (outer petals), known as the 'falls' and 3 inner, smaller petals (or tepals, known as the 'standards'. The falls are spatulate (spoon shaped) or obovate-lanceolate, long and wide. They have a thin central yellow crest or mid-vein, dark veins (on a pale colour), and a band of papillose (or small hairs).
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It is an aeria,l stem-parasitic shrub, with short epicortical runners. The leaves, which are usually opposite, are elliptic to obovate, and about 5.5-11 cm by 3-8 cm, with no obvious venation. They sometimes occur in whorls of 3 to 4, on short stalks which are 0.4-0.8 cm long. The flowers occur in umbels. The primary stalk of the inflorescence is about 12-20 mm long, with the stalks in the umbels being about 5-10 mm long.
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The golden Himalayan raspberry is a large shrub with stout stems that can grow to up to 4.5 meters, or about 14 3/4 feet long. Its leaves are trifoliate, elliptic, or obovate and toothed with long bristles. Its leaves can grow to up to 5 to 10 centimeters long, or about 3 – 4 inches. Its flowers are short, white, and have five petals and grow in clusters, and blooms in the Himalayas between the months of February and April.
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Like other irises, it has 2 pairs of petals, 3 large sepals (outer petals), known as the 'falls' and 3 inner, smaller petals (or tepals), known as the 'standards'. The falls have an obovate (narrower end at the base) shaped blade, they are long and 2.5 cm wide. The haft (or part of the petal beside the stem) is wedge shaped and white with purple blotching, or marbling. In the centre of the petal is a white beard with orange tips.
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Buddleja subcapitata grows to 1.5 m in height in the wild. The branchlets are quadrangular and densely tomentose, the bark of old branches peeling and often glabrescent. The leaves are lanceolate or obovate - lanceolate, 3.5 - 11.0 cm long by 1.1 - 3.1 cm wide, rugose and tomentose above, densely tomentose below. The small terminal inflorescences are erect, compact, capitulum-like panicles comprising many cymes, 1.7 - 2.5 cm long by 1.9 - 2.5 cm wide, with usually two leafy bracts at the base.
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Resembling those of holly, its leaves are a dark shiny green colour, and variously obovate (egg-shaped), elliptic, truncate or undulate (wavy) in shape, and long. Generally serrated, the leaf edges have up to 14 prickly "teeth" separated by broad v- to u-shaped sinuses along each side, although some leaves have margins lacking teeth. The leaves sit atop petioles in length. The upper and undersurface of the leaves are initially covered in fine hairs but become smooth with maturity.
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It is a broadleaved small tree that can reach up to 7–14 m, variably deciduous in the dry season to semi- evergreen, depending on the climate. The leaves are alternate, simple, elliptic to obovate, entire, 9–15 cm long and 3–8 cm broad, green above with pale undersides. The flowers are tiny and form pale spikes at the base of the leaves. The fruit is a samara with a single wing 6–9 cm long, that turns brown with age.
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It is an evergreen shrub or small tree growing to in height, with leathery leaves that are oblanceolate to oblong-lanceolate or obovate, 8–20 by 3–7.5 cm in size. The undersides are felted with a striking cinnamon colour. The flowers, borne in trusses in spring, are loosely bell-shaped, pale rose pink, with a crimson basal blotch and sometimes red spots. In cultivation in the UK Rhododendron fulvum has gained the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit.
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Rhododendron galactinum (乳黄叶杜鹃) is a species of flowering plant in the Ericaceae family. It is native to western Sichuan in China, where it grows at altitudes of 2900–3500 meters. It is a shrub or small tree that grows to 5–8 m in height, with leathery leaves that are oblong-elliptic, oblong-obovate or broadly lanceolate, 11–22 by 5–7 cm in size. Flowers are white to pale pink with a crimson basal blotch.
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Terminal inflorescences are racemose or spike-like and produce flowers that are reddish violet with laterally-paired lobes and bloom from April to May in their native range. S. imbricatum is only known from south-western Western Australia in Stirling Range National Park and Porongurup National Park south-east to Cheynes Beach. Its habitat is recorded as being sandy or laterite soils in swampy areas, rocky slopes, or heathland. S. imbricatum is distinct within its subgenus because it possesses obovate sepals.
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Upper and lower leaf surfaces are smooth.P. bellidiflora, in Jepson Manual, University of California Press (1993) The terminal inflorescences number four or five solitary, roughly circular heads per plant. Peduncles are wispy, with bell-shaped involucres measuring 3 to 7 millimeters, and they range from glabrous to short-haired. Like all of its genus, P. bellidiflora has green phyllaries in two to three generally equal series, lanceolate to obovate, with margins widely scarious (dry and membranous), and a naked receptacle.
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Alyxia buxifolia, the sea box or dysentery bush, is a species of shrub in the family Apocynaceae. It can grow up to 2 metres in height, but is more often less than 50 cm high in exposed coastal areas. It has thick, elliptic to obovate leaves which are 1 to 4 cm long and 5 to 25 mm wide. It produces white flowers in cymes between spring and autumn, followed by rounded, red fruits which are about 8 mm in diameter.
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Which can be compared to the size of a quarter. It has 2 pairs of petals, 3 large sepals (outer petals), known as the 'falls' and 3 inner, smaller petals (or tepals, known as the 'standards'. The drooping obovate (egg-like) falls, measuring long and wide, have brown or purple marks (dots or lines) on the hafts and in the centre of the petal. The smaller, paler (in colour) narrow, upright standards are between long and wide, with brown/purple petal stalks.
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Kalanchoe fedtschenkoi is a low-growing, frost-tender perennial succulent which prefers dry, open ground. It grows to 10–12 inches (25–30 cm) tall as an untidy, low, rounded herb. The stems are round, smooth and lax with visible leaf scars, often bending and touching the ground where they produce roots and new plants. Leaves are fleshy, alternate, blue-green and oval or obovate with fine scalloped edges, the edges may turn pink or red under strong sunlight or drought conditions.
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Grevillea oligantha is a shrub of the genus Grevillea native to an area in the southern Wheatbelt, Great Southern and south-western Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia. The many branched shrub typically grows to a height of and has non-glaucous branchlets. It has simple undissected flat obovate leaves with a blade that is in length and wide. It blooms from May To November and produces a terminal or axillary raceme irregular inflorescence with yellow, orange or brown flowers.
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A. duttonii has a stem which is generally unbranched and less than twenty centimeters in length; the stem may present short hairs or none at all. Leaves of this species are eight to twelve millimeters in length, lanceolate to obovate in shape. The margins of this spiny leaf are occasionally serrate. The terminal inflorescences have bracts of about five to eleven millimeters; moreover, these bracts are ovate and green at the flower, with five or seven marginal spines, each three to seven millimeters.
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The large flowers, are scented, and come in shades of violet, purple, lavender blue (similar in shade to Iris junonia), and light blue. There are occasionally bi- toned flowers. Like other irises, it has 2 pairs of petals, 3 large sepals (outer petals), known as the 'falls' and 3 inner, smaller petals (or tepals), known as the 'standards'. The falls are obovate or cuneate (wedge shaped), with a white haft (section closest to the stem), that has bronzy purple veins, or lines.
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The new shoots remain green for three years after emerging and are ribbed. The branches are slightly pendulous, while the branchlets are obovate, obtriangular or almost rectangular in outline, measuring from 4 to 21 cm long by 3 to 20 cm wide. The buds are about 4 mm in length, globular in shape and dark green in colour. They are covered with acute, glossy reddish brown scale- like leaves which remain on the base of the shoot into the following year.
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The flowers are sessile, about 5 mm long; calyx campanulate, 3–5 mm long, villous, the narrow acuminate teeth much longer than the tube. The petals red; standard obovate-spathulate, slightly exceeding the calyx; wings and keel shorter, inserted. In the Northern Territory, it is a weedy species often found in disturbed or overgrazed areas and on a variety of soils from skeletal soils and red sand to cracking clay. It flowers and fruits in all months of the year.
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The flowers are similar in form to Iris sari (from Turkey) but Iris nectarifera has more characteristic stoloniferous roots and the flowers are also similar in form to Iris heylandiana from Northern Iraq. Like other irises, the flowers have 2 pairs of petals, 3 large sepals (outer petals), known as the 'falls' and 3 inner, smaller petals (or tepals, known as the 'standards'. The standards are paler in colour than the falls. The standards are obovate shaped, slightly purple veined, long and wide.
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The leaf tips usually taper to a point, but sometimes end in a small abrupt point. The leaf base is wedge shaped (with an angle which is sometimes acute and sometimes obtuse). The lower leaf surface is covered in dense brown velvety hairs, while the upper leaf surface is hairy only on the midrib. The elliptic to obovate petiole is 0.5-2.6 cm long. The inflorescences are in the axils with the flowers clustered at the ends, 2-10.5 cm long.
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Könemann Publishing Company, 2003, (therein page 675). The constantly opposite arranged on the stems leaves are divided into petiole and leaf blade. The bald petioles are all almost the same length with a length of 7 to 15 millimeters. The simple, dark green, parchment-like, almost uniformly shaped leaf blades are obovate with a length of 2.5 to 6 centimeters and a width of 1.5 to 3 centimeters with a broad, wedge-shaped or almost rounded blade base and a spiky tip.
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It is a flowering herbaceous perennial plant growing to tall, with broad lanceolate leaves 3–12 cm long and 2–5 cm broad. Leaves are mostly alternate, although they may be opposite near the top of the plant. The changeable, simple leaves are stalked 1.5 to 6 cm long. The leaf blade is ovate to broadly elliptic, sometimes obovate, 2.5 to 13 inches long and 2 to 5.5 inches wide, green and sometimes spotted or pink or reddish on the underside.
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The early dropping sepals are ovate or sometimes foliage-like, simple or lobed with a dished upper end and bald on the underside and hairy on the top shaggy. The depending on the form five to several or many petals are white over pink to red or purple, obovate with a wedge-shaped base and a polished upper end. There are many stamens present. The free, hairy styluses tower over the petals and are almost as long as the stamens.
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The wood is greyish white, soft, and coarsely grained. The dark green leaves are stiffly coriaceous, glabrous, and emit a mango aroma when damaged. The leaves are scattered, partly aggregating at the end of twigs. In shape they are spathulate or obovate-oblong or oblanceolate, from 1.5 x 4 to 5 x 16 cm, usually 3 x 9 cm, tapering towards the base, with a rounded apex in adult trees and with a pointed 7–13 cm apex in saplings.
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The shrub typically grows to a height of and has a rounded, bushy and spreading habit. The branchlets are covered with a dense layer of fine hairs velvety citron hairs on older shoots and silvery white hairs on new shoots. It has small, grayish rounded phyllodes and spherical flower-heads of bright golden flowers on long stalks. The grey-green to silvery coloured phyllodes have an elliptic to oblong-elliptic or obovate shape with a length of and a width of .
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Terminal flowers, hermaphrodites; floral buds are covered by spataceous bracts; present 3 sepals, one is external, the next one is intern-external and the third one is totally internal. It has 10 obovate fleshy petals colored yellowish green. Woody fruit, elliptic, green color, measuring from 3 to 4 cm long and from 2,4 to 2,8 cm broad; the carpels split open irregularly. Each fruit contains around from 13 to 20 seeds and some of them might not be completely formed.
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A medium to large tree, up to 30 metres tall with a stem diameter of 60 cm with grey-brown bark. The trunk is buttressed, crooked, flanged and irregular with smaller branchlets coming from the main trunk. Alexander Floyd mentions a 55 metre tall individual at Border Ranges National Park.Floyd, A.G., Rainforest Trees of Mainland South-eastern Australia, Inkata Press 2008, page 133 Leaves alternate with wavy margins, toothed and obovate, 7 to 30 cm long, some with a shortly blunted tip.
