SpareGH

Career

Collecting localities

Collections

Literature

Spare, Gordon H.

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

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 5: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement I)

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

Born: England. Died: as a P.O.W. in Siam?

career:

Student Gardener at Kew, who worked in the Herbarium also; from 1929-32 rubber planter in Johore, Malay Peninsula, and then in Perak and Kedah.

He is commemorated in Fagraea sparei Henderson.

Collecting localities:

1929-41. In various parts of the Malay Peninsula: Collected together with C.F. Symington on G. Sibajak, Sumatra East Coast (Nov. 22, 1931); in Johore (on Sungei Tukong Estate, etc.); in Perak, on the tidal banks of the Krian River at Bagan Serai (Jan. 1932); neighbourhood of Sg. Krian in Perak (1939); Kedah (1940).

collections:

Private herbarium (probably lost); Herb. Sing. [SING]: his private coll. of mosses (pres. 1939), and dupl. of the other collections. Collection with C.F. Symington in Herb. Sing., F. nos. [SING]. Also dupl. in Herb. Kew [K];¹ dupl. of mosses to H.N. Dixon. Part of his collections were numbered in the S.F. (= Singapore Field) Number series. Also dupl. in Herb. Edinb. [E], Malay Peninsula 1938.

literature:

(1) Jonker cites a no F. 707, Burmannia coelestis Don, material of which at Kew [K], in a ‘Monograph of the Burmanniaceae’ (Dr’s Thesis, Utrecht 1938) p. 123.

	Career Collecting localities Collections Literature
	Spare, Gordon H.
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors) (Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 5: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement I) (Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 8: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement II)
	Born: England. Died: as a P.O.W. in Siam?
	career: Student Gardener at Kew, who worked in the Herbarium also; from 1929-32 rubber planter in Johore, Malay Peninsula, and then in Perak and Kedah. He is commemorated in Fagraea sparei Henderson.
	Collecting localities: 1929-41. In various parts of the Malay Peninsula: Collected together with C.F. Symington on G. Sibajak, Sumatra East Coast (Nov. 22, 1931); in Johore (on Sungei Tukong Estate, etc.); in Perak, on the tidal banks of the Krian River at Bagan Serai (Jan. 1932); neighbourhood of Sg. Krian in Perak (1939); Kedah (1940).
	collections: Private herbarium (probably lost); Herb. Sing. [SING]: his private coll. of mosses (pres. 1939), and dupl. of the other collections. Collection with C.F. Symington in Herb. Sing., F. nos. [SING]. Also dupl. in Herb. Kew [K];¹ dupl. of mosses to H.N. Dixon. Part of his collections were numbered in the S.F. (= Singapore Field) Number series. Also dupl. in Herb. Edinb. [E], Malay Peninsula 1938.
	literature: (1) Jonker cites a no F. 707, Burmannia coelestis Don, material of which at Kew [K], in a ‘Monograph of the Burmanniaceae’ (Dr’s Thesis, Utrecht 1938) p. 123.