William Robert Barker

Where Barker collected

Specimens by decade

Earliest: Westringia rigida, 1971 (South Australia. Ca. 1.5 km. north of Yumali, ca. 11 km. south of Coomandook on the Dukes highway (which connects Tailum Bond and Keith).). Latest: Nepenthes maxima, 1998.

Named for Barker

Taxa in the collection whose epithet is formed from the name Barker. The naming author’s intent is not recorded, so where several collectors share a surname they are listed under the best-known one.

• Macaranga barkeriana Euphorbiaceae2
• Neoseiulus barkeri Phytoseiidae1
• Notylia barkeri Orchidaceae1
• Veronica barkeri Plantaginaceae1

From the field

As a determiner

14 specimens carry this name as the person who identified them. Most often:

• Turpinia pentandra7
• Eurya brassii2
• Daphniphyllum papuanum2
• Eurya reflexa1
• Eurya albiflora1
• Daphniphyllum gracile1