Henri Antoine Homblé (3 September 1883 – 10 October 1921) was a Belgian agronomist and botanical collector who worked primarily in what was then Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) in Africa, but also in Romania, Algeria and China. He collected numerous herbarium specimens which form an important part of the collection of Meise Botanic Garden.[1] Homblé's plant collections from the Katanga Province between 1911 and 1913 were some of the first from the region, and more than 100 species of African plants are named after him.[2]
Ambiguous labelling of Homblé's collections caused significant confusion in the taxonomy of several plant genera which persisted into the 21st century.[2]
References
edit- ^ "Important Collectors – Meise Botanic Garden". Meise Botanic Garden. Retrieved 21 September 2024.
- ^ a b Robbrecht, E; De Smedt, S; Goetghebeur, P; Stoffelen, P; Verloove, F (2021). "Four flowering plant species described from Katanga (Democratic Republic of the Congo) are based on specimens collected in Guangxi, China". Blumea. 66 (1): 82–92. doi:10.3767/blumea.2021.66.01.04. Retrieved 21 September 2024.
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