William Faris Blakely

Australian botanist (1875-1941).

William Faris Blakely (November 1875 – 1 September 1941) was an Australian botanist and collector. From 1913 to 1940 he worked in the National Herbarium of New South Wales, working with Joseph Maiden on Eucalyptus. Maiden named a red gum in his honour, Eucalyptus blakelyi. His botanical work centred particularly on Acacias, Loranthaceae and Eucalypts. The standard author abbreviation Blakely is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.

Abbreviations: Blakely
Occupations: explorer, botanist, botanical collector
Citizenships: Australia
Languages: English
Dates: 1875-01-01T00:00:00Z – 1941-09-01T00:00:00Z
Birth place: Tenterfield
Direct attributions: 230 plants, 0 fungi
Authorship mentions: 293 plants, 0 fungi

230 plants attributed, 63 plants contributed to293 plants:

Eucalyptus wandoo (Wandoo) Blakely 1934
vulnerable plant species in the myrtaceae family
Eucalyptus wandoo, commonly known as wandoo, dooto, warrnt or wornt and sometimes as white gum, is a small to medium-sized tree that is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It has smooth bark, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of nine to seventeen, white flowers and conical to cylindrical fruit. It is one of a number of similar Eucalyptus species known as wandoo. E. wandoo was first described in 1934 by the Australian botanist William Faris Blakely in his book A Key to the Eucalypts using material collected by the English collector Augustus Frederick Oldfield from a
Eucalyptus coolabah (Coolabah) Blakely & Jacobs 1934
plant species in the myrtaceae family
Eucalyptus coolabah, commonly known as coolibah or coolabah, is a species of tree found in eastern inland Australia. It has rough bark on part or all of the trunk, smooth powdery cream to pink bark above, lance-shaped to curved adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven and hemispherical or conical fruit.
Eucalyptus triflora (Pigeon House-ash) (Maiden) Blakely 1934
plant species in the myrtaceae family
Eucalyptus triflora, commonly known as Pigeon House ash or three-flowered ash, is a species of small tree that is endemic to a small area of New South Wales. It has smooth bark, lance-shaped or curved adult leaves, flower buds usually in groups of three, white flowers and urn-shaped fruit.
Eucalyptus michaeliana (Hillgrove Gum) Blakely 1938
plant species in the myrtaceae family
Eucalyptus michaeliana, commonly known as Hillgrove gum or brittle gum, is a species of small to medium-sized tree endemic to eastern Australia. It has smooth mottled greyish bark, lance-shaped to curved adult leaves, flower buds in compound umbels, white flowers and cup-shaped or barrel-shaped fruit.
Eucalyptus crenulata (Buxton Gum) Blakely & Beuzev. 1939
critically endangered plant species in the myrtaceae family
Eucalyptus crenulata, commonly known as Buxton gum, silver gum or Victorian silver gum, is a rare species of medium-sized tree that is found only in the wild in a small area in Victoria but is widely planted. It has rough, compacted bark on the trunk, sessile, egg-shaped to heart-shaped leaves arranged in opposite pairs, flower buds covered with a white, powdery bloom, white flowers and cup-shaped fruit.
Eucalyptus nicholii (Narrow-leaved Peppermint) Maiden & Blakely 1929
vulnerable plant species in the myrtaceae family
Eucalyptus nicholii, commonly known as the narrow-leaved black peppermint or willow peppermint, is a species of small to medium-sized tree that is endemic to New South Wales. It has thick, rough, fibrous bark on the trunk and branches, small, narrow adult leaves, flower buds arranged in groups of seven, white flowers and small, hemispherical, bell-shaped or conical fruit.
Eucalyptus kochii (Oil Mallee) Maiden & Blakely 1929
vulnerable plant species in the myrtaceae family
Eucalyptus kochii, commonly known as oil mallee, is a species of mallee, sometimes a tree, and is endemic to Western Australia. It has rough, flaky or fibrous bark on the trunk, smooth grey bark above, linear to narrow lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of nine to fifteen, white flowers and urn-shaped fruit.
Eucalyptus globoidea (White-stringybark) Blakely 1927
plant species in the myrtaceae family
Eucalyptus globoidea, commonly known as the white stringybark, is a tree that is endemic to near-coastal areas of south-eastern Australia. It has rough, stringy bark, often furrowed on the trunk, glossy, lance-shaped to egg-shaped, often curved leaves, oval to spindle-shaped green to yellowish flower buds, white flowers and small, more or less spherical to hemispherical fruit.
Eucalyptus curtisii (Plunkett Mallee) Blakely & C.T.White 1931
