SaakovSG

Career

Collecting localities

Collections

Literature

Saakov, Dr Semen G.

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

Born: 1903, Ibilissi, Georgia, U.S.S.R.

career:

Was educated in an Agronomical Highschool; professor, Dr of Biological Sciences in the Komarov Botanical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., Leningrad.

He made expeditions for the investigation of tropical plants in Indonesia, Cuba, etc.

Collecting localities:

Indonesia. Lesser Sunda Islands: Komodo,¹Padar, Rindja, Kode.

collections:

Dried plants in Herb. Bog. [BO]. Seeds and plants for cultivation in the glasshouses at Leningrad.

literature:

(1) Author of ‘On the Flora and Vegetation of the island of Komodo in Indonesia’ (Botan. Zjurn. 50, 1965, p. 1185-1198, 5 photogr.; in Russian).

	Career Collecting localities Collections Literature
	Saakov, Dr Semen G.
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 8: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement II)
	Born: 1903, Ibilissi, Georgia, U.S.S.R.
	career: Was educated in an Agronomical Highschool; professor, Dr of Biological Sciences in the Komarov Botanical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., Leningrad. He made expeditions for the investigation of tropical plants in Indonesia, Cuba, etc.
	Collecting localities: Indonesia. Lesser Sunda Islands: Komodo,¹Padar, Rindja, Kode.
	collections: Dried plants in Herb. Bog. [BO]. Seeds and plants for cultivation in the glasshouses at Leningrad.
	literature: (1) Author of ‘On the Flora and Vegetation of the island of Komodo in Indonesia’ (Botan. Zjurn. 50, 1965, p. 1185-1198, 5 photogr.; in Russian).