Talk:Verticordia brownii

info on discovery and naming

According to Mabberley (1985) Jupiter botanicus, pp. 85-86,

"By the time they reached Lucky Bay, to the east of Esperance Bay, Brown had added another hundred species of plants, including a feather flower, later named Verticordia brownii, in three days."

This is rather dreadfully worded; the fact is the plant was collected at Lucky Bay, not "by the time they reached" Lucky Bay, as Lucky Bay was the first landfall after King George's Sound, and Brown's collection slips state "Bay 1", Brown's manuscript name for the then nameless bay that Flinders would later name Lucky Bay.

If you plug "Verticordia brownii" in as the last determined name here, you'll see that Brown's original manuscript name for the species was "Scotha formosa".

René Louiche Desfontaines actually published the name Chamelaucium brownii in a 1919 article in Memoires du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, not in 1826 as stated in the article. A. P. de Candolle transferred it to Verticordia in 1828.

Hesperian 23:49, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

• Elizabeth George's The turner... (2002) gives 1826 as the year that Desfontaines placed it in Chamelaucium Desf. (1819).
• APNI gives this quote;

Desfontaines, R.L. (1819) Memoires du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris 5: 271, t. 19

Type: "M. Brown la recueillit en 1802 près de Luchy-Bay, côte australe de la Nouvelle-Hollande."

I flipped a coin. Cygnis insignis 11:03, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

APNI, GRIN and IPNI (citing APNI and Index Kewensis) all say 1919. I'm afraid Lizzie's got the wrong end of the stick.

BTW I checked Brown's journal and there's nothing in there recognisable as a reference to V. b. Hesperian 11:40, 31 October 2007 (UTC)