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Portrait of R.J. Baker

Collectors

R.J. Baker

American photographer, film maker and lecturer · 1880–1972

883 specimens, collected between 1896 and 1995 on 82 collecting days. Identified 127 specimens for others.

On the labels as Baker, R.F., Baker, R.J., Baker, R., Baker, R.T., R. Baker, Baker, R. J..

Specimens
883
Type specimens
7
Years in the field
100
Islands
5
Species
372
Identifications
127
In the Library
0
Named after
35

Where Baker collected

Specimens by decade

1890s1990s

Earliest: Euphrasia collina, 1896 (Sydney). Latest: Pittoniotis protracta, 1995.

Named for Baker

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

Xanthium strumariumSerpocaulon triserialeVaccinium dentatumCanna indicaSenna gaudichaudiiChloris barbataAlyxia stellataPhlegmariurus phyllanthusStrobilanthes reptansNertera granadensisHydrocotyle verticillataPittosporum glabrum

As a determiner

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