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Epacris autumnale

 

family ERICACEAE

     

artist: Samuel Holden (fl.1836-1889)
 

  

from: 'Paxton's Magazine of Botany' (1844)
by Joseph Paxton
England

Published as: Epacris autumnale

This name has been excluded by the
Australian Plant Census as
being of uncertain application.

Notes from the Australian Plant Name Index entry:
Paxton, J. 1844, Paxton's Magazine of Botany. 11 195 & plate..
Type: "We are indebted ... Mr Low of Clapton, in whose Nursery our Artist prepared it in
November last. Mr Low obtained it from Mr Cunninhgam of Edinburgh."
Comment: Paxton states that "It is evidently of hybrid extraction".
  



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