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One side, termed the outer surface, is brown and slightly wrinkled and the other is brown-black and sparkles slightly. The seeds are separated by a sturdy dark brown seed separator that is roughly the same shape as the seeds with a depression where the seed body sits adjacent to it in the follicle. The first pair of leaves produced by seedlings, known as cotyledons, are obovate and measure long by wide. The upper leaf margin of the wedge is crinkled.
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Grevillea kedumbensis grows as a low shrub high with a woody base known as a lignotuber. The narrow-elliptic to obovate leaves are 1–3 (0.4-1.2 in) cm long and 0.1–0.5 cm wide with entire margins. The flower heads, known as inflorescences, are made up of 12 to 20 individual flowers, and appear mainly in winter and spring, though can occur at any time of year. The perianths are cream, the styles brown-red and the pollen presenters are green.
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Reichenbach, H. G. "ORCHIDES" in C. Müller, Ed. Walpers Annales Botanices Systematicae Tomus VI Berlin. 1861. pp. 370-371, Nr. 209 The long base of the paniculate inflorescence erupts from two short, broad spathes at the apex of the stem. The yellow flowers have filiform to linear petals, and obovate sepals, the lateral sepals being scoop-shaped. The lateral lobes of the trilobate lip have a crenulate to erose margin, and give the lip (where it diverges from the column) a heart-shape.
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The leafy green leaves are produced near the terminal node and consist of two types: 2 larger and 4 smaller leaves. The smaller leaves develop from the axillary buds of the larger leaves. The shiny dark green leaves have 2 to 3 mm long petioles and leaf blades that are obovate. The blades have entire margins and are 3.5 to 4.8 cm long and 1.5 to 2.5 cm wide, with 2 or 3 veins and cuneate shaped bases and abruptly acuminate apexes.
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Ozothamnus obcordatus (Grey Everlasting) is a shrub in the family Asteraceae, native to the states of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania in Australia. It grows to 1.5 metres high and has obcordate, broad-elliptic obovate leaves which are 6 to 15 mm long and 3 to 6 mm wide. These have tips that bend backwards and are shiny and green on the top and covered with grey hairs underneath. The species is regarded as having potential in commercial cut flower production.
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The obovate (egg- shaped) seed is long and fairly flattened. It is composed of the wedge-shaped seed body (containing the embryonic plant), measuring long by wide, and a papery wing. One side, termed the outer surface, is grey and wrinkled and the other is black and sparkles slightly. The seeds are separated by a sturdy dark brown seed separator that is roughly the same shape as the seeds with a depression where the seed body sits adjacent to it in the follicle.
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Measuring in length and in width, the leathery green leaves are oblong to obovate (egg-shaped) or truncate with a recessed midvein and mildly recurved margins, which are entire at the base and serrate towards the ends of the leaves. The sinuses (spaces between the teeth) are U-shaped and teeth are 1–2 mm long. The leaf underside is whitish with a reticulated vein pattern and a raised central midrib. The leaves sit on 2–5 mm long petioles.
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The seeds of Banksia grossa are the largest of all the species of the series Abietinae. Measuring long, they are made up of a cuneate (wedge-shaped) seed body, long by wide, and a wide wing. The woody separator is the same shape as the seed, with an impression where the seed body lies next to it. The bright green cotyledons are obovate and can be either convex or concave, measuring 1.6 to 2.2 cm long by 0.9 to 1.2 cm wide.
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Plants are 6–12 cm high with a short taproot and woody stem-base. Basal leaves, 2–6 cm and arranged in a rosette predominate, and are obovate to oblanceolate, while cauline leaves, sessile or shortly petiolate, are oblanceolate or lingulate and 0.5-1.5 cm. Inflorescences are loosely racemose, with flower stalks ascending or erect and 5–20 mm. There are 3-8 radially symmetrical flowers per inflorescence, and the petals are spaulate, 5-6mm, with blades that narrow gradually to the claw.
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This is a perennial herb with prostrate stems, rarely ascending, often rooting at the nodes. Leaves obovate to broadly elliptic, occasionally linear-lanceolate, 1–15 cm long, 0.3–3 cm wide, glabrous to sparsely villous, petioles 1–5 mm long. Flowers in sessile spikes, bract and bracteoles shiny white, 0.7-1.5 mm long, glabrous; sepals equal, 2.5–3 mm long, outer ones 1-nerved or indistinctly 3-nerved toward base; stamens 5, 2 sterile. In the wild it flowers from December until March.
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The golden oak is a much branched evergreen shrub or small tree up to 10 m high. Due to its short stature (in relation to other oaks) it is sometimes referred to as the dwarf oak. Its leaves are simple, obovate to suborbicular, 1.5–6(–10) cm long, 1–5 (–8) cm wide, glabrous and shining dark green above and densely golden or brownish tomentose below, with serrate margins and raised nervation. Leave petioles are strong, 6–10 (–12) mm long and pilose.
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Lithocarpus revolutus are often smallish trees up to tall with a trunk diameter of up to . The thick and coriaceous leaves are glabrous and distinctive because the margins are typically rolled in towards the midrib on the leaf's underside. The leaves can be large, measuring up to long and are obovate and the same color on both the upper and lower sides (concolorous). The fruits are large (4-5 cm long and equally large across) and sessile along the thick fruiting rachis.
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Microsporum gypseum Microsporum is a genus of fungi that causes tinea capitis, tinea corporis, ringworm, and other dermatophytoses (fungal infections of the skin). Microsporum forms both macroconidia (large asexual reproductive structures) and microconidia (smaller asexual reproductive structures) on short conidiophores. Macroconidia are hyaline, multiseptate, variable in form, fusiform, spindle-shaped to obovate, 7–20 by 30–160 um in size, with thin or thick echinulate to verrucose cell walls. Their shape, size and cell wall features are important characteristics for species identification.
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The leaf veins are palmate, meaning several veins arise from a single point near the petiole attachment. The flowers can be either solitary or in an inflorescence of 2 to 4 medium-sized flowers. Each flower has 5 sepals that are about 2 to 3 mm long and 4 to 6 mm wide, the calyx is covered with small, white or translucent hairs, and has 5 yellow, obovate, petals that are about 4 to 5 mm long and 2 to 4 mm wide.
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B. spinosa foliage Bursaria spinosa has a variable habit, and can grow anywhere from 1 to 12 m high. The dark grey bark is furrowed. The smooth branches are sometimes armed with thorns, and the leaves are arranged alternately along the stems or clustered around the nodes and have a pine-like fragrance when bruised. Linear to oval or wedge-shaped (ovate, obovate or cuneate), they are 2–4.3 cm long and 0.3–1.2 cm wide with a rounded apex.
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These melanins are responsible for the slight dark coloration of hyphae and conidia as well as the dark colours seen in the center of the colonies. Phialemonium obovatum UAMH 4962, phase contrast microscopy Gams and McGinnis described P. obovatum as having a flat, smooth colony texture with hyphal strands that radiate outwards described as floccose (fluffy or cottony). Colonies of this species appear moist and lack a distinctive odour. The fungus produces droplets of smooth-walled, obovate conidia with a narrow base.
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The characteristic difference between the submerged and floating C. stagnalis is its leaf shape. Submerged leaves of C. stagnalis are linear, appearing long and thin with one vein running up the center. Floating leaves of C. stagnalis, however, may be spatulate to obovate in shape, which appear much wider that the typical submerged leaves, and contain a much larger number of veins (5-7). Growth of the leaves of C. stagnalis also differs depending on whether they are submerged or floating.
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They have a small, darker signal area, of almost black purple, and (unlike other Oncocyclus Irises) has no veining. In the middle of the falls, is a narrow row of short hairs called the 'beard', which are white, cream, or yellow, tipped with purple. The larger and paler standards, are obovate or orbicular (oval or round shaped), long and wide. It has a horizontal, style branch that is long and reddish, or brownish-yellow, with red-purple dots or spots.
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Sandpaper tree is a small to medium-sized tree in the banyan group of figs, growing to . The trunk develops aerial and buttressing roots to anchor it in the soil and help support heavy branches. It has almost distichous and alternate which are almost opposite, simple; blade ovate to elliptical or obovate; base acute to obtuse; apex shortly acuminate, acute or obtuse; and margin toothed to entire. Flowers are unisexual and are pink, purplish, or yellow, becomes orange or red at maturity.
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The dense, spreading shrub with a rounded habit typically grows to a height of and often wider. The grey-green flat phyllodes have an obliquely oblanceolate to obovate shape with a length of and a width of . It blooms between July and November producing axillary inflorescences composed of two to five spherical bright yellow flower-heads. After flowering long, dark brown seed pods form that are straight to slightly curved with a length of around and a width of about .
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In the centre of the falls is a rounded, dark maroon signal patch which is long and wide. Also, in the middle of the falls, is a row of short hairs called the "beard", which are brownish (rusty brown), purplish, or mottled. The obovate (narrower end at the base) standards are up to long and wide and they have a channeled claw (narrow section of petal closest to the stem). They have a triangular and 6 lobed, long ovary and long stamens, creamy-white anthers.
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Ziziphus mauritiana, also known as Chinese date, Chinee apple, Indian plum, Indian jujube and dunks is a tropical fruit tree species belonging to the family Rhamnaceae. Ziziphus mauritiana is a spiny, evergreen shrub or small tree up to 15 m high, with trunk 40 cm or more in diameter; spreading crown; stipular spines and many drooping branches. The fruit is of variable shape and size. It can be oval, obovate, oblong or round, and can be 1-2.5 in (2.5-6.25 cm) long, depending on the variety.
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Flowers are white or greenish white and the fruits are orange to brown, 2–3 cm long, with edible white pulp surrounding a 2-locular pyrene. This quick growing tree starts producing fruits within three years. The fruit is a soft, juicy, drupe that is 2.5 cm diameter, though in some cultivars the fruit size may reach up to 6.25 cm long and 4.5 cm wide. The form may be oval, obovate, round or oblong; the skin smooth or rough, glossy, thin but tough.
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The basal part of the tube is almost cylindrical at 0.18-0.22 of the length of the entire tube, or long by wide. Towards the slightly widened apex, the upper part of the tube is obconical, inversely conical, at base and almost cylindrical above measuring at long to wide at the mouth. The lobe at the apex of the corolla tube are obliquely obovate at 0.6 to 0.8 times as long as the tube. That measures at 1.2 to 1.5 times as long as wide, or .
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Flower of cashew tree Cashew tree The cashew tree is large and evergreen, growing to tall, with a short, often irregularly shaped trunk. The leaves are spirally arranged, leathery textured, elliptic to obovate, long and broad, with smooth margins. The flowers are produced in a panicle or corymb up to long; each flower is small, pale green at first, then turning reddish, with five slender, acute petals long. The largest cashew tree in the world covers an area around and is located in Natal, Brazil.
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The falls are obovate to elliptic shaped, and up to long and 5 cm wide. They are more marked than the standards, In the centre of the falls, it has a small elliptical signal patch, 1.5 cm long and 1 cm wide, which is dark purple, or blackish. Also, in the middle of the falls, is a sparse, row of short hairs called the 'beard', which is dark purple, or purple. The paler standards are oval and up to long and 6 cm wide.
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Leaflets obovate-oblong to oblong-cuneate, thinly coriaceous, coarsely serrate-dentate. Flowers usually unisexual; inflorescences are compound umbels with 8-20 primary branchlets up to 10 cm long, 15-20 secondary rays, umbellules with 10-15 flowers in each. Calyx truncate or obscurely 5-toothed; flowers 5mm in diameter, sweet-scented; petals 5, white to pink flushed, ovate to triangular, acute; stamens 5; ovary 2-loculed, each containing 1(-2) ovules; style branches 2, spreading. Fruit fleshy, very dark purple, laterally compressed, 5–8 mm diam.
