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Showing Orites milliganii
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- Plantae(reg.)
- Charophyta(div.)
- Equisetopsida(cl.)
- Magnoliidae(subcl.)
- Proteanae(superordo)
- Proteales(ordo)
- Proteaceae(fam.)
- Orites(gen.)
- milliganii(sp.)
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Type: "In monte Sorrel, prope Macquarie Harbour Tasmanniae occidentalis (Milligan, n. 739!)"
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Comment: Meisner attributes this name to "Meisn. in Hook. Journ. 1852, p. 209" [i.e. C.D.F.Meisner, Hooker's J. Bot. & Kew Gard. Misc. 4: 209 (1852)], where it is given without a description as "Orites milligani".
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Etymology: "Named in honour of Dr Joseph Milligan (1807-83), Scottish-born surgeon who collected plants in Tas between 1830 and 1860."
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APC Dist.: Tas