Hooker, J.D. (1863), Bowenia spectabilis. Curtis's Botanical Magazine 89: t. 5398 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Bowenia spectabilis Hook.f.

• Etymology: "...in accordance with Mr. Hill's desire as well as our own, we have have [sic] attached the name of the present enlightened Governor of Queensland (Sir George F. Bowen, G.C.M.G., Captain and Governor-in-Chief), to the genus, in recognition no less of that officer's position as Governor of the district of Australia, in which the plant was found, than of his liberal encouragement of botany, and of Mr. Hill's exertions in particular."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 110 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 518 [secondary reference]

Lawson, M.A. (1924), A contribution to the Life-History of Bowenia. Transactions of the Royal Society Edinburgh 54: 357-394 [secondary reference]

Johnson, L.A.S. (1959), The families of cycads and the Zamiaceae of Australia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 84: 109-113 [secondary reference]

Johnson, L.A.S. & Wilson, K.L. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1990), Boweniaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 1: 370 [secondary reference]

Hill, K.D. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Stangeriaceae. Flora of Australia 48: 636 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: Qld

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 1 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 116 [secondary reference]

Christenhusz, M.J.M., Reveal, J.L, Farjon, A., Gardner M.F., Mill, R.R. & Chase, M.W. (2011), A new classification and linear sequence of extant gymnosperms. Phytotaxa 19: 57 [secondary reference]

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