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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

Lophopyxis is a genus of flowering plants and the sole genus of the family Lophopyxidaceae. The group consists of two species of tendrillate lianas. They...

and labelled their plants of this species as E. amazonica, but William Jackson Hooker mistook this nomen nudum as an unpublished invention and misidentified...

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

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

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...

geographic Hooker items were named by the Canterbury provincial geologist, Julius von Haast, after the English botanist William Jackson Hooker. The glacier...

Balaustion pulcherrimum, commonly known as native pomegranate, is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. It is endemic to Western...

Geranium cuneatum, or silver geranium, is a medium alpine shrub endemic to the islands of Hawai'i and Maui, where it grows in high elevation shrubland...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

botanist William Jackson Hooker (1785–1865) Hook.f., author abbreviation of English botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911), the son of William Jackson Hooker...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

(1779–1832), known for Hooker's Green William Jackson Hooker (1785–1865), English botanist, father of Joseph Dalton Hooker Worthington Hooker (1806–1867), American...