Career

Collecting localities

Collections

Literature

Biographical data

 

Salvoza, F.M.

 

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

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

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

 

Born: 1892, Polillo, Tayabas, P.I. (Felipe Salvoza)

 

career:

He is probably identical with Felipe Salvoza, from 1915-16 Principal Teacher at Infanta Int. School, Tayabas; 1918-26 Ranger, and after study at the State College at New York, Forest Officer since 1930. In 1924 he started a collection of lianas. 

Author of several sylvicultural papers.1

Author of ‘Lexicon of Philippine Trees’ (For. Prod. Res. Inst. Bull. no 1, 1963, 136 pp.).

 

Collecting localities:

In 1947/48 he collected plants on Mt Makiling in Luzon, and in Polillo and Palasan Island.

 

collections:

Collector in the F.B. series (see sub Forestry Bureau, Manila); cf. sub Philippine National Herbarium; Herb. Manila [PNH].

 

literature:

(1) F. Salvoza: ‘Leaflet of Philippine Dipterocarps’ (Makiling Echo 11, 1932, p. 73-116); ‘The Dipterocarps in Pangil, Laguna’ (Nat. & Appl. Sci. Bull. Univ. Philip. 5, 1936, p. 419-448); etc.

 

biographical data:

For F. Salvoza cf. Nat. Res. Counc. P.I. Bull. 7, 1935, p. 888, incl. bibliogr.