Sir William Jackson Hooker (6 July 1785 – 12 August 1865) was an English botanist and botanical illustrator, who became the first director of Kew when...

Gardens, Kew, succeeding his father, William Jackson Hooker, and was awarded the highest honours of British science. Hooker was born in Halesworth, Suffolk...

William Dawson Hooker, M.D. (1816-1840) was a British physician and botanist, the son of Sir William Jackson Hooker and an elder brother to Sir Joseph...

Adiantum cunninghamii is a maidenhair fern found in New Zealand. The sori are found under the curved leaf margins. "Adiantum cunninghamii". ZipcodeZoo...

Zantedeschia albomaculata, commonly called the spotted calla lily (although Calla is a genus unto itself) or the white spotted arum, is a species of flowering...

Peperomia clusiifolia is a species of plant in the genus Peperomia. It is endemic to Jamaica. It is commonly known as red edge peperomia because its leaf...

Aeschynanthus speciosus, also known as the basket plant, is a species of flowering plant in the family Gesneriaceae. There are many species of Aeschynanthus...

language, meaning "four leaves". It was first described in 1832 by W.J. Hooker and G.A. Walker-Arnott after a coastal survey of South America under the...

Ophiocordyceps robertsii, known in New Zealand as vegetable caterpillar (Māori: āwhato or āwheto) is an entomopathogenic fungus belonging to the order...

Tweedia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1835. The genus is native to South America. An ornamental...

Delonix regia is a species of flowering plant in the bean family Fabaceae, subfamily Caesalpinioideae native to Madagascar. It is noted for its fern-like...

towards the end of the day. The species was first described in 1861 by William Hooker, as Cosmos diversifolia var. atrosanguineus. Eduard Ortgies later elevated...

Colvillea is a monotypic genus of legume in the family Fabaceae. Its only species is Colvillea racemosa. The genus is named for Sir Charles Colville, an...

Pieris phillyreifolia, commonly known as the climbing fetterbush, is a shrubby vine. An evergreen perennial in the Ericaceae family, it has white flowers...

Araucaria columnaris, the coral reef araucaria, Cook pine (or Cook's pine), New Caledonia pine, Cook araucaria, or columnar araucaria, is a species of...

Adetogramma chrysolepis is a species of fern in the family Polypodiaceae. It is the sole species in genus Adetogramma. It is an epiphyte native to Bolivia...

Dianella sandwicensis is a species of flax lily native to Hawaii and New Caledonia. In Hawaiian it is called ʻukiʻuki. Neal (1965) reports that historically...

Strophanthus gratus is a plant in the dogbane family Apocynaceae. Strophanthus gratus is a woody liana that can grow up to 25 metres (80 ft), with a trunk...

William Hooker may refer to: William Hooker (musician) (born 1946), American jazz drummer and composer William Jackson Hooker (1785–1865), English botanist...

workmanship". An alternative explanation for the name was given later by William Jackson Hooker in 1830 in Curtis's Botanical Magazine in the description of Ceropegia...

This is an incomplete list of works by William Jackson Hooker KH FRS FRSE FLS DCL (6 July 1785 – 12 August 1865), an English botanist and botanical illustrator...

and labelled their plants of this species as E. amazonica, but William Jackson Hooker mistook this nomen nudum as an unpublished invention and misidentified...

Dactylina arctica is a species of fungus within the family Parmeliaceae. Common names for this lichen are finger lichen and Arctic finger lichen. A specific...

Castilleja affinis is a species of Castilleja known by the common name coast Indian paintbrush. It is native to western North America from Washington to...

Rinodina atrocinerea is a species of lichen belonging to the family Physciaceae. It is native to Europe and Northern America. "Rinodina atrocinerea (Sm...

Spyridium parvifolium, commonly known dusty miller, is a flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae. It has dark green leaves and clusters of small, whitish...

Bulbophyllum careyanum is a species of orchid in the genus Bulbophyllum. The Bulbophyllum-Checklist The Internet Orchid Species Photo Encyclopedia Media...

Chaerophyllum tainturieri, known by the common names hairyfruit chervil and southern chervil, is an annual forb native to the south-eastern United States...

Hibiscus genevei is a species of flowering plant in the Malvaceae family. It is known locally as mandrinette blanc and is endemic to the island of Mauritius...

Cyperus cephalanthus, commonly known as the buttonbush flatsedge, is a species of sedge that is native to southern parts of North America and South America...