plant species in the myrtaceae family
Eucalyptus curtisii, commonly known as Plunkett mallee, is a species of mallee or small tree that is endemic to south-east Queensland in Australia. It has smooth grey to silvery bark, lance-shaped, narrow elliptic or curved adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, white flowers and wrinkled, cup-shaped fruit.
Eucalyptus caliginosa (Broad-leaved Stringybark) Blakely & McKie 1934
plant species in the myrtaceae family
Eucalyptus caliginosa, commonly known as broad-leaved stringybark or New England stringybark, is a tree that is endemic to eastern Australia. It has stringy bark, lance-shaped or curved adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven or nine, white flowers and more or less hemispherical fruit. It is common on the Northern Tablelands and North West Slopes of New South Wales and adjacent areas of Queensland.
Grevillea shiressii Blakely 1925
endangered plant species in the proteaceae family
Grevillea shiressii, also known as Mullet Creek Grevillea is a threatened species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to New South Wales where it is found in only two localities near Gosford. It is a tall, erect shrub with oblong to narrowly lance-shaped leaves with distinctive intramarginal veins and small clusters of green to bluish-grey, later cream-coloured flowers with a brownish-maroon style.
Eucalyptus major (Queensland Grey Gum) (Maiden) Blakely 1934
plant species in the myrtaceae family
Eucalyptus major, commonly known as grey gum, is a species of tree that is endemic to a small area near the New South Wales–Queensland border. It has smooth greyish bark, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven and conical to cup-shaped fruit.
Eucalyptus cephalocarpa (Mealy Stringybark) Blakely 1934
vulnerable plant species in the myrtaceae family
Eucalyptus cephalocarpa, commonly known as mealy stringybark or silver stringybark is a species of small to medium-sized tree, that is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It has rough, fibrous bark on the trunk and branches, lance-shaped adult leaves, Flower buds arranged in groups of seven, white flowers and conical, bell-shaped or hemispherical fruit.
Acacia linearifolia (Stringybark Wattle) A.Cunn. ex Maiden & Blakely 1927
plant species in the fabaceae family
Acacia linearifolia, commonly known as stringybark wattle or narrow-leaved wattle, is a shrub or tree of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Phyllodineae that is endemic to eastern Australia.
Acacia kingiana Maiden & Blakely 1927
plant species in the fabaceae family
Acacia kingiana was a species of wattle that occurred in an area north east of Wagin in the Avon Wheatbelt region of south-west Western Australia. It has been declared extinct under Australia's Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, and Western Australia's Wildlife Conservation Act 1950. The species was described by Joseph Maiden and William Blakely in 1928. They described the species as a bushy shrub 2–3 metres (6 ft 7 in – 9 ft 10 in) tall, with 10-millimetre (0.39 in)-long, 2-millimetre (0.079 in)-wide phyllodes, and yellow flowers. It grew in gravelly soil.
Acacia betchei (Red-tip Wattle) Maiden & Blakely 1927
plant species in the fabaceae family
Acacia betchei, commonly known as red-tip wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a shrub, or sometimes a tree, with narrowly linear phyllodes, pale to bright yellow flowers arranged in spherical heads in racemes, and linear to narrowly oblong, leathery to thinly crust-like pods up to 140 mm (5.5 in) long.
Acacia abrupta Maiden & Blakely 1927
plant species in the fabaceae family
Acacia abrupta is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to arid parts of central and western Australia. It is a spreading, glabrous, resinous shrub with linear phyllodes that are round on cross-section, heads of golden-yellow flowers, and linear pods.
Eucalyptus youmanii (Youman's Stringybark) Blakely & McKie 1930
plant species in the myrtaceae family
Eucalyptus youmanii, commonly known as Youman's stringybark, is a species of small to medium-sized tree that is endemic to eastern Australia. It has rough, stringy bark on the trunk and branches, lance-shaped or curved adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, white flowers and hemispherical fruit.
Eucalyptus rhodantha (Rose Mallee) Blakely & H.Steedman 1938
endangered plant species in the myrtaceae family
