Surgeon and botanist of Danish origin who worked in India (1786-1854)
"Wall." redirects here. For the US Supreme Court reporter, see John William Wallace. For other uses, see Wall (disambiguation).
Nathaniel Wulff Wallich
Wallich, from an old lithograph by T. H. Maguire
Born
Nathan ben Wulff
(1786-01-28)28 January 1786
Copenhagen, Denmark
Died
28 April 1854(1854-04-28) (aged 68)
London, England
Alma mater
Royal Academy of Surgeons
Known for
Tentamen Florae Nepalensis Illustratae
Plantae Asiaticae Rariores
Scientific career
Fields
Surgeon
Botanist
Institutions
Royal Academy of Surgeons
East India Company
Oriental Museum of the Asiatic Society
Author abbrev. (botany)
Wall.[1]
Nathaniel Wolff WallichFRS FRSE (28 January 1786 – 28 April 1854) was a surgeon and botanist of Danish origin who worked in India, initially in the Danish settlement near Calcutta and later for the Danish East India Company and the British East India Company. He was involved in the early development of the Calcutta Botanical Garden, describing many new plant species and developing a large herbarium collection which was distributed to collections in Europe. Several of the plants that he collected were named after him.
^Brummitt, R. K.; C. E. Powell (1992). Authors of Plant Names. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. ISBN 1-84246-085-4.
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leaves are submerged. The genus Barclaya Wall. was first published by NathanielWallich in 1827. Though Hydrostemma is a name that is older than the name...
has received the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. Wallich in Roxburgh, Fl. Ind. 2: 179. 1824. Lonicera ligustrina Wall. Plants of...
Arecaceae. The specific epithet (wallichiana) honors Danish botanist NathanielWallich. It is found in Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar, and Sumatra. It is valued...
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Apios carnea is a vine in the Fabaceae family found in Asia in a narrow band from the Himalayas of Nepal across Bhutan, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, China...
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worked for John Lindley and collaborated with Augusta Innes Withers, NathanielWallich and others. Sarah Anne Drake was born in Skeyton, England on 24 July...
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