Fitzgerald hatte Chiloglottis Gunnii nach der Farbe in 2 Arten gespalten u sogar als 2 Species abgebildet. Er hat aber selbst öffentlich seine zweite Art nachher eingezogen.
Fitzgerald had split Chiloglottis gunnii into 2 species according to the colour and even figured it as 2 species. He has, however, himself publicly afterwards withdrawn his second species.1
Chiloglottis gunnii
Fitzgerald distinguished Chiloglottis gunnii and C. muelleri in R. Fitzgerald (1875-94), vol. 2, part 2, plate [6] (i.e. in 1885). No publication by Fitzgerald in which he withdrew C. muelleri as a distinct species has been found. M did not list it in B89.12.03 but this does not mean it was withdrawn by then since M was quite scathing about Fitzgerald's nomenclature; see, for example, M to R. Tate, September 1882 (in this edition as 82-09-00b). In B89.12.03, M included only 15 of the more than 80 orchid names (excluding varieties and orthographic variants) that Fitzgerald created up to 1888.
MS annotation by Tepper: '25.3.93?'. This may be an inferred date of composition, or perhaps a recollected date of receipt.
Please cite as “FVM-93-03-00,” 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