 Scottish naturalist Robert Brown had written of the genus "Isopogon" but Salisbury and Knight had hurried out their work before Brown's.Brown's description appeared in his paper "On the natural order of plants called Proteaceae", subsequently published as "On the Proteaceae of Jussieu" in the "Transactions of the Linnean Society" in 1810.In 1891, German botanist Otto Kuntze published "Revisio generum plantarum", his response to what he perceived as a lack of method in existing nomenclatural practice.