C. Wilford
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Name
Charles Wilford
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Dates
- 1893
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Roles
Collector
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Movement Details
China, Hong Kong, Japan, Sierra Leone, Korea
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Notes
Not referenced at data migration
From web site: http://www.barnes-botany.co.uk/explore_japan.html (consulted 29 Apr 2014:
From about 1854, Charles Wilford (?-1893) was an assistant in the Herbarium at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. In 1857, however, he found himself seeking plants in Hong Kong, moving to Taiwan the following year and to Korea and Japan in 1859. Wilford was perhaps the first Western botanist to collect on the island of Tsushima, which lies between western Japan and South Korea. He also collected at Hakodate in Hokkaido. No living plant introductions are attributed to him; his dried collections are at Kew, and were later studied by Maximowicz, among others. Plants which commemorate him include Sorbus wilfordii (now included in S. commixta var. rufoferruginea), Geranium wilfordii, the fern Dictyocline wilfordii and Tripterygium wilfordii, a seldom-cultivated scrambling shrub in the Celastraceae. -
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