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    in what is now eastern Indonesia, and is best known for his work Herbarium Amboinense produced in the face of severe personal tragedies, including the...
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    Gardenia jasminoides on the island of Amboina (Ambon), noting in his Herbarium Amboinense around 1700 that it was a "delightful ornament" called catsjopiri...
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    description of a Melaleuca species was written by Rumphius in 1741, in Herbarium amboinense before the present system of naming plants was written. The plant...
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    description solely on Rumphius's description of Casuarina litorea in Herbarium Amboinense and there are no type specimens. Casuarina equisetifolia subsp. equisetifolia...
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    Cambridge, MA. Retrieved 1 January 2024. Rumph, Georg Eberhard (1747). Herbarium amboinense. Amstelaedami. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.569. Retrieved 1 January 2024...
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    Colóquios dos simples e drogas da India published in 1563. In 1741, Herbarium Amboinense by the German botanist Georg Eberhard Rumphius was published, providing...
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    Rumphius described the plants in his most famous work, the six-volume Herbarium Amboinense, a catalogue of the flora of Ambon Island. However, it would not...
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    Ambon Island and described it as Angraecum albus majus in his book Herbarium Amboinense. Linnaeus described it in Species Plantarum giving it the binomial...
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    nten02heyn#page/306/mode/2up -1916- II: 306. Rumpf, G.E. (1743). Herbarium Amboinense: plurimas conplectens arbores, frutices, ... Pars III: 183, Tab....
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    with a reference to an earlier (1747) description by Rumphius in Herbarium Amboinense. The specific epithet (cajuputi) is probably from the Indonesian...
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