Sub sections:
Biol 120 Waratahs
Books
Brown, Robert "Genus Telopea" in Wrigley, John W. Banksias, waratahs and grevilleas and all other plants in the Australian proteaceae family, William Collins, Sydney, 1989, pp. 537-542.
Nixon, Paul The waratah, Kangaroo Press, Kenthurst, 1987. In the Reserve Collection. Call Number 583.932/N736W. Contents page can be found here.
Armstrong, JA (Ed.) Waratahs: Their biology, cultivationa and conservation, AGPS, Canberra, 1987. In the Reserve Collection . Call Number 581.994/A938o/No. 9. Contents page can be found here.
External students can order photocopies of individual chapters from these books at no charge. For further information see http://www.une.edu.au/library/services/external/photocopies.php.
e-Journal Articles
Crisp, M. D. & Weston, P. H. Geographic and ontogenic variation in morphology of Australian waratahs (Telopea, Proteaceae), Systematic Biology, 1993, Vol 42, Issue 2, pp. 49-76.
Goldingay, Ross L. "Further assessment of pollen limitation in the waratah (Telopea speciosissima)", Australian Journal of Botany, 2000, Vol 48 No 2, pp. 209-214. Click on PDF for full text.
Denham, Andrew J. & Auld, Tony D. "Flowering, seed dispersal, seed predation and seedling recruitment in two pyrogenic flowering resprouters", Australian Journal of Botany, 2002, Vol 50 No 5, pp. 545-557. Click on PDF for full text.
Martyn, Amelia J. Gollnow, Bettina, McConcie, Robyn and Offord, Cartherine A. Characterisation of bract browning and the effect of shade on browning in waratah (Telopea spp., Proteaceae) cultivars 'Fire and Brimstone', 'Olympic Flame' and 'Wirrimbirra White', Scientia Horticulturae, Vol 112 Issue 4, 14 May, pp. 427-433.
Offord, C. A. Analysis of characters and germplasm of significance to improvement of Australian native waratahs (Telopea spp., family Proteaceae) for cut flower production, Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, 2006, Vol 53 Issue 6, pp 1263-1272.
Whelan, R. J. & Goldingay, R. L. Factors affecting fruit-set in Telopea speciosissima (Proteaceae): The importance of pollen limitation, Journal of Ecology, 1989, Vol 77, Issue 4, pp. 1123-1134.
Searches
If you go to Google at http://www.google.com.au/, enter the following search string:
telopea speciosissima filetype:pdf
and click on the radio button to limit your search to pages from Australia, you will find a number of full-text resources on your topic. The use of filetype:pdf limits your search to higher quality resources.
Other searches include:
telopea filetype:pdf
proteaceae filetype:pdf
Web pages
Waratahs and friendsProteaceae Floral Crops Cultivar Development and Underexploited Uses
Wikipedia - use with caution - has some useful Web links to further information.