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### Author
Cunningham, Allan (1791-1839), Kew collector, later colonial botanist in New South Wales, brother of Richard Cunningham.
**Abbreviated name**: *A. Cunn.* \[standard form in IPNI: *A.Cunn.*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection K|K]], originally bequeathed to Robert Heward who gave duplicates to Fielding; now at [[Collection OXF|OXF]]. Other material at (e.g.) [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection NSW|NSW]]. Manuscripts at [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection K|K]] and Sydney Public Library.
*Ref*.: GR p. 395, IH 1 (ed. 6): 357, 2: 147.
- Candolle, Phytographie 406. 1880.
- Clokie, Account herbaria Oxford 151. 1964.
- Hedge and Lamond, Index coll. Edinburgh 72. 1970.
- Sayre, Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 19(3): 308-309. 1975.
#### Bibliography and biography
AG 2(2): 359; Barnhart 1: 404; BB p. 79; BM 1: 405-406; Bossert p. 89; CSP 2: 104-105; Dawson p. 246-247; DNB 13: 308; GR p. 395; HR; IF p. 692; Jackson p. 400; Kew 1: 660; LS 6422; PR 1990-1991; Zander ed. 10, p. 648.
- Anon., Flora 23: 208. 7 Apr 1840.
- Heward in Hooker, J. Bot. 4: 231-320. 1841, London J. Bot. 1: 107-128, 263-292. 1842, 5: 662. 1846 (frontisp.)
- Norwich, Proc. Linn. Soc. 1: 67-68. 1849 (for 1840).
- Hooker, Fl. Tasm. cxiv-cxvii. 1860.
- Anon., Proc. Linn. Soc. 1888/90: 34. 1891 (portr.)
- Thiselton-Dyer, Bull. Misc. Inf. Kew 1891: 309-310.
- Norton, Proc. Linn. Soc. NSW 25: 770-774, 789. 1901.
- Cheeseman, Manual NZ flora xx-xxi. 1906.
- Maiden, Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1906: 212, 214-216.
- Milner, Cat. Portraits Kew 31. 1906.
- Urban, Fl. bras. 1(1): 14-15. 1906.
- Maiden, J. roy. Soc. NSW 42: 99. 1908.
- Maiden, Sir Joseph Banks 141-155, 240. 1909.
- Cockayne, Veget. New Zealand 2-3. 1921.
- Glenn, The botanical explorers of New Zealand 174. 1950.
- Steenis-Kruseman, Fl. males. ser. I. 1: 122-123. 1950.
- Bagnall and Petersen, William Colenso 484. 1950.
- Coats, The plant hunters 215-222, 231-233, 387. 1969.
- McMinn, Allan Cunningham, botanist and explorer, Melbourne 1970, x, 147 p. (portr., bibl.)
- McMinn, Rec. Austral Acad. Sci. 2(1): 1-9. 1970.
- Gorer, Quart. Bull. alp. Gard. Soc. 40(1): 24-27. 1972.
#### Eponymy
*Alania* Endlicher (1836); *Cunninghamia* R. Brown (1826, *nom. cons.*, also dedicated to his brother Richard Cunningham (1793-1835), q.v.) *Note*: *Cunninghamella *Matruchot (1903) and *Cunninghamia* Currey (1873) are dedicated to David Douglas Cunningham (1843-1914), q.v.