Career

 

Taschner, Christian Friedrich

 

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

 

Born: 1817, Eisenach, Germany.

 

career:

Is cited as the collector of a Hymenophyllacea in Java (cf. van den Bosch, Hymenophyllaceae, 1861, p. 38). He is the author of ‘De Duabis Trichomanum speciebus de earum nee non aliarum hujus generis plantarum structura’ (Jena 1843), and possibly was the owner of a private herbarium. No data as to him ever having visited Java are available.