William Vincent Fitzgerald

Australian botanist (1867-1929).

William Vincent Fitzgerald, (21 July 1867 – 6 August 1929) was an Australian botanist. He described five genera and about 210 species of plants from Western Australia, including 33 Acacia and several Eucalyptus species. He also collected for other botanists such as Ferdinand von Mueller and Joseph Maiden, and was known through his work on orchids. Eucalyptus fitzgeraldii was named for him by William Blakely. Fitzgerald was born on the goldfields in north-eastern Tasmania and at the age of 16 was training for a career in mining, but by the time he was in his early 20s he was corresponding with,

Abbreviations: W.Fitzg.
Occupations: botanist, botanical collector
Citizenships: Australia
Dates: 1867-07-21T00:00:00Z – 1929-08-06T00:00:00Z
Birth place: Mangana
Direct attributions: 100 plants, 0 fungi
Authorship mentions: 149 plants, 0 fungi

100 plants attributed, 49 plants contributed to149 plants:

Eucalyptus accedens (Powderbark Wandoo) W.Fitzg. 1904
plant species in the myrtaceae family
Eucalyptus accedens, commonly known as smooth bark wandoo or powderbark wandoo is a species of tree endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. Although the common names suggest it is similar to wandoo, (Eucalyptus wandoo), the two species are very different botanically. The bark of E. accedens has talc-like powder, at least on the protected side of the trunk and the tree usually grows on laterite in higher places.
Hensmania W.Fitzg. 1903
plant genus in the asphodelaceae family
Hensmania is a genus of herbs in the family Asphodelaceae, first described as a genus in 1903 by William Vincent Fitzgerald. The entire genus is endemic to the state of Western Australia. Species in this genus are tufted herbs where the major photosynthesis occurs in the stems.
Grevillea miniata W.Fitzg. 1918
plant species in the proteaceae family
Grevillea miniata, commonly known as sandstone grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to north-western Australia. It is a spreading to erect shrub or small tree with more or less oblong leaves and bright yellow to orange and bright red flowers with a yellow style.
Cycas furfuracea W.Fitzg. 1918
plant species in the cycadaceae family
Cycas furfuracea is a species of cycad, endemic to northeastern Western Australia.
Acacia ramulosa (Narrow-leaf Mulga) W.Fitzg. 1904
plant species in the fabaceae family
Acacia ramulosa, commonly known as horse mulga or bowgada wattle, is a shrub belonging to the genus Acacia and the subgenus Juliflorae endemic to arid areas of Australia.
Hopkinsia W.Fitzg. 1904
plant genus in the restionaceae family
Hopkinsia is a genus of plants in the family Restionaceae, first described as a genus in 1904. The entire group is endemic to southwestern Australia. Two species are accepted. Hopkinsia adscendens B.G.Briggs & L.A.S.Johnson Hopkinsia anoectocolea (F.Muell.) D.F.Cutler
Eucalyptus argillacea (Northern Grey-box) W.Fitzg. 1918
plant species in the myrtaceae family
Eucalyptus argillacea, commonly known as Mount House box, or northern grey box is a tree that is endemic to northern Australia. It has rough, fibrous bark, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds usually in groups of seven, creamy white flowers and conical fruit.
Acacia neurophylla W.Fitzg. 1904
plant species in the fabaceae family
Acacia neurophylla, also known as wodjil, or broad-leaf wodjil, is a shrub or tree belonging to the genus Acacia and the subgenus Juliflorae that is endemic to south-western Australia.
Micromyrtus sulphurea W.Fitzg. 1904
plant species in the myrtaceae family
Micromyrtus sulphurea is a species of flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae and is endemic to the inland of Western Australia. It is a commonly stunted or widely spreading shrub with narrowly oblong leaves pressed against the stem, and yellow flowers with 10 stamens.
Melaleuca argentea (Silver Cajeput) W.Fitzg. 1918
plant species in the myrtaceae family
Melaleuca argentea, commonly known as the silver cadjeput, silver-leaved paperbark, silver cajuput, or mardderr in the Kunwinjku language, is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to northern Australia. It is a common tree along river banks or around swamps in the tropics. It has papery bark and weeping foliage and has been the subject of important scientific research.
Acacia xerophila W.Fitzg. 1904
plant species in the fabaceae family
Acacia xerophila is a shrub of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Phyllodineae. It is native to an area in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia.
Acacia sericocarpa W.Fitzg. 1904
plant species in the fabaceae family
Acacia sericocarpa is a shrub of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Phyllodineae that is endemic to south western Australia.
Acacia resinistipulea W.Fitzg. 1904
plant species in the fabaceae family
Acacia resinistipulea is a shrub or tree of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Plurinerves that is endemic to an area of south western Australia.
Acacia resinimarginea W.Fitzg. 1904
plant species in the fabaceae family
Acacia resinimarginea, also known as old-man wodjil, is a tree or shrub belonging to the genus Acacia and the subgenus Juliflorae that is endemic to western Australia.
Acacia kimberleyensis W.Fitzg. 1917
plant species in the fabaceae family
