Georg Eberhard Rumphius
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Georg Eberhard Rumphius (1628-1702) was a Dutch company director and botanist, best known for his authorship of Herbarium Amboinense, a catalogue of the plants of the island of Ambon (then in the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia), published posthumously in 1741.
The formal botanical author abbreviation Rumph. is applied to plants he described.
fr:Georg Everhard RumphiusCategories: People stubs | 1628 births | 1702 deaths | Botanists active in the Pacific | Botanists with author abbreviations | Dutch botanists | Mycologists | Pre-Linnaean botanists

