Frederik Hendrik Endert (1891 in

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– 1953 in

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) was a Dutch botanist and plant collector.Frederik Hendrik Endert
Nationaal Herbarium Nederland. In 1915, Endert was appointed a Forest Officer in the Dutch East Indies Forest Service. From 1918 he worked closely with the Forest Research Institute at Buitenzorg (now

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. In 1925, Endert accompanied a plant collecting expedition to central

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(Midden-Oost-Borneo-Expeditie), during which he collected '' Nepenthes fusca'' and ''

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'' for the first time. In 1938 he was stationed at

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in southwestern Sulawesi, tasked with the supervision of the forests. In 1941 he was appointed Secretary of the Committee for Economic Plants. In May 1949, Endert returned to the Forest Research Institute at Buitenzorg to compile information on

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n timber varieties. He retired in 1952, and travelled to the

in July of the same year. Endert died in 1953 in

, North Holland. A number of plants from the

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are named after him, including the tree genus '' Endertia''.

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Nationaal Herbarium Nederland: Forest Research Institute, Buitenzorg
1891 births 1953 deaths 20th-century Dutch botanists People from Semarang Dutch people of the Dutch East Indies {{Netherlands-botanist-stub