Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria |
Visited the Swan River colony, Western Australia, from December 1838 to January
1842, making a collection of about 3000-4000 specimens from an area extending
from about 100 km north of Perth south to Albany and east to the vicinity
of Cape Riche.
These collections (with a few by other collectors) form the
basis for one of the landmark works on Western Australian botany, Plantae
Preissianae... (Lehmann, 1844-1848).
Preiss' collections were made
up into various sets and subsequently dispersed, now being found in at least
25 different herbaria. The standard reference set for Plantae Preissianae
is now at LD, with other substantial numbers of specimens at C, DBN, G, HBG,
LE, MEL, MO, P, S and W. For minor holdings in other herbaria. The MEL collections
were purchased as part of the Steetz and Sonder
herbaria.
NOTE ALSO:
'Preiss's account of his Western Australian travels'
by Karen Wilson and Alastair Wilson
Australasian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter 171 (June 2017) p.24-25
( https://asbs.org.au/newsletter/pdf/17-june-171.pdf )
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]
Data from 3,946 specimens held in Australian herbaria