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Collectors

H.M. Burkill

Botanist · 1914–2006

147 specimens, collected between 1908 and 1969 on 65 collecting days. Identified 7 specimens for others.

Specimens
147
Type specimens
0
Years in the field
62
Islands
21
Species
84
Identifications
7
In the Library
0
Named after
2

Specimens by decade

1900s1960s

Earliest: Hydropuntia, 1908 (Pulau Besar). Latest: Sargassum siliquosum, 1969.

Named for Burkill

Taxa in the collection whose epithet is formed from the name Burkill. The naming author’s intent is not recorded, so where several collectors share a surname they are listed under the best-known one.

From the field

Tolypiocladia glomerulataAcrocystisLobophora variegataFeldmannia indicaHydroclathrus clathratusTricleocarpa fragilisSargassum siliquosumDictyotaLaurencia dendroideaCaulerpa serrulataColpomenia sinuosaEucheuma denticulatum

As a determiner

7 specimens carry this name as the person who identified them. Most often: