Isopogon polycephalus
| clustered coneflower | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| Order: | Proteales |
| Family: | Proteaceae |
| Genus: | Isopogon |
| Species: | I. polycephalus |
| Binomial name | |
| Isopogon polycephalus R.Br.[1] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Atylus polycephalus (R.Br.) Kuntze | |
Isopogon polycephalus, commonly known as the clustered coneflower, is a small shrub of the family Proteaceae that is endemic to the southern Western Australia.[2]
Taxonomy
It was first described by Robert Brown in 1810.[3] In 1891, German botanist Otto Kuntze published Revisio generum plantarum, his response to what he perceived as a lack of method in existing nomenclatural practice.[4] Because Isopogon was based on Isopogon anemonifolius,[5] and that species had already been placed by Richard Salisbury in the segregate genus Atylus in 1807,[6] Kuntze revived the latter genus on the grounds of priority, and made the new combination Atylus polycephalus for this species.[7] However, Kuntze's revisionary program was not accepted by the majority of botanists.[4] Ultimately, the genus Isopogon was nomenclaturally conserved over Atylus by the International Botanical Congress of 1905.[8]
References
- ↑ "Isopogon polycephalus R.Br.". Atlas of Living Australia. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
- ↑ "Isopogon polycephalus". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
- ↑ Brown, Robert (1810). "On the Proteaceae of Jussieu". Transactions of the Linnaean Society. 10: 73.
- 1 2 Erickson, Robert F. "Kuntze, Otto (1843–1907)". Botanicus.org. Retrieved 28 November 2015.
- ↑ Knight, Joseph (1809). On the Cultivation of the Plants Belonging to the Natural Order of Proteeae. London, United Kingdom: W. Savage. p. 94.
- ↑ Hooker, William (1805). The Paradisus Londinensis. 1. London, United Kingdom: D. N. Shury.
- ↑ Kuntze, Otto (1891). Revisio generum plantarum:vascularium omnium atque cellularium multarum secundum leges nomenclaturae internationales cum enumeratione plantarum exoticarum in itinere mundi collectarum. Leipzig, Germany: A. Felix. p. 578.
- ↑ "Congrès international de Botanique de Vienne". Bulletin de la Société botanique de France. 52: LIII. 1905.