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Rhododendron yunnanense (云南杜鹃) is a species of rhododendron native to Myanmar and Guizhou, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Xizang, and Yunnan, China, where it grows at altitudes of 2200–3600 meters. It is a shrub that grows to 1–2 m in height, with leaves that are oblong, lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate or obovate, 2.5–7 by 0.8–3m in size. Flowers are white, pale red, or pale purple. In cultivation in the UK the cultivar ‘Openwood‘ has gained the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit.
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The narrow obovate seed is generally , 1-1.5 times the length of the upper wing edge while the wing itself is widest in the distal half. Needles of A. milleri reach up to long, but have a width of only at the base. The leaf base is generally as wide to slightly wider than the leaf and round, with the leaf angled approximately 70 degrees upward from the attachment. Leaf scars on axes are circular to slightly oval, , and show a vascular bundle scar in the center.
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Daviesia corymbosa grows as an open shrub and reaches high. Like other members of the pea family it has phyllodes rather than leaves. These are variable in shape, ranging from obovate (egg-shaped) or oval to linear and measure long and wide, and are green in colour with a prominent network of veins. The yellow to red flowers appear from August to December, but peak in Spring over September and October, and are arranged in groups of 5 to 20 in umbelliform or corymbose racemes.
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Flowers are pink to rose-coloured with the shorter anterior petals about long. The sensitive labellum is obovate and white with a circular grey-purple mark on either side of the terminal portion. Both leaves and stems of L. pulcherrima possess more glandular trichomes than in other Levenhookia species. When describing this new species, Sherwin Carlquist noted that it is most closely related to L. preissii and L. pauciflora, which might place it with those species in section Levenhookia, but Carlquist neglected to specifically say so.
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In the middle of the falls, also is a row of short hairs called the 'beard', which is made up of long bright yellow, or white hairs, with lateral short purple hairs. The obovate standards, are long and 4–5 cm wide, and a similar colour to the falls. It has style branch that is arched, and pale orange, streaked with purple, or red, according to Brian Mathew. After the iris has flowered, it produces a seed capsule that is about 4 cm long.
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H. guianensis is a large evergreen tree growing to a height of . Annual growth is in the form of vigorous short shoots on which flowers and foliage develop before the old leaves are shed. The leaves are tri-foliate (with three leaflets), the leaflets being folded back when the leaf emerges but becoming semi-erect as the leaf matures, the only species in the genus where this is the case. The variety lutea differs from the nominate race in having obovate leaflets instead of elliptical ones.
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The rounded shrub typically grows to a height of and has branches with hairs pressed closely to the surface and golden coloured hairy shoots. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. They often have an asymmetrically oblong-elliptic to oblong-obovate shape with a length of and a width of and are densely haired that becomes sparse with age. The grey-green coloured phyllodes are obtuse to subacute and a have a single main vein with obscure lateral veins.
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The species grows as a perennial, densely budding rosette plant, the offshoot of 2 to 8 inches long thin, smooth stem forms. The cup-shaped or urn-shaped rosettes reach a diameter of 3 to 6 centimeters and are tightly closed during the dry season. Their leaves are tightly packed during growth. The obovate-spateligen, pale green, bluish breath, initially with very fine mesh, later bare leaves are 2 to 3.5 centimetres long, 1 to 1.5 centimeters wide and 0.1 to 0.2 centimeters thick.
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The spikelets have 2 fertile florets which are diminished at the apex while the sterile florets are barren, lanceolate, clumped and are long. Its rhachilla have scaberulous internodes while the floret callus is glabrous. Both the upper and lower glumes are keelless, membranous, and have acute apexes but have different size and description; Lower glume is obovate and is long while upper one is elliptic and is long. The species' lemma have eciliated margins while its fertile one is chartaceous, elliptic, and is long by wide.
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The basal lobes (or appendages) are mostly pressed against the upper surface of the leaf, are more than half as long and also have a deeply scalloped outer margin. The five white sepals are 8–18 mm long and 6–12 mm wide, obovate, widest between the tip and the middle, and have an obtuse to acute tip. There are between ten and fifteen stamens encircling free narrow-ovate carpels each about 4–5 mm long and topped by a rather long and slender style.
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Alnus jorullensis, commonly known as Mexican alder, is an evergreen or semi- evergreen alder, native to eastern and southern Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Although previously reported from the Andes, further collections showed these to be the similar species Alnus acuminata, commonly found in South America. Alnus jorullensis is a medium-sized tree growing to 20–25 m tall. The leaves are obovate to elliptic, 5–12 cm long, somewhat leathery in texture with a serrated margin and glandular on the underside.
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These rheophytic (very seldom facultative) herbs can be minute to rather large, about 2 cm to 60 cm tall. Their stems are creeping and rooting, with a few or many leaves. The leaves can be quite delicate or tough and their shapes can be elliptic, oblong, linear, oblanceolate or obovate. Most of the leaf surfaces are rather glossy and the colours of the leaf range from dark blue-green to green, often with white to yellow to red tinges or spots on the back of the leaves.
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The tree which produces the ilama stands erect at about 25 feet (7.5m), often branching at ground level. It is distinguished by its aromatic, pale-brownish-grey, furrowed bark and glossy, thin, elliptic to obovate or oblanceolate leaves, two to six inches (5–15 cm) long. Clasping the base of the flowering branchlets are one or two leaf-like, nearly circular, glabrous bracts, about 1 to 1-3/8 inches (2.5 - 3.5 cm) in length. New growth is tinged a reddish or coppery color.
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The leaves, exstipulate and 2-6 cm in length, alternate and vary in shape between lanceolate, elliptic, and obovate. Flowers tend to be 7.5-8 mm wide, white to cream colored, bisexual, with 5 petals on 5 sepals, and arranged in axillary cyme. The fruits, 1–1.4 cm across, are papery, one- seeded, three-lobed samaras, similar to species of Dodonaea. Wimmeria mexicana mass flowers around July to October, or often after heavy Autumn rain, attracting a large number of insects, particularly bees and flies.
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Like the other meadowfoams, Limnanthes vinculans is a small annual herb, with multiple stems growing up to in height; white flowers occur singly at the ends of stems. This plant bears white flowers singly at the termini of its stems. L. vinculans is unique in its genus for having compound leaves with three to five leaflets; each leaflet is entire, with a narrow-obovate shape. The flowers are small (12 to 18 millimeters across), white, generally bowl-shaped, and bloom in April and May.
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Leaves persistent, coriaceous, blades 1–3 cm wide; calyx lobes neither foliaceous nor overlapping in bud (2). 2\. Plants green, glabrous or glandular; leaves 4–9 cm long, elliptic to narrowly elliptic; calyx lobes lanceolate and longer than the tube at anthesis; HI exc, Ni & Ka .….2. Vaccinium dentatum 2\. Plants pubescent or glaucous, or both; leaves 1–3 cm long, ovate to obovate or rarely elliptic; calyx lobes deltate, usually not as long as the tube at tnthesis; K, O, Mo, M, H ….. 3.
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Inflorescence It grows as a densely branched small shrub and reaches stature heights of up to 60 centimeters. The almost bare, somewhat mesh-like, ascending or hanging, winding shoots have a diameter of 3 to 6 millimeters. Their rather flat rosettes reach a diameter of 6 to 11 centimeters. The inner leaves are more or less upright. The obovate, green or yellowish green, often very heavily bluish, almost bare leaves are 3 to 5.5 centimeters long, 1.5 to 3 centimeters wide and 0.25 to 0.4 centimeters thick.
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Covered with fine fur but becoming smooth with age, the oval- shaped follicles measure long by 0.2–0.7 cm high (0.1–0.3 in) and wide. The bare swollen spike, now known as an infructescence, is patterned with short spiky persistent bracts on its surface where follicles have not developed. Each follicle contains one or two obovate dark grey-brown to black seeds sandwiching a woody separator. Measuring long, they are made up of an oblong to semi-elliptic smooth or slightly ridged seed body, long by wide.
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Robert Brown formally described Banksia caleyi in his 1830 work Supplementum primum Prodromi florae Novae Hollandiae, naming it in honour of the English botanist George Caley. The type specimen was collected by William Baxter, inland from King George Sound on Western Australia's south coast, in 1829. Carl Meissner placed B. caleyi in series Quercinae in his 1856 arrangement of the genus on account of its strongly dentate, cuneate to obovate leaves. As they were defined on leaf characters alone, all of Meissner's series were highly heterogeneous.
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The characteristic spiny capillitia The fruit body usually grows to a diameter of , although extremes of and have been reported. Its shape ranges from roughly spherical, to obovate (egg- shaped) or pyriform (pear-shaped), sometimes plicate (crumpled, wrinkled) around a somewhat fibrous, persistent tuft of mycelium. The puffball is initially covered by a thick, felted, whitish layer (the exoperidium). This is continuous at first but eventually cracks and peels away in thin flakes, exposing a leathery to corky, nearly smooth, light brown to dark pinkish-brown surface.
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Hakea megalosperma is a low spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of and up to wide and does not form a lignotuber. The leaves are bluish-green, egg-shaped or narrowly obovate, tapering to the base, long and wide with a rounded apex ending with a point long. The leaves have a mid-vein, smooth margin and end sometimes with a curling apex. The inflorescence consists of white-cream or pink strongly scented flowers, darkening to red as they age on smooth stem long.
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It has 2 pairs of petals, 3 large sepals (outer petals), known as the 'falls' and 3 inner, smaller petals (or tepals), known as the 'standards'. The drooping obovate falls, measuring long and 2–2.5 cm wide, have a wide (or flaring) white blade or signal (central part of the petal) with dark-blue to violet veining. The white forms of the iris have a tinge of lavender and dark veining. The smaller narrow upright standards are between long and 1.5–1.8 cm wide.
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Unlike many members of the genus, A. schottii is a shrub rather than a vine, growing to 1.5 to 3 m (5–10 ft) tall and around 2 m (6–8 ft) wide. The elliptic to obovate leaves are arranged in whorls of 3–5 or are subopposite along the stem, and measure 2–14 cm long and 1.1–4 cm wide. The large yellow flowers are terminal (i.e. appearing at the ends of branches), and can appear year-round but predominantly in spring.
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The leaves of this species are not hairy or felted, though they can sometimes have an indistinct tomentum over them. The leaves are dark green, densely-packed, obovate, compact ("retuse") - over one and a half times wider than they are thick, and up to 17 mm long. Its flowers have pink, thinly-ovate petals and 20-25 stamens, and are born on a short inflorescence. In contrast, similar smooth-leaved species, such as Anacampseros lanceolata or Anacampseros telephiastrum, have leaves over 18 mm long.
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Terminalia ferdinandiana is a slender, small to medium-sized tree growing up to in height, with creamy-grey, flaky bark and deciduous pale green leaves. The flowers are small, creamy-white, perfumed, and borne along spikes in the leaf axils towards the ends of the branches. Flowering is from September to December. (Southern hemisphere spring/summer.) The leaf blades are strongly discolorous with a broadly elliptic to broadly ovate, occasionally obovate shape and are in length with a width of and have a rounded apex.
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The shrub or tree can grow to a height of and can have an erect or spreading habit. The has dark brown coloured and deeply fissured bark with angled or flattened and glabrous branchlets that are often covered in a fine white powdery coating. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The glabrous, evergreen phyllodes have an obovate to narrowly oblanceolate shape that is occasionally narrowly elliptic with a length of and a width of with a prominent midvein.
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They are highly variable perennial herbaceous plants with long thick roots (often branched) and almost no stem. The leaves are borne in a basal rosette, and are variable in size and shape, with a maximum length of . They are usually either elliptical in shape or wider towards the end (obovate), with varying degrees of hairiness. Because mandrakes contain deliriant hallucinogenic tropane alkaloids and the shape of their roots often resembles human figures, they have been associated with a variety of superstitious practices throughout history.
