Career

Collections

 

Sikin

 

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

 

career:

A native of New Ireland (Bismarck Archipelago), who together with Takadu (see there) collected many plants on behalf of Schlechter, when the latter was in New Guinea from 1907-09.

Dendrobium sikini Schltr. was named after him (cf. Backer, Verkl. Woordenb., 1936).

 

collections:

Herb. Schlechter = in Herb. Berl. [B], etc. (see sub Schlechter).