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W.R. Philipson
English-born New Zealand botanist and explorer · 1911–1997
11 specimens, collected between 1969 and 1979 on 8 collecting days. Identified 4 specimens for others.
- Specimens
- 11
- Type specimens
- 0
- Years in the field
- 11
- Islands
- 2
- Species
- 7
- Identifications
- 4
- In the Library
- 0
- Named after
- 1
Specimens by decade
1960s1970s
Earliest: Spathodea campanulata, 1969 (Rarotonga). Latest: Levieria beccariana, 1979.
Named for Philipson
Taxa in the collection whose epithet is formed from the name Philipson. 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
As a determiner
4 specimens carry this name as the person who identified them. Most often: