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3 unusual facts about Georgiana Molloy


Georgiana Molloy

However in December 1836, she received a letter from Captain James Mangles, asking her to collect botanical specimens for him.

John Lindley, Professor of Botany at University College London, for example, described many new species from her collections, including Corymbia calophylla.

The shrub Boronia molloyae was named in her honour, as was a street in the Canberra suburb of Cook.


Pterostylis barbata

Pterostylis barbata is a perennial herb that grows to 30 cm, it was first described by John Lindley from collections made by James Drummond and Georgiana Molloy of the Swan River Colony in Western Australia.


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