van Zanten

collected 1959–1987

131 specimens, collected between 1959 and 1987 on 65 collecting days. Identified 117 specimens for others.

Specimens: 131
Type specimens: 8
Years in the field: 29
Islands: 8
Species: 100
Identifications: 117
In the Library: 0
Named after: 1

Specimens by decade

1950s1980s

Earliest: Herbertus sendtneri, 1959 (New Guinea). Latest: Fissidens leptocladus, 1987.

Named for van Zanten

Taxa in the collection whose epithet is formed from the name van Zanten. The naming author’s intent is not recorded, so where several collectors share a surname they are listed under the best-known one.

Fissidens vanzantenii Fissidentaceae1

From the field

As a determiner

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

Dawsonia beccarii5
Breutelia pendula4
Rhacocarpus purpurascens3
Dicranoloma robustum3
Braunfelsia dicranoides3
Fissidens rigidulus2
Polytrichadelphus magellanicus2
Campylopus clavatus2
Racopilum strumiferum2
Leptostomum inclinans2