The rediscovery of what genus of the coniferous tree in Australia in 1994 by David Noble was a celebrated event of 20th century botany?
"David Noble (canyoner) David 'Dave' Noble (born 1965) discovered the Wollemi pine on or about 10 September 1994. Thus, the scientific name of this species, ""Wollemia nobilis"", is named after him. John and Olive Noble, David's parents, emigrated from England to Australia when he was two years old. A modern-day explorer, Noble has visited sites in the Wollemi National Park that few if any other people have seen and is known for exploring the canyons of the Wollemi Wilderness. He has named over two hundred remote features, including the canyons: Twister, Hole in the Wall, Surefire and Tiger Snake. At"
"1994 in a temperate rainforest wilderness area of the Wollemi National Park in New South Wales, in a remote series of narrow, steep-sided sandstone gorges near Lithgow. Fossils dating from before the Pleistocene glaciations show that species of ""Laurus"" were formerly distributed more widely around the Mediterranean and North Africa, isolated gave rise to ""Laurus azorica"" in Azores Islands, ""Laurus nobilis"" in mainland and ""Laurus novocanariensis"" in Canary Islands. The paleotropical flora is characterized by about 40 endemic plant families, the most famous being Nepenthaceae, Musaceae, Pandanaceae and Flagellariaceae, but including also Matoniaceae, Dipteridaceae, Stangeriaceae, Welwitschiaceae, Degeneriaceae, Rafflesiaceae, Didiereaceae, Didymelaceae,"
"Wollemia Wollemia is a genus of coniferous tree in the family Araucariaceae. ""Wollemia"" was only known through fossil records until the Australian species ""Wollemia nobilis"" was discovered in 1994 in a temperate rainforest wilderness area of the Wollemi National Park in New South Wales, in a remote series of narrow, steep-sided sandstone gorges 150 km north-west of Sydney. The genus is named for the National Park. In both botanical and popular literature the tree has been almost universally referred to as the Wollemi pine, although it is not a true pine (genus ""Pinus"") nor a member of the pine family"
"major conifers discovered in the period, including first descriptions of Coast Redwood (""Taxodium sempervirens"" D. Don; now ""Sequoia sempervirens"" (D. Don) Endl.), Bristlecone Fir (""Pinus bracteata"" D. Don, now ""Abies bracteata"" (D. Don) A. Poit.), Grand Fir (""Pinus grandis"" Douglas ex D. Don; now ""Abies grandis"" (Douglas ex D. Don) Lindl.) and Coulter Pine (""Pinus coulteri"" D. Don), and was the first to treat Sugi (""Cupressus japonica"" Thunb.; now ""Cryptomeria japonica"" (Thunb.) D. Don) in a new genus. He also named the orchid genus Pleione in 1825. David Don was librarian to the botanist Aylmer Bourke Lambert and compiled for"
"Gardens. His most famous discovery was a clump of a large species of cycad in Ongoye Forest in 1895. This cycad was subsequently named in honour of him in 1908 as Wood's Cycad (""Encephalartos woodii"") by the English horticulturalist Henry Sander. Three basal offsets of the cycad were collected by Wood's deputy, James Wylie, in 1903 and planted in the Durban Botanic Gardens, and again in a 1907 expedition, Wylie collected two of the larger stems and brought them to the gardens. Wood's Cycad is now the emblem of the Durban Botanic Gardens, where the original specimens are still growing."
