Sijfert Hendrik Koorders (1863 – 1919) was a
Dutch botanist
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, who worked primarily on the flora of Java.
Life
Koorders was born in
Bandung,
Dutch East Indies
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on 29 November 1863. In 1881 he graduated from the
Hogere Burgerschool in
Haarlem
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in the Netherlands. He then pursued advanced studies in forestry at the Royal Prussian Forestry and Hunting Academy in Neustadt Eberswalde, as well as attending classes at the
University of Tübingen
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and the
National Agricultural School in Wageningen. In 1885 he became a forest officer for the Dutch East Indies Forest Service in Java. In 1892 he became a curator at the Herbarium Bogoriense in
Bogor
Bogor City (), or Bogor (, ), is a landlocked city in the West Java, Indonesia. Located around south of the national capital of Jakarta, Bogor is the 6th largest city in the Jakarta metropolitan area and the 14th overall nationwide. , Java, Indonesia, where he deposited approximately 40,000 specimens. In 1912 he founded the Dutch East Indies Association for Nature Protection.
Legacy
He is the authority for at least 648
taxa
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including:
Several taxa are named in his honor including:
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Begonia koordersii''
Warb. ex L.B.Sm. & Wassh.
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Calamus koordersianus''
Becc.
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Freycinetia koordersiana''
Martelli
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Habenaria koordersii''
J.J.Sm.
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Koordersiella''
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Koordersiodendron pinnatum''
( Blanco) Merr.
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Myristica koordersii''
Warb.
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Pandanus koordersii''
Martelli
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Phreatia koordersii''
Rolfe
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Polyscias koordersii''
( Harms) Frodin
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Pomatocalpa koordersii''
Rolfe J.J.Sm.
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Quercus koordersii''
Seemen
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Heptapleurum koordersii''
( Harms) Lowry & G.M.Plunkett
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Trichoglottis koordersii''
Rolfe
References
1863 births
1919 deaths
19th-century Dutch botanists
Dutch people of the Dutch East Indies
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