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Weakley's Flora

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Collectors of the UNC Herbarium

Wilhelm Nikolaus Suksdorf
(1850-1932)

Information compiled January 2006 by Carol Ann McCormick,
Assistant Curator of the University of North Carolina Herbarium.


The University of North Carolina Herbarium has catalogued to date a single specimen collected by Suksdorf: Atropis tenuifolia Thurb. (now called Poa tenuifolia Buckley), collected in Klickitat County, Washington Territory, on June 6, 1891. How this specimen came to be in the University of North Carolina Herbarium is not known.

WS (Washington State University in Pullman) holds approximately 30,000 of Suksdorf's specimens. According to the Harvard Herbaria Database, other institutions holding Suksdorf's specimens include A, B, BM, BR, BUF, C, CAS, CM, CORD, CUP, DBN, E, F, GH, GOET, K, L, LD, M, MANCH, MICH, MIN, MO, MPU, MSC, NA, NY, NYS, ORE, OSC, P, PH, US (2,000 specimens), WRSL, WSP, WTU.

A short biography of Suksdorf was written by Rhoda M. Love and appeared in the Fall 1998 issue of Pacific Northwest Quarterly.

 


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University of North Carolina Herbarium
CB# 3280, Coker Hall
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3280
phone: (919) 962-6931
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email: herbarium@bio.unc.edu  

Last Updated: 3 January 2006