About Theodoric Valeton
Lived 1855 – 1929 (aged 73–74). Theodoric Valeton was a Dutch botanist and explorer.
Theodoric Valeton (1855 in Groningen – 1929 in The Hague) was a Dutch botanist.
He studied at the University of Groningen and received his doctorate in 1886. In 1893, he began working at the botanical garden in Bogor, Indonesia and managed its herbarium between 1903 and 1913. Valeton studied Zingiberaceae in Bogor between 1916 and 1919.
He was honoured in the naming of 2 plant taxa; Valetonia (in the Icacinaceae family), which was published in 1888, the name is now a synonym of Pleurisanthes In 1909, Franz Xaver Rudolf von Höhnel published Valetoniella , which is a genus of fungi (in the family Niessliaceae).
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Who was Theodoric Valeton?
Dutch botanist (1855-1929)
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Theodoric Valeton was born in 1855 in Groningen.
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Theodoric Valeton died in 1929 in The Hague.
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Theodoric Valeton was a botanist and explorer.
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Theodoric Valeton was Dutch.
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