About Frederick Arthur Rodway
Lived 1880 – 1956 (aged 75–76). Frederick Arthur Rodway was a botanist and botanical collector.
Frederick Arthur Rodway (25 March 1880, Hobart, Tasmania – 1 April 1956, Nowra, New South Wales) was an Australian physician, botanist, and plant collector. He collected spermatophytes in New South Wales and Western Australia.
Biography F. A. Rodway was a physician based in Nowra, where he had a house and a surgery. crediting Rodway with raising the variety Leptospermum scoparium var. rotundifolium (described in 1900 by Maiden and Betche) to species status as Leptospermum rotundifolium.
F. A. Rodway's daughter was the botanist Gwenda Louise Davis (née Rodway), and his father was the botanist-dentist Leonard Rodway. is named in honour of the family. (See Plinthanthesis.)
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botanist (1880-1956)
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Frederick Arthur Rodway was born in 1880.
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Frederick Arthur Rodway died in 1956.
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Frederick Arthur Rodway was a botanist and botanical collector.
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