- Miss
Alice Rumphius, a
woman who
sought a way to make the
world more
beautiful and
found it in
planting lupines in the wild. Miss
Rumphius was inspired...
-
Commons An
interpretation of
Rumphius's Herbarium amboinense (1917) by E.D.
Merrill Rumphius Gedenkboek (1902) [="
Rumphius memorial book" in Dutch] Rumpf...
- this
genus were
described and
introduced to
Europeans by
Georg Eberhard Rumphius. The
common names for this
genus are
rushfoil and croton, but the latter...
- 1563. In 1741,
Herbarium Amboinense by the
German botanist Georg Eberhard Rumphius was published,
providing the most
detailed and
accurate account of durians...
-
lumped together Rumphius' Musa
uranoscopos and Musa '****ang Batu'
under the name Musa troglodytarum, in
spite of the fact that
Rumphius had
noted several...
- and
William Dampier around 1688.
Based on an
account by
Georg Eberhard Rumphius (1705), who had
called the
animal "Cancer crumenatus", Carl
Linnaeus (1767)...
-
Maartyn Houttuyn in 1774. It had
earlier been
described by
Georg Eberhard Rumphius,
among others. The
specific epithet fragrans means "fragrant". Myristica...
- however,
Rumphius'
original work was
later deemed insufficient to
describe the species, so
these names are
nomina nuda. Also
based on
Rumphius' work, Swedish...
- Fox (1958) and Ox-Cart Man (1979), and a
National Book
Award for Miss
Rumphius (1982). Her
books have been
translated into ten languages. For her contribution...
- abortifacient.
Tamarind wood is used to make furniture,
boats (as per
Rumphius) carvings,
turned objects such as
mortars and pestles,
chopping blocks...
