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King's Lomatia
Lomatia tasmanica in Hobart Botanical Garden
Lomatia tasmanica in Hobart Botanical Garden
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Proteales
Family: Proteaceae
Genus: Lomatia
Species: L. Hobart is the state capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. The conservation status of a Species is an indicator of the likelihood of that species remaining extant either in the present day or the near future Organisms with a conservation status of critically endangered have an extremely high risk of becoming extinct The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act is an Act of the Parliament of Australia that provides a framework for protection of the Plants are living Organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. The flowering plants or angiosperms ( Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta) are the most widespread group Magnoliopsida is the Botanical name for a class of Flowering plants By definition the class will include the family Magnoliaceae, but its Proteales is the Botanical name of an order of Flowering plants. Proteaceae is a family of Flowering plants. Mainly restricted to the Southern Hemisphere, it is a fairly large family with around 80 genera Lomatia is a Genus of 12 species of Evergreen Flowering plants in the protea family Proteaceae. tasmanica
Binomial name
Lomatia tasmanica
W. M. Curtis

King's Lomatia (Lomatia tasmanica) is a Tasmanian shrub from the family Proteaceae. Tasmania is an Australian island and state of the same name It is located south of the eastern side of the Continent, being separated from it by Bass Proteaceae is a family of Flowering plants. Mainly restricted to the Southern Hemisphere, it is a fairly large family with around 80 genera The plant has shiny green leaves and bears pink flowers, but yields neither fruit nor seeds. Only one colony of King's Lomatia is known to be alive in the wild. It is also sometimes called "King's Holly", though it is not a holly. Holly ( Ilex) is a Genus of about 600 Species of Flowering plants in the family Aquifoliaceae, and the only

King's Lomatia is unusual because all of the remaining plants are genetically identical. Genetics (from Ancient Greek grc-Latn genetikos, “genitive” and that from grc-Latn genesis, “origin” a discipline of Biology, is Because it has three sets of chromosomes (a triploid) and is therefore sterile, reproduction occurs only vegetatively: when a branch falls, that branch grows new roots, establishing a new plant that is genetically identical to its parent. A chromosome is an organized structure of DNA and Protein that is found in cells. Polyploidy occurs in cells and Organisms when there are more than two homologous sets of Chromosomes. Female infertility|Male infertility Infertility primarily refers to the biological inability of a Man or a Woman to contribute to conception.

Although all the plants are technically separate in that each has its own root system, they are collectively considered to be one of the oldest living plant clones. This is a list of the oldest living organisms. This is usually defined as having a longer Lifespan than other organisms of similar Species (such Cloning in Biology is the process of producing populations of genetically-identical individuals that occurs in nature when organisms such as Bacteria, Insects Each plant's life span is approximately 300 years, but the plant has been cloning itself for at least 43,600 years (possibly up to 135,000 years). This estimate is based on the radiocarbon dating of fossilised leaf fragments that were found 8. Radiocarbon dating is a Radiometric dating method that uses the naturally occurring Radioisotope Carbon-14 (14C to determine the age of FOSSIL is a standard protocol for allowing serial communication for Telecommunications programs under the DOS Operating system. 5 km away. The fossilised fragments are identical to the contemporary plant in cell structure and shape, which indicates that both plants are triploid and therefore clones due to the extreme rarity of the occurrence of triploidy. Polyploidy occurs in cells and Organisms when there are more than two homologous sets of Chromosomes.

History

In 1937 Charles Denison "Deny" King discovered the plant while mining tin in the remote southwest of Tasmania. Year 1937 ( MCMXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Mining is the extraction of valuable Minerals or other geological materials from the earth usually (but not always from an Ore body Tin is a Chemical element with the symbol Sn (stannum and Atomic number 50 The South West Wilderness of Tasmania, Australia is a remote and inaccessible corner of the island state containing unspoilt scenery rugged peaks wild The Tasmanian Herbarium named the plant in King's honour after he sent specimens to be identified in the 1960s. The 1960s decade refers to the years from the beginning of 1960 to the end of 1969 The plant group that King discovered in 1937 has disappeared (and likely died out), and the sole remaining group of approximately 500 plants covers a 1. 2 kilometer-long area in the extreme southwest of Tasmania. This area is prone to fires and other natural threats to the plants, so Tasmania has begun an effort to develop other populations in controlled environments such as the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens. The Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens, which cover an area of approximately 14 hectares (34 (Because of its fragility and rarity, their specimens are not on display to the public. ) Due to its inability to reproduce sexually, there is no possibility of increasing the plant's genetic diversity to promote disease resistance.

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