> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 44](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120175) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/187-1) LSID 187-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4718216) QID Q4718216 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Anderson, Alexander (x-1811), British born physician who was superintendent of the St. Vincent botanical garden 1785-1811. **Abbreviated name**: *A. Anderson* \[standard form in IPNI: *A.Anderson*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection CGE|CGE]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection LE|LE]]; drawings at [[Collection LINN|LINN]]. *Ref*.: Urban, Symb. ant. 3: 17. 1902. - Miller, Taxon 19: 511-512. 1970. #### Bibliography and biography BB p. 6; DNB 1: 372; Kew 1: 55. - Anon., Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1892: 94-97. - Urban, Symb. ant. 3: 1, 17. 1902. #### Eponymy *Andersonia* R. Brown (1810, also dedicated to William Anderson (1750-1778), English botanist on Cook's expeditions, and to William Anderson (1766-1846), Scottish botanist). *Note*: *Andersonia* Roxburgh (1832) is dedicated to James Anderson (x-1809), English \[?\] physician in Madras; *Andersoniella* K. J. F. Schmitz (1897) is dedicated to Charles Lewis Anderson (1827-1919), q.v.; *Anderssoniopiper* Trelease (1934) is dedicated to Nils Johan Andersson (1821-1880), q.v.; *Bryoandersonia* H. E. Robinson (1963) is dedicated to Lewis Edward Anderson (1912-x), American botanist.