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Showing Chamelaucium roycei
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- Plantae(reg.)
- Charophyta(div.)
- Equisetopsida(cl.)
- Magnoliidae(subcl.)
- Rosanae(superordo)
- Myrtales(ordo)
- Myrtaceae(fam.)
- Chamelaucium(gen.)
- roycei(sp.)
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Type: "Busselton district [precise locality withheld for conservation reasons], Western Australia, 1 October 1954, R.D. Royce 4872 (holo: PERTH 01224565!; iso: PERTH 01224573!)."
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Etymology: "Named after Robert Dunlop Royce, a cadet of the Department of Agriculture from 1934, who joined the Botany Branch and Western Australian Herbarium in 1944 to become the Curator of the herbarium from 1960 to 1974. He made numerous plant and algal collections in the state, especially of plants in the Busselton–Margaret River area during his many annual trips certifying clover seed. He was the first to collect C. roycei in 1947 and made a further four collections of the species over the next ten years."
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APC Dist.: WA