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606:in the last hundred years. This is the result of
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462:as described by Robert Brown in 1810.
415:in 1810 described another specimen as
793:Leucospermum: Botany and Horticulture
499:in 1967 and made the new combination
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1189:Endemic flora of the Cape Provinces
642:IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
466:R.Br. itself is a later synonym of
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732:"Fragrant and aromatic plant list"
718:De digitale flora van Zuid- Afrika
448:Encyclopédie méthodique: Botanique
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530:Distribution, habitat and ecology
1184:IUCN Red List vulnerable species
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1016:urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:705025-1
387:Differences with related species
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752:Ernesto Theoph Stendel (1841).
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598:that supplant the original
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432:Leucadendron heterophyllum
381:Leucospermum heterophyllum
274:Leucospermum heterophyllum
223:Leucadendron heterophyllum
190:Leucospermum heterophyllum
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791:. In Jules Janick (ed.).
770:"Identifying Pincushions"
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468:Erodendrum holosericeum
436:Jean Louis Marie Poiret
444:Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
172:L. heterophyllum
817:"Trident Pincushion"
774:Protea Atlas Project
456:Leucospermum patulum
417:Leucospermum patulum
228:Leucospermum patulum
1067:Protea heterophylla
701:. pp. 192–196.
493:John Patrick Rourke
483:by Rourke. In 1900
409:Protea heterophylla
405:Carl Peter Thunberg
277:is a low, trailing
219:Protea heterophylla
42:Conservation status
596:introduced species
592:endangered species
545:in the northeast,
290:trident pincushion
256:Protea holosericea
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450:of 1816, a
421:Otto Kuntze
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308:Description
115:Angiosperms
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286:Proteaceae
148:Proteaceae
57:Vulnerable
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298:Afrikaans
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240:auct. non
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872:Q5974025
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399:Taxonomy
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349:4-merous
282:shrublet
210:Synonyms
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