Frederick Arthur Rodway

Frederick Arthur Rodway (25 March 1880, Hobart, Tasmania – 1 April 1956, Nowra, New South Wales) was an Australian physician, botanist, and plant collector.[1] He collected spermatophytes in New South Wales and Western Australia.[2][3]

Biography

F. A. Rodway was a physician based in Nowra, where he had a house and a surgery.[1] He collected botanical specimens primarily in South Coast, New South Wales (NSW).[1]

Edwin Cheel published a 1919 paper[4] crediting Rodway with raising the variety Leptospermum scoparium var. rotundifolium (described in 1900 by Maiden and Betche) to species status as Leptospermum rotundifolium.[5]

F. A. Rodway's daughter was the botanist Gwenda Louise Davis (née Rodway), and his father was the botanist-dentist Leonard Rodway.[1] The NSW Rodway Nature Reserve[6] is named in honour of the family.[1]

The standard author abbreviation F.A.Rodway is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[7]

Eponyms

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Nowra's botanist doctor — Frederick Arthur Rodway (1880 - 1956)" (PDF). Budawangia: An e-newsletter for all those interestred in the native plants of the NSW south coast, No. 26. May 2014. p. 3.
  2. ^ "Rodway, Frederick A. (1880 - 1956)". Biographical Notes, Australian National Botanic Gardens (anbg.gov.au).
  3. ^ "Rodway, Frederick Arthur (1880-1956)". JSTOR Global Plants.
  4. ^ Cheel, Edwin (1919). "Three new species of Leptospermum". Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales. 53: 122. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
  5. ^ "Leptospermum rotundifolium". APNI.
  6. ^ "Rodway Nature Reserve". NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service.
  7. ^ International Plant Names Index.  F.A.Rodway.
  8. ^ "Plinthanthesis rodwayi (a grass) - endangered species listing". Environment, NSW Department of Planning and Environment.
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