Melbourne 6/11/73.
Allow me, honored and venerable friend, to send you a few fragments of Stipa teretifolia Steudel (Diplachne stipoides1 J. Hooker) and to ask you to inform me kindly whether, as I suppose, it is identical with La Billardière's Stipa flavescens. I am under the impression, that it is the true plant of La Billardières, but this can only be ascertained by a comparison of his orginal specimen in your museum. The contracted panicle is rather peculiar and so the patent indument on the outer sepal, which is fairly delineated by Poiteau or La Billardieres plate2
If I can be of any utility here, pray command my services
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller
Stipa teretifolia
Diplachne stipoides
Stipa flavescens
Please cite as “FVM-73-11-06b,” in Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, edited by R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora†, J.H. Voigt† and Monika Wells accessed on