The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: At last I have demonstrated the long expected occurrence of ¶ Cyrtandra ¶ in Australia. Unfortunately there was only one (mutilated) fruit, and were only two imperfect flowers sacrificed in analysis...

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Physical location:

K831735 Cyrtandra baileyi, Herbarium, RBG Kew. 90.04.00

Plant names

Aeschynanthus
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Cyrtandra
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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to [William Thiselton-Dyer], 1890-04. 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/1890-6/1890/90-04-00-final.odt>, accessed June 19, 2026

The letter is attached to a sheet with the specimen. M's label also attached is ' Baileyi | FvM | Mt Bellindin Ker | 1888 W. Sayer' [i.e. Mt Bellenden Ker]. Both the letter and the label are dated stamped '19 May 90'. Letter dated to April 1890 as the latest it could have been sent, to reach Kew by mid-May. The MS may have been included with M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, 6 April 1890 (in this edition as 90-04-06a) which is also date stamped 19 May 1890.

At last I have demonstrated the long expected occurrence of in Australia. Unfortunately there was only one (mutilated) fruit, and were only two imperfect flowers sacrificed in analysis;

sacrificed in analysis marginal note with intended position indicated by an asterisk.

The species was described, with M credited as author, in Bailey (1890), pp. 51-2.

so I can only supply leaves on a branchlet to you. We ought to find also

APNI (accessed 11 June 2021) does not list any species of this for Australia.

yet