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Portrait of Timothy Flynn

Collectors

Timothy Flynn

Canadian lawyer and politician · 1847–1927

5,507 specimens, collected between 1939 and 2026 on 1,208 collecting days. Identified 572 specimens for others.

On the labels as Flynn, T.W., Flynn, T., Flynn, T. Flynn, Timothy Flynn, Flynn, W..

Specimens
5,507
Type specimens
15
Years in the field
88
Islands
41
Species
2,593
Identifications
572
In the Library
3
Named after
5

Where Flynn collected

Specimens by decade

1930s2020s

Earliest: Banksia integrifolia, 1939 (Kauaʻi). Latest: Graphidaceae, 2026.

In the Library

Publications in the Library whose author line carries this name.

  1. 2023

    Assembling genetic structure of Gardenia remyi, a critically endangered tree endemic to the Hawaiian Islands

    Hansen, K.E., M. Opgenorth, T. Flynn, B. Kennedy, N. Rønsted, J.K. Olofsson, and J.B. Christopher · Conservation Science and Practice

    Museum research publication

  2. 2020

    Recommendations for reporting records of nonnative plant species in the Hawaiian Islands

    Brock, K.C., Daehler, C.C., Imada, C.T., Kennedy, B.H. & Flynn, T.W. · In: Evenhuis, N.L. (ed.), Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2019. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 129: 109-124.

    Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey

  3. 1995

    Contributions to the Flora of Hawai‘i. III. Additions, range extensions, and rediscoveries of flowering plants

    Lorence, D.H., T.W. Flynn & W.L. Wagner · Bishop Museum Occasional Paper 41: 19-58.

    Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey

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Named for Flynn

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

Crassocephalum crepidioidesCyperus polystachyosAbelia chinensisEuphorbia degeneriAsplenium aethiopicumVesicularia perviridisLudwigia octovalvisCharpentiera ovataCampylopus hawaiicusMesosphaerum pectinatumCarex meyeniiAgeratina riparia

As a determiner

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