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Appendix: eponymy (with Bidwill material when types) 
Acacia bidwillii Benth. in Linnaea 26: 629 (1855) - Leguminosae (Fabaceae) 
Type; Queensland, Wide Bay, Bidivill '93' (K! holo) 
Street: Acacia Terrace, Bidwill NSW 2770 
Akania bidioillii (Hogg) Mabb., Plant-book, corn repn; 707 (1989) - Akaniaceae 
Type: Cult. RBG Kew ex Hort Linden 1872 (K! neo selected by Mabb. l.c.; ill. Bot. Mag. 
t. 8469 (1912)) 
X Amarygia bidzvillii H.E. Moore in Baileya 19:164 (1975, 'bidwellii'), i.e. Aman/llis belladonna 
L. X Brunsvigia orientalis (Amaryllidaceae), nom. superfl. = ? X Anianstetes i'X A. multiflora' 
Hannibal, nom. illeg., X Amarygia parkeri (W. Watson) H.E. Moore) 
Type: None preserved; see Hannibal (1994) for discussion 
[Araucaria bidioilliana Hort. (e.g. T.W. Shepherd, Cat. PI. Darling Nursery (1851)15, nom. 
nud.) = seq. (cf. Sieb. & Voss, Blumeng. ed. 3,1; 1234 (1895))] 
Araucaria bidwillii Hook., London /. Bot. 2: 503, tt. 18, 19 (1843) - Araucariaceae 
Type: Queensland, Moreton Bay, 70 mi NW Mt Brisbane, Bidioill (?K, not found) 
Aster bidzvillii Kuntze, Rev. Gen.: 315 (1891) = Olearia znrgata (Hook.f.) Hook.f. (Compositae 
[Asteraceae]) 
Type: New Zealand, Nelson, Wairau Pass, Bidzvill (K!, syn.) 
Auslromyrtus bidzvillii (Benth.) Burret in Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 15:501 (1941) - Myrtaceae 
Type; Queensland, Wide Bay, Bidzvill 'IT (K! holo) 
Street: Myrtus Crescent, Bidwill NSW 2770 
*Bidzvillia glaiica (Ruiz & Pavon) Herbert ex G. Don f. in Loudon, Ena/cl. Pi: 1344 ('glaucus', 
1855); Hereman, Paxton's Bot. Diet., new ed.: 75 (1868) = ? Echeandia sp. (Anthericum glaucum 
Ruiz & Pavon), though Bob Cruden (in lift) suggests that Triliesperus Herbert may have to 
be revived for A. glaucum and its allies 
Bidzvillia glaucescens Herbert in Lindley, Bot. Reg. 30, Misc.: 90 (1844, 'Bidwellia'); Lindley, 
Kingdom: 205 (1847) 
Type: Cult. W. Herbert ex 'New England' (?Bidwill), ? not preserved. Although Henderson 
(FI. Australia 45 (1987) 419) tentatively referred B. glaucescens to Caesia parviflora R. Br. 
(Anthericaceae), Herbert distinctly notes that the anthers are versatile, thereby suggesting 
Asphodelaceae, and he himself considered Bidzvillia a possible section of Asphodelus. He 
also referred to his allied South American genus Triliesperus Herbert (l.c.) both Anthericum 
glaucum Ruiz & Pavon (referred erroneously to Bidzvillia by Don, see above) and A. 
latifolium Kunth. Moreover, the divaricately branched peduncle, basally swollen filaments 
and brownish tetrahedral seeds strongly suggest Trachyandra divaricata (Jacq.) Kunth 
which has been long established in New South Wales; it has been placed in Anthericum 
but is now referred to Asphodelaceae. However it is found in coastal sand dunes which 
scarcely matches Herbert's 'elevated tract of table-land called New England'. It may 
have been that there was some confusion with Bidwill's imported plants (if the material 
was his at all) but without a specimen or drawing it is perhaps impossible to be sure 
what Bidzvillia really was. Indeed Bidwill himself wrote to Hooker (RBGK: W.J. Hooker 
Corr. 73, letter 14) on 31 Oct 1848, asking for a description of the plant as he had 'not the 
least knowledge of the plant in this country' 
[Bignonia bidzvitliana Regel, Cat. PI. Flort. Avakov: 19 (1860), nom. nud., = ?] 
Brachychiton bidzvillii Hook., Bot. Mag. 85: t. 5133 (1859) - Sterculiaceae 
Type: Cult, at Kew from seeds sent from Wide Bay by Bidwill (K! holo) 
This may well be Sterculia sp. (Bidwill) of Macarthur's 1850 Camden catalogue (p. 19) 
Brachyglottis bidzvillii [Hook.f., FI. N.Z. 2: 342, nom. in synon.] (Hook.f.) Nordenstam in 
Op. Bot. 44: 29 (1978) - Compositae (Asteraceae) 
Type: New Zealand, mountains near Nelson, Bidzvill '36' (K! syn) 
* Omissions from Index Kewensis 
