Dutch botanist
Maarten Buysman
Born (1856-01-00 ) January , 1856Died June 1919 (aged 62–63) Scientific career Fields Botany
The gardens at Hotel Nongkodjadjar , 1910, where Buysman worked. KITLV 1404270
Preserved specimen of Acacia implexa Benth. (Black Wattle), from the National Herbarium of New South Wales . It was cultivated by Maarten Buysman in Indonesia.
Maarten Buysman , also spelt Buijsman (1856 –1919), was a Dutch botanist , known for growing, cultivating, and selling plants from across Europe, the Americas, and Indonesia.[ 1] [ 2] He also introduced a significant number of plants from the Americas and Europe to East Java .
Botanical career
Buysman founded a botanical garden in the Dutch city of Middelburg , called the Hortus Plantarum Diaphoricarum or, in English, the Garden of Diverse Plants .[ 3] This garden was run as a business, rather than as a tourist attraction. Buysman cultivated and sold plant specimens grown in the garden, under the title Herbarium Analyticum.[ 3] To acquire plants which he then cultivated and went on to sell, Buysman relied on an international network of collectors from whom he received plant material from around the globe.[ 4] [ 5]
In 1906-1907, Buysman moved to the colonial Dutch East Indies, where he was employed at the Hotel Nongkodjadjar in the Pasuruan Regency .[ 4] There, he set up an experimental garden, and continued to cultivate plants he received from foreign collectors.[ 3] According to the Office of Seed and Plant Introduction , Buysman focused on growing plants at Nongkodjadjar that were hitherto unknown to the region,[ 6] and appears to have been the source of some foreign species introduced to Indonesia, such as Cecropia pachystachya , Salvia tiliifolia , Cenchrus tribuloides , Elymus repens , Bromus sterilis , and Bromus erectus , although not all of these species have persisted.[ 4] [ 3] [ 7] [ 8] [ 9] Backer also ascribed the presence of non-native plants when he visited Nongkodjadjar in 1925, such as Salvia tiliifolia , Calyptocarpus vialis , Melampodium perfoliatum , and Marsypianthes chamaedrys to Buysman's acclimation activities.[ 3] He continued to exchange seed with other collectors, as well as selling plants to overseas buyers.[ 10] He issued at least one catalogue of the plants available from the Nongkodjadjar garden in 1916.[ 11] [ 12]
Although Buysman never named any plant species himself, he collected the holotypes of Crepidium tenggerense (J.J.Sm.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones,[ 13] Hoya tenggerensis Bakh.f.,[ 14] [ 15] Pogostemon hortensis Backer ex Adelb.,[ 16] [ 17] and Pseudophegopteris tenggerensis Holttum,[ 18] [ 19]
While nothing remains of the nursery in Nongkojajar today,[ 20] [ 4] [ 1] botanical specimens collected and distributed by Buysman are held in herbaria across the globe, including the National Herbarium of Victoria ,[ 21] [ 5] the National Herbarium of New South Wales ,[ 21] the Herbarium of the University of Coimbra ,[ 22]
Harvard University Herbaria ,[ 23] Brown University herbarium,[ 24] the Natural History Museum, London ,[ 25] and the herbarium at Kew Gardens .[ 26]
Etymological legacy
Along with better-known botanical interests, he observed[ 27] and collected insects, particularly wasps, around Lawang .[ 28] [ 29] Evelyn Cheesman examined a parasitic wasp collected by Buysman, and named the genus Buysmania in his honour.[ 30]
Publications
References
^ a b M.J. van Steenis Kruseman (2021). "Buysman, Maarten" . Cyclopaedia of Malesian Collectors . Nationaal Herbarium Nederland. Retrieved 7 April 2021 .
^ van Steenis-Kruseman, M.J.; van Steenis, C.G.G.J. (1950). "Malaysian plant collectors and collections being a Cyclopaedia of botanical exploration in Malaysia and a guide to the concerned literature up to the year 1950" . Flora Malesiana . 1 (1): 97.
^ a b c d e Backer, Cornelis Andries (1928). "Verwilderingscentra op Java van uitheemsche planten". De Tropische Natuur . 1 : 58.
^ a b c d Conn, Barry (2012). "The status of Cecropia (Urticaceae) introductions in Malesia: addressing the confusion" . Blumea . 57 (2): 140. doi :10.3767/000651912X657567 .
^ a b Le Get, Rebecca; Macheda, Rita; Pacitti, Eugenia; Vaughan, Luke (September 2021). "An update on the Foreign Collection Project at MEL" (PDF) . Australasian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter (188): 45– 49. Retrieved 8 April 2022 .
