Proteaceae Juss.
Lambertia Sm. , legitimate, scientific
Smith, J.E. (1798), The Characters of Twenty New Genera of Plants. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 4: 214, 223 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: Lambertia formosa Smith
Gaertner, C.F. von (1807), Supplementum Carpologicae 2: 213 [secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 68 [secondary reference]
Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 164, 168 [secondary reference]
Sulman, F. (1913), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales 1: 9 [secondary reference]
common name: Honey Flowers [n/a]
Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 193 [secondary reference]
Venkata Rao, C. (1968), Morphology, floral anatomy and embryology of Lambertia sp. with a discussion on the taxonomic position of the genus. Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences. Section B 68: 11-24 [secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 180 [secondary reference]
Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Proteaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 348 [secondary reference]
Wrigley, J.W. & Fagg, M. (1989), Banksias, Waratahs & Grevilleas and all other plants in the Australian Proteaceae family: 441-443 [secondary reference]
  • Etymology: "Named in honour of Aylmer Bourke Lambert, FLS, FRS,, (1761-1842), an English botanist who wrote The Genus Pinus which was published between 1803 and 1814.'
Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Lambertia. Flora of New South Wales 2: 66 [secondary reference]
Hnatiuk, R.J. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1995), Lambertia. Flora of Australia 16: 425-426 APC [secondary reference]
  • APC Dist.: WA, NSW
Barker, R.M., Haegi, L. & Barker, W.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1999), Hakea. Flora of Australia 17B: 31 [pro parte misapplied]
pro parte misapplied to: Hakea Schrad. & J.C.Wendl. legitimate by Gaertner, C.F. von (1807), Supplementum Carpologicae 2: 213
Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Lambertia. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 2: 81 [secondary reference]
Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 839 [secondary reference]
Weston, P.H. & Barker, N.P. (13 November 2006), A new suprageneric classification of the Proteaceae, with an annotated checklist of genera. Telopea 11(3): 334 [secondary reference]
Weston, P.H. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2007), Proteaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 9: 393 [secondary reference]
Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 465 [secondary reference]