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### 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.