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Wiltens, Henri Maximiliaan Andrée

 

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

 

career:

In 1859 Resident of the Civil Service in the Padang Highlands, Sumatra West Coast; in 1865 Governor of the Moluccas.

Bazzania wiltensii (Sande Lacoste ms. Steph.) Schiffn. was named after him.

 

collections:

Herb. Leiden [L]: Hepaticae and Musci from Sumatra West Coast (1859), and from P. Pandjang (Riouw Archipelago).1

In 1865 he sent plants from the Moluccas to Hort. Bog.

 

literature:

(1) cf. Miquel, Ann. Mus. Bot, Lugd. Bat. vol. l; Verdoorn in ‘Studien über asiatische Jubileae etc.’ (Thesis, Utrecht 1934) p. 93 and 120; Fr. Stephani in ‘Species Hepaticarum’ (Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2e sér., vol. 3, 1903).