Eucalyptus rhodantha, commonly known as rose mallee or rose gum, is a species of straggly mallee or shrub native to parts of Western Australia. It has smooth bark and a crown composed entirely of circular to heart-shaped juvenile leaves arranged in opposite pairs and attached directly to the stems with no stalks. The flower buds appear singly in the leaf axils and are red, the fruits hemispherical to conical and pendent. The rose mallee is grown as an ornamental shrub suitable for gardens in hot and dry climates. It is found more often in urban gardens and cultivation than in the wild and is
Eucalyptus platycorys (Boorabbin Mallee) Maiden & Blakely 1929
plant species in the myrtaceae family
Eucalyptus platycorys, commonly known as Boorabbin mallee, is a species of mallee, rarely a small tree, that is endemic to Western Australia. It has rough, dark grey, fibrous and flaky bark on the trunk, smooth greyish bark above, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds usually in group of three, creamy white flowers and cup-shaped to cylindrical fruit.
Eucalyptus pileata (Capped Mallee) Blakely 1934
vulnerable plant species in the myrtaceae family
Eucalyptus pileata, commonly known as the capped mallee, is a species of mallee that is native to South Australia and Western Australia. It has smooth greyish bark, narrow lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, white flowers and cup-shaped, conical or barrel-shaped fruit.
Eucalyptus multicaulis (Whipstick Mallee Ash) Blakely 1927
plant species in the myrtaceae family
Eucalyptus multicaulis, commonly known as the whipstick mallee ash, is a species of mallee that is endemic to New South Wales. It has smooth bark, lance-shaped or curved adult leaves, oval to club-shaped flower buds in groups of between seven and fifteen, white flowers and conical fruit.
Eucalyptus glaucescens (Tingaringy Gum) Maiden & Blakely 1929
plant species in the myrtaceae family
Eucalyptus glaucescens, commonly known as the Tingiringi gum or Tingaringy gum, is a plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a tree or mallee with smooth bark and dull greyish foliage growing in the higher parts of southern New South Wales and Victoria.
Eucalyptus froggattii (Kamarooka Mallee) Blakely 1934
endangered plant species in the myrtaceae family
Eucalyptus froggattii, commonly known as the Kamarooka mallee, is a species of mallee or small tree that is endemic to Victoria. It has rough, crumbly, blackish bark on the trunk, smooth grey to brown bark above, lance-shaped adult leaves, four-sided flower buds in groups of between seven and eleven, white or cream-coloured flowers and four-sided, cup-shaped to pear-shaped fruit.
Eucalyptus conglomerata (Swamp Stringybark) Maiden & Blakely 1929
endangered plant species in the myrtaceae family
Eucalyptus conglomerata, commonly known as the swamp stringybark, is a species of straggly tree or mallee that is endemic to Queensland. It has rough, fibrous "stringybark" lance-shaped to oblong adult leaves, flower buds in groups of eleven or more, white flowers and more or less barrel-shaped fruit.
Eucalyptus argophloia (Queensland Western White Gum) Blakely 1934
endangered plant species in the myrtaceae family
Eucalyptus argophloia, commonly known as Queensland western white gum, Queensland white gum, scrub gum, lapunyah, Burncluith gum or Chinchilla white gum is a tree that is endemic to a small area of Queensland. It has smooth white bark ageing to other colours, narrow lance-shaped adult leaves, more or less spherical flower buds in groups of seven, white flowers and small, hemispherical to cup-shaped fruit.
Eucalyptus albida (White-leaved Mallee) Maiden & Blakely 1925
vulnerable plant species in the myrtaceae family
Eucalyptus albida, commonly known as the white-leaved mallee, is a mallee that is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It has smooth white or greyish brown bark, lance shaped adult leaves, and flowers in groups of between seven and eleven. The flowers are creamy white and the fruit are hemispherical to cone-shaped. The juvenile leaves that are often retained on mature plants are arranged in opposite pairs, egg-shaped to heart-shaped and bluish grey.
Acacia semirigida (Stony Ridge Wattle) Maiden & Blakely 1927
plant species in the fabaceae family
Acacia semirigida, also known as stony ridge wattle, is a shrub or tree belonging to the genus Acacia and the subgenus Phyllodineae native to north eastern Australia.
Acacia semilunata Maiden & Blakely 1927
plant species in the fabaceae family
Acacia semilunata is a shrub or tree belonging to the genus Acacia and the subgenus Phyllodineae native to north eastern Australia.
Acacia pachyacra Maiden & Blakely 1927
plant species in the fabaceae family
Acacia pachyacra is a tree or shrub belonging to the genus Acacia and the subgenus Phyllodineae. that is endemic to arid parts of central and western Australia.
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