Benedictus Hubertus Danser (24 May 1891,

Schiedam Schiedam () is a large town and municipality in the west of the Netherlands. It is located in the Rotterdam–The Hague metropolitan area, west of the city Rotterdam, east of the town Vlaardingen and south of the city Delft. In the south, Schi ...

– 18 October 1943,

Groningen Groningen ( , ; ; or ) is the capital city and main municipality of Groningen (province), Groningen province in the Netherlands. Dubbed the "capital of the north", Groningen is the largest place as well as the economic and cultural centre of ...

), often abbreviated B. H. Danser, was a Dutch

taxonomist In biology, taxonomy () is the science, scientific study of naming, defining (Circumscription (taxonomy), circumscribing) and classifying groups of biological organisms based on shared characteristics. Organisms are grouped into taxon, taxa (si ...

and

botanist Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who s ...

. Danser specialised in the plant families

Loranthaceae Loranthaceae, commonly known as the showy mistletoes, is a family of flowering plants. It consists of about 75 genera and 1,000 species of woody plants, many of them hemiparasites. The three terrestrial species are '' Nuytsia floribunda'' (the ...

, Nepenthaceae, and

Polygonaceae The Polygonaceae are a Family (biology), family of flowering plants known Common name, informally as the knotweed family or smartweed—buckwheat family in the United States. The Botanical name, name is Basionym, based on the genus ''Polygonum'', ...

. In 1928, Danser published an exhaustive revision of the genus ''

Nepenthes ''Nepenthes'' ( ) is a genus of carnivorous plants, also known as tropical pitcher plants, or monkey cups, in the monotypic family Nepenthaceae. The genus includes about 170 species, and numerous natural and many cultivated hybrids. They are m ...

'', recognising 65 species in "

The Nepenthaceae of the Netherlands Indies "The Nepenthaceae of the Netherlands Indies" is a seminal monograph by B. H. Danser on the Nepenthes, tropical pitcher plants of the Dutch East Indies and surrounding regions. It was originally published in the ''Bulletin du Jardin Botanique de Bu ...

". While nowadays more than 140 species of ''Nepenthes'' are known,McPherson, S.R. 2011. '' New Nepenthes: Volume One''. Redfern Natural History Productions, Poole. Danser's work is still referenced by specialists in the field.Clarke, C.M. 2006. Introduction. In: Danser, B.H. ''The Nepenthaceae of the Netherlands Indies''. Natural History Publications (Borneo), Kota Kinabalu. pp. 1–15. Danser died in Groningen on 18 October 1943. The genus '' Dansera'' (

Fabaceae Fabaceae () or Leguminosae,International Code of Nomen ...

) and the species '' Nepenthes danseri'' ( Nepenthaceae), '' Rumex danseri'' (

) and '' Taxillus danseriana'' (

) are named after him.

References

* Jansen, P. & W.H. Wachter 1943. In memoriam Benedictus Hubertus Danser. ''Nederlandsch Kruidkundig Archief'' 53: 129–132, 133–136. 1891 births 1943 deaths 20th-century Dutch botanists Dutch taxonomists People from Schiedam {{Netherlands-botanist-stub

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