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New caudexes are generated each year by the current years plant and the old caudex withers away in the fall and early spring of the next year. In early spring plants grow, producing glabrous or glandular leaves. both basal and cauline leaves are produced that have long petioles. Leaf blades are 1-4×-ternately compound with leaflets reniform or cordate to obovate or orbiculate in shape. The leaflets are 10–45 mm wide with lobed margins often crenate, and the undersides are normally glabrous or glandular.
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E. cylindraceum stems are completely covered with tubular sheathes which bear one to two ovate-oblong leaves near the apex.Schweinfurth "Orchids of Peru", Fieldiana: Botany 30(1959)430—431 The peduncle is clothed in two or three elongate herbaceous sheathes, arranged in a fan. The inflorescence is a dense raceme, up to 15 cm long by 5 cm in diameter. The rather small, non- resupinate, mostly white flowers have obovate acute sepals nearly 1 cm long that are rough on the outside, and linear petals.
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Morphologically, A. × pamela is intermediate between its two parent species. It grows as a bushy shrub about 1.5 m (5 ft) in height, roughly twice the height of the compact A. obovata, but shorter than the tall, lanky A. detmoldii. Leaf shape is also intermediate between the short obovate leaves of A. obovata, and the longer lanceolate leaves of A. detmoldii; and flowers are orange or light red, again intermediate between the yellow to orange of A. detmoldii and the scarlet of A obovata. Like A. obovata, A. × pamela possesses a lignotuber.
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Muntingia calabura is a shrub or tree up to 12 m tall with spreading branches. The leaves are alternate, distichous, oblong or lanceolate, 4–15 cm long and 1–6 cm wide, with toothed margin and covered in short hairs. The flowers are small (up to 3 cm wide), solitary or in inflorescences of two or three flowers, with five lanceolate sepals, hairy, five obovate white petals, many stamens with yellow anthers, and a smooth ovoid ovary. Fruit, an edible berry, is red at maturity, about 1.5 cm wide.
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Ulmus mexicana is probably the tallest of all the elm species, occasionally reaching a height of 84 m (273 feet), and a d.b.h. of 2.5 m (8 feet), certainly one of the tallest trees in Mexico. The tree is also distinguished by its deeply fluted grey trunk, supporting a deep crown, its dense foliage casting a heavy shadow. The leaves vary widely in size from 3-16 cm in length by 2-7 cm breadth, elliptic to obovate, surface glossy, but dull on the underside, with petioles 5-10 mm long.
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Leaf dimensions range from 5–30 mm long and 1.5–2.5 mm wide, and are observed to be simple, alternate and evergreen. Their shape is highly variable, commonly occurring as linear, narrow elliptic or narrow obovate but always exhibiting a spiky aristate apex. Leaf margins are flat to recurved, with the abaxial (lower) surface a darker shade than the adaxial (upper) surface. Leaf blades occur at right angles to the petiole, which is short and appressed to the stem, with pointed, soft, brown stipules occurring at the leaf base.
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Between two and four hermaphrodite flowers fully develop on each stem, while several flowerbuds are arrested in their development, and two to five leaflike bracts are present. The flowers are somewhat nodding. Each flower has three to five leathery sepals that mostly end in a stretched tip, making it "leafy", but sometimes one and rarely two sepals may be obovate with a rounded tip, which do not fall after flowering. The corolla usually consists of six to nine oblong cyclamen to pink or rarely white petals of 3-6½ × 1½-3 cm.
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The tree grows to between in height and has a pyramidal habit with glabrous branchlets that have a fine white powdery coating. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The evergreen phyllodes have an obovate to oblanceolate or sometimes narrowly elliptic shape with a length of and a width of . The lemon yellow globular flowerheads appear in racemes from November to December in the species' native range, followed by seed pods that are 5 to 12 cm long and 1.4 to 2.2 cm wide.
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It has pale style branches, that are 0.6–1 cm long, with deltoid crests. It has 1.5 cm long filaments, very pale violet, oblong and 1 cm long ovarys, blue edged anthers and white or bluish pollen. After the iris has flowered, in August, it produces a cylindrical, blunt and triangular, or oblong, hexagonal seed capsule, that is long, and 1.3–2.3 cm wide, with 6 grooves. Inside the capsule, are obovate,Vít Bojnanský and Agáta Fargašová ovoid, globose or pyriform (pear shaped) seeds, that are brown or dark reddish brown, rugose (wrinkled).
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It is a small to medium-sized tree growing to 7–25 m tall. The leaves are narrow obovate, 20–40 cm in length and 10–20 cm in width. Fruit produced as mentioned earlier, is otherwise aptly known as the Box Fruit, due to distinct square like diagonals jutting out from the cross section of the fruit, given its semi spherical shape form from stem altering to a subpyramidal shape at its base. The fruit measures 9–11 cm in diameter, where a thick spongy fibrous layer covers the 4–5 cm diameter seed.
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In the centre of the fall, is a row of hairs called a beard, which are yellow, or orange yellow, at the base, turning white at the front of the petal. The standards are obovate or unguiculate (claw shaped), they are paler than the falls, and have a pale haft that is also marked with bronzy-purple. It has a long perianth tube, which is wider and shorter than the perianth tube of Iris cypriana. It has a rounded ovary, blue-purple style arms, violet crests, white filaments and cream anther.
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Like other irises, it has 2 pairs of petals, 3 large sepals (outer petals), known as the 'falls' and 3 inner, smaller petals (or tepals), known as the 'standards'. The deflexed, or drooping falls, are obovate, or cuneate (wedge) shaped. They are long and wide. There is some greenish-yellow veining on the haft, (section of the petal near the stem), and in the centre of the falls, there is a narrow fillet of white cilias (called a beard) with deep yellow tips, bright yellow, or orange yellow.
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Laurel Leaf Willow is known to leaf out in early Spring, typically it is one of the first trees to do so, and the last in Autumn to go through abscission. Balsam Fir (Abies balsamea) can reach up to 18m tall, its leaves are between 18-25mm long with the apex of the leaves being jagged or rounded. Baked Hazelnut (Corylus cornuta) is a 1-3m shrub, its leaves are ovate-oblong to oblong-obovate, while being circular to relatively heart-shaped at the base. They are known to flower in early Spring.
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Indigofera linnaei is a spreading, usually prostrate woody herb, 15–50 cm high with a long taproot, which forms a flat mat up to 1.5 m across, and up to 45 cm high. The compound leaves are up to 3 cm long, with (generally) 7 or 9 obovate, alternate leaflets which have a mucronate apex and are about 8–15 mm long and 2–5 mm wide. The stipules are lanceolate (shaped like a lance-head) and about 5 mm long with broad, dry margins. The inflorescences are dense and up to 2 cm long.
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The blue-grey to grey-green pungent and coriaceous phyllodes usually have an elliptic to obovate or orbicular shape with a length of and a width of and have a prominent and central midrib. It produces rounded yellow flowerheads between April and August in the species' native range. The simple inflorescences occur along a long raceme with showy, spherical flower-heads that are densely packed with 70 to 80 bright golden coloured flowers. Following flowering shallowly curved to openly once-coiled seed pods form that have a narrowly oblong shape and are rounded over seeds.
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They have prominent midveins along the midline of the main leaf and the lobes. The elliptic or obovate (egg-shaped) adult leaves are 8–25 cm (3.2–10 in) long and up to 4.5 cm (1.8 in) wide, and sit on 1.5 to 2.5-cm (0.6–1 in) long petioles. Occurring in spring (August to October), the bright red or orange-red inflorescences are terminal and well displayed, and consist of anywhere from 10 to 52 individual flowers split into smaller groups of 2 to 20 flowers, arranged in a corymb.
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Aquilaria sinensis is an evergreen tree, 6 to 20 m tall. The smooth bark is grayish to dark grey, and the wood is white to yellowish – so giving it another Chinese name “Pak Muk Heung” (White Wood Incense). Its branchlets are sparsely covered with hairs when young. Its leaves are alternate, leathery, obovate to elliptic, generally 5 to 11 cm long and 2 to 4 cm wide, with 15 to 20 pairs of inconspicuous and nearly parallel lateral veins which is a helpful diagnostic feature in the field.
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They are generally, white to pale lavender blue, veined with dark purple at the base (of the petal). In the centre of the petal, is a 'beard', a band of orange-yellow hairs in lower half and dark violet-purple in upper half. The erect, standards are obovate or elliptical, long and wide. They are bluish purple to lilac, with darker veining. It has white filaments, that are 17–20 mm long, creamy white anthers, that are 14–16 long and 2–2.5 mm wide and white pollen.
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Nepenthes kampotiana also lacks an indumentum, being glabrous throughout. The terrestrial traps of N. chang are typically wider than they are deep, while those of N. kampotiana are uniformly ovate. The two species also differ in the shape of their aerial pitchers: those of N. chang are tubulose throughout, whereas those of N. kampotiana are obovate or ovate in their basal half. In lower pitchers of N. chang, the peristome is often wider at the sides, whereas that found in the traps of N. kampotiana tends to be uniform in width.
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Tephrosia apollinea is a legume species, native to southwest Asia (the Levant, Arabia, Socotra, Iran, Pakistan, northwestern India) and northeast Africa (Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia). The leaflets of the plant are obovate-oblong and equal-sided, and of a silky texture. The fruits (legumes) are typically one to two inches (2.5 to 5.1 cm) long and contain six or seven brownish seeds. The species typically grows in areas where the soils are relatively deep, especially in semi-arid and wadi areas, and on terraces and slight inclines and hills.
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Close-up of a flower, showing the two yellow spots at the base of each petal Saxifraga stellaris grows as a leaf rosette, which produces a generally leafless stem up to tall. The leaves are toothed and somewhat fleshy, ovate or obovate, and without an obvious petiole. They are typically long (varying from ), with a cuneate (wedge-shaped) base. The flowers are borne in a loose panicle comprising 5–10 flowers; each flower has deflexed sepals, surrounding five white petals, long, with two yellow or red spots near the base.
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They are obovate, becoming narrower towards the mouth. They are similar in size to their lower counterparts, reaching 12.5 cm in height by 4.5 cm in width. In aerial pitchers, the broad wings of the lower pitchers are reduced to narrow structures only 1 to 1.5 mm wide, with shorter acuminate fringe elements (≤1.5 mm long) spaced 3 to 7 mm apart. As in lower pitchers, the pitcher mouth is oblique and concave. The peristome is rounded and 3 to 5 mm wide, with a regularly undulate outer margin.
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Flowers with the calyx tube are minute, the lobes lanceolate; corolla is between , pentagonal and yellow. Ovary is globose, glabrous or with a few minute trichomes at the apex; the style being between ; stigma capitate and green. The fruit is between in diameter, globose and green with a dark green stripe around it that may change to purple at maturity. Seeds are obovate, narrowly winged at the apex and acute at the base, pale brown, pubescent with hair-like outgrowths of the tegument cell radial walls, which give the surface a silky appearance.
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It grows as a woody shrub or small tree and reaches 8 m (25 ft) tall. The trunk does not form buttresses but may be crooked, and is covered by smooth grey bark with horizontal markings and long lenticels. The new growth is hairy in plants found north of Coffs Harbour (30° S) . The large glossy dark green leaves are obovate to lanceolate and range from 8–20 cm (3–8 in) long by 2–4 cm wide, and arranged in whorls of 3-4 on the branches.
