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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X, list of scientific terms with Scottish connections).
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BAIKIAEA. Bot. A genus of acanthaceous plants of the Zambezi area (1865 G. Bentham in Trans. Linnaean Soc. XXV. 314). Also as a specific name baikei in Stephanophysum baikei (1858 W. J. Hooker in Bot. Mag. LXXXV. 5111).
[From William B. Baikie (1825–64), of Kirkwall, surgeon-naturalist on the Niger.]
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