Isopogon spathulatus

Isopogon spathulatus is a small shrub of the family Proteaceae that is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia.[1]

Isopogon spathulatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Proteales
Family: Proteaceae
Genus: Isopogon
Species:
I. spathulatus
Binomial name
Isopogon spathulatus
R.Br.
Occurrence data from Australasian Virtual Herbarium
Synonyms

Atylus spathulatus (R.Br.) Kuntze

Taxonomy

The species was first formally described by botanist Robert Brown in 1830, based on material collected by William Baxter at King George's Sound.[2] 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.[3] Because Isopogon was based on Isopogon anemonifolius,[4] and that species had already been placed by Richard Salisbury in the segregate genus Atylus in 1807,[5] Kuntze revived the latter genus on the grounds of priority, and made the new combination Atylus spathulatus for this species.[6] However, Kuntze's revisionary program was not accepted by the majority of botanists.[3] Ultimately, the genus Isopogon was nomenclaturally conserved over Atylus by the International Botanical Congress of 1905.[7]

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References
  1. "Isopogon spathulatus". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
  2. Brown, Robert (1830). Supplementum primum Prodromi florae Novae Hollandiae. London, United Kingdom: Richard Taylor. pp. 8–9.
  3. Erickson, Robert F. "Kuntze, Otto (1843–1907)". Botanicus.org. Retrieved 28 November 2015.
  4. Knight, Joseph (1809). On the Cultivation of the Plants Belonging to the Natural Order of Proteeae. London, United Kingdom: W. Savage. p. 94.
  5. Hooker, William (1805). The Paradisus Londinensis. 1. London, United Kingdom: D. N. Shury.
  6. 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.
  7. "Congrès international de Botanique de Vienne". Bulletin de la Société botanique de France. 52: LIII. 1905.
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