Career

Collecting localities

Collections

Literature

 

Wolfe, E.D.B.

 

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

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 5: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement I)

 

career:

Doctor in the Malayan Medical Service, who occasionally collected plants. In 1956 Deputy Director, Medical Services, Federation of Malaya.

Petraeovitex wolfei J. Sinclair, which he brought home as a living plant from Kedah, was named after him.1

 

Collecting localities:

Malay Peninsula. Before 1942 in the northern part, e.g. Kedah (1938); after 1945 in Johore and possibly in Kelantan.

 

collections:

Herb. Sing. [SING]: small collections.

 

literature:

(1) Cf. Gard. Bull. Sing. 15, 1956, p. 18-20, fig. 2.