Career

Collecting localities

Collections

 

Wiljes-Hissink, Elisabeth Adrienne de

 

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

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

 

Born: 1910, Batavia, Java.

 

career:

Studied horticulture at Wageningen Agricultural College; in 1938 she married H.O. de Wiljes and left for the D.E.I.

 

Collecting localities:

1938-41. Sumatra East Coast: at Bindjei, Brastagi, Prapat.-1946-48. E. Borneo: Samarinda; SW. Celebes: Kalosi, Pinrang; Moluccas: Ambon.

 

collections:

Ambon plants (coll. 1947-48), 105 nos, in Herb. Leiden [L]; some dupl. in Herb. Arn. Arbor. [A]. Other collections lost. In Herb. Wageningen [WAG]: 35 nos collected in Ambon and Ceram (Seram).