Gompholobium Knightianum
''Gompholobium knightianum'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a slender, erect shrub with pinnate leaves, and mostly pink or purple, pea-like flowers. Description ''Gompholobium knightianum'' is a slender, erect shrub that typically grows to a height of . Its leaves are pinnate, with three to five flat, glabrous leaflets long. The flowers are pink or purple, borne on a glabrous pedicel about long with glabrous sepals about long. The standard petal is about long, and the wings are about long. Flowering occurs from July to December and the fruit is a pod long. Taxonomy ''Gompholobium knightianum'' was first formally described in 1831 by John Lindley in ''Edwards's Botanical Register'' from specimens grown in the "Mr Knight's Nursery" from seed collected by William Baxter. Distribution This pea grows is found in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah For ...
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John Lindley FRS (5 February 1799 – 1 November 1865) was an English botanist, gardener and orchidologist. Early years Born in Catton, near Norwich, England, John Lindley was one of four children of George and Mary Lindley. George Lindley was a nurseryman and pomologist and ran a commercial nursery garden. Although he had great horticultural knowledge, the undertaking was not profitable and George lived in a state of indebtedness. As a boy he would assist in the garden and also collected wild flowers he found growing in the Norfolk countryside. Lindley was educated at Norwich School. He would have liked to go to university or to buy a commission in the army but the family could not afford either. He became Belgian agent for a London seed merchant in 1815. At this time Lindley became acquainted with the botanist William Jackson Hooker who allowed him to use his botanical library and who introduced him to Sir Joseph Banks who offered him employment as an assistant in his herba ...
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