Alexander Morrison

Scottish botanist (1849-1913).

Alexander Morrison (15 March 1849 – 7 December 1913) was a Scottish botanist and Western Australia's first Government Botanist in the Bureau of Agriculture. After emigrating to Australia in 1877, he proceeded to make a significant contribution to the study of the native flora, chiefly in Victoria and Western Australia. Morrison was born in Wester Dalmeny, Edinburgh, Scotland, the 8th of 10 children to Thomas Morrison (1809–1867) and Ann Geggie (1815–1867). He began a medical degree at Edinburgh, but suffered from ill health, prompting him to break his studies and visit Australia. He spent two

Abbreviations: Morrison
Occupations: botanist, botanical collector
Citizenships: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Dates: 1849-03-15T00:00:00Z – 1913-12-07T00:00:00Z
Birth place: Dalmeny
Direct attributions: 8 plants, 0 fungi
Authorship mentions: 14 plants, 0 fungi

8 plants attributed, 6 plants contributed to14 plants:

Drosera bulbigena Morrison 1896
vulnerable plant species in the droseraceae family
Drosera bulbigena, the midget sundew, is an erect perennial tuberous species in the genus Drosera that is endemic to Western Australia and occurs in an area near Perth and to its south along the coast. It grows to 3–6 cm (1–2 in) high and produces white flowers from August to October. D. bulbigena grows in swamps and winter-wet depressions. D. bulbigena was first described and named by Alexander Morrison in 1903.
Drosera occidentalis Morrison 1912
perennial plant species in the droseraceae family
Drosera occidentalis is a species in the carnivorous plant family Droseraceae, and native only to Western Australia. Its range is limited to wetlands from just north of Perth, south to just south of Busselton. It grows to 2.5 centimetres tall, and has leaf blades (laminae) which can be only 1 millimetre in diameter. The flowers are white or pink, produced from late spring to early summer.
Acacia longispinea Morrison 1912
plant species in the fabaceae family
Acacia longispinea is a shrub or tree of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Plurinerves that is endemic to an area of south western Australia.
Acacia densiflora Morrison 1912
plant species in the fabaceae family
Acacia densiflora is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a rounded shrub with terete to compressed or flat and linear phyllodes with a sharp tip, spherical heads of golden yellow flowers and linear, slightly curved, hairy, thinly crust-like pods.
Indigofera boviperda Morrison 1912
plant species in the fabaceae family
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Angianthus acrohyalinus Morrison 1912
plant species in the asteraceae family
Angianthus acrohyalinus, commonly known as hook-leaf angianthus, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, and is endemic to Western Australia. It is an erect, hairy annual herb with hairy lance-shaped leaves, elliptic or oval compound heads of yellow flowers, and egg-shaped or oval achenes with a bristly pappus.
Calandrinia schistorhiza Morrison 1912
plant species in the montiaceae family
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Calandrinia creethiae (Calandrinia Creethae) Tratman ex Morrison 1912
plant species in the montiaceae family
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Leptosema anomalum (Ewart & Morrison) Crisp 1980
plant species in the fabaceae family
Leptosema anomalum is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to northern Australia. It is a shrub or subshrub with a broom-like stems with many branches, leaves reduced to narrowly egg-shaped scales, pale greenish flowers, and beaked, oval pods.
Cajanus pubescens (Ewart & Morrison) Maesen 1986
plant species in the fabaceae family
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Parakeelya schistorhiza (Morrison) Hershk. 1999
plant species in the montiaceae family
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Rumicastrum schistorhizum (Morrison) Carolin 2020
plant species in the montiaceae family
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Rumicastrum creethae (Morrison) Carolin 2020
plant species in the montiaceae family
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Parakeelya creethiae (Tratman ex Morrison) Hershk. 1999
plant species in the montiaceae family
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