PreyerA

Career

Collecting localities

Collections

Literature

Preyer, Dr Axel

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

career:

From Berlin, stayed about 10 months at Buitenzorg (Java), to get acquainted with tropical crops and their cultivation; besides he made researches concerning useful plants.¹

Collecting localities:

1900. Malay Peninsula: Penang (Botanic Garden), Singapore, Blakang Mati; Sumatra East Coast: Deli; W. Java: Buitenzorg, Tjibodas, Priangan Res., Soebang (Krawang); also paying a visit to Centr. & E. Java.²

collections:

Herb. Berl. [B]: 159 nos of useful plants from Hort. Bog.; 393 wood samples in the Show Mus. Berl. He evidently collected weeds too, at least Eryngium foetidum L. from Java, s.n.³

literature:

(1) cf. Verkl. Pl. Tuin Buitenzorg for 1900, p. 30 and Ann. Jard. Bot. Buit. 45, 1935, p. 25.
Author of ‘Viehfutterpflanzen aus Java’ (Tropenpflanzer 1902, no 8).
(2) A. Preyer: ‘Indo-Malayische Streifzüge’ (Leipzig 1903).
(3) cf. Buwalda in Blumea 2, 1936, p. 166.

	Career Collecting localities Collections Literature
	Preyer, Dr Axel
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)
	career: From Berlin, stayed about 10 months at Buitenzorg (Java), to get acquainted with tropical crops and their cultivation; besides he made researches concerning useful plants.¹
	Collecting localities: 1900. Malay Peninsula: Penang (Botanic Garden), Singapore, Blakang Mati; Sumatra East Coast: Deli; W. Java: Buitenzorg, Tjibodas, Priangan Res., Soebang (Krawang); also paying a visit to Centr. & E. Java.²
	collections: Herb. Berl. [B]: 159 nos of useful plants from Hort. Bog.; 393 wood samples in the Show Mus. Berl. He evidently collected weeds too, at least Eryngium foetidum L. from Java, s.n.³
	literature: (1) cf. Verkl. Pl. Tuin Buitenzorg for 1900, p. 30 and Ann. Jard. Bot. Buit. 45, 1935, p. 25. Author of ‘Viehfutterpflanzen aus Java’ (Tropenpflanzer 1902, no 8). (2) A. Preyer: ‘Indo-Malayische Streifzüge’ (Leipzig 1903). (3) cf. Buwalda in Blumea 2, 1936, p. 166.