Career

Collecting localities

Collections

 

Turnbull, John Wright

 

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 8: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement II)

 

Born: 1940, England.

 

career:

ook his B.Sc. (Hons) in Forestry (Bangor, Wales) 1962; Forestry Officer, South Australia Woods and Forests Department (1962-65); since 1965 Genetics Section, Forest Research Institute, Canberra, Australia.

He made seed collections in western U.S.A. (1968) and in the Philippines (1969).

 

Collecting localities:

1969. Philippines. Luzon (Mar.-Apr.): provinces Ilocos Norte, Abra, Bontoc, Benguet, Pangasinan, Nueva Vizcaya and Zambales; W. Mindoro (Apr.).

The entire natural distributions of Pinus insularis and P. merkusii.

 

collections:

Botanical samples and seed of above-mentioned Pinus species; in FRI Herb. Canberra [FRI].