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1124:Taxa named by Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773)
444:assigned the Saldanha pincushion to the genus
428:The Saldanha pincushion was first observed by
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685:"Fragrant and aromatic plant list"
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1119:Taxa named by Carl Peter Thunberg
525:Distribution, habitat and ecology
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758:"On the Proteaceae of Jussieu"
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492:without a proper description
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825:. In Jules Janick (ed.).
804:"Identifying Pincushions"
508:has been assigned to the
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190:Leucospermum tomentosum
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458:. When he erected the
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851:"Saldanha pincushion"
489:Leucospermum ecklonii
485:Heinrich Wilhelm Buek
362:are sweetly scented.
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232:Leucospermum ecklonii
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553:and large clumps of
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576:by alien
550:Passerina
544:Metalasia
467:in 1810,
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407:L. parile
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283:Side view
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332:4-merous
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