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Dendrobium williamsonii
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Scrapbook: |
13 |
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Date: |
1868 |
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Distribution: |
Assam |
John Day’s nephew, Captain W J Williamson, collected this
plant for him in Assam in February 1868. The botanist H G Reichenbach
subsequently named the species in his honour in ‘acknowledgement
of the most useful services rendered both to horticulture and to
science, by the gentleman’. Williamson was a British army
officer stationed in North-east India, who sent choice plants back
to Day for over 20 years, until his early death, probably from malaria,
in 1883.
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