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P.R. Sharpe
Australian botanist · 1915–2016
89 specimens, collected between 1971 and 1999 on 44 collecting days. Identified 22 specimens for others.
On the labels as Sharpe, P.R., Sharpe, P., Sharpe, R., Sharpe, P.R.
- Specimens
- 89
- Type specimens
- 1
- Years in the field
- 29
- Islands
- 1
- Species
- 80
- Identifications
- 22
- In the Library
- 0
- Named after
- 2
Where Sharpe collected
Specimens by decade
1970s1990s
Earliest: Patersonia, 1971 (Leichhardt, Blackdown Tableland, ~35 km SE of Blackwater, S edge of Mimosa Gorge). Latest: Syzygium luehmannii, 1999.
Named for Sharpe
Taxa in the collection whose epithet is formed from the name Sharpe. 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
As a determiner
22 specimens carry this name as the person who identified them. Most often: