Gemma Robyn Henderson

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Gemma Robyn Henderson (born 1976) is an Australian botanist.

Henderson commenced the revision of Eutaxia as a part of her honours project at the University of Western Australia. [1]

The standard author abbreviation G.R.Hend. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. [2]

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<i>Eutaxia</i> Genus of legumes

Eutaxia is a genus of the family Fabaceae. They are native to Australia. Most are endemic to the Southwest Botanical Province of Western Australia, but a few are distributed throughout mainland Australia. The chromosome number of Eutaxia species is typically 2n = 14 or 16.

<i>Eutaxia myrtifolia</i> Species of legume

Eutaxia myrtifolia is shrub species in the family Fabaceae. It is endemic to Western Australia. Plants may be prostrate or up to 2 metres high. Yellow and red flowers are produced throughout the year in the species' native range. It occurs in woodland, shrubland and heath in the coastal region between Cape Naturaliste and Cape Arid.

<i>Dianella</i> (plant) Genus of flowering plants

Dianella is a genus of about forty species of flowering plants in the monocot family Asphodelaceae, commonly known as flax lilies. Plants in this genus are tufted herbs with more or less linear leaves and bisexual flowers with three sepals more or less similar to three petals and a superior ovary, the fruit a berry. They occur in Africa, South-east Asia, the Pacific Islands, New Zealand and Australia.

<i>Ricinocarpos</i> Genus of flowering plants

Ricinocarpos is a genus of evergreen flowering plants in the family Euphorbiaceae and is endemic to Australia. Plants in the genus Ricinocarpos are monoecious shrubs with leaves arranged alternately along the branches, the edges curved downwards or rolled under. Male flowers are arranged singly or in racemes at the ends of branchlets, with four to six sepals that are fused at the base. There are four to six petals that are longer than the sepals, with many stamens fused to form a central column. Female flowers are arranged singly and are similar to male flowers but with three styles fused at the base and with a deeply branched tip. The fruit is a capsule containing seeds with an elaiosome.

<i>Desmoncus</i> Genus of plants

Desmoncus is a genus of mostly climbing, spiny palms native to the Neotropics. The genus extends from Mexico in the north to Brazil and Bolivia in the south, with two species present in the southeastern Caribbean.

<i>Pholidostachys</i> Genus of palms

Pholidostachys is a genus of palms found in Central America and northwestern South America.

Andrew James Henderson is a palm-systematist and Curator of the Institute of Systematic Botany at the New York Botanical Garden. He has authored taxonomic descriptions of 140 species, subspecies and varieties of plants, especially in the palm family

<span class="mw-page-title-main">M. R. Henderson</span>

Murray Ross Henderson (1899–1982) was a Scottish botanist who did most of his botanical work in the Straits Settlements and South Africa. He took a position as a botanist in Malaya in 1921 and became curator of the herbarium in the Singapore Botanical Gardens in 1924.

Louis Forniquet Henderson was an American botanist.

<i>Eutaxia parvifolia</i> Species of legume

Eutaxia parvifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to southwestern Western Australia. It is a shrub with reddish brown stems, elliptic to egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and mostly yellow, red or orange flowers, with yellow red or orange markings.

<i>Eutaxia diffusa</i> Species of plant

Eutaxia diffusa, commonly known as spreading eutaxia, is a shrub species in the family Fabaceae. The species is endemic to Australia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Eutaxia microphylla</span> Species of plant

Eutaxia microphylla, also known as common eutaxia, is a shrub species in the family Fabaceae. The species is endemic to Australia.

Eutaxia empetrifolia is a shrub species in the family Fabaceae. The species is endemic to Australia. It occurs in South Australia and the south-west of Western Australia.

<i>Stachystemon</i>

Stachystemon is a genus of nine species of flowering plants in the family Picrodendraceae, and is endemic to Western Australia. Plants in the genus Stachystemon are monoecious shrubs with simple, usually thickened leaves, and flowers arranged singly or in small groups in upper leaf axils, male flowers usually with four to six tepals, usually with seven to many stamens, and female flowers with four or six tepals and two styles in each flower.

Rodney John Francis Henderson is an Australian botanist, specialising in taxonomy who worked for more than 48 years for the Queensland Public Service, 41 of those years at the Queensland Herbarium until he retired in 2002. The families he studied included the Solanaceae, Liliaceae, Euphorbiaceae and Rubiaceae. There are about 3,500 labelled specimens in Australian herbaria collected by Henderson, sometimes with other botanists. He was often sought after as an expert in the application of the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature because of his knowledge of the code and of botanical Latin and Greek.

Carolyn F. Wilkins is an Australian botanist, who currently works for the Western Australian Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.

Lanonia is a genus of fan palms, in the tribe Trachycarpeae. It has a recorded native range from southern China to Indo-China and is also found in Java.

<i>Eutaxia cuneata</i> Species of legume

Eutaxia cuneata is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a slender, upright shrub with red and orange pea-like flowers.

Eutaxia exilis is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia.

Eutaxia lutea is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to southern parts of Western Australia.

References

  1. Wilkins, C.F.; Chappill, J.A. (2007). "Five new species of Eutaxia (Leguminosae: Mirbelieae) from south-western Australia" (PDF). Nuytsia . Department of Environment and Conservation . Retrieved 10 November 2023.
  2. International Plant Names Index.  G.R.Hend.