Knightia

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Ordo: Proteales

Familia: Proteaceae
Subfamilia: Grevilleoideae
Tribus: Roupaleae
Genus: Knightia
Species: K. excelsa

Paleospecies: †K. oblonga
Name

Knightia R.Br. Trans. Linn. Soc. London 10: 193. (1810) nom. cons.
Note: This genus was not allocated to a subtribe by Weston & Barker (2006) and was designated by them as Roupaleae incertae sedis.
References

Brown, R. (1810) Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 10: 193. BHL
Brongniart, Ad.; Gris, A. 1865: Description des Protéacées de la Nouvelle-Calédonie appartenant aux Genres Grevillea, Stenocarpus, Cenarrhenes et Knightia. Bulletin de la Société botanique de France, 12(1): 37–46. DOI: 10.1080/00378941.1865.10827396 BHL Reference page.
Johnson, L.A.S. & Briggs, B.G. 1975. On the Proteaceae—the evolution and classification of a southern family. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 70(2): 83–182. DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.1975.tb01644.x Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2015. Knightia (Plantae). Published online. Accessed: Mar. 5 2015.
Tropicos.org 2015. Knightia (Plantae). Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2015 Mar. 5.
Weston, P.H. & Barker, N.P. 2006. A new suprageneric classification of the Proteaceae, with an annotated checklist of genera. Telopea 11(3): 314–344. Full article (PDF) Reference page.

Knightia is a small genus of the family Proteaceae endemic to New Zealand, and named in honor of Thomas Andrew Knight.[5] One extant species, K. excelsa (Rewarewa) is found in New Zealand, while a fossil species from upper Miocene deposits in Kaikorai has been described as Knightia oblonga.[6] Two species from New Caledonia, described in the genus Knightia have been placed in the genus Eucarpha by Lawrie Johnson and Barbara Briggs in their influential 1975 monograph "On the Proteaceae: the evolution and classification of a southern family".,[7] although the nomenclatural combinations have never been published as of today.
References

"Knightia". Index Nominum Genericorum. International Association for Plant Taxonomy. 1996-02-09. Retrieved 2008-06-28.
UniProt. "Genus Knightia". Retrieved 2008-06-28.
"Knightia". International Plant Names Index (IPNI). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2008-06-28.
Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) (2007-10-05). "Genus: Knightia R. Br". Taxonomy for Plants. USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program, National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Archived from the original on 2011-06-05. Retrieved 2008-06-28.
Smith, Val, 1934- (2015). Common ground : who's who in New Zealand botanical names. New Plymouth. p. 45. ISBN 978-0-473-30847-6. OCLC 918895346.
"Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand". March 1982.
L. A. S. Johnson and Briggs, B. G. (1975). "On the Proteaceae: the evolution and classification of a southern family". Journal of the Linnean Society of London. Botany. 70 (2): 83–182. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1975.tb01644.x.