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H.B.S. Womersley

Australian botanist and phycologist · 1922–2011

552 specimens, collected between 1945 and 1968 on 132 collecting days. Identified 107 specimens for others.

Specimens
552
Type specimens
3
Years in the field
24
Islands
9
Species
311
Identifications
107
In the Library
0
Named after
0

Where Womersley collected

Specimens by decade

1940s1960s

Earliest: Calothrix confervicola, 1945 (Kangaroo). Latest: Codium galeatum, 1968.

From the field

Martensia flabelliformisAcrochaetium daviesiiCaulerpa cupressoidesLobophora variegataDerbesia marinaHalimeda simulansPolysiphonia mollisEpiglossumPolysiphonia howeiCaulerpa longifoliaPhyllosporaCodium galeatum

As a determiner

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