His son, Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, was responsible for Volumes X-XIX (most of Series III).
The species was first formally described by S.A.Skan in 1903 in Icones Plantarum, from a collection by Emile Clement between the Ashburton and Yule Rivers.
Ferdinand Bernhard Vietz's "Icones Plantarum Medico-Oeconomico-Technologicarum", the first of three volumes published in 1800.