"to the discovery by north Queensland forest ranger Victor Stockwell (1918–1999) of the restricted area of these large trees. Plant geneticists have found the evolutionarily closest relatives in the two New Guinea species of the genus ""Eucalyptopsis"", the only two species known in that genus, and in the species ""Allosyncarpia ternata"", the only known species in its genus, found only (endemic) in a restricted area, of the Arnhem Land plateau, Northern Territory, Australia. Stockwellia trees' rare, endemic, geographically isolated distribution has obtained the conservation status ""near threatened"", officially listed in the regulation current , of the Queensland government legislation, the"
"Australia. The record of the issues published is found at the florabase database Nuytsia (journal) Nuytsia is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Western Australian Herbarium. It publishes papers on systematic botany, giving preference to papers related to the flora of Western Australia. Nearly twenty percent of Western Australia's plant taxa have been published in ""Nuytsia"". The journal was established in 1970 and has appeared irregularly since. The editor-in-chief is Kevin Thiele. ""Nuytsia"" is named after the monospecific genus ""Nuytsia"", whose only species is ""Nuytsia floribunda"", the well known Western Australian Christmas tree. Occasionally, the journal has published special"
"Isopogon teretifolius Isopogon teretifolius, commonly known as the nodding coneflower, is a small shrub of the family Proteaceae that is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. ""Isopogon teretifolius"" was first described by Robert Brown in 1810. 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. Because ""Isopogon"" was based on ""Isopogon anemonifolius"", and that species had already been placed by Richard Salisbury in the segregate genus ""Atylus"" in 1807, Kuntze revived the latter genus on the grounds of priority, and made the new"
"and as a consequence had put the next generation of British zoologists on much firmer ground. The next generation of British zoologists contained both Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace. Despite his impact, today Elford Leach is remembered mainly in the scientific names of the many species that honour him. In the years up to 1850 alone 137 new species were named ""leachii"", ""leachiana"", ""leachella"", ""elfordii"", ""elfordiana"" and other variants. In the non-scientific literature he is honoured in the common names of several species. Leach's storm-petrel was named after him by Coenraad Jacob Temminck in 1820 and the blue-winged kookaburra,"
"in 1915. He is commemorated in the genera ""Woodia"" Schltr., ""Woodiella"" Sydow and a large number of species names including that of ""Encephalartos woodii"" Sander, which he first discovered. He was elected an Associate of the Linnean Society of London in 1887 and awarded an honorary D.Sc. from University of Cape Town in 1913. John Medley Wood John Medley Wood (1 December 1827 Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England – 26 August 1915 Durban) was a South African botanist who contributed greatly to the knowledge of Natal ferns, is generally credited with the establishment of sugarcane mosaic virus immune Uba sugar cane in"
"by botanist Robert Brown around 1801. The species name derived from the Latin terms ""longus"" ""long"", and ""folium"" ""leaf"". Within the genus ""Persoonia"", it is classified in the ""Lanceolata"" group, a group of 54 closely related species with similar flowers but very different foliage. These species will often interbreed with each other where two members of the group occur. It is found in the southwest of Western Australia from Albany to the southeastern edges of Perth. It occurs in the Jarrah, Karri, Marri and Tingle forest. Snottygobble is pollinated by native bees. it is also visited by the Western Brown"
"combination ""Atylus teretifolius"" for this species. However, Kuntze's revisionary program was not accepted by the majority of botanists. Ultimately, the genus ""Isopogon"" was nomenclaturally conserved over ""Atylus"" by the International Botanical Congress of 1905. Isopogon teretifolius Isopogon teretifolius, commonly known as the nodding coneflower, is a small shrub of the family Proteaceae that is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. ""Isopogon teretifolius"" was first described by Robert Brown in 1810. 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. Because ""Isopogon"" was based"
"nobilis"" is the sole living member of its genus. These trees remained common throughout eastern Australia until around 40 million years ago but then gradually declined in range and abundance. Before the relict population was discovered in Wollemi National Park, the most recent known fossils of the genus date from approximately 2 million years ago in Tasmania. It is thus described as a living fossil or, alternatively, a Lazarus taxon. Fewer than a hundred trees are known to be growing wild, in three localities not far apart. It is very difficult to count individuals, as most trees are multistemmed and"
"edge to aid wind-dispersal. The male (pollen) cones are slender conic, 5–11 cm long and 1–2 cm broad and reddish-brown in colour and are lower on the tree than the seed cones. Seedlings appear to be slow-growing and mature trees are extremely long-lived; some of the older individuals today are estimated to be between 500 and 1,000 years old. The discovery, on or about 10 September 1994, by David Noble, Michael Casteleyn and Tony Zimmerman, only occurred because the group had been systematically exploring the area looking for new canyons. Noble had good botanical knowledge, and quickly recognised the trees"
"by Robert Logan Jack. Richard Daintree was also collecting botanical specimens in his travels. Queensland herbarium records show that he collected botanical specimens from Rockhampton, Queensland and the ranges of Central Queensland, including the new species ""Acacia daintreeana"". The goldfields discovered by Daintree played an important part in tiding North Queensland over the collapse of the pastoral boom in the late 1860s although only the Etheridge deposit proved viable in the longer term. However, his work proved crucial to attracting prospectors to North Queensland which led to other discoveries and the early development of the area's gold resources. Richard Daintree"
"Botanic Gardens in Sydney when the species was discovered. Further study would be needed to establish its relationship to other conifers. The initial suspicion was that it had certain characteristics of the 200-million-year-old family Araucariaceae, but was not similar to any living species in the family. Comparison with living and fossilised Araucariaceae proved that it was a member of that family, and it has been placed into a new genus with ""Agathis"" and ""Araucaria"". Fossils closely resembling ""Wollemia"" that are thought to be related to it are widespread in Australia, New Zealand and Antarctica from Cretaceous era sediments, but ""Wollemia"
