Career

Collecting localities

Collections

 

Comber, Jim B.

 

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

 

career:

Student gardener at Kew from Apr. 1951 until 1955. He then went to Sapong Estate, near Tenom, Sabah (N. Borneo).

 

Collecting localities:

? All from the Tenom area, Sabah, rather few in number. 

 

collections:

According to Mr L. Forman (Kew) his 1964 collections range from nos 100-162; list for 1965 for nos between 4001-4194, including many ferns. At Kew [K].

In 1964 he sent some living plants to Kew Gardens.