Frederick Arthur Rodway
Frederick Arthur Rodway (25 March 1880, Hobart, Tasmania – 1 April 1956, Nowra, New South Wales) was an Australian physician, botanist, and plant collector.[1] He collected spermatophytes in New South Wales and Western Australia.[2][3]
Biography
[edit | edit source]F. A. Rodway was a physician based in Nowra, where he had a house and a surgery.[1] He collected botanical specimens primarily in South Coast, New South Wales (NSW).[1]
Edwin Cheel published a 1919 paper[4] crediting Rodway with raising the variety Leptospermum scoparium var. rotundifolium (described in 1900 by Maiden and Betche) to species status as Leptospermum rotundifolium.[5]
F. A. Rodway's daughter was the botanist Gwenda Louise Davis (née Rodway), and his father was the botanist-dentist Leonard Rodway.[1] The NSW Rodway Nature Reserve[6] is named in honour of the family.[1]
Eponyms
[edit | edit source]- Plinthanthesis rodwayi (Budawanga wallaby grass)[1][8] (See Plinthanthesis.)
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