Knightia (plant)

For the genus of prehistoric fish, see Knightia.

Knightia
Knightia excelsa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Proteales
Family: Proteaceae
Subfamily: Grevilleoideae
Tribe: Roupaleae
Genus: Knightia
R.Br.[1]
Type species
Knightia excelsa R.Br.
Species

See text.

Synonyms

Rymandra Salisb. ex Knight
Sources: ING,[2] UniProt,[3] IPNI,[4] GRIN[5]

Knightia is a small genus of the family Proteaceae endemic to New Zealand, named in honor of Thomas Andrew Knight.[6] One extant species, K. excelsa (rewarewa) is found in New Zealand. Two further Knightia species are found in New Caledonia, although they were placed in the genus Eucarpha by Lawrie Johnson and Barbara Briggs in their influential 1975 monograph "On the Proteaceae: the evolution and classification of a southern family",[7] a placement supported in a 2006 classification of the Proteaceae.[8] A fossil species from upper Miocene deposits in Kaikorai has been described as Knightia oblonga.[9] Knightia has been placed in the tribe Roupaleae of the subfamily Grevilleoideae.[8]

  1. ^ wikisource:Transactions of the Linnean Society of London/Volume 10/On the Proteaceae of Jussieu
  2. ^ "Knightia". Index Nominum Genericorum. International Association for Plant Taxonomy. 1996-02-09. Retrieved 2008-06-28.
  3. ^ UniProt. "Genus Knightia". Retrieved 2008-06-28.
  4. ^ "Knightia". International Plant Names Index (IPNI). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries; Australian National Botanic Gardens. 2008-06-28.
  5. ^ Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) (2007-10-05). "Genus: Knightia R. Br". Taxonomy for Plants. USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program, National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Archived from the original on 2011-06-05. Retrieved 2008-06-28.
  6. ^ Smith, Val, 1934- (2015). Common ground : who's who in New Zealand botanical names. New Plymouth. p. 45. ISBN 978-0-473-30847-6. OCLC 918895346.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  7. ^ L. A. S. Johnson and Briggs, B. G. (1975). "On the Proteaceae: the evolution and classification of a southern family". Journal of the Linnean Society of London. Botany. 70 (2): 83–182. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1975.tb01644.x.
  8. ^ a b Weston, Peter H.; Barker, Nigel P. (2006). "A new suprageneric classification of the Proteaceae, with an annotated checklist of genera". Telopea. 11 (3): 314–344. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.567.9092. doi:10.7751/telopea20065733.
  9. ^ "Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand". March 1982.