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Robert Allen Rolfe 1855–1921 British Botanist

By admin | Januar 20, 2010

Robert Allen Rolfe (1855–1921),
a british botanist specialised in Orchidaceae studies,
was the first curator of the Orchid Herbarium at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
at the southwest of London,
which is an UNESCO World Heritage Site since July 2003.
There was quite some kind of resentment between Robert Allen Rolfe and the german botanist Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach,
which resulted in a vast number of multiple descriptions of orchid species.
Robert Allen Rolfe was the founder of the magazine “The Orchid Review”.
His author abbreviation: Rolfe

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7 Responses to “Robert Allen Rolfe 1855–1921 British Botanist”

1. Dendrobium bellatulum Rolfe 1903 | Orchids-Flowers Says:
   Januar 20th, 2010 at 22:06

   [...] Dendrobium bellatulum Rolfe 1903 orchid beauty is in common parlance quite rightly called The Enchanting Dendrobium. The [...]

2. ช่าง ภาพ, ช่าง ภาพ, รูปภาพ, ดอก ไม้, กล้วย ไม้ | ดอกไม้ธรรมชาติ Says:
   Februar 8th, 2010 at 23:40

   [...] แล้วต่อมาในปี ค.ศ.1903 Rolfe ได้ตั้งชื่อพฤกษศาสร์ว่า Dendrobium bellatulum. [...]

3. รอง เท้า นารี เหลือง ตรัง Paphiophedilum leucochilum (Rolfe) Fowlie 1 | ดอกไม้ธรรมชาติ Says:
   März 1st, 2010 at 19:05

   [...] เท้า นารี เหลือง ตรัง (Paphiopedilum leucochilum (Rolfe) Fowlie 1975 มีใบรูปกว้าง 2-3 ชม.และความยาว 8-10 [...]

4. Bulbophyllum graveolens Cirrhopetalum robustum | Orchids-Flowers Says:
   März 30th, 2010 at 18:45

   [...] british botanist Robert Allen Rolfe categorised this spectacular, big orchid as Cirrhopetalum robustum Rolfe 1893, in the year 1912 the [...]

5. Arthur Francis George Kerr Thai Orchid Collector | Orchids-Flowers Says:
   Juli 15th, 2010 at 12:48

   [...] illustrate Thai orchid species and later on in the year 2008 he showed 215 of his illustrations to Robert Allen Rolfe, the famous orchidologist at the Royal Botanical garden at Kew. Rolfe, the director of the Kew [...]

6. Cleisostoma rolfeanum Garay 1972 | Orchids-Flowers Says:
   Juli 27th, 2010 at 08:00

   [...] to Burma (Myanmar) and the North of Thailand, has been named in honour to the English Botanist Robert Allen Rolfe. Flowers of the epiphytic growing Cleisostoma rolfeanum miniature orchid reach a size of just about [...]

7. Bulbophyllum mastersianum J.J.Sm. 1912 | Orchids-Flowers Says:
   August 1st, 2010 at 10:12

   [...] and the Maluku Islands (Indonesia) has been primarily described in 1890 by the British botanist Robert Allen Rolfe as Cirrhopetalum mastersianum. The outstanding flowers get a size up to 5 cm. Flowering period: [...]

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