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A shallow specimen drawer of mounted sheets pulled open
Portrait plate · HB.PORT.14
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Adaeze Nwosu

1931 — 2009 · active 1958 to 1991

Pteridologist. Collected chiefly in the western Highlands and the Faroes, with a late series from the Cameroon highlands. 2,204 sheets held here, of which 61 are types.

Expeditions
  1. Glen Affric and Strathfarrar218 sheets · Polypodiopsida, Cyperaceae
  2. Faroe Islands146 sheets · Bryophyta, Polypodiopsida
  3. Torridon92 sheets · Polypodiopsida
  4. Cameroon highlands311 sheets · mixed, 18 types
Selected sheets
A single pressed fern frond on a pale mount
Polystichum aculeatumHB.4417
A dried seed head against a khaki ground
Equisetum sylvaticumHB.4502
Bright green moss growing on a grey stone
Polytrichum communeHB.4511