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== Brazil ==
On Banks' recommendation, Cunningham went to [[Brazil]] with [[James Bowie (botanist)|James Bowie]] between 1814 and 1816 collecting specimens for [[Kew Gardens]]. Banks later wrote the Cunningham's collections of orchids and bulbs from this part of South America contributed much honour to the Royal Gardens.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article100128924 |title=Allan Cunningham |newspaper=[[The Sunday Mail (Brisbane)|Sunday Mail]] |issue=267 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=8 July 1928 |accessdate=19 November 2023 |page=26 |via=National Library of Australia |archive-date=1 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240801232216/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/100128924 |url-status=live }}</ref>
== New South Wales ==
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=== 1827 exploration of discovery to the Darling Downs ===
In probably his most famous expedition, Cunningham set out to explore the area to the west of [[Moreton Bay]] in 1827, crossing to the west of the [[Great Dividing Range]] from the [[Hunter Valley]] and travelling north. On this journey, Cunningham named many geographical landmarks including the [[Dumaresq River]], [[Macintyre River]], [[Condamine River]], the [[Darling Downs]], Mount Dumaresq and the Burrell or [[Gwydir River]]. He wrote in his diary that the lush grassland plains on the Darling Downs were ideal for livestock grazing. Exploring around Mount Dumaresq, Cunningham found a pass, now known as [[Cunninghams Gap]].<ref>{{Citation | author1=Lee, Ida | author1-link=Ida Lee | title=Early Explorers in Australia | journal=The Geographical Journal | date=1925 | volume=66 | issue=1 | page=69 | publisher=Methuen | doi=10.2307/1783258 | jstor=1783258 | bibcode=1925GeogJ..66...69C | url=http://gutenberg.net.au/plusfifty-a-m.html#lee | access-date=9 November 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121113135734/http://gutenberg.net.au/plusfifty-a-m.html#lee | archive-date=13 November 2012 | url-status=live | df=dmy-all }}</ref>
=== Further exploration of the Moreton Bay region ===
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== Legacy ==
[[File:Memorial obelisk to Allan Cunningham (botanist).jpg|thumb|Cunningham memorial obelisk in the [[Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney]]]]
Some of Australia's plants: ''[[Araucaria cunninghamii]]'' (hoop pine), ''[[Archontophoenix cunninghamiana]]'' (Bangalow palm), ''[[Banksia cunninghamii]]'', ''[[Lysiphyllum cunninghamii]]'' (jigal), ''[[Casuarina cunninghamiana]]'' (river sheoak), ''[[Centipeda cunninghamii]]'' (old man weed), ''[[Ficus]] cunninghamii'', ''Medicosma cunninghamii'' (bone wood), ''[[Nothofagus cunninghamii]]'' (myrtle tree, Tasmania), ''Pennantia cunninghamii'' (brown beech), and ''Polyosma cunninghamii'' (rainforest featherwood) commemorate Allan and his brother [[Richard Cunningham (botanist)|Richard]], a botanist.<ref>[http://www.pacsoa.org.au/places/People/cunningham.html Allan Cunningham 1791–1839] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080807162623/http://www.pacsoa.org.au/places/People/cunningham.html |date=7 August 2008 }} Retrieved on 27-1-2009</ref> The [[Cunningham Highway]] is named in honour of Allan. The genus ''Alania'' was created by [[Stephan Endlicher|Endlicher]] in Cunningham's honour.<ref>{{Cite
A species of Australian lizard, ''[[Egernia cunninghami]]'', is named in honour of Allan Cunningham.<ref>Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. ("Cunningham", p. 63).</ref>
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