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Erysimum siliculosum flowers from May to July, depending on the altitude. Racemes are corymbose, densely flowered, ebracteate or rarely lowermost few flowers bracteate, elongated considerably in fruit. Fruiting pedicels are ascending or divaricate-ascending, (2-)4–6 mm, stout, narrower than fruit. Sepals are oblong-linear, (6-)7-9(-10) × 1–2 mm, united, persistent well after fruit maturity, strongly saccate. Petals are bright yellow, obovate or broadly spatulate, (1.1-)1.4-1.8(-2) cm × 5–8 mm, apex rounded; claw distinct, subequaling sepals. Filaments yellow, 6–10 mm; anthers linear, 2–3 mm.
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One or very rarely two hermaphrodite flowers fully develop on each stem, while one or two flowerbuds are arrested in their development, and two to five leaflike bracts are present. The flowers are somewhat nodding. Each flower has three to five leathery sepals that mostly end in a stretched tip, making it "leafy", but sometimes one and rarely two sepals may be obovate with a rounded tip, which do not fall after flowering. The corolla usually consists of six to nine oblong cyclamen or rarely pink to white petals of 3-6½ × 1½-3 cm.
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The scales are obovate, lobed, and fringed, membranous, hairy or smooth, and usually caducous. The male flowers are without calyx or corolla, and comprise a group of four to 60 stamens inserted on a disk; filaments are short and pale yellow; anthers are oblong, purple or red, introrse, and two-celled; the cells open longitudinally. The female flower also has no calyx or corolla, and comprises a single-celled ovary seated in a cup-shaped disk. The style is short, with two to four stigmata, variously lobed, and numerous ovules.
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The woody separator is the same shape as the seed, with an impression where the seed body lies next to it. Seedlings have bright obovate green cotyledons long and wide, which sit on a stalk, or 1 mm diameter finely hairy seedling stem, known as the hypocotyl, which is less than 1 cm high. The first seedling leaves to emerge are paired (oppositely arranged) and lanceolate with fine-toothed margins, measuring 2.5–3 cm long and 0.4–0.5 cm wide. Subsequent leaves are more oblanceolate, elliptic (oval-shaped) or linear.
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More or less elliptic in shape, they measure long, high, and wide, and mostly remain closed until burnt by fire, although a few may open after several years. They contain two fertile seeds each, between which lies a woody dark brown separator of similar shape to the seeds. Measuring in length, the seed is obovate, and composed of a dark brown -wide membranous 'wing' and crescent-shaped (lunate) seed proper which measures long by wide. The seed surface can be smooth or covered in tiny ridges, and often glistens.
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The flowers are cream at the base and deep pink to red in the upper half, and are brightest before anthesis and then gradually fade with age. The inflorescences eventually turn grey, the old flowers remaining as up to 25 large woody follicles develop. Oval in shape and covered with fine hair, the follicles can reach long, high, and wide. The obovate seed is long and fairly flattened, and is composed of the wedge-shaped seed body proper, measuring long and 1.6–1.7 cm ( in) wide, and a papery wing.
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It has green to green-yellow leaves that start large near the apex and become smaller and more distant from each other as they descend. They can range from obovate to elliptic in shape and between 3-7mm in length. This means that they are widest near the middle and get more narrow as they reach the leaf tip. The leaves contort and twist when dry, which can be due to the lack of stereids in the costa of the leaves, and spread out when exposed to water.
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The leaf shape depends on the species, but is usually roughly obovate, spatulate, or linear. They can also appear yellow in color with a soft feel and a greasy consistency to the leaves.` Vector graphic of the trapping and digestive features of a Pinguicula leaf Like all members of the family Lentibulariaceae, butterworts are carnivorous. The mechanistic actions that these plants use to lure and capture prey is through a means of sticky or adhesives substances that are produced by mucilage separated by glands located on the leaf’s surface.
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The glabrous shrub or tree typically grows to a height of but can be as high as and has corky, deeply furrowed gery coloured bark. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The green to grey-green to blue-green leathery textured phyllodes have an inequilaterally obovate-elliptic to duck's head shape and are broadest above the middle with a conspicuously rounded upper margin and a straight lower margin. The phyllodes are usually in length and wide with three to eight main longitudinal nerves with anastomosing minor nerves.
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The leaves have a narrow base connecting to the long petioles. They have regularly spaced teeth along the margin that are rounded and bearing glands, and a few specimens from the McAbee site also have distinct laminal lobes bracketing the petiole. The leaves have an overall range between long by , with an obovate outline. Like Trochodendron the leaves have a pinnate vein structure, with between eight and fifteen secondary veins that fork from the central main vein and arch towards the leaf apex before merging with the secondary above.
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Most spores are 14–20 by 6–9 µm, but some may be as long as 24 or 28 µm; specimens from a Korean population were reported with slightly smaller spores. Unlike others in the genus, C. cinnabarinum does not use nurse cells to supply food material to spores. The basidia are 40–50 by 15–20 µm, broadly obovate, club-shaped or sometimes cylindrical, with five to twelve spores distributed evenly or irregularly over the surface. The gleba also contains branching hyphae, 3–4 µm thick with frequent clamp connections.
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Plants produce up to five flowers per season The leaf blades of the summer rosettes of P. elizabethiae are smooth, rigid, and succulent, and green in color. The laminae are generally obovate–spatulate to suborbicular–spatulate, between 35 and 72 millimeters (–3 in.) long and 10–53 millimeters (⅜–2 in.) wide, and have slightly involute margins. The leaf bases are covered in 5–10 millimeter multicellular trichomes. The "winter" or "resting" rosette of P. elizabethiae is 10–20 millimeters (⅜– in.) in diameter and consists of 60 to 125 small, compact, fleshy, non-glandular leaves.
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The drooping (obovate shaped) falls have a wide blade (about 1 inch wide and 4 inches long), which have purple-brown or red-brown stripes, lines or spots over a deeper yellow centre or signal patch. The upright and oblanceolate standards are narrower than the falls, with slightly curled edges. It has a perianth tube of 1.3 cm long, 3 cm long stamens, brown-yellow anthers and large pale yellow, arching style branches (almost as big as the standards) 4-4.5 cm long and 1.4–1.6 cm wide.
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The stem has a terminal (top of stem) flower, blooming in Spring between April, and June. The flowers are in diameter, they have a dingy-white, whitish, or pale background, which has many spots and dark veining, in black-purple, brown-purple, or brown violet, or brown shades. Like other irises, it has 2 pairs of petals, 3 large sepals (outer petals), known as the 'falls' and 3 inner, smaller petals (or tepals), known as the 'standards'. The obovate or cuneate (wedge shaped) falls, are long and 3.5–4 cm wide.
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Balanites glabra is a spiny shrub or tree growing to a maximum height of 9m. The bark is grey or greyish green and is rough, cork-like and fissured on the trunk but greener and smoother on the branches, the spines and young shoots are green and glabrous, becoming greyer and hairier by their second year. The leaves are teardrop shaped with the stalk attached to the tapering end (i.e. obovate.) Flower's are borne in clusters of 4, sometimes 5, on a pedicel and are yellowish green to white.
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The spreading shrub typically grows to a height of and has multiple stems with a flat topped habit. It has smooth greenish to gray coloured bark and terete, glabrous or lightly haired branchlets. The blue-green subcoriaceous filiform leaves have a rachis with a length of that hold two to four pairs of pinnae that are in length that are composed of 4 to 12 pairs of pinnules that have a lanceolate or obovate shape and are long and wide. It flowers from August to November producing yellow inflorescences.
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Like other irises, the flowers have 2 pairs of petals, 3 large sepals (outer petals), known as the 'falls' and 3 inner, smaller petals (or tepals, known as the 'standards'. Compared to other irises, the paradoxa or strangeness of the iris, is that in most forms of irises, the standards are smaller than the falls, but on I. paradoxa the falls are much smaller than the standards. The erect standards are broadly obovate, or rounded, and long and wide. They are a pale shade with pale blue or deep blue veining.
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Corokia cotoneaster is a highly branched shrub with a strongly divaricating habit with rough dark-colored bark, usually growing to about 3 m in height. Common variable shrubs with thin gray zig-zag twigs that contain small white clusters underneath with dented or rounded edges and on flat, black petioles. Yellow flowers, star-shaped and red fruits. The leaves are variable, depending on altitude and to the degree of exposure to wind, and are obvo-cuneate to obovate-oblong, 2–15 cm long and 1–10 cm wide.
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M. burchellii is recognised by the rigid, erect, often dark red or brownish, linear or narrowly elliptic or very narrowly obovate leaves. During flowering time, (January) February to May (June), no or at most two leaves are present, as the leaves from the previous growing season are burnt down and only the spiky petiole-like bases are persistent. In M. burchellii, as in M. coriacea, flowering is induced by fire. Plants collected before or long after flowering, usually have many leaves (up to 30), leaves are only present from June onwards.
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The Goodenia macbarronii is a yellow flowering, herbaceous plant growing to 40 cm tall. It has basal leaves which are narrow-obovate to linear oblanceolate, thick with coarse teeth around the edge and may have several rosettes linked by short underground stems.[7] The Narrow Goodenia occurs in spring-soaks, drainage lines and areas which stay moist all year round. The Grass Tree (Xanthorrhoea glauca subspecies angustifolia), which was listed under the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988 (Vic) as endangered in 2013, occurs in low fertility soils primarily in the Box-Ironbark forest area of the park.
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The upper part is almost cylindrical at 8 mm (0.315-inch) to 14 mm (0.551-inch) long. It slightly narrows at the mouth to be 3 mm (0.118-inch) to 4 mm (0.158-inch) wide. The corolla lobes are obliquely and broadly obovate, egg-shaped and flat with the narrow end attached to the stalk, at 0.8 to 0.9 times as long as the tube, hence measuring at 1.35 to 1.6 times as long as it is wide at 15 mm (0.591-inch) to 19 mm (0.75-inch) long by 11 mm (0.43-inch) to 17 mm (0.67-inch) wide.
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The flowers are in diameter, they are smaller than Iris japonica, and Iris tectorum. The flowers come in shades of pinkish-violet, or pinkish purple, or pinkish lilac,Nick Romanowski pinkish-lavender, or pale mauve. It has 2 pairs of petals, 3 large sepals (outer petals), known as the 'falls' and 3 inner, smaller petals (or tepals, known as the 'standards'. The falls are reflexed, obovate, 3 cm long, with a blade marked with dark purple, violet or lilac, lines, spots or mottled (streaks or blotches), it has a finely fringed, or toothed, orange, or white, or yellow crest (or ridge).
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Epidendrum polystachyum has a sympodial habit, producing fusiform pseudobulbs, each with several oblong obtuse conduplicate leaves. The terminal inflorescence is a many-branched panicle with few flowers on each branch (Reichenbach 1861 says "scapo polystachyo"). The sepals, petals, and lip are peach colored: the dorsal sepal oblong to lanceolate, acuminate and reflexed; the lateral sepals oblique and reflexed; the petals lanceolate-spatulate. The trilobate lip is adnate to the column to its apex: the lateral lobes irregularly obovate with erose to crenulate margins; the medial lobe smaller, deeply emarginate, divided in two at the apex, with a raised oblong yellow-green callus.
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The drooping falls are obovate, measuring 7 cm long and 3 cm wide, with white or yellow signal patch or mottled pattern on the blade (wide section). The smaller standards are held at an oblique angle, measuring 5.5 cm long and oblanceolate (in from). It has perianth tube of 1.6–1.8 cm long, a pedicel (flower stalk stem) of between 3–6 cm long and pale purple style branches, measuring 5 cm long and 1.6 cm wide. It has a 3–6 cm long pedicel, 1.8–2 cm long and 7 mm wide, ovary and milky yellow anthers.
