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Mezoneurum brachycarpum? Benth
Leguminosae
Tallebudgera1 ‑ If not a luxuriant variety of his plant it might prove a new species.2 You may discover some more constant characters serparating this from M. brachycarpum. I have noticed 1st the absence of the golden yellow pubescence replaced by a rusty one: 2d the length of the racemose panicles, which surpasses very much that of the typical plant. I have seen these panicles even 1½ ft long and broadly pyramidal: the flowers too are proportionately larger: 3d The trailing stem of the normal M. brachycarpum is invariably (so far as my observation goes) run the whole length by two three or four corky wings of a gray color, while the plant whose specimen you have now has its stem cylindrical wingless, green, covered by a slight mealy tomentum. The fruit in this M. is young, and I have no fruit of M. brachycarpum for comparation.
Leguminosae
Mezoneurum brachycarpum
Southeastern Qld.
Mueller described Mezoneuron scortechinii , paraphrasing Scortechini in places, in B92.04.03, pp. 73-4.
MS found with a specimen of Caesalpinia scortechinii (MEL 2070103). MS annotation on reverse: '1881 Scoterchini'. The letter's handwriting is similar to that of known specimens of Scortechini's handwriting.
Please cite as “FVM-81-00-00k,” 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