Wilford, Charles (-1893)

Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
Charles
Last name
Wilford
Initials
C.
Life Dates
- 1893
Collecting Dates
1857 -
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
K (main), B, BM, CAL, CGE, DBN, E, GH, GOET, LE, M, P, PH, W
Countries
Chinese region: China, Hong Kong, TaiwanTropical Africa: Guinea-Bissau, Sierra LeoneJapanese region: Japan, North Korea
Biography
From about 1854, Charles Wilford was an assistant in the herbarium at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. In 1857 he collected plants in Hong Kong, moving to Taiwan the following year and to Korea and Japan in 1859.

Wilford was perhaps the first Western botanist to collect on the island of Tsushima, which lies between western Japan and South Korea. He also collected at Hakodate in Hokkaido. His original dried collections are at Kew and were studied by C.J. Maximowicz, among others. Plants which commemorate him include Geranium wilfordii, the fern Dictyocline wilfordii J.Sm. and Tripterygium wilfordii Hook.f., a scrambling shrub in the Celastraceae family. Wilford died in Wimbledon.

Sources:
P. Barnes, 2001, "Japan's botanical sunrise", Curtis's Botanical Magazine, 18(1): 117-131
J.H. Barnhart, 1965, Biographical Notes Upon Botanists, 3: 496.
References
Hepper, F.N. & Neate, F., Pl. Collectors W. Africa (1971): 85; Jackson, B.D., Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew (1901): 69; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. T-Z (1988): 1157;
Wilford, Charles (-1893)
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