The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Malvern ¶ 5/9/82 ¶ ¶ I am again obliged to trespass on your time Dear Baron to give me "Species" of the enclosed Pterostylis as I do not know it. I had taken it in Maryboro' ¶ but it never bloomed w...

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Physical location:

RB MSS M49, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 82.09.05

Plant names

Pterostylis reflexa
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Preferred Citation:

John McKibbin to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1882-09-05. 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/1880-9/1882/82-09-05-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

Ms found with a specimen of Pterostylis nana (MEL 1560849). MS annotation by M: 'Answ 6/9/82 F.v.M.' Letter not found.

Malvern

Melbourne suburb.

5/9/82

I am again obliged to trespass on your time Dear Baron to give me "Species" of the enclosed Pterostylis as I do not know it. I had taken it in Maryboro'

Maryborough, Vic.

but it never bloomed with me before — I also took it since I came here but it is very scarce

I have taken about a dozen species since I arrived back but they are all well known except one that I have taken but as the flower was dead I do not know it (a Pterostylis) it is larger in flower even than Pt. reflexa — without the threadlike points of lower 2 sepals

I am Dear Baron

yours obediently

John N McKibbin

To Baron von Mueller KCMG. &c &c