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Portrait of E.P. Hume

Collectors

E.P. Hume

American university professor, horticulturalist · 1875–1965

1,772 specimens, collected between 1900 and 1990 on 188 collecting days, now held in 2 departments. Identified 1 specimens for others.

On the labels as Hume, E.P., Hume, E., E. Hume, Hume, E. P., Hume, E.A., Hume, E.C., Hume, E.P, Hume E..

Specimens
1,772
Type specimens
58
Years in the field
91
Islands
8
Species
768
Identifications
1
In the Library
0
Named after
2

Where Hume collected

Specimens by decade

1900s1990s

Earliest: Ipomoea indica, 1900 (Oʻahu). Latest: Morinda citrifolia, 1990.

Named for Hume

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

Ficus samoensisAmastraOcimum tenuiflorumEua expansaPittosporum glabrumRhodobryum giganteumErythrina sandwicensisLeptogiumIpomoea indicaPisonia sandwicensisMedusanthera samoensisMetrosideros polymorpha

As a determiner

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