Myrtaceae Juss.
Chamelaucium roycei N.G.Marchant
, legitimate, scientific
[Marchant, N.G. (10 December 2019), Circumscription of Chamelaucium (Myrtaceae: Chamelaucieae), with validation of six species names and two new combinations. Nuytsia 30]:
329-331, Fig. 2
[tax. nov.]
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Type:
"Busselton district [precise locality withheld for conservation reasons], Western Australia, 1 October 1954, R.D. Royce 4872 (holo: PERTH 01224565!; iso: PERTH 01224573!)."
taxonomic synonym:
Chamelaucium roycei N.G.Marchant & Keighery
manuscript name
taxonomic synonym:
Chamelaucium sp. S coastal plain (R.D.Royce 4872)
[n/a]
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Etymology:
"Named after Robert Dunlop Royce, a cadet of the Department of Agriculture from 1934, who joined the Botany Branch and Western Australian Herbarium in 1944 to become the Curator of the herbarium from 1960 to 1974. He made numerous plant and algal collections in the state, especially of plants in the Busselton–Margaret River area during his many annual trips certifying clover seed. He was the first to collect C. roycei in 1947 and made a further four collections of the species over the next ten years."
[Percy-Bower, J.M. & Parker, C.M. (24 June 2021), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2020. Nuytsia 32]:
7
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Chamelaucium sp. S coastal plain (R.D.Royce 4872)
[n/a]