The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: ¶ The Callipteris in nature must be a beautiful plant I have it not in the collection of the conservatory. ¶ ¶ What I have here as a solitary striped plant is the N. Zealand Cordyline australis, but...

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RB MSS 439c, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 70.09.00d

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Callipteris
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Charlwoodia stricta
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Cordyline australis
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Polypodium Wallichii
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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to William Guilfoyle, 1870-09 [70.09.00d]. 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//letters/1870-9/1870/70-09-00d-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

Fragment dated to early September 1870 on the basis of M to W. Guilfoyle, 15 September 1870, in which M's responds to a request from Guilfoyle for a specimen of 'the striped Cordyline' that had evidently been prompterd by the present letter.

The in nature must be a beautiful plant I have it not in the collection of the conservatory.

What I have here as a solitary striped plant is the N. Zealand , but not Cordyline (Charlwoodia) stricta, which is the slender plant so common on the Clarence River

NSW.

&c. As yet the plant, which is small, has made no offshoot, otherwise you should gladly have it

With kind regards to your father & yourself, your obliged

Ferd. von Mueller

has the margines of the lobes not toothed.