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    Sir William Jackson Hooker KH FRS FRSE FLS DCL (6 July 1785 – 12 August 1865) was an English botanist and botanical illustrator, who became the first director...
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    Gardens, Kew, succeeding his father, William Jackson Hooker, and was awarded the highest honours of British science. Hooker was born in Halesworth, Suffolk...
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    Peperomia clusiifolia (category Taxa named by William Jackson Hooker)
    Peperomia clusiifolia is a species of plant in the genus Peperomia. It is endemic to Jamaica. It is commonly known as red edge peperomia because its leaf...
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    Adiantum cunninghamii (category Taxa named by William Jackson Hooker)
    Adiantum cunninghamii is a maidenhair fern found in New Zealand. The sori are found under the curved leaf margins. "Adiantum cunninghamii". ZipcodeZoo...
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  • Tweedia (category Taxa named by William Jackson Hooker)
    Tweedia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1835. The genus is native to South America. An ornamental...
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    Zantedeschia albomaculata (category Taxa named by William Jackson Hooker)
    Zantedeschia albomaculata, commonly called the spotted calla lily (although Calla is a genus unto itself) or the white spotted arum, is a species of flowering...
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  • William Dawson Hooker, M.D. (1816-1840) was a British physician and botanist, the son of Sir William Jackson Hooker and an elder brother to Sir Joseph...
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    Aeschynanthus speciosus (category Taxa named by William Jackson Hooker)
    Aeschynanthus speciosus, also known as the basket plant, is a species of flowering plant in the family Gesneriaceae. There are many species of Aeschynanthus...
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    Ophiocordyceps robertsii (category Taxa named by William Jackson Hooker)
    Ophiocordyceps robertsii, known in New Zealand as vegetable caterpillar (Māori: āwhato or āwheto) is an entomopathogenic fungus belonging to the order...
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    Chaerophyllum tainturieri (category Taxa named by William Jackson Hooker)
    Chaerophyllum tainturieri, known by the common names hairyfruit chervil and southern chervil, is an annual forb native to the south-eastern United States...
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  • Saracha quitensis (category Taxa named by William Jackson Hooker)
    Saracha quitensis is a species of flowering plant in the family Solanaceae. It is a shrub or tree native to Ecuador, Colombia, and northwestern Venezuela...
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    Araucaria columnaris (category Taxa named by William Jackson Hooker)
    Araucaria columnaris, the coral reef araucaria, Cook pine (or Cook's pine), New Caledonia pine, Cook araucaria, or columnar araucaria, is a species of...
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    Cosmos atrosanguineus (category Taxa named by William Jackson Hooker)
    towards the end of the day. The species was first described in 1861 by William Hooker, as Cosmos diversifolia var. atrosanguineus. Eduard Ortgies later elevated...
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    Delonix regia (category Taxa named by William Jackson Hooker)
    Delonix regia is a species of flowering plant in the bean family Fabaceae, subfamily Caesalpinioideae native to Madagascar. It is noted for its fern-like...
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    Colvillea (category Taxa named by William Jackson Hooker)
    Colvillea is a monotypic genus of legume in the family Fabaceae. Its only species is Colvillea racemosa. The genus is named for Sir Charles Colville, an...
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    Dianella sandwicensis (category Taxa named by William Jackson Hooker)
    Dianella sandwicensis is a species of flax lily native to Hawaii and New Caledonia. In Hawaiian it is called ʻukiʻuki. Neal (1965) reports that historically...
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    Balsamorhiza (category Taxa named by William Jackson Hooker)
    Wyoming, Oregon, Nevada, Colorado, Utah, Arizona Balsamorhiza hookeri - Hooker's balsamroot - Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona Balsamorhiza...
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  • William Hooker may refer to: William Hooker (musician) (born 1946), American jazz drummer and composer William Jackson Hooker (1785–1865), English botanist...
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    Dendrobium fimbriatum (category Taxa named by William Jackson Hooker)
    Dendrobium fimbriatum, commonly known as 流苏石斛 (liu su shi hu), is a species of orchid. It is native to China (Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan), the Himalayas...
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    Spyridium parvifolium (category Taxa named by William Jackson Hooker)
    Spyridium parvifolium, commonly known dusty miller, is a flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae. It has dark green leaves and clusters of small, whitish...
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    Bulbophyllum careyanum (category Taxa named by William Jackson Hooker)
    Bulbophyllum careyanum is a species of orchid in the genus Bulbophyllum. The Bulbophyllum-Checklist The Internet Orchid Species Photo Encyclopedia Media...
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    Geranium cuneatum (category Taxa named by William Jackson Hooker)
    Geranium cuneatum, or silver geranium, is a medium alpine shrub endemic to the islands of Hawai'i and Maui, where it grows in high elevation shrubland...
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    Streptanthus glandulosus (category Taxa named by William Jackson Hooker)
    Streptanthus glandulosus is a species of flowering plant in the mustard family known by the common name bristly jewelflower. It is native to California...
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    Castilleja affinis (category Taxa named by William Jackson Hooker)
    Castilleja affinis is a species of Castilleja known by the common name coast Indian paintbrush. It is native to western North America from Washington to...
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  • Rinodina atrocinerea (category Taxa named by William Jackson Hooker)
    Rinodina atrocinerea is a species of lichen belonging to the family Physciaceae. It is native to Europe and Northern America. "Rinodina atrocinerea (Sm...
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    Pedicularis densiflora (category Taxa named by William Jackson Hooker)
    Pedicularis densiflora, known commonly as Indian warrior or warrior's-plume lousewort, is a plant in the family Orobanchaceae. Indian warrior is native...
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    Dactylina arctica (category Taxa named by William Jackson Hooker)
    Dactylina arctica is a species of fungus within the family Parmeliaceae. Common names for this lichen are finger lichen and Arctic finger lichen. A specific...
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    Scaevola glabra (category Taxa named by William Jackson Hooker)
    Scaevola glabra, the 'ohe naupaka, is a shrub in the family Goodeniaceae. The flowers are yellow. The plant is endemic to Hawaii, and naturally found on...
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    Centromadia pungens (category Taxa named by William Jackson Hooker)
    Centromadia pungens, the common spikeweed or common tarweed, is a species of North American plants in the tribe Madieae within the family Asteraceae. It...
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  • Cyperus cephalanthus (category Taxa named by William Jackson Hooker)
    Cyperus cephalanthus, commonly known as the buttonbush flatsedge, is a species of sedge that is native to southern parts of North America and South America...
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