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> [!example] See also [[Cunningham, Richard (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author
### Author
Cunningham, Richard (1793-1835), British gardener, Kew collector in Australia, colonial botanist in New South Wales 1833-1835, brother of Allan Cunningham.
**Abbreviated name**: *R. Cunn.* \[standard form in IPNI: *R.Cunn.*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection K|K]], incl. mss. flora of New Zealand, other material at [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection GL|GL]], [[Collection MEL|MEL]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection NSW|NSW]], [[Collection OXF|OXF]].
*Ref*.: IH 2: 147.
- Clokie, Account herbaria Oxford 152. 1964.
- Hedge and Lamond, Index coll. Edinburgh 72. 1970.
- D'Arcy, Missouri Bot. Gard. Bull. 59(1): 24. 1971.
#### Bibliography and biography
AG 2(2): 359; Barnhart 1: 404; BB p. 80; CSP 2: 105; DNB 13: 317; HR; PR p. 73; Zander (ed. 10) p. 648.
- Hooker, Comp. bot. Mag. 2: 210-221. 1836 (portr.).
- Hooker, Fl. Tasmania cxvi, cxx, cxxiii-cxxiv. 1860.
- Cheeseman, Man. New Zealand fl. xx-xxi. 1906.
- Maiden, Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1906: 212-214.
- Milner, Cat. portr. Kew 32. 1906.
- Maiden, J. Proc. Roy. Soc. NSW 42: 99-100. 1908.
- Maiden, Sir Joseph Banks 153. 1909.
- Cockayne, Veg. New Zealand 3. 1921.
- Coats, The plant hunters 220-221, 232. 1969.
#### Eponymy
*Cunninghamia* R. Brown (1826, *nom. cons.*, also dedicated to his brother Allan Cunningham (1791-1839), *q.v.*)
*Note*: *Cunninghamella* Matruchot (1903) and *Cunninghamia* Currey (1873) are dedicated to David Douglas Cunningham (1843-1914), *q.v.*