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### Author
Christophersen, Erling (1898-x), Norwegian botanist, studied at Yale University with Ph.D. in 1924, Fellow with the Bishop Museum, Honolulu 1924-1925, at the University of Oslo on the staff of the Botanic Garden 1925-1929, botanist at the Bishop Museum and professor of botany at Honolulu 1929-1933, from 1933 curator at the Botanical Museum, Oslo, on an expedition to Tristan da Cunha 1937-1938, from 1947 cultural attaché to the Royal Norwegian Embassy at Washington D.C.
**Abbreviated name**: *Christoph.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Christoph.*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection O|O]], further material at [[Collection BISH|BISH]], [[Collection BM|BM]]-Dixon, [[Collection BO|BO]], [[Collection C|C]], [[Collection HH (sensu TL-2)|HH]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection S|S]].
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 1: 346 (b. 17 Apr 1898, Oslo); BL 1: 290 (index), BL 2: 442, 443; GR p. 716; IF suppl. 4: 317; IH 2: 127; Kew 1: 551-552; Kleppa p. 320 (index, 22 refs.); SK 1: 107 (our caption), 5: cclxviii.
#### Biofile
- Anon., Amer. men sci. ed. 6: 250. 1938.
- Christophersen, E., Naturen 11: 321-335. 1934 (Veg. Krakatau), 13: 289-294. 1936 (n.v.).
- Frodin, D.G., Guide standard floras world 582 (index). 1984.
- Merrill, E.D., Bull. Bernice P. Bishop Mus. 144: 66. 1937 (Polynes. bot. bibl.).
#### Composite works
- (1) Continued O.A. Hoffstad, *Norsk flora* (TL-2/2914) as ed. 9, 444 p. 1944.
#### Outside our period
*Nordisk medicinplanter*, Oslo 1943, 69 p., see BL 2: 442.
### Publications
##### n.26.359. plant distribution
**Title**
Soil reaction and *plant distribution* in the *Sylene National Park*, Norway... Trans. Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences... 1925. Oct.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: Dec 1925 (date on cover-t.p.), cover-t.p., p. \[473\]-577. *Copy*: U. – Reprinted and to be cited from Trans. Connecticut Acad. Arts Sci. 27: 473-577. 1925.
##### n.26.360. Hawaiian Pteridophyta
**Title**
Revised list of *Hawaiian Pteridophyta*... Honolulu (The Museum...) 1925. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Hawai. Pteridoph.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1925, p. \[1\]-30. *Copy*: MO. – Issued as Bull. Bernice P. Bishop Mus. no. 21. 1925.
##### n.26.361. Vegetation of Pacific equatorial islands
**Title**
*Vegetation of Pacific equatorial islands*... Honolulu, Hawaii (Published by the \[Bernice P. Bishop\] Museum... 1927). Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Veget. Pacif. equat. isls.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1927, cover-t.p., p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-79, *pl. 1-7* (uncol. phot.). *Copies*: B, G, HH, L, MO, NY. – Issued as Bull. Bernice P. Bishop Mus. no. 44. 1927. – Whippoorwill Expedition Publ. no. 2. – Reprinted 1971 by Kraus Reprint Co., New York.
##### n.26.362. Notes on Joinvillea
**Title**
*Notes on Joinvillea*... Honolulu, Hawaii (Published by the \[Bernice P. Bishop\] Museum) 1931. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Notes Joinvillea*.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 25 Feb 1931 (date on cover-t.p.), cover-t.p. (is p. \[1\]), p. \[2, plate\]-7. *Copy*: L. – Issued as Bernice P. Bishop Mus. Occas. Pap. 9(12). 1931.
##### n.26.363. Vascular plants of Johnston and Wake Islands
**Title**
*Vascular plants of Johnston and Wake Islands*... Honolulu, Hawaii (Published by the \[Bernice P. Bishop\] Museum) 1931. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Vasc. pl. Johnst. Isls.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: Mai 1931 (date on p. \[1\]), p. \[1\]-20. *Copy*: L. – Tanager Expedition publ. no. 6. – Issued as Bernice P. Bishop Mus. Occas. Pap. 9(13). 1931. – See also BL 1: 111.
##### n.26.364. Vascular plants of the Leeward Islands
**Title**
*Vascular plants of the Leeward Islands* Hawaii... Honolulu, Hawaii (Published by the \[Bernice P. Bishop\] Museum) 1931. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Vasc. pl. Leeward Isls.*
**Notes**
*Co-author*: Edward Leonard Caum (1893-x).
*Publ*.: 1 Jul 1931 (date on p. \[i\]; Nat. Nov. Jul 1933), cover-t.p., p. \[i-iii\], \[1\]-41, *pl. 1-16 *(uncol. phot.). *Copies*: HH, MO, U. – Issued as Bull. Bernice P. Bishop Mus. no. 81. 1931. – See also BL 1: 111.
*Ref*.: St. John, H., Bernice P.Bishop Mus Occas. Pap. 11(14): 1-4. 1935.
