• Hortus Kewensis (Latin for "Kew Garden"; abbr. Hort. Kew.) is a series of works cataloguing the plant species in cultivation at the Royal Botanic Gardens...
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    literature by the Scottish botanist William Aiton in his 1789 work Hortus Kewensis as a variety of P. orientalis. Aiton described this variety with a...
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    first named as such in 1789 by the Scottish botanist William Aiton, in Hortus Kewensis, a catalog of plants cultivated in London's Kew botanic garden. The...
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    effected many improvements at the gardens, and in 1789 he published Hortus Kewensis, a catalogue of the plants cultivated there. He is buried at nearby...
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    Verde. The species was described by William Aiton and was published in Hortus Kewensis in 1789. Its Spanish names are cornicabra or cornica. "Cornicabra"...
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    relationship to red at all. The generic description of Pelargonium in Hortus Kewensis was copied from L’Heritier’s unpublished manuscript titled Compendium...
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    on the leaves. Goodyera pubescens was first defined in 1813 in the Hortus Kewensis 2nd edition volume 5. Goodyera pubescens is the accepted name of this...
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    Hortus Kewensis; Or, A Catalogue of the Plants Cultivated in the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. p. 3. Hortus Kewensis;...
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    and attribution was first published by William Aiton in 1789, in his Hortus Kewensis. Which species this was is not known precisely. However, in 1795 William...
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    Museums of Canada, Ottawa. Aiton, William (1789). "Dracaena borealis". Hortus Kewensis. 1. London: 454. Retrieved 3 September 2020. Rafinesque, Constantine...
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    1789 by William Aiton, who gave it the name Casuarina torulosa in Hortus Kewensis from specimens collected by Joseph Banks. In 1982, Lawrie Johnson transferred...
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    fruit.  Vaccinium virgatum was originally described and published in Hortus Kewensis 2:12. 1789. (V. amoenum, which was later determined to be a synonym...
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    March 22, 2007. Retrieved 24 May 2011. Aiton, William Townsend (1812). Hortus Kewensis; Or, A Catalogue of the Plants Cultivated in the Royal Botanic Garden...
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    Hovea was first formally described in 1812 by Robert Brown in Aiton's Hortus Kewensis, and the first species he described were H. linearis and H. longifolia...
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    Edward Whitaker Gray from Brazil, as documented by William Aiton in his Hortus Kewensis (1789). It was described by Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle in...
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    "jasmine oil" in Lisan al-Arab, late 13th century). William Aiton (1810). Hortus Kewensis, or A catalogue of the plants cultivated in the Royal botanic garden...
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    12 September 2014. Retrieved 24 December 2016. Dick, 1949, p. 11 Hortus Kewensis credits Bishop Compton with some forty introductions, two-thirds of...
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    Lotus glaucus was first described in volume 3 of the first edition of Hortus Kewensis, dated to 1789. The title page gives the author of the work as William...
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    included an entry for the cranberry in volume II of his 1789 work Hortus Kewensis. He notes that Vaccinium macrocarpon (American cranberry) was cultivated...
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    Kew. 2017. Retrieved 4 September 2020. Linnaeus, Carl von f. 1789. Hortus Kewensis 3: 478 Whitelock, L. M. (2002). The Cycads. Portland, OR: Timber Press...
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    Linnaeus described it in 1753, but it was known long before. Records from Hortus Kewensis gives that the species was grown at Royal Gardens at Hampton Court...
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    Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 6 February 2021. Aiton, W. (1789). Hortus Kewensis; or, a catalogue of the plants cultivated in the Royal Botanic Garden...
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    Aiton, 1789. Cranberry, canneberge gros fruits Aiton, William. 1789. Hortus Kewensis, or, A catalogue of the plants cultivated in the Royal Botanic Garden...
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    (Stern Kraut). The name "star-wort" was in use by Aiton in his 1789 Hortus Kewensis for Aster novae-angliae. He used the common names "New England cluster'd...
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    Scottish botanist William Aiton included Solidago lateriflora in his Hortus Kewensis, the first edition of a catalogue of the plants cultivated at Royal...
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    William Aiton described the same plant under a different name in Hortus Kewensis: Hypericum elatum. He offered a longer description, with details on...
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    Australia. The genus was formally described by botanist Robert Brown in Hortus Kewensis in 1811. Podolobiums vary in size and habit from upright to prostrate...
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    botanist Robert Brown in 1813 as a part of the William Aiton work Hortus Kewensis. It was reclassified as Racosperma melanoxylon by Leslie Pedley in...
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    Kew. The description was published in the third volume of his work Hortus Kewensis, in which he also raised the genus Heritiera. The Global Biodiversity...
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    Brutelle erected a new genus, Pelargonium, in William Aiton’s book Hortus Kewensis, published in 1789, he reassigned the species and made the new combination...
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