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Schlencker, Mary Elizabeth Sarah Cribb

 

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)

 

Born: 1870, ‘Fairholme’, Milton, Brisbane, Australia.

 

career:

Wife of Reverend H.P. Schlencker, officer of the London Missionary Society, came to New Guinea in February 1905; they were successively stationed at Kalaigolo (1905), Boku (1910), and Orokolo (March 1912); in July 1926 Mr Schlencker’s health forced them to leave for Australia.

Castanopsis schlenckerae Baill. was named after her.

 

Collecting localities:

SE. New Guinea, Papua, between 1905-26, at: Kalikodobu, Boku, Henty Range, and Orokolo.

 

collections:

Herb. Brisbane [BRI], identified and described by F.M. Bailey, and C.T. White.1

 

literature:

(1) The results published in his ‘Contributions to the flora of British New Guinea’ series in Queensl. Agric. Journ. 22, 1909, p. 147-150; l.c. 23, 1909, p. 158-159, 218-220, 261-263; l.c. 24, 1910, p. 20-23; cf. also White in Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensl. 34, 1922, p. 5-65.