##### n.26.365. Wikstroemia sericea
**Title**
*Wikstroemia sericea* sp. nov.... Reprinted from G.P. Wilder: Flora of Rarotonga. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bull. 86... 1931. Oct.
**Notes**
*Author of Flora*: Gerrit Parmile Wilder (1863-1935), see TL-2/7: 292.
*Publ*.: 1931, p. \[i\] recto of p. 78, p. 78, *pl. 6* (uncol. phot.). *Copy*: L. – Reprinted from G.P. Wilder, Bull. Bernice P. Bishop Mus. no. 86: 78, *pl. 6.* 1931.
##### n.26.366. collection
**Title**
A *collection* of plants from the *Galapagos Islands*... Saertryk ur Nyt Magazin for Naturvidenskaberne... 1932. Oct.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 25 Jan 1932 (p. 95: date of printing), cover-t.p., p. \[67\]-95, \[96\], *pl*. \[*1*\] (uncol. draw.).
*Copy*: L. – Reprinted and to be cited from Nyt Mag. Naturvidensk. B-70: 67-96, *pl. 1.* 1932. – See also Blake 1: 109.
##### n.26.367. new Hawaiian Abutilon
**Title**
A *new Hawaiian Abutilon*... Honolulu, Hawaii (Published by the \[Bernice P. Bishop\] Museum) 1934. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *New Abutilon*.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 5 Mai 1934 (date on p. \[1\]), p. \[1\]-7. *Copy*: L. – Issued as Bernice P. Bishop Mus. Occas. Pap. 10(5). 1934.
##### n.26.368. Plants of Gough Islands
**Title**
*Plants of Gough Islands* (Diego Alvarez)... Oslo (I Kommisjon hos Jacob Dybwad) 1934. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Pl. Gough Isls.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 29 Sep 1934 (date of printing on p. 16), cover-t.p., p. \[1\]-16. *Copies*: G, L, NY, U. – Issued by Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi i Oslo, Scientific Results of the Norwegian Antarctic Expeditions 1927-1928... no. 13. 1934. – See also BL 1: 92.
##### n.26.369. Krakataus nye vegetasjon
**Title**
*Krakataus nye vegetasjon*... Naturen 1934. Oct.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1934, cover (identif.), p. \[321\]-325. *Copy*: L. – Reprinted and to be cited from Naturen 11: 321-325. 1934.
##### n.26.370. Botanical exploration
**Title**
*Botanical exploration* of *Samoa*... \[Fifth Pacific Science Congress... 1934\]. Oct.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1934, p. 3325-3327. *Copy*: L. – Reprinted and to be cited from Proc. 5th Pacific Sci. Congr. 4: 3325-3327. 1934.
##### n.26.371. Flowering plants of Samoa
**Title**
*Flowering plants of Samoa* \[I\]-II... Honolulu, Hawaii (Published by the \[Bernice P. Bishop\] Museum) 1935-1938. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Fl. pl. Samoa*.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: \[*1*\]: 21 Feb 1935 (date on cover-t.p.; Nat. Nov. Jul 1935), cover-t.p., p. \[i\*\], i-iii, \[3\]-221. – Issued as Bull. Bernice P. Bishop Mus. no. 128. 1935.
\[*2*\]: 5 Aug 1938 (id.), cover-t.p., p. \[i\*\], i, \[3\]-77, *pl. 1-3* (uncol. phot.). – Id. no. 154. 1938.
*Copies*: HH, L, MO, U.
*Note*: See also BL 1: 127.
##### n.26.372. Plants of Tristan da Cunha
**Title**
*Plants of Tristan da Cunha*... Oslo (I Kommisjon hos Jacob Dybwad) 1937. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Pl. Tristan da C.*
**Notes**
*With the cooperation of*: Carl Christensen (1872-1942), Hugh Neville Dixon (1861-1944), Bernt Lynge (1884-1942).
*Publ*.: 20 Feb 1937 (date of printing on p. \[20\]), p. \[1\]-19, \[20, imprint\]. *Copies*: HH, L, U. – Issued by Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi i Oslo, Scientific Results of the Norwegian Antarctic Expeditions 1927-1928... no. 16. 1937. – See also BL 1: 92.
##### n.26.373. Blomster fra fjord og fjell
**Title**
*Blomster fra fjord og fjell*... Oslo 1937. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Blomst. fjord fjell*.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1937 (Nat. Nov. Feb (1,2) 1939), p. \[1\]-111, *16 pl*. *Copy*: O. – See Kleppa p. 245.
##### n.26.374. Ranunculus crassipes
**Title**
On *Ranunculus crassipes* and other plants from Kerguelen... Oslo (I Kommisjon hos Jacob Dybwad) 1940. Oct.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 29 Nov 1940 (date of printing on p. 8), p. \[1\]-8. *Copy*: U. – Issued by Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi i Oslo, Scientific Results of the Norwegian Antarctic Expeditions 1927-1928... no. 19. 1940.