Career

Collecting localities

Collections

Biographical data

 

Klemme, Wilhelm

 

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

 

Born: 1869.

 

career:

German forest officer, educated at Cornell University (U.S.A.); in the employ of the Forestry Bureau, Manila, P.I., 1902-18; in 1916 for some months acting Director of the same Institute.

Dysoxylum klemmei Merr. and other Philippine plants were named after him.

 

Collecting localities:

Philippine Islands: Luzon (c. 1903-06), Prov. of Tayabas etc.

 

collections:

Herb. Manila [PNH], numbered in the F.B. (cf. sub Forestry Bureau) series. Duplicates in Herb. Berl. [B]; U.S. Nat. Herb. Wash. [US]: 121 P.I. plants; Herb. Leiden [L].

 

biographical data:

Plant Life 2,1946,p.66.