"specimen growing in England. The seeds of the species were cultivated in England, sometime shortly after the founding of the colony in New South Wales. Smith also described the species in the same year as Andrews, using the same name, but since the Andrews name was published first it is his description regarded as having priority. The next species to be described was ""Sowerbaea laxiflora"" Lindl. (1839), a plant found in Western Australia. The genus is named after the botanical illustrator James Sowerby. Species accepted: Sowerbaea Sowerbaea is a small genus of perennial herbs which are endemic to Australia. The"
"Darwinia (plant) Darwinia, sometimes commonly known as mountain bells or simply bells, is a genus of about 70 species of evergreen shrubs in the family Myrtaceae, endemic to southeastern and southwestern Australia. The majority are native to southern Western Australia, but a few species occur in South Australia, New South Wales and Victoria. The genus was named in honour of Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of Charles Darwin by Edward Rudge in 1816. Most darwinias grow to a height of between and many are prostrate shrubs. Most have small, simple leaves and the flowers are often grouped together, each flower with five"
"article comes from (retrieved 1 December 2006). Byblis (plant) Byblis is a small genus of carnivorous plants, sometimes termed the rainbow plants for the attractive appearance of their mucilage-covered leaves in bright sunshine. Native to western Australia, it is the only genus in the family Byblidaceae. The first species in the genus was described by the English botanist Richard Anthony Salisbury in 1808. Eight species are now recognized (see below). ""Byblis"" species look very similar to ""Drosera"" and ""Drosophyllum"", but are distinguished by their zygomorphic flowers, with five curved stamens off to one side of the pistil. These genera are"
"as ""Baeckea clavifolia"" by the botanist Spencer Le Marchant Moore in 1920 as part of the work "" A contribution to the Flora of Australia."" published in the ""Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany"". It was reclassified to the ""Enekbatus"" genera in 2010 by Barbara Rye and Malcolm Trudgen in the work ""Enekbatus, a new Western Australian genus of Myrtaceae with a multi-locular indehiscent fruit."" as published in the journal ""Nuytsia"" Enekbatus clavifolius Enekbatus clavifolius is a shrub endemic to Western Australia. The spreading shrub typically grows to a height of and blooms between July and September producing pink-purple flowers."
"1905. Several varieties have been described but have been synonymised with ""I. anemonifolius"" or recognised as distinct species. Brown described varieties ""glaber"", identified by wholly smooth leaves and branches, and ""pubescens"", with leaves and branches covered in fine pale grey hairs, in 1830. English botanist George Bentham tentatively described variety ""pubiflorus"" in his 1870 work ""Flora Australiensis"". He queried that it may have been from Sydney, and had a slightly hairy perianth. These are not regarded as distinct. Victorian Government botanist Ferdinand von Mueller described ""I. anemonifolius"" var. ""tenuifolius"" in 1870, now recognised as ""I. prostratus"". Australian botanist Edwin Cheel"
"Garden, was laid out north of the Herbarium, growing and displaying plants under threat in the wild or out-of-fashion in cultivation. Jeremy Coleby-Williams was instrumental in establishing this. Also in 1997-8 the HSBS Oriental Garden was established west of the lotus pond in the middle garden. Its site has Asian associations dating from 1917. In 1998 the Wollemi pine (""Wollemia nobilis"") was discovered in a remote gorge in Wollemi National Park by Phillip Noble, triggering an innovative propagation campaign to secure this species in ex-situ cultivation. An early specimen was planted on the site of the main intersection of paths"
"record of his subsequent election to the Royal College of Physicians. It is Isaac Swainson, who was less noted for botany, who is honoured in the genus name Swainsona, which is now known as the emblem of South Australia real name is Sturt desert pea Australian National Botanic Gardens</ref> Isaac Swainson Isaac Swainson (1746 – 1812) was famous for his botanical garden, which was largely funded from the profits of a herbal remedy for venereal disease, and a plant genus is named after him. For his commercial activities in the latter field, he has been called a ""radical quack"". He"
"Carl Linnaeus and described in 1780 by Georg Forster in ""Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis"". Many sources erroneously list L.f. (Carolus Linnaeus the Younger's standard author abbreviation) as the author of the genus, but the Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) has the correct citation The first species placed in the genus was ""F. sedifolia"", which would remain the only species in the genus for 72 years. The English botanist Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker described three new species: ""F. bellidifolia"" in 1852 and ""F. bidwillii"" and ""F. tenella"" in 1853. There was an uncertainty among botanists whether these plants belonged"
"by the botanist Ferdinand von Mueller in 1858 in the work ""Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae"". It was reclassified in 1982 into the genus ""Allocasuarina"" by Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson in the Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens. The name of the species honours the Belgian botanist Joseph Decaisne, who had never visited Australia or ever seen the tree. The tree was particularly useful to Indigenous Australian peoples who used the trees as a source of water. Water can be collected from tree hollows but surface roots could also be broken off in sections to provide potable water by draining the root"
"meaning “seed"" referring to the shape of the nut. Members of the genus are commonly known as smokebushes due to the grey flowers resembling smoke arising off the plant. The type species is the long leaf smokebush (""C. longifolium""), though Smith did not get around to describing it until 1806. Australian botanists Lawrie Johnson and Barbara Briggs placed ""Conospermum"" in the subtribe Conosperminae along with the genus ""Synaphea"" in their 1975 monograph """". Molecular evidence confirmed the two genera are each other's closest relatives. ""Conospermum"" species are found in all mainland Australian states. Most species occur in the south-west of"
"Walsh and David Edward Albrecht in 1998 as part of the work ""A new species of Eucalyptus (series Subexsertae) from the Northern Territory"" as published in the journal ""Muelleria"". The specific epithet is in reference to the Gregory National Park which was named for the explorer Augustus Charles Gregory who explored this area in 1855 and 1856. The tree has a small range and is found in the Gregory National Park and the Victoria River Downs region in the top end of the Northern Territory where it is found up on the sandstone plateaus and cliffs over seasonal water courses."
