Talk:Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Nature/Wattles

Numbers in Requirement 5
According to http://archive.idrc.ca/library/document/074940/chap10_e.html:
 * Of the approximate 700 described Australian species, only 10% (about 70 species) are known to retain bipinnate foliage at maturity. There are in fact two sections within the Australian subgenus Phyllodineae that have bipinnate foliage, viz. sections Botrycephalae and Pulchellae; the main difference being racemose versus axillary inflorescences for the latter (also occasionally spines consisting of reduced branches as in the case of A.pulchella). Section Botrycephalae consists of about 36 species restricted to temperate and sub-tropical S.E. Australia (occurring in States of Qld, NSW, Vic, SA, and Tas) while section Pulchellae contains 27 species restricted to south-western Western Australia.

Armed with this info, I went to http://www.worldwidewattle.com/infogallery/specieslists/australia.php and clicked on each of the seven states, pasted the contents into a file, and grepped them for Botrycephalae and Pulchellae, excluding "subsp" and "var.". That's where the numbers in requirement 5 come from. --Jomegat (talk) 02:00, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Looks like Aculeiferum are also binpinnate, but only one grows in Australia (in Queensland). bump that one up by one. --Jomegat (talk) 19:33, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Oop! there's another Aculeiferum in the Northern Territory. Bump that one up too. --Jomegat (talk) 19:47, 4 September 2008 (UTC)