> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 825](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33069067) of TL-2 Vol. II > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/5440-1) LSID 5440-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57763) QID Q57763 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Leichhardt, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig (1813-1848), German botanist and explorer; from 1842 in Australia; lost on a mission in 1848. **Abbreviated name**: *Leichh.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Leichh.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection MEL|MEL]] and [[Collection NSW|NSW]]; further material at [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection P|P]], [[Collection PC|PC]]. – Letters at Kew; manuscripts at Mitchell library, Sydney. #### Bibliography and biography ADB 18: 210-214; Austr. Dict. Biogr. 2: 102-104; Austr. Enc. 5: 281-285; BB p. 185; BM 3: 1083; Bossert p. 233; CSP 3: 939; Desmond p. 381; DNB 32: 426; HR, q.v. for biogr. refs.; IH 2: 427; Kew 3: 403; Quenstedt p. 257; Tucker 1: 420. - Aurousseau, M., The letters of F. W. Ludwig Leichhardt, Cambridge Univ. Press 1968, 3 vols. - Bentham, G., Fl. austr. 1: 13. 1863. - Blake, S. T., Proc. R. Soc. Queensland 66: 10-12. 1955 (bot. expl.). - Campbell, Austral. Mus. Mag. 3(9): 306. 1929. - Chisholm, A. H., Strange new world, ed. 2., Sydney 1955, p. 284-287; J.R. Austral. hist. Soc. 1971: 74-78 (review of Aurousseau 1968; "The Leichhardt problem"); Strange journey. The adventures of Ludwig Leichhardt and John Gilbert Rigby, s.d. \[1973\], 299 p. - Cotton, C. D., Ludwig Leichhardt 1938 (fide Desmond). - Embacher, F., Lexik. Reisen 184-185. 1882. - Hall, N., Botanists of the Eucalypts 84. 1978. - Leichhardt, F. W. L., Journal of an overland expedition in Australia, London 1847 (n.v.); Tagebuch einer Landreise in Australien, transi. E. A. Zuchold, Halle 1851. - Hooker, J. D., Fl. Tasman. cxxi. 1859. - Hooker, W. J., London J. Bot. 1845: 278-291, 1847: 342-364. - Maiden, J. H., J. Proc. R. Soc. N.S.W. 42: 108-110. 1908 (documentation on publ., coll. and eponymy). - Mann, J. F., Eight months with Leichhardt in the years 1846-1847, Sydney 1888 (n.v.; fide Maiden 1908). - Politzer, L. L., Dr. Ludwig Leichhardt's letters from Australia during... 1842 to 1848. Melbourne, Pan Publishers, 1944 (fide HR). - Zuchold, E. A., Dr. Ludwig Leichhardt. Eine biographische Skizze. Leipzig 1856 (fide Schlechtendal, Bot. Zeit. 15: 294-295. 1857). #### Eponymy *Leichardtia* \[sic\] R. Brown (1849), *Leichhardtia* F. von Mueller (1876). *Leichhardtia* Shepherd (1851) probably also commemorates him. – Leichhardt River, Queensland (Northern Australia), discovered by A. C. Gregory 1855.