The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: ¶ Fitzgerald had split ¶ Chiloglottis gunnii ¶ into 2 species according to the colour and even figured it as 2 species. He has, however, himself publicly afterwards withdrawn his second species....

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Physical location:

RB MSS M198, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 93.03.00

Plant names

Chiloglottis gunnii
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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Otto Tepper, 1893-03. 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/1890-6/1893/93-03-00-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

MS annotation by Tepper: '25.3.93?'. This may be an inferred date of composition, or perhaps a recollected date of receipt.

Fitzgerald hatte Chiloglottis Gunnii nach der Farbe in 2 Arten gespalten u sogar als 2 Species abgebildet. Er hat aber selbst öffentlich seine zweite Art nachher eingezogen.

Fitzgerald had split into 2 species according to the colour and even figured it as 2 species. He has, however, himself publicly afterwards withdrawn his second species.

Fitzgerald distinguished and C. muelleri in R. Fitzgerald (1875-94), vol. 2, part 2, plate [6] (i.e. in 1885). No publication by Fitzgerald in which he withdrew C. muelleri as a distinct species has been found. M did not list it in B89.12.03 but this does not mean it was withdrawn by then since M was quite scathing about Fitzgerald's nomenclature; see, for example, M to R. Tate, September 1882 (in this edition as 82-09-00b). In B89.12.03, M included only 15 of the more than 80 orchid names (excluding varieties and orthographic variants) that Fitzgerald created up to 1888.