
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Keogh, Luke 
T1  - Duboisia Pituri: A Natural History
JF  - Historical Records of Australian Science
JO  - Hist. Rec. Aust. Sci.
Y1  - 2011
VL  - 22
IS  - 2
SP  - 199
EP  - 214
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/HR11008 
N2  - In the 1870s, an intense quest revealed to scientists that pituri, an important Aboriginal commodity, was sourced from the plant Duboisia hopwoodii&#x2014;a shrub named after a well-known colonist. But it was Aboriginal people and white explorer-pastoralists from the Mulligan River region in far western Queensland who provided the samples and alerted scientists to the important chemical properties of pituri. Subsequently, there was a proposal to change the name of the plant to Duboisia pituri. Whom should the plant have been named after, the colonist or the Aborigine? 
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