Career

Collecting localities

Collections

 

Chai, Paul Piang Kong

 

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

 

Born: 1941, Kuching, Sarawak.

 

career:

Graduated at the University of Malaya (Hops Bot.) m 1970. From Jan. 1970 appointed Forest Botanist, Forest Department, Sarawak. He will be engaged on an ecological study of mangrove forest in Sarawak and will continue the preparation of a manual on the non-Dipterocarp trees of Sarawak.

He collects in the series of the Sarawak Forest Department, and accompanied H.P. Nooteboom on his Sarawak exploration in 1970, continuing another week’s collecting after N.’s departure.

 

Collecting localities:

From 1970 onwards throughout Sarawak.

 

collections:

Herb. Sarawak [SAR] and with Nooteboom’s collection in Herb. Leiden [L]. In the ‘S’ series; dupl. in many herbaria.