Guichenotia is a genus

Genus

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 of about 16 species flowering plant

Flowering plant

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s which are endemic to the south west of Western Australia

Western Australia

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The genus name honours Antoine Guichenot

Antoine Guichenot

Antoine Guichenot or Guichenault was "gardener's boy" on the 1801—1803 French scientific voyage to Australia under Nicolas Baudin, and the 1817 voyage under Louis de Freycinet...

, gardener's boy on the 1801–1803 French scientific voyage to Australia under Nicolas Baudin

Nicolas Baudin

Nicolas-Thomas Baudin was a French explorer, cartographer, naturalist and hydrographer.Baudin was born a commoner in Saint-Martin-de-Ré on the Île de Ré. At the age of fifteen he joined the merchant navy, and at twenty joined the French East India Company...

. Guichenot was poorly educated, with poor literacy skills and little knowledge of plants, yet worked extremely hard, collecting more plant specimens than the officially appointed botanist, Jean Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour

Jean Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour

Jean Baptiste Louis Claude Theodore Leschenault de la Tour was a French botanist and ornithologist.Leschenault de la Tour was chief botanist on Nicolas Baudin's expedition to Australia between 1800 and 1803...

, and, despite his poor literacy, labelling them with much more useful annotations.

Species include:

• Guichenotia alba Keighery
• Guichenotia angustifolia (Turcz.) Druce
• Guichenotia apetala A.S.George
• Guichenotia asteriskos C.F.Wilkins
• Guichenotia astropletha C.F.Wilkins
• Guichenotia basivirida C.F.Wilkins
• Guichenotia glandulosa C.F.Wilkins
• Guichenotia impudica C.F.Wilkins
• Guichenotia intermedia C.F.Wilkins
• Guichenotia ledifolia J.Gay
• Guichenotia macrantha Turcz. - Large-flowered Guichenotia
• Guichenotia micrantha (Steetz) Benth. - Small-flowered Guichenotia
• Guichenotia quasicalva C.F.Wilkins
• Guichenotia sarotes Benth.
• Guichenotia seorsiflora C.F.Wilkins
• Guichenotia tuberculata C.F.Wilkins