Career

Collecting localities

Collections

Literature

 

Pelenkahoe, O. J.

 

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

 

Died: in or before 1873.

 

career:

Major (native officer of the Civil Service) of Tonsea in the Minahassa (N. Celebes), gave assistance to Teysmann and de Vriese when they travelled in that part of the island in 1860. Probably afterwards transferred to Ambon. He climbed G. Klabat in 1850.1

 

Collecting localities:

N. Celebes: Minahassa; Moluccas: Ambon.

 

collections

Herb. Bog. [BO] (material from Ambon pres. in 1869), partly numbered in the H.B. series. He sent living plants to Hort. Bog. (cf. Nat. Tijdschr. N.I. 32, 1873, p. 163 and 168); in the years 1865-66 from Celebes.

 

literature:

(1) cf. Meded. ‘s Lands Plantentuin no 19, 1898, p. 38.