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The bracts of the flower are generally arranged in three rows of unequal length, with similar grades of size, and range in shape with the bract being egg-shaped with broader end at base (ovate) to the bract being egg-shaped with the narrow end at base (obovate). The bracts are 4 to 5 millimetres long and have dry and membranous margins. The receptacle or floral axis has conspicuous oblong (having a length greater than width) scales between the flowers. The ray-flowers are female in 1 row, with about 25 ligules which are narrow, blue and are an estimated 10 millimetres long.
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Botanical illustration When growing in savannah, Landolphia owariensis is an erect bush or small tree, but when growing among trees, it can develop into a woody vine with a stem that grows to a metre wide and long. The bark is rough, dark brown or greyish-brown, and often covered with pale yellow lenticels; it exudes a milky juice when damaged. The leaves grow in opposite pairs and are oblong, elliptical or obovate, up to . The young leaves are reddish at first but the upper sides of the leaf blades later become dark green and glossy, with a pale midrib.
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Flowers are small, regular, lacking bracts, in apical thick paniculately-corymbiform inflorescence, usually two for long reddish leafless peduncle length of 4 cm. Calyx is naked half dissected into five oval top rounded lobes of up to 4 mm; petals obovate or broadly ovate, with a wide short marigold, 10-12 mm long, 6-8 mm wide, with a blunt-rounded apex and many veins, purple-red or pink. The stamens are twice as long as the calyx, and there are ten of them. Pistil has a semi-lower ovary, deeply divided into two (three) columns with wide stigmas.
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Goodenia paniculata is a herbaceous plant which reaches 50 cm (20 in) in height. Its leaves appear near the base of the plant and are obovate to oblanceolate in shape with serrated (toothed) margins, and measure 1.4 to 10 cm (0.5–4 in) long, and 0.6–1 cm (0.2–0.4 in) wide. Appearing from October to April, the flowers rise above the base on an 8 cm (2.5 in) high bare stalk. The habitat is freshwater wetland or swampy habitat on clay, silty or sandy soils, and it has been known to grow in soils with pH as low as 2.5.
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The leaflets of Tephrosia apollinea The leaflets of the plant are obovate-oblong, somewhat wedge-shaped, equal-sided, and of a silky texture. The mid-rib is usually folded longitudinally, and they are characterized by parallel transverse veins. The fruits (legumes) are typically one to two inches long (2.5 to 5.1 cm) and contain six or seven brownish seeds. The plant displays purple flowers during season; they are described as their most attractive in the month of January. It typically grows to 45 – 50 cm in height, and can grow on mountains with an altitude of over 3000 ft.
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Growing to tall and broad, the subspecies O. triangularis subsp. papilionacea, the purpleleaf false shamrock, is hardy in mild and coastal areas of Britain, down to , and has won the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit. It is a perennial plant without aerial stem, formed by leaves borne by a long petiole emerging at the ground level of a tuberous rhizome (5 cm long, over 10 - 15 mm in diameter, fully covered with scales). The leaf is formed of three sessile leaflets (or very short petiole), obtriangular to obovate-triangular, glabrous, arranged in the same plane perpendicular to the petiole.
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Leaves are 3.5 x 1.5 cm, obovate to oblanceolate with acute apex and decurrent base, and minutely puberulous on veins of lower surface."Forest Flora of Northern Rhodesia" - F. White (Oxford University Press, 1962) Flowers are terminal in thyrsoid panicles, at ends of short lateral shoots, and are very fragrant. Calyx small and much shorter than corolla, glabrous to scabrid- pubescent; lobes up to 2.5 mm long, lanceolate. Corolla white, greenish-white or yellow, with touches of red in bud; glabrous or puberulous; tube cylindrical below, bell-shaped or campanulate above; lobes 5–6, ovate, ciliolate; style long, strongly protruding from the corolla.
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They occur in clusters in the leaf axils or in the scars of fallen leaves. Petal numbers vary between 4-7 free petals, and calyx cup shaped. The petals are 5-6mm long, narrow-oblong to narrow-obovate, apex obtuse. Other parts of the flower are symmetrical apex obtuse, carpels 1-6, stigma apical very short stamens but many (6-20) crowded around a few short ovaries The Pseudowintera axillaris fruits are berries, one from each ovary producing a 3-6-seeded fleshy globose to subglobose berry 5-6mm in diameter orange to red when ripe.
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One side, termed the outer surface, is grey and the other is dark brown; on this side the seed body protrudes and is covered with tiny filaments. The seeds are separated by a dark brown seed separator that is roughly the same shape as the seeds with a depression where the seed body sits adjacent to it in the follicle. It measures long and wide. The dull green cotyledons of seedlings are wider than they are long, measuring 1.4–1.5 cm (0.6 in) across and 1.2–1.3 cm (0.5 in) long, described by Alex George as "broadly obovate".
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Magnolia × wieseneri is a multistemmed large shrub or small tree which may reach 6 m (20 ft) in height; it has leathery obovate green leaves that reach 20 cm (8 in) long by 10.5 cm (4 in) wide. Its most notable feature is the remarkable fragrance of the ivory-coloured flowers, which has been likened to pineapples and seen adjectives such as "ethereal", "spicy" and "aromatic" used. The flowers are cup-shaped at first, with a diameter of 10-12.5 cm (4–5 in), before flattening out to a diameter of 15–20 cm (6–8 in) after a few days.
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The flowers come in a range of violet-blue shades. From blue, to deep purple, to violet-blue, to violet, to dark violet. The flowers are 6–8 cm in diameter. Like other Irises, it has 2 pairs of petals, 3 large sepals (outer petals), known as the 'falls' and 3 inner, smaller petals (or tepals, known as the 'standards'. The large, obovate (shaped like an egg), drooping 'falls' are 5–5.5 cm long, have a red/brown flush or spots on the hafts. The slender, oblanceolate, upright 'standards' are 4.5–5 long and 1-1.2 cm wide.
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Stylidium ensatum is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the genus Stylidium (family Stylidiaceae) that was described as a new species by A.R. Bean in 2000, though the taxon had been noted by Rica Erickson in her discussion of S. muscicola variation in 1958. The specific epithet ensatum is from the Latin ensatus, meaning sword-like, which refers to the shape of the floral throat appendages of this species. It is an erect annual plant that grows from 14 to 22 cm tall. Obovate or orbicular leaves, about 6-17 per plant, are scattered along the stems.
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The number of laciniae varies greatly. In A. pungens, for example, the leaves may be entire, or there may be a single segmentation into two or three laciniae; in A. sericeus, the leaf is repeatedly tri-segmented into as many as 50 laciniae. This leaf form is seen in around half of the species. Other common leaf forms include a wedge-shaped (cuneate) leaf with shallow lobes along the apex, seen, for example, in A. cuneatus and A. stictus; the oval-shaped (obovate) entire leaves of A. ellipticus and A. obovatus; and the long thin leaves of A. detmoldii and A. barbiger.
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Primula lutea is a species of primrose that grows on basic rocks in the mountain ranges of southeastern Europe, including the southern and eastern Alps, southern Carpathians, Apennines, and the Balkans. The leaves are obovate and stalkless, with a cartilaginous edge, all growing in a basal rosette. The yellow flowers grow in clusters on 5–20 cm long stalks. In the past it was considered synonymous with the very similar Primula auricula, but a recent study split this species off from P. auricula, with the latter being found in the more northerly areas (western Alps, Jura, Vosges, Black Forest and Tatra mountains).
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The ascomata matures in 10 to 17 days, taking on a silvery appearance when young but then turns dark grey to black when mature. The apically flattened ascomata can be obovate, turbinate, ampulliform or cylindrical with its width ranging from 140 to 250 μm wide and ranging from 200 to 400 μm high. The fungus is recorded having touter, subglobose or ovoidal, ascomata but it is also recorded having slender, narrowly ellipsoid ascomata with 1 to 2 rows of textura prismatica. The breakdown of asci begins within the perithecia, and ascospores are later ejected in a slime consisting of the freed ascospores.
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An evergreen perennial, the large leaves of C. curvibracteatus can be effective ground cover, ranging in size from long and wide. They are glossy and glabrous above, but hirsute on the edges and underside, and alternately arranged on a spiralling stem, which has a diameter about . Coriaceous (leather-like texture) and dark green, the leaves are obovate to elliptic, with a cuneate to rounded base, and the apex is usually acute to acuminate. One of the main features that distinguishes C. barbatus from C. curvibracteatus is the size of the ligule; that of the former is larger, by about .
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Green and ripe fruit T. R. Sim's "The Forests and Forest Flora of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope" It grows to some 3 to 8 meters tall, and has a slender trunk, with horizontal branches and pale brown bark. The elliptic to obovate leaves are large (70-150 x 15-60 mm), leathery, glabrous, dark green above and paler below. They are opposite and often drooping. Yellow flowers are produced in terminal branched heads some 80 mm across from August to January, and are followed by bunches of pea-sized, shiny yellow fruits turning red or black when ripe.
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Thalictrum occidentale is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family known by the common name western meadow-rue. It is native to northwestern North America from Alaska and western Canada to northern California to Wyoming and Colorado, where it grows in shady habitat types such as forest understory and more open, moist habitat such as meadows. Male flowers (shown) have four, sometimes six, light green to purplish, obovate 3.5 to 4.5 mm long sepals, no petals, and 15 to 30 disordered hanging stamens with purple-brown threadlike filaments, 4 to 10 mm long. The anthers are sharp-tipped, 1.5 to 4 mm long.
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Flower heads mostly contain relatively few male florets at the centre, encircled by many more female florets. However solely female flower heads also occur, and individual plants may even produce only female flower heads. The flower heads are individually set at the end of the branches, bowl-shaped and mostly 3– cm across. The involucre is –2 cm high, nearly reaching the mouth of the florets, with four to five whorls of leaf- like bracts, the outermost bracts largest, which are long to very long ovate in shape linear-oblong or obovate-lanceolate, their margin with some glandular hairs, and a stump to pointy tip.
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Foliage, showing the grey-white undersides of the leaves It is a deciduous tree growing to tall with a trunk up to diameter with fissured grey-brown bark. The leaves are obovate to oblong, glabrous above, glabrous to densely grey-white hairy below, mostly long and wide (rarely up to long and wide), with 9 to 15 lobes on each side, and a petiole. The flowers monecious catkins. The acorns are long and wide, a third to a half enclosed in a green-grey cup on a short peduncle; they are solitary or 2–3 together, and mature in about six months from pollination.
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Alternately arranged on the stems, the ovate (egg-shaped), obovate (reverse egg-shaped) or oval-shaped leaves are anywhere from long and wide, on -long petioles (stalks that join the leaves to stems). They are smooth or bear tiny rusty hairs. There are 16 to 62 pairs of lateral veins that run off the midvein at an angle of 41.5–84.0°, while distinct basal veins run off the midvein at an angle of 18.5–78.9°. As with all figs, the fruit (fig) is actually an inverted inflorescence (compound flower) known as a syconium, with tiny flowers arising from the fig's inner surface into a hollow cavity.
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Like other members of the tribe Cichorieae, lettuce inflorescences (also known as flower heads or capitula) are composed of multiple florets, each with a modified calyx called a pappus (which becomes the feathery "parachute" of the fruit), a corolla of five petals fused into a ligule or strap, and the reproductive parts. These include fused anthers that form a tube which surrounds a style and bipartite stigma. As the anthers shed pollen, the style elongates to allow the stigmas, now coated with pollen, to emerge from the tube. The ovaries form compressed, obovate (teardrop-shaped) dry fruits that do not open at maturity, measuring 3 to 4 mm long.
