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> [!example] See also [[Broome, Christoph Edmund (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author
### Author
Broome, Christopher Edmund (1812-1886), British mycologist, collaborated with M.J. Berkeley.
**Abbreviated name**: *Broome* \[standard form in IPNI: *Broome*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection BM|BM]] (40.000), duplicates at [[Collection CGE|CGE]], [[Collection K|K]] and [[Collection PC|PC]]. Botanical correspondence is also at [[Collection BM|BM]].
*Ref*.: BB p. 47; IH 2: 100.
- Anon., Hist. coll. Nat. Hist. Depts. Brit. Mus. 137. 1904.
- Riddelsdell, Fl. Gloucestershire cxx. 1948.
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 1: 258; BB p. 47; BM 1: 258; Bossert p. 54; CSP 1: 655, 7: 274, 9: 366, 12: 125, 13: 838; GR p. 368; HR; Kew 1: 386; LS 4150-4155c.
- Anon., Proc. Linn. Soc. 1886/7: 34-35. 1887.
- Murray, J. Bot. 25: 148-150. 1887 (bibl.)
- Winter, Hedwigia 26(2): 40. 1887.
- Babington, Memorials 269. 1897.
- White, Fl. Bristol 82-83. 1912.
#### Eponymy
*Broomeia* Berkeley (1844); *Broomella* P. A. Saccardo (1883); *Broomeola* O. Kuntze (1891); *Neobroomella* Petrak (1947). *Note*: *Broomea* Cookson & Eisenack (1958) is dedicated to Broome, a palaeobotanical collector in Australia, about whom we have no further data.