Edwin Ashby

Australian property developer, malacologist and ornithologist (1861-1941).

Edwin Ashby (2 November 1861 – 8 January 1941) was an Adelaide-based Australian property developer and a noted malacologist interested in chitons and ornithologist. He was a founding member of the South Australian Ornithological Association (SAOA) in 1899, and of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU) in 1901 for which he served as president 1926. The avian genus Ashbyia (represented by the gibberbird Ashbyia lovensis) was named for him by Gregory Mathews. Ashby and his family were members of the Religious Society of Friends, also known as Quakers.

Abbreviations: Ashby
Occupations: scientific collector, ornithologist, malacologist, botanist, botanical collector
Citizenships: Australia
Dates: 1861-11-02T00:00:00Z – 1941-01-08T00:00:00Z
Direct attributions: 1 plant, 0 fungi
Authorship mentions: 3 plants, 0 fungi

1 plant attributed, 2 plants contributed to3 plants:

Syncolostemon macranthus (Hoeveld-langbeensalie) (Gürke) Ashby 1935
plant species in the lamiaceae family
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Correa glabra var. turnbullii (Ashby) Paul G.Wilson 1998
plant variety in the rutaceae family
Correa glabra var. turnbullii, the narrow-bell correa, is a variety of Correa glabra, a shrub native to Australia. It grows to 1 to 2 metre high and wide, with branchlets sparsely covered with rust-brown hairs. Its leaves are up to 4.5 cm long and 1.2 cm wide and are dark green on the upper surface, while the lower surface is covered with hairs and pale grey. The pendent, tubular flowers are pink or red with green tips, appearing between April and August in their native range. The subspecies occurs from Mount Lofty to the mallee scrub and the southern Flinders Ranges and the extreme
Syncolostemon petiolatus (Ashby) D.F.Otieno 2006
perennial plant species in the lamiaceae family
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