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Showing Scaevola brooksiana
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- Plantae(reg.)
- Charophyta(div.)
- Equisetopsida(cl.)
- Magnoliidae(subcl.)
- Asteranae(superordo)
- Asterales(ordo)
- Goodeniaceae(fam.)
- Scaevola(gen.)
- brooksiana(sp.)
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Type: "In the vicinity of Israelite-Bay, discovered by Miss S.J.Brooke".
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Etymology: (not specified.) -
Comment: Although Mueller spelled the species epithet as "brookeana" and cited original material as having been collected by "Miss S.J. Brooke", the collector was Sarah T. Brooks (1850–1928). Mueller presumably intended to honour the collector in naming the species and later used the spelling brooksiana in Sec. Syst. Census Austral. Pl. 148 (1889). The epithet is thus corrected here following ICN Art. 60.1 (Shenzhen Code, 2018).
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Text: "This West Australian shrub was named in honour of its discoverer, Miss Sarah T. C. Brooks, who died at Norseman Hospital in September, 1928; but Mueller invariably mis-spelt the surname as 'Brooke'."
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APC Dist.: WA
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APC Dist.: WA