Roelof Benjamin van den Bosch (1810–1862) was a Dutch botanist known for studying

fern A fern (Polypodiopsida or Polypodiophyta ) is a member of a group of vascular plants (plants with xylem and phloem) that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers. The polypodiophytes include all living pteridophytes except ...

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moss Mosses are small, non-vascular flowerless plants in the taxonomic division Bryophyta (, ) '' sensu stricto''. Bryophyta ('' sensu lato'', Schimp. 1879) may also refer to the parent group bryophytes, which comprise liverworts, mosses, and ...

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Works

* ''Bryologia Javanica seu descriptio muscorum frondosorum Archipelagi Indici iconibus illustrata'' - auctoribus F. Dozy et J. H. Molkenboer. Post mortem auctorum edentibus R. B. van den Bosch et C. M. van den Sande Lacoste - E. J. Brill in Lugduni-Batavorum - Leiden, 1855-187
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* ''Prodromus florae batavae'' - Editio altera. Nieuwe lijst der Nederlandsche phanerogamen en vaatkryptogamen. Uitgegeven door de Nederlandsche Botanische Vereniging. Nijmegen, F.E. Macdonald, 1901-1916 * ''Plantae Junghuhnianae'' - Leiden, 1856 * ''Hymenophyllaceae Javanicae, sive Descriptio hymenophyllacearum archipelagi Indici iconibus illustrata'' - Leiden, 1861

Eponyms

* Vandenboschia in the family

Hymenophyllaceae The Hymenophyllaceae, the filmy ferns and bristle ferns, are a family of two to nine genera (depending on classification system) and about 650 known species of ferns, with a subcosmopolitan distribution, but generally restricted to very damp pl ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bosch, Roelof Benjamin van den 1810 births 1862 deaths 19th-century Dutch botanists Dutch pteridologists Dutch bryologists Scientists from Rotterdam