Theodoric Valeton (1855 in Groningen – 1929 in The Hague) was a Dutch botanist. He studied at the

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and received his doctorate in 1886. In 1893, he began working at the

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, Indonesia and managed its herbarium between 1903 and 1913. Valeton studied

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in Bogor between 1916 and 1919. He was honoured in the naming of 2 plant taxa; ''Valetonia'' (in the

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family), which was published in 1888, the name is now a synonym of '' Pleurisanthes'' In 1909,

Franz Xaver Rudolf von Höhnel Franz Xaver Rudolf von Höhnel (24 September 1852 – 11 November 1920) was an Austrian bryologist, mycologist, and algologist, brother of explorer Ludwig von Höhnel (1857–1942).Ronald E. Coons and Pascal James Imperato, eds. ''Over La ...

published '' Valetoniella'' , which is a genus of fungi (in the family Niessliaceae).

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