Frederick Arthur Rodway (25 March 1880,

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– 1 April 1956,

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) was an Australian physician, botanist, and plant collector. He collected

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s in New South Wales and Western Australia.

Biography

F. A. Rodway was a physician based in Nowra, where he had a house and a

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. He collected botanical specimens primarily in

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(NSW).

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published a 1919 paper crediting Rodway with raising the variety ''Leptospermum scoparium'' var. ''rotundifolium'' (described in 1900 by

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and

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) 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 Leonard Rodway (5 October 1853 – 9 March 1936) was an English-born Australian dentist and botanist. Early life Rodway was born in Torquay Devon, England, the thirteenth child of Henry Barron Rodway, a dentist and inventor of the Rodway life ...

. The NSW Rodway Nature Reserve is named in honour of the family.

Eponyms

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'' (Budawanga wallaby grass) (See ''

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''.)

References

1880 births 1956 deaths 20th-century Australian botanists Australian medical doctors Australian people of English descent Botanists active in Australia Botanical collectors active in Australia {{botanist-stub