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Like many Mexican butterworts, P. elizabethiae is seasonally dimorphic, in that it undergoes two distinct growth habits throughout the year. During the summer when rain and insect prey are most plentiful, the plant forms a ground hugging rosette up to 12 centimeters (5 in) in diameter and composed of obovate–spatulate to suborbicular–spatulate leaves. These leaves are carnivorous, having a large surface area densely covered with stalked mucilaginous glands with which they attract, trap, and digest arthropod prey, most commonly flies. These so-called "summer leaves" are replaced by "winter rosettes" of small, glandless succulent leaves with the onset of the dry season in late fall.
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The throat, the portion of the flower near the attachment point which holds the reproductive organs, is funnel shaped, and the petals flare out from there into a five-lobed zygomorphic corolla. Below the attachment point to the stem the petals are fused into a 15–28 millimeter (⅝– in.) long spur which protrudes backwards roughly perpendicular to the rest of the flower. The flowers are 36 to 46 millimeters (– in.) long, and have a deeply bilabiate corolla, with a 2-lobed upper lip and a 3-lobed lower lip. The upper lobes are 6.5–10 millimeters (¼–⅜ in.) long by 7–10.5 millimeters (¼–⅜ in.) wide and generally obovate to suborbicular.
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Pinguicula moranensis is seasonally dimorphic, in that it undergoes two distinct growth habits throughout the year. During the summer when rain and insect prey are most plentiful, the plant forms a ground hugging rosette composed of 6–8 generally obovate leaves, each up to 95 millimeters (3¾ in) long.Alcalá, R.E. & Dominguez, C.A. 2005 These leaves are carnivorous, having a large surface area densely covered with stalked mucilaginous glands with which they attract, trap, and digest arthropod prey, most commonly flies. These so-called "summer leaves" are replaced by "winter rosettes" of small, glandless succulent leaves with the onset of the dry season in October.
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The tree grows wild in the central region of Brazil, mostly in the state of Goiás. In the wild, the adult tree ranges from 2 to 6 metres (3 m on average), and produces from 200 to 600 fruits every season. The bark is dark and fissured.W. Manso de Almeida (2011) O Cajuzinho da Serra de Jaraguá The leaves (which are reddish when young) are smooth and obovate, measuring about 15 by 10 cm, with 4 to 8 mm long stalks. The small pink flowers (4 to 8 mm) are gathered in panicles about 20 cm wide, and are pollinated by bees and wasps.
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The branches of this shrub are woody and rigid, divaricate, and sometimes spinescent. The thick and rather fleshy leaves are alternate, shortly petiolate, obovate- cuneate to broadly ovate in shape, with a wedge-shaped base, margin toothed except at the base, about 2-6mm long by 2-6mm broad. Carl Ernst Otto Kuntze (1843–1907) in 1891 first published a description of the genus in "Revisio Generum Plantarum" 2: 461, based on the earlier description of Sutera by Albrecht Wilhelm Roth (1757–1834) in 1821. The species was first described in 1904 as Sutera ramosissima by the botanist and mathematician William Philip Hiern in Harvey's Fl. Cap.
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Like other irises, it has 2 pairs of petals, 3 large sepals (outer petals), known as the 'falls' and 3 inner, smaller petals (or tepals), known as the 'standards'. The falls are broadly obovate, deflexed (folded over) and slightly narrowed at apex, or slightly spoon-shaped. In purple shade forms, they have a violet, or dark purple signal patch. In the middle of the falls, is a row of short hairs called the 'beard', which is yellow, The erect, standards are broader, or larger than the falls, They are also a similar colour to the falls, but they can be slightly paler than the falls.
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It is a deciduous or semi-evergreen shrub that reaches a size of 1–2 m height, very branched, with thin branches, arched, flexible and glabrous. The leaves are alternate, simple, little petiolate, with 2–6 cm long green lanceolate, elliptical-rhomboidal or slightly obovate lamina, with 3 nerves parallel from its base, irregularly crenate-dentate in its distal half. The leaves would turn a yellowish red colour in autumn. Blooming in spring and snow white in colour, its flowers are hermaphroditic, actinomorphic, of ± 1 cm diameter, arranged in axillary corimbos, each with 5 free sepals, 5 white petals, numerous stamens shorter than the petals.
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It is a deciduous shrub growing to tall. The leaves are obovate to oblong, 4–10 cm long and 2–4 cm broad, with a serrated margin; they are green turning yellow-golden during the autumn. The flowers are white or very pale pink, 5–10 mm in diameter, and have a sweet, somewhat cloying fragrance, the flowers attractive to bumblebees; they are produced in racemes up to 15 cm long and 2 cm broad in late summer, depending on the cultivar. The "pepper" part of the common name derives from the mature fruits, capsules which have a vague resemblance to peppercorns, however with no element of spiciness.
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Nepenthes kongkandana (pictured) differs from N. kerrii in the shape of its lower pitchers, which are tubular or slightly ventricose as opposed to narrowly ovate Nepenthes kerrii appears to be most closely related to N. kongkandana. It is also similar to the Indochinese endemics N. andamana, N. bokorensis, and N. suratensis. Nepenthes kerrii can be distinguished from all of these species, with the exception of N. kongkandana, on the basis of its laminae, which are obovate as opposed to linear to lanceolate. It also differs in having a persistent indumentum restricted to the leaf axils. In contrast, N. andamana and N. suratensis have a caducous indumentum on the upper parts of the plant,Catalano, M. 2010.
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Nectaries are 0.6-0.8 × 0.4-0.9 mm. Blades are 7-11.5 × 7.5-11.5 cm, subpeltate 2-3(-3.5) mm from the margin, entire or glandular-denticulate at the very base, not variegated at maturity, very widely obovate to widely elliptic or ± circular, at base extremely shallowly cordate to truncate or slightly rounded. Leaves are shallowly to obscurely 3-lobed, with lateral lobes that are broadly obtuse to rounded or nearly obsolete, and a central lobe that is obtuse or somewhat rounded to truncate. Laminar nectaries are marginal, with 4 or 5 gland borne basally, (0)1 to 8 glands borne just proximal to the lateral veins, and (0)2 to 8 glands borne marginally distal to the lateral veins.
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These surround numerous bisexual yellow, later burgundy-washed disc florets of long. The two style branches each have a long triangular appendage. The pappus bristles are numerous, yellowish white in colour, and do not detach. Although they vary in length, they do not occur in two distinct rows. The longer pappus bristles have teeth along their length and are 5–7 mm (0.2–0.28 in) long, the shorter scaly and ½–1 mm (0.02–0.04 in) long. The dry, one-seeded, indehiscent fruits called cypsellae are obovate to elliptic, about 4 mm (0.16 in) long and 1½ mm (0.06 in) wide, evenly silky hairy, with a brownish scaly surface when mature, and a light ochre-coloured marginal ridge.
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Shrub 0.08-0.2 m tall, erect, bushy, rounded, with branches tortuous. Stems 2-lined when young, soon terete; bark greyish brown to whitish grey. Leaves sessile or with pseudopetiole up to c. 0.7 mm; lamina 6-15 x 3.5-9 mm, elliptic or oblong- elliptic to obovate, somewhat paler but not or scarcely glaucous beneath, midrib and reticulate venation prominent on both sides, chartaceous, deciduous during second year; apex obtuse or subapiculate to rounded, base cuneate to angustate or shortly pseudopetiolate; venation: 3-6 pairs of major and minor laterals, distinct from tertiary reticulation. Inflorescence l-3(-9)-flowered, from 1-2 nodes, rounded-corymbiform when several-flowered; pedicels 4-7 mm; bracteoles triangular-subulate, margin entire.
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Ornithogalum species are perennial bulbous geophytes with basal leaves. Sensu lato, the genus has the characteristics of the tribe Ornithogaleae as a whole, since the tribe is monotypic in that sense. Sensu stricto, the genus is characterised by long linear to oblong-lanceolate (lance-shaped) leaves, sometimes with a white longitudinal band on the adaxial (upper) side, an inflorescence that is corymbose or pseudocorymbose, tepals that are white with a longitudinal green band only visible on the abaxial (lower) side, a capsule that is obovate or oblong, and truncate with six noticeable ribs in section and seeds that are globose with a prominently reticulate (net-like pattern) testa. The bulbs are ovoid with free or concrescent scales.
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Grahamia australiana is a perennial succulent herb with weak, fleshy branches which have succulent, sessile leaves arranged alternately around their tips and which has tuberous roots and ascending flowering stems up to 20 cm in length which are leafy towards their base. The leaves are oblanceolate to obovate in shape, and are infrequently elliptic, measuring 1–2.5 cm in length and 5–12 mm across with a sharp point at the tip and covered in hairs. The inflorescences consist of few-flowered cymes The sepals enclose the 5 white to pinkish petals which are each 5–15 mm long and there are 8-10 stamens. The superior ovary is round and contains numerous ovules.
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Like Felicia echinata and F. westae, together with which F. nordenstamii constitutes the section Anhebecarpaea, it has firm, very regularly and densely set leaves on the younger parts of the stems, distinguishing them from all other Felicia species. The dense, long and woolly hairs, the long inner involucral bracts, and the narrowly obovate leaves set at an upward angle, set it apart from F. echinata (recurved narrowly ovate leaves) and F. westae (line- to lance-shaped leaves, pressed against the stem, hairless except for a fringe). It also has a likeness to Polyarrhena imbricata, which lacks the woolly hairs, large involucral bracts, and has white ray florets, tinged purple on the underside.
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They can come in shades of pink, from white, to lilac, pale lavender, and grey-purple. Like other irises, it has 2 pairs of petals, 3 large sepals (outer petals) known as the 'falls', and 3 inner, smaller petals (or tepals, known as the 'standards'. The falls are oblong-obovate shaped and recurved (bent backwards), with maroon, brown, or crimson, lilac to pink dots and veins on a pale blue, lavender, pale cream or yellowish ground. It has a small deep maroon coloured signal patch, and in the middle of the falls, is a row of short hairs called the 'beard', which is sparse and brown, purple-brown or reddish in colour.
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They are shrubs or small trees, which rarely reach a size of 4 m in height. The branches are purple brown when young, greyish brown when old, cylindrical, initially brown tomentose, glabrous in old age. Petiole 0.5-1.8 cm or almost absent, slightly brown or tomentose, subglabra; stipules deciduous, lanceolate, little brown tomentose, acuminate apex; ovate blade blade, oblong, rarely obovate, oblong- lanceolate, narrowly elliptical or elliptical-lanceolate, (2 -) 4-8 × 1.5-4 cm, coriaceous, abaxially prominent veins, abaxially visible reticular veins and visible or non-adaxially, back pale, glabrous or scarcely tomentose, shiny adaxially, glabrous, the apex obtuse, acute acuminate. The inflorescences in panicles or terminal of clusters, with many or few flowers; pedicels and peduncles rusty-tomentose; bracts and deciduous bracteoles.
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Rodgersia pinnata, Franchet (tetraploid 2n=60) has the most diverse leaf form of any of the Rodgersia and this leads to mis- identification and mis-labelling in horticulture. Rarely are the leaflets arranged in true pinnate form with evenly spaced leaflets. They vary from pseudo-pinnate, when the leaflets can be bunched 2 to 5 at the petiole and 3 at the apex with varying numbers of pairs of leaflets between with varying lengths of rachis, to plants where the rachis is so compressed as to need very close inspection to ascertain that it is not palmate. The size of the individual obovate-lanceolate leaflets ranges from 20mm long x 10mm wide to double those measurements depending on variety and growing conditions.
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Erect and bushy shrub or tree 4–6 m highLynch, A.J.J., (1994) Conservation biology and management of 16 rare or threatened Fabaceae species in Tasmania (Doctoral dissertation, University of Tasmania). (rarely to 9 m) and variable width belonging to the subgenus Phyllodineae. Bark and branches pruinose. Young branches are angular and may be reddish brown where exposed to direct sunlight.Pers. Obs. A.M.Pataczek Adult foliage is of flattened leaf stalks (known as Phyllodes), grey-green to a bluish-glaucous colour, glabrous, on raised stem-projections, variable in shape and size, (narrowly oblong- elliptic to oblanceolate, sometimes obovate) but more commonly obliquely elliptic, 2–6 cm (<10 cm) long, 8–20 mm (<50 mm) wide, with a sharp leaf tip, prominent thickened margins and midrib.
