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Portrait of W.G. Farlow

Collectors

W.G. Farlow

American botanist · 1844–1919

193 specimens, collected between 1871 and 1918 on 41 collecting days. Identified 7 specimens for others.

Specimens
193
Type specimens
0
Years in the field
48
Islands
5
Species
141
Identifications
7
In the Library
0
Named after
3

Specimens by decade

1870s1910s

Earliest: Hypnea musciformis, 1871 (Nobska). Latest: Poronidulus conchifer, 1918.

Named for Farlow

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

Spyridia filamentosaCapsosiphon fulvescensSaccharina longicrurisSarcothalia papillosaChrootheceFucus distichusPolysiphonia flexicaulisPolysiphonia flexicaulisCladophora albidaEuthora cristataHypnea musciformisCeramium

As a determiner

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