Career

Collecting localities

Collections

Biographical data

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

career:

Mining engineer, in 1902 stationed at Moeara Tewe on the Upper Barito in SE. Borneo. Dendrobium grootingsii J.J.Sm. was named after him.

Collecting localities:

SE. Borneo (1902); Centr. Sumatra: Djambi, near Moeara Tebo (1910).

collections:

Living orchids in Hort. Bog.; some described by J.J. Smith and preserved in Herb. Bog. [BO].

biographical data:

Backer, Verkl. Woordenb., 1936.