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Portrait of Joe Ward

Collectors

Joe Ward

English draper, geologist, fossil collector and palaeontologist · 1837–1906

135 specimens, collected between 1966 and 2023 on 33 collecting days, now held in 2 departments. Identified 12 specimens for others.

On the labels as Ward, J.V., Ward, J., Ward, J.M., Joe Ward.

Specimens
135
Type specimens
0
Years in the field
58
Islands
7
Species
98
Identifications
12
In the Library
0
Named after
6

Where Ward collected

Specimens by decade

1960s2020s

Earliest: Cassinia leptophylla, 1966 (New Zealand: South Island). Latest: Phyllanthus leucanthus, 2023.

Named for Ward

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

Cerbera floribundaCalophyllum inophyllumRuellia blechumCassinia leptophyllaAsplenium peruvianumOrmosia calavensisKadua affinisBuchanania palawensisPhragmites karkaCampnosperma brevipetiolatumDecalobanthus peltatusCasearia hirtella

As a determiner

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