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Physical location:

58.00.00a

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Heinrich Schott, 1858 [58.00.00a]. 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/58-00-00a>, accessed September 11, 2025

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Letter not found. The text given here is from Schott (1859), p. 103. It follows a discussion of M's account of the species and his doubts about its true affinities in the published version of M to W. Hooker, 18 June 1856 (B56.11.01), and precedes the description of
Typhonium

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liliifolium. For a discussion of the correct citation of the name, see T. Muir & Sinkora (1976). The item is dated to 1858 as the latest likely date M sent the letter, with a specimen. However, it is possible that it was sent from Sydney in the first half of 1857 as M was working up the North Australian Exploring Expedition collections; or, less likely, that it was sent from the Victoria River in June 1856, when other mail from the expedition was despatched.
[Allein nach der vom Autor brieflich mitgeteilten, an Ort und Stelle entworfenen Beschreibung, die wir hier nun folgen lassen, reiht sich dasselbe den echten Typhonien (nicht Heterostaliden) vollkommen an.]
[However, according to the description that we now follow here, drafted at the place
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of discovery, i.e. at the Victoria River, NT.
by the author and communicated in a letter, it belongs perfectly to the true Tymphoniums, not Heterostaliises.]