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    Nathaniel Wolff Wallich FRS FRSE (28 January 1786 – 28 April 1854) was a surgeon and botanist of Danish origin who worked in India, initially in the Danish...
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    the genus Catreus. The scientific name commemorates Danish botanist Nathaniel Wallich. These birds lack the color and brilliance of most pheasants, with...
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  • banker; father of Paul Wallich Nathaniel Wallich (1786–1854), Danish botanist and surgeon; father of George Charles Wallich Wallich's pheasant (a.k.a. cheer...
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  • Nathaniel Beverley Tucker (1784–1851), American author and Virginia political activist Nathaniel Wallich (1786–1854), surgeon and botanist Nathaniel Watson...
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    East Indian plants) published in 1830–1832 by the Danish botanist Nathaniel Wallich. Plantae Asiaticae Rariores was published in London, Paris and Strassburg...
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    Bengal in Kolkata (Calcutta), India, in 1814. The founder curator was Nathaniel Wallich, a Danish botanist. It has six sections comprising thirty five galleries...
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    Vossia cuspidata (category Taxa named by Nathaniel Wallich)
    Plant Families Wallich, Nathaniel & Griffith, William. 1836. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 5: 572-574 in Latin Wallich, Nathaniel & Griffith,...
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    Leycesteria (category Taxa named by Nathaniel Wallich)
    Leycesteria is a genus of flowering plants in the honeysuckle family Caprifoliaceae. It includes seven species native to the Himalayas of northern Pakistan...
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    Alexander Bruce who was in Sadiya, samples were sent to botanist Nathaniel Wallich who mistook it for camellia kissi. It was not until over a decade...
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    Panax pseudoginseng (category Taxa named by Nathaniel Wallich)
    Panax pseudoginseng is a species of plant in the family Araliaceae, native to Nepal and Tibet. Common names include pseudoginseng, Nepal ginseng and Himalayan...
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    formed by the staff of the Botanic Gardens under the direction of Dr. Nathaniel Wallich, and distributed in 1829 to the principal museums of Europe. The Calcutta...
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    Engelhardia roxburghiana (category Taxa named by Nathaniel Wallich)
    Engelhardia roxburghiana is a tree in the family Juglandaceae. It is named for the Scottish botanist William Roxburgh. Engelhardia roxburghiana grows as...
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    Strophanthus gratus (category Taxa named by Nathaniel Wallich)
    Strophanthus gratus is a plant in the dogbane family Apocynaceae. Strophanthus gratus is a woody liana that can grow up to 25 metres (80 ft), with a trunk...
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    specific epithet wallichianum honours the Danish plant hunter Dr Nathaniel Wallich (1786-1854). Various cultivars have been selected, including Rozanne='Gerwat'...
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  • Wightia (plant) (category Taxa named by Nathaniel Wallich)
    Wightia is a genus of flowering plants tentatively sister to the Phrymaceae which currently contains only two species. It grows as a tree, or a hemiepiphytic...
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    specific epithet wallichiana refers to the 19th century Danish botanist Nathaniel Wallich. A popular plant in cultivation, it has gained the Royal Horticultural...
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  • Euonymus frigidus (category Taxa named by Nathaniel Wallich)
    Euonymus frigidus (synonym Euonymus assamicus) is a species of plant in the family Celastraceae. It is native to China, the Himalayas, Assam and Myanmar...
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    and geological specimens since 1796 and set up a museum in 1814. Nathaniel Wallich, the first Superintendent of the "Museum of the Asiatic Society",...
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    Picea smithiana (category Taxa named by Nathaniel Wallich)
    Picea smithiana is a species of evergreen tree in the family Pinaceae family. It is referred to by the common names morinda spruce and West Himalayan spruce...
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    Leycesteria formosa (category Taxa named by Nathaniel Wallich)
    encompassed within the region. The genus name Leycesteria was coined by Nathaniel Wallich (one time director of Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta) in honour of...
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    contributions by Dr. Nathaniel Wallich. Carey and Wallich continued to work in the field of botany and in 1834, both Carey and Wallich contributed botanical...
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  • based on collections made by the botanists Francis Hamilton and Nathaniel Wallich of the Calcutta Botanic Garden.[citation needed] On 15 April 1837...
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  • Jasminum calophyllum (category Taxa named by Nathaniel Wallich)
    Jasminum calophyllum is a species of jasmine, in the family Oleaceae. "Jasminum calophyllum". World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP). Royal...
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    Sageretia hamosa (category Taxa named by Nathaniel Wallich)
    Sageretia hamosa is a shrub with grey-brown or dark brown branchlets studded with hook-like thorns It can be found in China provinces Fujian, Guangdong...
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    Rinorea bengalensis (category Taxa named by Nathaniel Wallich)
    Rinorea bengalensis is a species of plant in the family Violaceae. They are seen as understorey trees in wet evergreen forests up to 800 meters in Indomalaya...
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    Gardenia tubifera (category Taxa named by Nathaniel Wallich)
    Gardenia tubifera, also called golden gardenia, is a species of flowering small tree in the family Rubiaceae, native to Asia. It is a small tree, growing...
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    Lonicera ligustrina (category Taxa named by Nathaniel Wallich)
    has received the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. Wallich in Roxburgh, Fl. Ind. 2: 179. 1824. Lonicera ligustrina Wall. Plants of...
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    clearings. The plant was first described scientifically in 1824 by Nathaniel Wallich. The species was introduced into commercial production (as Lilium...
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    Arecaceae. The specific epithet (wallichiana) honors Danish botanist Nathaniel Wallich. It is found in Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar, and Sumatra. It is valued...
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    Polyura geminata (category Taxa named by Nathaniel Wallich)
    Polyura geminata is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is the sole species in genus Polyura. It is a subshrub native to the eastern...
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