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Portrait of B.K. Simon

Collectors

B.K. Simon

Australian botanist · 1943–2015

16 specimens, collected between 1974 and 2008 on 10 collecting days. Identified 16 specimens for others.

On the labels as Simon, B.K., Simon, B..

Specimens
16
Type specimens
0
Years in the field
35
Islands
2
Species
15
Identifications
16
In the Library
0
Named after
2

Where Simon collected

Specimens by decade

1970s2000s

Earliest: Olax retusa, 1974 (Stradbroke). Latest: Diplachne fusca, 2008.

Named for Simon

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

Homoranthus tropicusXenostegia tridentataEuphorbia mitchellianaCyperus iriaCyperus macrostachyosMirbelia viminalisCyperus conicusOlax retusaCyperus iriaSchoenoplectus tabernaemontaniDiplachne fuscaAmyema miraculosa

As a determiner

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