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Benjamin C. Stone

British-American botanist · 1933–1994

5,592 specimens, collected between 1911 and 2010 on 1,043 collecting days, now held in 2 departments. Identified 2,259 specimens for others.

On the labels as Stone, B.C., Benjamin C. Stone, Stone, Stone, B.C.M., Stone, B., Stone, B.C.S., Stone, B, STONE.

Specimens
5,592
Type specimens
124
Years in the field
100
Islands
109
Species
2,289
Identifications
2,259
In the Library
0
Named after
6

Where Stone collected

Specimens by decade

1910s2010s

Earliest: Euphorbia remyi, 1911 (Kauaʻi). Latest: Melicope orbicularis, 2010.

Named for Stone

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

Morella fayaPolytrichum ohioenseAraceaeBrackenridgeaCinnamomum mercadoiAsplenium polyodonRanunculusCommelinaceaeZanthoxylum kauaenseErythropalum scandensMyrsine lanaiensisBrucea javanica

As a determiner

2,259 specimens carry this name as the person who identified them. Most often: