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Telopea speciosissima

This page links to documents related to the plant species Telopea speciosissima commonly known as New South Wales Waratah or simply "waratah".

Embothrium speciosissimum (now Telopea speciosissima) as figured in A specimen of the botany of New Holland (1793), in which the species was first described.


  • Cavanilles, Antonio José (1800), Icones et Descriptiones Plantarum 4
    • Embothrium spathulatum (now a synonym of Telopea speciosissima) described on page 60, and figured on Plate 388.





  • Kuntze, Otto (1891) Revisio Generum Plantarum 2
    • Embothrium spathulatum (now a synonym of Telopea speciosissima) transferred into Hylogyne as Hylogyne spathulata on page 578.