Line engraving by Gerald Sibelius, after
Sydney Parkinson (1770) and Frederick
Polydore Nodder (1780).

Plate 337

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Banks Florilegium, Part 15, Plate 337

Leptaspis banksii (Gramineae)

Line engraving by Gerald Sibelius, after Sydney Parkinson (1770) and Frederick
Polydore Nodder (1780).

Joseph Banks and his party saw this species at:
Endeavour River, Australia (17 June - 4 August 1770)

This broad-leaved grass with attractive flowering stems was named by Robert
Brown in 1810 in honour of Sir Joseph Banks. In Australia it occurs only in far
north-eastern Queensland but it extends into New Guinea and to the Philippine
Islands.

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