NaturalLanguageDescriptions

Red Knot (Calidris canutus)
Stout wader with bill same length as head, crown unstreaked, narrow white bar in wing, pale rump with grey barring, shortish olive legs. Non-breeding: grey above with narrow pale edging to feathers, pale eyebrow, smudged sides to neck with faint spotting. Juvenile: feathers of back edged white with dark subterminal bar, breast more heavily spotted pale buff and flanks barred, crown faintly streaked. Breeding: rufous underparts, feathers of back rufous patterned with black. Voice: 'knut-knut', `nyui , high-pitched `toowit-wit'.

from Slater, P., Slater, P. & Slater, R. (2001) The Slater Field Guide to Australian Birds  (Reed New Holland: Sydney)

Discaria pubescens (Brongn.) Druce
Rigid, spreading shrub to c. 1 m high and wide; stems glabrous. Leaves soon deciduous, c. oblong, to 10 mm long, 3 mm wide, obtuse or minutely mucronate within an apical notch, margins minutely toothed, surfaces glabrous or a few hairs present near tip; stipules dark reddish-brown, c. 1 mm long, often shallowly joined around the node, pubescent on inner face; spines stout, 1.5-4 cm long. Flowers white, solitary or in few-flowered axillary cymes, sometimes congested on short apical shoots; pedicels 2-3 mm long; hypanthium c. 1.5 mm long; sepals somewhat spreading, 1-1.5 mm long; petals attached at throat of hypanthium, c. 1 mm long; stamens subequal to and weakly hooded by petals; disc prominent, lining base of hypanthium, obscurely 5-angled; style minute. Capsule prominently 3-lobed, 4-5 mm diam., the valves separating incompletely at maturity and splitting dorsally and medially.

from Walsh, N.G. (1999) Rhamnaceae, in N.G.Walsh & T.J.Entwisle, Flora of Victoria Volume 4, Dicotyledons, Cornaceae to Asteraceae (Inkata Press: Melbourne)

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					<Label>Acalypha L.</Label>
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					<Text>Herbs, shrubs; or trees, monoecious or rarely dioecious.
    Leaves alternate, margins usually dentate or crenate. Flowers small,
    males and females in separate axillary spikes or females solitary in
    separate axils or one or more at or near base of male spikes; male
    flowers clustered in axillary spikes with small bract under each cluster,
    perianth of 4 segments, glands absent, stamens 8 or rarely 8-16 inserted
    on a raised central receptacle, filaments free; female flowers 1-4
    together within a leafy bract, bracts solitary or in spikes,
    perianth of 3 segments, rarely 4, styles distinct, finely branched.
    Fruits capsules.</Text>
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					<Label>Acalypha australis L.</Label>
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					<Text>Herb up to 30 cm tall, stems and leaves often pink or red. 
    Leaves with petioles 1-2 cm long; blades ovate or subrhomboid, apex 
    acuminate, base acute or obtuse, margin serrulate-crenate, 2-6 cm X 1-3.5 cm. 
    Spikes short, 1-3 per axil, peduncles ca 0.5-1 cm long or longer; bracts up
    to ca 1.5 cm long.</Text>
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