> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 311](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33265038) of TL-2 Suppl. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/443-1) LSID 443-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21505621) QID Q21505621 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Bang, Miguel|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Bang, Miguel (1853-1936), Danish-born botanical collector, educated in gardening at the Royal Botanical Gardens Kew, to Bolivia 1883 to collect living orchids, also sets of herbarium specimens 1889-1894, later active as a gardener, collecting again, with M. Cardenas, on the Mulford Biological Exploration of the Amazon basin. **Abbreviated name**: *Bang* \[standard form in IPNI: *M.Bang*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection US|US]] (large collections), further material at, [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection C|C]], [[Collection CM|CM]], [[Collection COLO|COLO]], [[Collection CORD|CORD]], [[Collection DBN|DBN]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection F|F]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection HH (sensu TL-2)|HH]], [[Collection ISC|ISC]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection KSC|KSC]], [[Collection L|L]], [[Collection LD|LD]], [[Collection LE|LE]], [[Collection M|M]], [[Collection MANCH|MANCH]], [[Collection MICH|MICH]], [[Collection MIN|MIN]], [[Collection O|O]], [[Collection PH|PH]], [[Collection S|S]], [[Collection TRIN|TRIN]], [[Collection UC|UC]], [[Collection UPS|UPS]] (Lich.), [[Collection USDA|USDA]], [[Collection W|W]], [[Collection WELC|WELC]], [[Collection WRSL|WRSL]], [[Collection WU|WU]]. − This include various parts of *Plantae bolivianae a Miguel Bang lectae*, distr. by N.L. Britton and H.H. Rusby. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 117; BM 1: 95; IH 2: 53. #### Biofile - Cardenas, M., Miguel Bang. The forgotten botanical explorer of Bolivia, not published, type script in the possession of Alfred Hansen, Copenhagen (our source for this biogr. caption). - Fox Maule, A., Bot. Tidsskr. 69: 194. 1974. - Funk, V.A. and S.A. Mori, Smithson. Contr. Bot. 70: 4. 1989 (further refs.). - Herzog, Th., Pfl.-Welt Boliv. Anden 2. 1923 (field and geogr. details insufficient in B's coll.). - Sayre, G., Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 19(3): 287. 1975 (colls.). - Stevenson, J.A., Beih. Nova Hedwigia 36: 31-32. 1971. #### Bolivian plants See H.H. Rusby, *An enumeration of the plants collected in Bolivia* by Miguel Bang with descriptions of new genera and species, Mem. Torrey bot. Club 3(3): 1-67. 28 Apr 1893, 4: 203-274. 1894, 6: 1-130. 1896 and Bull. New York Bot. Gard. 4(4): 309-470. 1907, see TL-2/9819. − *Copies*: B, BR, G, HH, L, M, MICH, MO, NY, U. − See also H.H. Rusby et al., *An enumeration* of the plants collected by Dr. H.H. Rusby in South America 1885-1886... TL-2/9813. #### Field notes NY (field notes and accession books 81 and 82. #### Eponymy The genera *Bangia* Lyngbye (1809), *Bangiella* Gaillon (1833) and *Bangiopsis* Schmitz (1897) were named after Niels Hofman Bang (1776-1855), see Alfred Hansen, Bot. Tidsskrift 69(2-3): 206-207. 1974.