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Leichhardt, Freidrich Wilhelm Ludwig (1813 - 1848)
Well educated in natural history, Leichhardt arrived in Australia in
February 1842. He led an expedition from Dalby (Queensland) overland to
Port Essington (Northern Territory), October 1844-December 1845. A
second expedition set out from the Darling Downs, Queensland, for Western
Australia in 1846, but failed and returned. An attempt to repeat this expedition
in 1848 resulted in the disappearance of the party without trace.
Leichhardt
was based in Sydney (New South Wales) between expeditions, and collected
there, between Newcastle (New South Wales) and Moreton Bay (Queensland),
and on his expeditions.
His collections are lodged in MEL and NSW, with
a few duplicates elsewhere (e.g. B, BM, HO and P).
Source: Extracted from: A.E.Orchard (1999) A History of Systematic
Botany in Australia, in Flora of Australia Vol.1, 2nd ed.,
ABRS. [consult for source references]
Interactive map of Leichhardt Expedition from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, 1844-1845
Data from 3,358 specimens