Document information

Physical location:

GRG 19/391, State Records of South Australia, Adelaide. 85.09.00f

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Maurice Holtze, 1885-09 [85.09.00f]. R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora, J.H. Voigt and Monika Wells (eds), Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, <https://vmcp.rbg.vic.gov.au/id/85-09-00f>, accessed September 11, 2025

1
Undated fragment.
Herrn Moritz Holtze.
537.
Poranthera microphylla

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, (Brogniart).
2
i.e. Brongniart. In a letter to Holtze, 16 September 1885 (in this edition a 85-09-16a), M identifies what was presumably a different specimen carrying this number as ‘Candollea (Stylidium)’.
457.
Hibbertia dealbata

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, Benth.
525
Hibbertia Holtzei

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, F v M.
3
M described this species for the November 1885 issue of Southern science record, which never appeared (see notes to B85.11.02), but the description was republished as if from that source in a German journal in December (B85.12.05). The characteristics of the fruit with seed were included in the description, although not present as part of Holtze's specimen 525 (MEL 1553908). The plant was asserted to be 'twining'. Fruit and seeds are with a sheet bearing Holtze's label 'Hibbertia holtzei' (MEL 1553909), so the list must have been sent early enough for Holtze to supply fruit before M completed the description. Thus the latest likely date the list could have been written is early September 1885 and it is dated accordingly. M gave the collector and locality as M. Holtze, near Port Darwin.
4
This paragraph has the marginal annotation Neu!, in what is probably M’s hand.
Mehr Exemplare erwünscht, auch Auskunft, ob dies eine wirkliche Schlingpflanze ist, wie hoch sie wächst. Gute Frucht Ex mit Samen erwünscht. Ist es eine Uferpflanze oder Scrub-Pflanze? Wo diese Hibbertia wuchs mag sich noch manche andere neue Pflanze finden.
Bestens grüssend
Ferd von Mueller.
More specimens wanted, also information whether this is a true climber, and how high it grows. Good fruiting specimens with seed wanted. Does it grow along water or is it a scrub plant? Where this Hibbertia grew, many other new plants might be found.
Best greetings
Ferd von Mueller