Acacia kimberleyensis is a shrub belonging to the genus Acacia and the subgenus Juliflorae that is endemic to parts of north western Australia. The erect, viscid shrub typically grows to a height of 1.5 metres (5 ft). It has glabrous and slender branchlets that are finely ribbed and resinous when young. The flat green phyllodes have a narrowly linear shape with a length of 8 to 16 cm (3.1 to 6.3 in) and a width of 0.8 to 1.8 mm (0.031 to 0.071 in). It blooms from June to July producing yellow flowers. The simple inflorescences are mostly found as pairs in the axils, the narrow flower-spikes
Acacia exocarpoides W.Fitzg. 1904
plant species in the fabaceae family
Acacia exocarpoides is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is a broom-like, glabrous shrub with erect, spiny branchlets, few, inconspicuous phyllodes, spherical heads of golden yellow flowers and thinly leathery pods somewhat like a string of beads.
Acacia eremophila W.Fitzg. 1912
plant species in the fabaceae family
Acacia eremophila is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the southern inland of Western Australia. It is a dense, rounded or inverted cone-shaped shrub with hairy branchlets, straight, terete, rigid phyllodes, spherical heads of light, golden yellow flowers, and linear, thinly crust-like pods raised over and more or less constricted between the seeds.
Acacia duriuscula W.Fitzg. 1904
plant species in the fabaceae family
Acacia duriuscula is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub or tree with glabrous branchlets, leathery, linear phyllodes, spherical heads of golden yellow flowers, and linear, firmly papery pods slightly curved and slightly raised over the seeds.
Acacia drewiana W.Fitzg. 1917
plant species in the fabaceae family
Acacia drewiana is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a subshrub with hairy branchlets, bipinnate leaves, spherical heads of golden yellow flowers and leathery, narrowly oblong, crusty pods.
Acacia comans W.Fitzg. 1904
plant species in the fabaceae family
Acacia comans is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to an area along the west coast Western Australia. It is a spreading shrub with hairy branchlets, sessile, widely elliptic to oblong phyllodes, usually spherical heads of yellow flowers, and linear leathery pods.
Acacia andrewsii W.Fitzg. 1904
plant species in the fabaceae family
Acacia andrewsii is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an intricately branched shrub with narrowly oblong to lance-shaped, sometimes linear phyllodes, spherical heads of 20 to 30 golden-yellow flowers, and leathery pods up to 65 mm (2.6 in) long.
Acacia acutata W.Fitzg. 1904
plant species in the fabaceae family
Acacia acutata is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an inticately branched, often compact shrub with spiny branchlets, sharply pointed, triangular to trowel-shaped phyllodes, flowers arranged in spherical heads of 11 to 15 flowers, and firmly papery pods, rounded over the seeds.
Acacia acuaria W.Fitzg. 1904
plant species in the fabaceae family
Acacia acuaria is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-western of Western Australia. It is a rounded or diffuse to spreading, prickly shrub with sharply pointed, rigid, needle-shaped phyllodes, flowers arranged in more or less spherical heads of 14 to 23 flowers, and strongly curved or openly coiled pods up to 50 mm (2.0 in) long.
Terminalia hadleyana W.Fitzg. 1918
plant species in the combretaceae family
Terminalia hadleyana is a tree of the family Combretaceae native to northern Australia. The tree or shrub typically grows to a height of 2 to 10 metres (7 to 33 ft) but can reach up to 15 metres (49 ft) and is deciduous. It blooms between October and December producing cream-yellow flowers.
Hensmania turbinata (Endl.) W.Fitzg. 1903
plant species in the asphodelaceae family
Hensmania turbinata is a species of herb in the family Asphodelaceae, first described in by Stephan Endlicher as Xerotes turbinata, and transferred to the genus, Hensmania, in 1903 by William Vincent Fitzgerald. This is a tufted herb where the major photosynthesis occurs in the stems. It flowers from November to January and fruits from December to February. It is found between Serpentine and Cataby, in south-western Western Australia, growing on deep sandy soil in banksia woodland.
Grevillea erythroclada (Needle-leaf Grevillea) W.Fitzg. 1918
plant species in the proteaceae family
Grevillea erythroclada, commonly called needle-leaf grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to northern Australia. It is a shrub or small tree with divided leaves, the ultimate lobes linear to more or less cylindrical, and clusters of cream-coloured to pale yellow flowers.
Darwinia acerosa W.Fitzg. 1904
plant species in the myrtaceae family
Darwinia acerosa, commonly known as the fine-leaved darwinia, is a plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is endemic to a small area in south-west of Western Australia. It is a densely branched, heath-like shrub with crowded, finely pointed leaves and drooping heads of forty to fifty yellowish-green flowers.
Acacia tratmaniana W.Fitzg. 1904
plant species in the fabaceae family
Acacia tratmaniana is a shrub belonging to the genus Acacia and the subgenus Juliflorae that is endemic to south western Australia.
Acacia ridleyana W.Fitzg. 1904
plant species in the fabaceae family
Acacia ridleyana is a shrub of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Plurinerves that is endemic to an area of western Australia.
Acacia mooreana W.Fitzg. 1904
plant species in the fabaceae family
Acacia mooreana is a shrub belonging to the genus Acacia and the subgenus Phyllodineae that is endemic to south western Australia.
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