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Olof H. Selling

Botanist · 1917–2012

897 specimens, collected between 1919 and 1953 on 70 collecting days.

On the labels as Selling, O., Olof H. Selling, O. Selling, Selling.

Specimens
897
Type specimens
39
Years in the field
35
Islands
5
Species
445
Identifications
0
In the Library
0
Named after
1

Where Selling collected

Specimens by decade

1910s1950s

Earliest: Elaphoglossum wawrae, 1919 (Kauaʻi). Latest: Cyanea pilosa, 1953.

Named for Selling

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

Plantago pachyphyllaPeperomia eekanaCampylopus hawaiicusCheirodendron trigynumAdenophorus hymenophylloidesClermontia grandifloraDicranum spirophyllumClermontia faurieiFloribundaria floribundaMelicope clusiifoliaCyrtandra paludosaPsychotria hexandra