Character and description of Kingia

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Character and description of Kingia (1826)
by Robert Brown

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Character and description of Kingia; a new genus of plants found on the south-west coast of New Holland. With observations on the structure of its unimpregnated ovulum, and on the female flower of Cycadeae and Coniferae is an 1826 paper by Robert Brown, in which Brown describes and names Kingia, a monotypic genus of grass-tree endemic to south-western Australia. More importantly, he goes on to discuss the reproductive organs of conifers and cycads, articulating for the first time the fundamental division between angiosperms and gymnosperms.

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Versions of Character and description of Kingia include:

Character and description of Kingia (preprint).
"Character and description of Kingia" in Phillip Parker King (1826), Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia 2 (Appendix B): 534–565.
"Character and description of Kingia" in Philosophical magazine 67 (1826):352–361, 409–421.
"Character and description of Kingia" in Bennett, John Joseph (ed.) (1866) The miscellaneous botanical works of Robert Brown, Esq., D.C.L., F.R.S. 1:433–461.

A German translation appeared in Nees von Esenbeck, C. G. D. (ed.) (1827), Robert Brown's Vermischte botanische Schriften 4:75–140.
A French translation appeared in Annales Des Sciences Naturelles 8 (1826):211–244.
A German translation appeared in Linnaea 2(1827): 690–724.
A German translation appeared in Isis 21 (1828):175–180.