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Showing Hakea victoria
- APC
- Plantae(reg.)
- Charophyta(div.)
- Equisetopsida(cl.)
- Magnoliidae(subcl.)
- Proteanae(superordo)
- Proteales(ordo)
- Proteaceae(fam.)
- Hakea(gen.)
- victoria(sp.)
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Type: "... West Mount Barren ... between it and Mount Barren. ..."
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Etymology: "To this, the most splendid vegetable production which I have ever beheld, in a wild or cultivated state, I have given the name of our gracious Queen..." -
Comment: Published in The Inquirer of 14 April 1847, in advance of the previously accepted publication by Hooker, Botanical Magazine 74 Companion pp 1-3 (1848). See R.Barker, Nuytsia 11: 1-9 (1996) for a discussion of this earlier publication.
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Etymology: "Named in honour of Queen Victoria"
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APC Comment: Published in The Inquirer of 14 April 1847, in advance of the previously accepted publication by Hooker, Botanical Magazine 74 Companion pp 1-3 (1848). See R.Barker, Nuytsia 11: 1-9 (1996) for a discussion of this earlier publication. -
APC Dist.: WA