Career

Collecting localities

Collections

Literature

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

Born: 1880, Edelsfeld, Germany. Died: in the nineteen-forties, Germany

career:

Protestant missionary of the ‘Neuendettelsauer Missionsgesellschaft’, who worked at Hopoi Station, between Finschhafen and Lae, NE. New Guinea, since 1902.¹

Selaginella zahnii Hieron. was named after him.

Collecting localities:

Former Kaiser-Wilhelmsland, NE. New Guinea: Sattelberg (1904); Yabim near Limbang (1905); and probably elsewhere.

collections:

In Herb. Berlin [B].

literature:

(1) Author of ‘Die Jabim’ (in Neuhauss Deutsch-Neu-Guinea, 3, 1911, p. 289-394).