Document information

Physical location:

RB MSS M39, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 86.10.03a

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Otto Tepper to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1886-10-03 [86.10.03a]. 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/1880-9/1886/86-10-03a-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

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MS found with a specimen of
Caladenia cardiochila

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(MEL 712457), collected by Tepper, Cemetery, Golden Grove, 14 miles N.E. of Adelaide, 2 October 1886. MS witten on a sheet that evidently had a printed letter-head, all of which has been cut off except the address and date line. The tails of some letters in the letterhead remain, and the printed address 'Wallaroo' has been deleted and replaced by the handwritten address given here.
Somerset Place, Norwood, 3 Oct 1886.
Hochgeehrter Hr. Baron!
Beifolgend bitte Ihnen zwei Spezimen einer Caladenia zu senden, die ich gestern bei einem Ausfluge der Field Naturalists, bei Golden Grove so glücklich war zu finden. Fast alle Mitglieder fanden später auch solche. Prof. Tate u. [ich] glauben, dieselbe sei neu, und proponirt den Namen. C. cardiochila, auch beabsichtigt ersterer dieselbe zu beschreiben; ich habe Ansichten davon gezeichnet.
Auch lege ich paar Spezimen einer weissblühenden bei, die wir bei Belair im Grase dicht bei Wasser fanden.
An ersterer
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ersterem.
Ort kommen bisweilen zwei Blumen vor u. wächst sie einzeln unter Sheaoaks. Auf selben Platze fanden wir auch
Lyperanthus nigricans

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u. etwa ein Dutzend andere Arten Orchideen.
Mit herzlichem Grusse
Ergebenst
der Ihrige
J G. O. Tepper
Somerset Place, Norwood,
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Adelaide.
3 October 1886.
Highly esteemed Baron!
Herewith I am sending you two specimens of a Caladenia that I was lucky to find near Golden Grove on an excursion of the Field Naturalists
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The field naturalists' group of the Royal Society of South Australia.
yesterday. Nearly all members later also found some. Professor Tate and [I] believe that it is new, and he proposes to name it C. cardiochila. He also intends to describe it; I have made illustrations of it.
I also enclose a few specimens of a white-flowering variety that we found in grass near Belair
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SA.
close to water.
At the first place it occurs occasionally with two blooms, and it also grows singly under she-oaks. In the same spot we also found
Lyperanthus nigricans

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and about a dozen other orchid species.
With kind regards
your most humble
J G. O. Tepper.