The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: ¶ The name of the heath-myrtle, sent by you, is Calycothrix tetragona, it grows also in the Murray desert....

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Physical location:

State Herbarium of South Australia. 89.00.00t

Plant names

Calycothrix tetragona
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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Henrietta Wehl, 1889 [89.00.00t]. 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/1880-9/1889/89-00-00t-final.odt>, accessed June 15, 2026

MS in M's hand, attached to a flower painting by Henrietta Wehl, the artist identified in Dowe et al. (2020), p. 25, who state that the note 'corresponds to a specimen in MEL collected from Lake Bonney in 1889' identified in n. 68 as MEL 86294, attributed to E. Wehl (i.e. Ettie, the familiar version of Henrietta); see also Fig. 39, p. 37. The item is dated accordingly to 1889.

The name of the heath-myrtle, sent by you, is , it grows also in the Murray desert.