Career

Collecting localities

Collections

 

Moraux-Baas Becking, Louise Hermine

 

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

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

 

Born: 1881, Brummen, Gld, Netherlands. Died: 1969, Renkum, Gld., Netherlands.

 

career:

Was a horticultural student in a nursery at Naarden-Bussum; subsequently Assistant and later Custodian of Prof. Valckenier Suringar at Wageningen, where she regularly attended college. In 1921 she married A. Moraux and followed her husband to Sumatra, East Coast, where she laid out a garden which harboured a living collection of plants. After World War II she was evacuated to Holland.

 

Collecting localities:

Sumatra East Coast. 1922. Bata Rata.-1923. Serdang (Batu Lokong), Brastagi, Karo Highland, Gallia Estate (Serdang), Batu Rata.- 1924. Batu Rata, Brastagi, Sibajak, Lau Deboek Deboek.-1925. Sibolangit (Apr.).-1928. Batu Rata.

 

collections:

Herb. Wageningen [WAG]: 22 plants, mostly common species.