^ Fairchild, David (1922). "Inventory of seeds and plants imported by the Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction during the period from January 1 to March 31, 1918 (No. 54; Nos. 45705 to 45971)" (PDF) . Inventory of Seeds and Plants Imported by the Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction During the Period from January 1 to March 31, 1918 (2): 3.
^ Veldkamp, J.F. (2014). "A revision of Cenchrus incl. Pennisetum (Gramineae) in Malesia with some general nomenclatural notes" . Blumea . 59 : 59– 75. doi :10.3767/000651914X684376 .
^ Veldkamp, J.F; Eriks, M.; Smit, S.S. (1991). "Bromus (Gramineae) in Malesia" . Blumea . 35 (2): 483– 497.
^ Veldkamp, J.F; van Scheindelen, H.J (1989). "Australopyrum, Brachypodium, and Elymus (Gramineae) in Malesia" . Blumea . 34 (1): 61– 76.
^ "Kleine Anzeigen" (PDF) . Dörfleria . 1 : 61. 1909. Retrieved 22 December 2023 .
^ "Nursery Catalogues: Asia" (PDF) . Antiquariaat FORUM B.V . Archived from the original on 19 December 2023. Retrieved 19 December 2023 .
^ van Steenis-Kruseman, M.J.; van Steenis, C.G.G.J. (1950). "Malaysian plant collectors and collections being a Cyclopaedia of botanical exploration in Malaysia and a guide to the concerned literature up to the year 1950" . Flora Malesiana . 1 (1): xxiii.
^ Clements, M.A.; Jones, D.L. (1996). "Crepidium myosotis, a new species of Orchidaceae from Papua New Guinea" . Lasianthera . 1 (1): 32– 45. Retrieved 5 January 2024 .
^ "Holotype of Hoya tenggerensis Bakh.f. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]" . Global Plants . JSTOR. 1998. Retrieved 19 August 2023 .
^ Bakhuizen van den Brink, R.C. (1950). "Notes on the Flora of Java, VI" . Blumea . 6 (2): 363– 406.
^ "Holotype of Pogostemon hortensis Backer ex Adelb. [family LABIATAE]" . Global Plants . JSTOR. 1998. Retrieved 19 August 2023 .
^ Adalbert, A.G.L. (1954). "Notes on the flora of Java - VII" . Reinwardtia . 3 (1): 145– 155. doi :10.55981/reinwardtia.1954.963 (inactive 1 November 2024). {{cite journal }}
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^ "Holotype of Pseudophegopteris tenggerensis Holttum [family THELYPTERIDACEAE]" . Global Plants . JSTOR. 2021. Retrieved 6 November 2021 .
^ Holttum, R.E. (1974). "Additions to the Fern Flora of Java" . Reinwardtia . 8 (4): 499– 501. doi :10.55981/reinwardtia.1974.241 (inactive 1 November 2024). {{cite journal }}
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^ Gager, C. Stuart (1938). Botanic gardens of the world . Retrieved 25 May 2021 .
^ a b "The Australasian Virtual Herbarium" . The Australasian Virtual Herbarium . Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (CHAH). 2021. Retrieved 26 March 2021 .
^ "Herbarium of the University of Coimbra" . Herbarium of the University of Coimbra . University of Coimbra. 2021. Retrieved 27 May 2021 .
^ "Brown University Library: Herbarium" . Brown University Library . Brown University. 2021. Retrieved 27 May 2021 .
^ "Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries" . Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries . Harvard University. 2021. Retrieved 27 May 2021 .
^ Natural History Museum's Biodiversity Informatics Group (2024). "Natural History Museum Data Portal" . Natural History Museum . doi :10.5519/qd.6zwxgagt . Retrieved 5 January 2023 .
^ "Kew Royal Botanic Gardens" . Kew Royal Botanic Gardens . Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2021. Retrieved 26 March 2021 .
^ Cockerell, T.D.A. (1914). "The Entomology of Helianthus" . Entomology . 47 : 25– 27. Retrieved 5 January 2024 .
^ van der Vecht, J. (1959). "On Eumenes Arcuatus (Fabricius) and some Allied Indo-australian wasps (Hymenoptera, Vespidae)" . Zoologische Verhandelingen . 41 (1): 1– 71. Retrieved 5 January 2024 .
^ Blöte, H.C. (1931). "Catalogue of the Pyrrhocoridae in 's Rijks Museum van Natuurlijke Historie" . Zoologische Mededelingen . 14 (8): 97– 136. Retrieved 5 January 2024 .
^ Cheesman, L.E. (1941). "II. — Cryptini {formerly Mesostenini) of the Dutch East Indies (Hym. Ich.)" . The Annals and Magazine of Natural History . 7 (37): 25– 27. doi :10.1080/03745481.1941.9727901 . Retrieved 14 July 2023 .
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