The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 6/9/92. ¶ ¶ I think, dear Dr Dyer, I should mention, that Phallus vitellinus was ¶ described ¶ by me in the fragm. phytogr. Austr. VII, 122 (1870). ¶ The old genus Phallus became however broke up ...

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RBG Kew, Archives, Miscellaneous correspondence. 92.09.06a

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Callixene
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Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1892-09-06 [92.09.06a]. 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/1890-6/1892/92-09-06a-final.odt>, accessed June 15, 2026

6/9/92.

Date stamped: Royal Gardens Kew 10 Oct. 92.

I think, dear Dr Dyer, I should mention, that was described by me in the fragm. phytogr. Austr. VII, 122 (1870).

B70.12.03.

The old genus Phallus became however broke up since. It is a singular mistake, that in the Handbook of Australian Fungs,

Cooke (1892).

some from the Falkland-Islands are included, though the host of one of them is even a , a genus not represented in Australia proper.

Regardfully your

Ferd von Mueller.