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The stem bears conspicuous and prominent round scars of petioles, inflorescences and stipules in a spiral pattern. Branches nearly as thick as the stem, up to 1–1.5 cm thick and up to 15 cm tall, with pronounced markings of leaf-, inflorescence- and stipule-scars. Leaves alternate, crowded at the top of stems and branches; stipules subulate from a broad base, 1–2 mm long, mostly long persistent; petiole 1–3.6 cm long, puberulous; blade lanceolate to ovate, obovate or elliptic, 1.8–18 x 1–2.5 cm, cuneate to rounded at the base, rounded, obtuse or acuminate at the apex, with entire, crenulate, crisp or denticulate margins, scabridulous above, sparsely puberulous below. Flower structures grayish or green (or orange/pinkish).
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Sassafras albidum is a medium-sized deciduous tree growing to tall, with a canopy up to wide, with a trunk up to in diameter, and a crown with many slender sympodial branches.Although some sources give 30 or 35 meters as the maximum height, as of 1982 the US champion is only 76 feet (23 meters) tall The bark on trunk of mature trees is thick, dark red-brown, and deeply furrowed. The shoots are bright yellow green at first with mucilaginous bark, turning reddish brown, and in two or three years begin to show shallow fissures. The leaves are alternate, green to yellow-green, ovate or obovate, 10–16 cm (4-6.4 inches) long and 5–10 cm (2-4 inches) broad with a short, slender, slightly grooved petiole.
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Terminal buds conic, 1--2 mm, apex obtuse. Leaves opposite (rarely in whorls of 3), 1--3(--5) mm, connate to 1/2 --7/8 their length; bases thickened, brown, shredding with age, ± persistent; apex obtuse. Pollen cones 2 (rarely 1 or whorled) at node, obovoid, 4--7 mm, sessile or rarely on short peduncles; bracts opposite, 6--10 pairs, yellow to red-brown, obovate, 3--4 × 2--3 mm, membranous; bracteoles slightly exceeding bracts; sporangiophores 4--5 mm, 1/2 exserted, with 4--6 sessile to short- stalked (less than 1 mm) microsporangia. Seed cones usually 2 at node, ovoid, 6--10 mm, sessile or on short, scaly peduncles; bracts opposite, 5--7 pairs, circular, 4--7 × 2--4 mm, membranous, with red-brown thickened center and base, margins entire.
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Plants are pale green dorsally with purple ascending margins and dark purple undersides, thallus edges tending to curl upward exposing the dark underside when dry. Thalli are simple or somewhat sparingly dichotomous, 8–25 mm long, usually 1-3 times dichotomous, the ultimate segments emarginated, obovate, obcordate, or broadly oblong, indistinctly areolate, 4–12 mm in maximum width. The plants dry up during the long rainless summers, but the ends of the branches remain alive, so that each growing tip becomes the beginnings of a new plant. It was found that a surprisingly large amount of the thallus remains alive, and within a few hours after the dried plants are supplied with water, the forward part of the thallus has assumed its active condition and begins to grow.
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The telson of A. cummingsi is not as obovate (ovate with a narrow end at its base) or elongated as that of A. macrophthalmus (which possesses a telson that is six times as long as it is wide), the telson of A. cummingsi is most often just as long as it is wide. The shape of the metastoma of A. bohemicus has been compared to other species in the genus, especially to that of A. cummingsi, which preserves a metastoma that is almost identical in morphology. A. bohemicus is generally agreed to be the species closest in relation to A. cummingsi, though they are differentiated by characteristics in the dentition of the chelae, many of the teeth being larger in A. bohemicus. There may be additional differences, but the incomplete nature of the A. bohemicus material makes further comparisons impossible.
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Flowers 30-50 mm in diam., stellate; buds ovoid, acute to > subapiculate. Sepals (5-)6-9(-11) x 3-4(-6) mm, free, imbricate, subequal, ± > outcurved in bud and fruit, ovate to narrowly lanceolate, acute or > acuminate, with margin subentire or minutely and ± irregularly denticulate > (especially towards apex); midrib ± conspicuous, veins not prominent; > laminar glands linear or interrupted, c. 8. Petals deep yellow, sometimes > tinged red, spreading or reflexed, 16-25 x 10-15 mm, 2.5-3 x sepals, > obovate, with apiculus lateral, subacute to obtuse, margin entire or often > minutely glandular-denticulate especially around apiculus. Stamen fascicles > each with 40-65 stamens, longest (10)15-18 mm, long, 0.75-0.85 x petals; > anthers yellow to orange-yellow. Ovary 5-7 x 3.5-4.5 mm, ± narrowly ovoid- > conic; styles (3-)4-6(-8) mm, long, equalling to slightly longer than ovary, > free, suberect, outcurved near apex; stigmas truncate to narrowly > subcapitate.
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They are trees reaching up to 30 m height and 70 cm in diameter. The heartwood is dark green. Leaves alternate, simple, spirally arranged, obovate, coriaceous, measuring from 14,4 to 25,5 cm long and from 15 to 29,2 cm broad; short and tomentose pubescence on the bottom, much more noticeable in the main vein, and can be felt by touching it; the stipules are large and covered with short and soft pubescence. The flowers are cream color, with a bract on the flower bud covered with a short and deciduous indumentum; they have three sepals and eight thick petals. The fruits are elliptical and asymmetric, measuring from 4,2 to 6,7 cm large and from 3,2 to 3,6 cm broad; the central axis of the fruit has a length of 4,5 to 5,3 cm and 1,4 to 1,7 cm wide; opens irregularly due to the detachment of its carpels.
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It is a perennial deciduous shrub that grows in grows in open areas , forests, arrow bamboo grove, or cuttings with good light transmission. The plant height is about 1 meter and there are three small thorns on the stem. Leaves 8–10 together, papery narrowly obovate to oblanceolate, leaf about 1.5–2.5 cm in length, and 0.5–1 cm in width. The leaf margins are sparsely sharply serrate, and the leaves on both sides are of the same color and hairless, but sometimes the lower half of the leaves will be pale green with obvious veins. Yellow long elliptic flowers, 3-6 bunches clustered in leaf axils, short panicles; pedicels 2.5-3 cm long; outer sepals long-ovate, about 3.5 cm long, 1.5 cm wide, and inner sepals 6 cm long , 3 cm wide; petals are elliptic, 5-6 cm long, 3-3.5 cm wide; ovules approximately 4-9.
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A herb, 60 cm high, with a creeping rooting base. Stem erect, somewhat fleshy, subflexuous, pubescent to tomentose in the upper portion, up to 5 cm thick in the lower portion. Leaves papery when dry, obovate-elliptic to elliptic, shortly acuminate, narrowing to an obtuse base, margin entire or wavy, 14–18 cm long, 5–8 cm wide, glabrous, paler green beneath; lateral nerves 8–10 on each side, curving upwards and uniting within the margin, prominent beneath; petiole more or less pubescent, about 1.2 cm or less in length. Stipules subulate, 5–6 cm or less in length, generally falling before the leaves. Inflorescence solitary in the upper leaf-axils; stalk 1.2– 2 cm long, puberulous; receptacle flattened or somewhat convex, orbicular, 2.5–4.5 cm in diameter, including the broad membranous margin (7–10 cm wide), which is prolonged into numerous (about 15) very unequal bract-arms, a few from 1.2– 2 cm long, the remainder short, from 2.5–7.5 cm long.
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It is a cycad with a stem up to 3.5 m tall and 35 cm in diameter, first erect, then decombent, characterized by the presence of numerous secondary stems originating from basal shoots. [2] The pinnate leaves, arranged like a crown at the apex of the stem, are up to 1.5 m long, composed of numerous pairs of obovate, coriaceous, tomentose leaves, 15–17 cm long, with 3-5 spines on the upper margin and a pungent apex, inserted on the rachis with an angle of 45 °. It is a dioecious species, with male specimens showing up to 10 cylindrical, pedunculated cones, about 22 cm long and 9 cm broad, light green in color that turns towards yellow when ripe, and female specimens with 1-2 long, ovoid cones about 40 cm and wide 16-18 cm, initially light green in color, from olive green to brownish yellow when ripe. The seeds are roughly ovoid, 3.5 cm, covered with an orange-red seed coat.
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It is a cycad with an erect stem up to 1 m tall and with a diameter of 25-30 cm, often with secondary stems originating from basal suckers. The leaves, pinnate, arranged in a crown at the apex of the stem, from gray-greenish to blue, are up to 1.4 m long, composed of numerous pairs of obovate, coriaceous, tomentose leaves, up to 18 cm long, with 1-3 spines on the lower margin and a pungent apex. It is a dioecious species, with male specimens that have 1 or rarely 2 erect, sub-cylindrical cones, 25–35 cm long and about 8 cm broad, yellow to green in color, and female specimens with solitary cylindrical-ovoid cones, long about 40–50 cm and wide 16–18 cm, with a conical apex, yellow to greenish-yellow in color. The seeds are roughly ovoid, about 3.5 cm long, covered with a brown to red, sarcotesta.
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Scandent shrub or liana with stems over 6 m long. Leaves opposite, simple and entire; stipules 4–10 mm long, usually falling off; petiole 3–12 mm long; blade obovate, 7–24 cm × 4–10 cm, base cuneate to truncate, apex acuminate, pubescent below, pinnately veined with lateral veins in 8–15 pairs. Flowers solitary, terminal on lateral branches, bisexual, regular, 5-merous, very fragrant; pedicel up to 1 cm long; calyx tubular, 2–4 cm long, widening at apex with ovate-lanceolate lobes up to 2.5 cm × 1.5 cm, densely pubescent; corolla tubular, tube 10–16 cm long, lobes ovate to lanceolate, 4–8 cm × 2–4.5 cm, white, yellowish or greenish with red-purple streaks inside, pubescent; stamens inserted in the upper part of the corolla tube, sessile, anthers up to 3 cm × 3 mm; ovary inferior, 1-celled, style with glabrous columnar basal part and pubescent ellipsoid upper part up to 3 cm × 1 cm, shortly 2-lobed at apex. Fruit a leathery, almost globose berry up to 8 cm × 6 cm, with 10–12 longitudinal grooves and more or less persistent calyx tube, many-seeded.
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This sedge grows from a long rhizome bearing clumps of stems. The leaves are glaucous, 2–6 mm wide, with papillae between and sometimes over the veins. The inflorescence consists of 2-3(-5) spikelets. The terminal spikelet is usually staminate, occasionally androgynous, gynecandrous, or pistillate. Staminate terminal spikes are 1.3-2.7 cm long, 2–5 mm wide, with 40-190 flowers. Lateral spikelets are pistillate, (0.6-)1.5-2.5 cm long, 4–7 mm wide, the uppermost usually 1.5–6 cm or more below the terminal spike, but sometimes attached as close as 0.3 cm below the terminal spike. Pistillate flower bracts are reddish brown, dark brown, or rarely gold, the midrib and surrounding area green, white, or light brown, the edges sometimes pale, 1.9-2.8 mm long excluding awn. Perigynia (utricles) are obovate to elliptic, 2.1-3.6 mm long, (0.8-)1.2-1.6(-1.8) mm wide, light green, tan, or whitish, sometimes marked with dark brown distally, papillose particularly toward the beak or rarely smooth, the base succulent when fresh and drying withered, the beak usually curved, the distance from beak tip to top of achene (0.1-)0.4-0.7(-1) mm.
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