"honours Allan Cunningham (1791 – 1839), an English botanist and explorer, primarily known for his travels to Australia (New South Wales) and New Zealand to collect plants and author of ""Florae Insularum Novae Zelandiae Precursor"", 1837-40 (""Introduction to the flora of New Zealand""). ""Centipeda cunninghamii"" is an erect or ascending, endemic Australian perennial herb of the Daisy family (Asteraceae), glabrous or rarely woolly, about 20 cm (8 inches) high; stems much-branched. Leaves: Oblong to more less spathulate, they are about 15 mm (1/2 inch) long and 3–4 mm (1/10 inch) wide; margins shallowly toothed or subentire; narrowed to base but"
"Viminaria Viminaria juncea is the single species in the genus Viminaria endemic to Australia. The genus is in the pea family Fabaceae. It is colloquially known as native broom after its resemblance to the related European broom plants. The Noongar peoples know the plant as koweda. Originally described in 1795 by Schrader as ""Sophora juncea"", it was given its current binomial name by Hoffmannsegg in 1824. The genus name is derived from the Latin ""vimineus"" ""switch"", and the species name from Latin ""juncus"" ""rush"", hence ""rush-like"". Alternate names include golden spray, native broom and swishbush. Native broom grows as an"
"Buckinghamia Buckinghamia is a genus of only two known species of trees, belonging to the plant family Proteaceae. They grow naturally only (endemic) in the rainforests of the wet tropics region of north eastern Queensland, Australia. The ivory curl flower, ""B. celsissima"", is the well known, popular and widely cultivated species in gardens and parks, in eastern and southern mainland Australia, and additionally as street trees north from about Brisbane. The second species, ""B. ferruginiflora"", was only recently described in 1988. The genus was named in 1868 by Ferdinand von Mueller in honour of Richard Grenville, the Duke of Buckingham,"
"Doodia aspera Doodia aspera, commonly known as Prickly Rasp Fern, is a widespread and common plant, growing in eastern Australia. Often seen in rainforest margins or eucalyptus forest in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland, it is a terrestrial fern with reddish new growth. ""Doodia aspera"" was one of the many species first described by the botanist Robert Brown in his 1810 work ""Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen"", and it still bears its original name. The genus is named for Samuel Doody, curator of the Chelsea Physic Garden, and the species name ""aspera"" is the feminine form"
"group of plants now called Japanese Knotweed changed from prizewinners in the Netherlands in 1847 to notifiable weeds in the UK in 1981. Her distribution maps showed how the Knotweed hybrids spread across the UK. An unusual hybrid knotweed, ""Fallopia × conollyana"" was named in her honour in 2001 for her 84th birthday. She attended the private Montessori school in Purley followed by Eothen Girls School in Caterham (head girl 1934-5). She contracted polio in her teens when visiting the Continent that resulted in impairment to her right leg. She died 17 August 2010. Ann Conolly Ann P. Conolly (1917–2010)"
"in the Lower Glenelg National Park, Grampians National Park and near Anglesea. Conospermum mitchellii Conospermum mitchellii, commonly known as Victorian smokebush is a shrub which is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It grows to between 1 and 2 metres high and has linear leaves that are 5 to 20 cm long and 0.8 to 3.5 mm wide. The flowers are bluish-grey in bud and open to white. These appear between July and December (mid winter to early summer) in its native range. The species was formally described in 1856 by Swiss botanist Carl Meissner in ""Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis"". The"