Ship botanist Jacques Labillardière was in favour of naming the bay after Le Grand, and indeed he refers to the bay on his specimen slips as "Baie Le Grand", but in the end d'Entrecasteaux decided to name the bay after one of his ships, the Espérance.
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This species was first collected by Jacques Labillardière in the vicinity of Esperance Bay between 15 and 17 December 1792, during a search for the naturalist Claude Riche, who had become lost on the Australian mainland.
He maintained correspondence with other horticulturists and naturalists including Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, Edme-Louis Daubenton, André Thouin, Jacques Labillardière and others, sending briefs to the Royal Agricultural Society of the Généralité de Paris, which awarded him in 1788 with a gold medal.
In addition he was accorded a brief examination of the specimens collected by Jacques Labillardière at Esperance Bay, on the southwest coast of Australia, where Brown had not collected.