| 释义 |
wallum Austral.|ˈwɒlʌm|
[Aboriginal.]
a. A tall evergreen shrub, Banksia æmula, common in parts of Australia.
b. The heathland along the Queensland coast where this is common.
1889J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 383 Banksia marginata, Cav.,.. ‘Honeysuckle’. The ‘Wallum’ of the aboriginals of Wide Bay (Queensland). 1890F. M. Bailey Catal. Indigenous & Naturalised Plants Queensland 103/2 Wallum, Banksia æmula. 1965Austral. Encycl. IX. 310/1 In Queensland, the Wallum coastal formation stretching north of Brisbane has a varied heathland type of flora. 1970W. W. Bryan in R. M. Moore Austral. Grasslands vii. 107 North of Maryborough rainfall in the Wallum is only 40–45 in. 1979Sunday Sun (Brisbane) 24 June 9/6 CSIRO projects on similar tracts of coastal wallum have shown it can be transformed relatively inexpensively by the aerial application of trace elements. 1979Sunday Mail Mag. (Brisbane) 29 July 18/3 The wallum banksia dominates the dune scrub with its magnificent large flowers atop the serrated leaves. |