''Triumfetta clementii'' is a shrub species that occurs in the north-west of
Western Australia
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. It has an erect, spreading habit, growing to between 0.15 and 0.6 metres high. Yellow flowers appear between May and October in the species' native range.
The taxon was first formally described by Czech botanist
Karel Domin
Karel Domin (4 May 1882, Kutná Hora, Kingdom of Bohemia – 10 June 1953, Prague) was a Czech botanist and politician.
After gymnasium school studies in Příbram, he studied botany at the Charles University in Prague, and graduated in 190 ...
in 1930 in ''
Bibliotheca Botanica
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'', based on a collection by
Emile Clement
Emile Louis Bruno Clement (1844–1928) was a prominent collector of ethnographic artefacts and natural history specimens from northwest Australia at the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Biography
Emile Clement was born in ...
between the
Ashburton and
De Grey Rivers. Domin gave it the name ''Triumfetta bartramia'' var. ''clementii''. It was promoted to species status in 1997.
The
World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
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has not established ''Triumfetta clementii'' as an accepted name.
References
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Grewioideae
Eudicots of Western Australia
Taxa named by Barbara Lynette Rye