Taxonavigation

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.