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Description: | Content of collection: Angiospermae and Pteridophyta.
The General Asia Collection of Higher Plants currently consists of approximately 4970 sheets of specimens, including 7 type specimens. The collection contains specimens from 150 families. The collection predominantly contains flowering plants; both monocots and dicots. Approximately 550 sheets hold specimens which belong to Leguminosae. There are also many Euphorbiaceae, Cyperaceae, Caryophyllaceae, Rosaceae, Rubiaceae, Malvaceae, Urticaceae and Compositae, and around 230 sheets of Gramineae. Genera which are well represented in the collection include Hibiscus, Impatiens, Potentilla, Eugenia, Bauhinia, Cyperus, and Panicum. The collection also includes approximately 120 ferns from Malaysia, China and India.
The majority of the specimens in the General Asia Collection were collected between the 1880s and 1920s by eminent people such as Sir David Prain and Sir George King; two Aberdeenshire-born botanists who played key roles in the study of Indian flora. General Asiatic collection specimens were predominantly gathered from India, Burma, and Malaysia, but also from China, Turkey, South Andaman Island and Iran. Many specimens were collected by people involved in the Indian Forest Service and the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta. David Prain served as curator of the Royal Botanic Garden in Calcutta, for instance. He later went on to become the director of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew.
There are several specimens from A.T. Gage's collection of flora from the South Lushai Hills, A.C. Chatterjee's Assam collection, and a collection of Bengal grasses, collected partly by Shaik Mokim. There are also many specimens from the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Malay Peninsula and Sikkim-Himalaya areas, collected mainly by Sir George King or a collector on his behalf.
The 7 type specimens in the collection are: Impatiens parkinsonii, Impatiens sarissiforma, Bauhinia sulphurea, Bauhinia viridescens (isotype), all collected by C.E. Parkinson in Burma, Polygala cardiocarpa, Mahonia borealis (isolectotype) from the Lushai Hills in Assam, and Euonymus longifus, collected by J.H. Lace. | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Address: | King's College,
AB24 3FX | Identifier: | ABDUH:CLD06 | Relation: | ABDUA:CLD00 | Go to resource |
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