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Bayliss, Roy Douglas Abbot (1909-1994)

Date Updated: 19 April 2013

Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
Roy Douglas Abbot
Last name
Bayliss
Initials
R.D.A.
Life Dates
1909 - 1994
Collecting Dates
1950 - 1987
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
BM, BRLU, COI, G, K, LISC, LMJ (currently LMA), M, MO, P, PRE, SRGH
Countries
Southern Africa: Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, ZimbabweTropical Africa: Kenya, TanzaniaEurope: United Kingdom
Associate(s)
Bayliss, A.W.E. (fl. 1958-1975) (co-collector)
Bayliss, Estelle (fl. 1960-1968) (co-collector, wife)
Hardy, David Spencer (1931-1998) (co-collector)
Leach, Leslie Charles (Larry) (1909-1996) (co-collector)
Biography
British military officer and businessman from London who moved to Africa in 1947. He began plant collecting in southern and central Africa during the 1950s after meeting P.R.O. Bally, a specialist in succulents at the Coryndon Museum in Nairobi, and eventually became an official collector for the Botanical Research Institute in South Africa. Taxa named in his honour include Euphorbia baylissii L.C. Leach, Gasteria baylissiana Rauh, Haworthia baylissii C.L. Scott (= Haworthia angustifolia Haw. f. baylissii ( C.L. Scott ) M.B. Bayer), and Sphalmanthus baylissii L. Bolus.
References
Gunn, M. & Codd, L.E. Bot. Explor. S. Afr. (1981): 91;
Bayliss, Roy Douglas Abbot (1909-1994)
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