Career

Collections

Literature

 

Marcovitch, Prof. Dr B.B.

 

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

 

career:

Chief of the Subtropical Division of the Institute of Applied Botany, Leningrad, paid a visit to Buitenzorg (Java) during August and September 1926, making a study of tropical crops.1

 

collections:

He collected Polygonum pulchrum Blume at Sabang, P.Wé (= Weh) (July 29, 1926); specimen in Herb. Bog. [BO]. Probably he collected other plants too, but presented the above-mentioned plant to the Buitenzorg Herbarium, as Danser at that time was engaged on the monograph of the Malaysian Polygonaceae.

 

literature:

(1) cf. Dammerman in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buit. 45, 1935, p. 47.