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Physical location:

Tasmanian Herbarium, Hobart. 93.10.19

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Leonard Rodway, 1893-10-19. 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/1890-6/1893/93-10-19-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

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MS found with a specimen of Veronica plebeja (HO 22397). MS is accompanied by the mounted specimen annotated by M: 'Veronica plebeja Br to which adheres a fragment of Hydrocotyle hirta'.
19/10/93.
Herewith, dear Mr Rodway, I beg to send you a specimen of
Helichrysum obtusifolium

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from a Tasmanian locality for exhibition at the next meeting of your R.S.
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Royal Society [of Tasmania].
It was just sent me by Mrs Maclaine from Clarke-Island.
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One of the Furneaux Group, Bass Strait.
The discovery of this conspicuous species within Tasmanian territory does not come unexpectedly; indeed I expressed my opinion, that it would also be an inmate of your floral realm, when many years ago I collected it at Wilson's promontory,
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Vic.
therefore the Southern extreme of continental Australia. Early in November 8 Members of the Vict. Field-Naturalists Club will make an excursion to the Furneaux-Group, when likely additions to the records of Tasmanian native plants will be made also.
With regardful remembrance your
Ferd. von Mueller.
I may mention, that I named H. obtusifolium as early as 1847, when I discovered it at St Vincent's gulf
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myself, altho' its description was published only several years later.
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Helichrysum obtusifolium

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was described in Sonder (1852a), p. 513, under the joint authorship of M and Sonder. The specimen MEL 604819 from the Sonder herbarium is undated but carries this name; however, the locality cited in the protologue is Encounter Bay rather than St Vincent's Gulf.