The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: [COAPIM GRASS. ¶ The Secretary reported that he had received from Baron F. von Müller a root of the coapim grass which was said to be immensely superior as a fodder plant to the grass which had long b...

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90.09.00f

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Panicum spectabile
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Ferdinand von Mueller to Albert Molineux, 1890-09 [90.09.00f]. 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/1890-6/1890/90-09-00f-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

Letter not found. The text given here is from a report of the meeting of the South Australian Bureau of Agriculture on 8 September 1890, in Adelaide observer, 13 September 1890. p. 10. Molineux was Secretary of the Bureau.

[COAPIM GRASS.

The Secretary reported that he had received from Baron F. von Müller a root of the coapim grass which was said to be immensely superior as a fodder plant to the grass which had long been wrongly named here as (or Phillips grass, or Johnson grass). The Baron had identified our so-called Johnson or Phillips grass as sorghum halepense (aleppo grass), and the true had not, so far as the Secretary was aware, previously been introduced here.]

In another report of the meeting, South Australian register, 8 September 1890, p. 7, Molineux is reported as saying that the wrongly named grass was that which was 'cultivated at the Sewage Farm and elsewhere'.