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Portrait of F.S. Collins

Collectors

F.S. Collins

American botanist · 1848–1920

255 specimens, collected between 1879 and 1935 on 135 collecting days. Identified 1 specimens for others.

Specimens
255
Type specimens
0
Years in the field
57
Islands
13
Species
210
Identifications
1
In the Library
0
Named after
12

Specimens by decade

1870s1930s

Earliest: Polysiphonia flexicaulis, 1879 (Marblehead). Latest: Turbinaria ornata, 1935.

Named for Collins

Taxa in the collection whose epithet is formed from the name Collins. 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

Coleochaete nitellarumStragularia clavataTurbinaria ornataUlvella repensCladophoropsis membranaceaAlaria esculentaHecatonema terminaleBulbochaete insignisPhaeosaccion collinsiiCeratodictyon intricatumHydrolithon farinosumPylaiella gardneri

As a determiner

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