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Entry from Ronald Gunn’s long‐lost catalogue of Tasmanian plants, showing various species in the Tetratheca genus.

Entry from Ronald Gunn’s long‐lost catalogue of Tasmanian plants, showing various species in the Tetratheca genus. 1874-1896

First collected in 1846, Ronald Gunn’s specimen no. 1944 was a species of Tetratheca previously unknown to science, and was subsequently named in his honour. A shrub found only in Tasmania, Tetratheca gunnii is known locally as ‘shy Susan’.

 

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Call Number:
A 186
Published date:
1874-1896