Editing Anigozanthos (section)

==Taxonomy==
The genus was first named by [[Jacques Labillardière]], a French botanist, in his work, ''[[Relation du Voyage à la Recherche de la Pérouse]]'', issued in 1800;<ref>{{APNI|name=''Anigozanthos'' Labill.|id= 38208}}</ref> he collected and described the [[type species]], ''[[Anigozanthos rufus]]'', during the [[d'Entrecasteaux]] expedition's visit to [[Southwest Australia]] in 1792.<ref name="ASBS">{{cite news|url=http://www.anbg.gov.au/asbs/newsletter/newsletter-pdf/03-june-115.pdf |title=Labillardière, French naturalist extraordinaire |last=Barker |first=Robyn |date=June 2003 |work=Australian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter |publisher=ASBS |pages=19 |access-date=13 February 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081209125945/http://www.anbg.gov.au/asbs/newsletter/newsletter-pdf/03-june-115.pdf |archive-date=9 December 2008 }}</ref> However, he does not provide a meaning for this name in his description. [[Charles Gardner (botanist)|C.A. Gardener]] derived it from the Greek words {{lang|el|ἄνισος}} ''ánisos'' "unequal"<ref name="anisos">{{cite web|url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0057:entry=a)/nisos |title=ἄνισος |last1=Liddell |first1=Henry George |last2=Scott |first2=Robert |work=A Greek-English Lexicon |publisher=Perseus Digital Library |date= 1940 }}</ref> and {{lang|el|ἄνθος}} ''ánthos'' "flower"<ref name="anthos">{{cite web|url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0057:entry=a)%2Fnqos1 |title=ἄνθος |last1=Liddell |first1=Henry George |last2=Scott |first2=Robert |work=A Greek-English Lexicon |publisher=Perseus Digital Library |date= 1940 }}</ref> according to La Billardiere's description of its collective [[petal]]s as 'irregular' and 'in the form of a tube divided at its extremities into six unequal parts', he assumed the "g" was inserted for [[euphony]].<ref name="Florabase"/>

The common name 'kangaroo paw' was initially given to ''[[Anigozanthos manglesii]]'' and came to be used for other species of ''Anigozanthos'' as they became known. The origin of the name 'catspaw' is uncertain, but presumed to distinguish the compact size of the plant and flowers from others of the genus. Kangaroo paws refers to a grouping of species resembling ''A. manglesii'', with elongated red and green (or green) flowers and greater overall size.<ref name="Hopper1993">{{cite book |last1=Hopper |first1=Stephen |last2=Wells |first2=B. & B. (photography) |last3=Pieroni |first3=M. (illustration) |title=Kangaroo paws and catspaws; a natural history and field guide |date=1993 |publisher=CALM |location=Perth}}</ref>