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    "A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony", also known by its standard botanical abbreviation Sketch Veg. Swan R., is an 1839 article by John...
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    Diuris filifolia (category Endemic orchids of Australia)
    Lindley and the description was published in A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony as an appendix to Edwards's Botanical Register. The specific...
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    John Lindley (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the Encyclopedia Americana with a Wikisource reference)
    Molloy of the Swan River Colony in Western Australia. According to John Ryan, Lindley's 1840 ‘Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony’ provided...
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    in 1840 in A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony. The common name (hammer orchid) refers to the shape of the labellum and the way it moves...
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  • Perth is the capital city of Western Australia. It was established by Britain as the Swan River Colony in 1829. The area had been explored by Europeans...
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    Calytrix acutifolia (category Flora of Western Australia)
    in his A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony. In 1987, Lyndley Craven transferred the species to Calytrix as C. acutifolia in the journal...
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    Banksia prionotes (category Eudicots of Western Australia)
    the type material upon which he based the species, but A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony is based primarily upon the collections of...
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    Anigozanthos humilis (category Commelinales of Australia)
    common catspaw. The species was first described by John Lindley in the 1840 work A sketch of the vegetation of the Swan River Colony. Three subspecies...
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    Verticordia nitens (category Rosids of Western Australia)
    the change to Verticordia, recording in his 1840 book, A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony - "by Dr. Endlicher it is reduced to the genus...
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    Caladenia filifera (category Orchids of Western Australia)
    1840 and the description was published in A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony. The specific epithet (filifera) is derived from the Latin...
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