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### Author
Colenso, William (1811-1899), British born New Zealand printer, missionary, ethnologist and botanist.
**Abbreviated name**: *Colenso* \[standard form in IPNI: *Colenso*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection K|K]] and [[Collection WELT|WELT]] (20.000), hepatics via Stephani at [[Collection G|G]].
*Ref*.: IH 1 (ed. 6): 357, 2: 133.
- Candolle, Phytographie 404. 1880 (plants at TCD).
- Stephani, J. Linn. Soc, Bot. 29: 263-280. 1892 (rev. of Hepatics.)
- Clokie, Account herbaria Oxford 147. 1961.
- Hedge and Lamond, Index coll. Edinburgh 70. 1970.
- Hamlin, New Zealand J. Bot. 9(4): 695-698 (1971) (bryoph.).
- Sayre, Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 19(3): 305. 1975.
#### Bibliography and biography
AG 3: 58; Barnhart 1: 366; BB p. 69; BL 2: 78, 80; BM 1: 364, 6: 218; CSP 2: 13, 7: 415, 9: 550, 14: 302; GR p. 369; IF p. 690-691; Kew 1: 578; LS 5430-5444, 32193; PR 1783-1784; Quenstedt p. 86.
- Mueller, J. Linn. Soc. 32: 197-208. 1896.
- Anon., Proc. Linn. Soc. London 1898/9: 51-52. 1899.
- Anon., Nature 59: 420. 1899.
- Hector, Trans. Proc. New Zealand Inst. 31: 722-724. 1899 (portr.).
- Hamilton, Trans. Proc. New Zealand Inst. 36: 350-354. 1903 (bibl.).
- Hooker, Obit. Notes \[Fellows\] Roy. Soc. Part 1, Oct 1904 p. 60: 57-60.
- Cheeseman, Man. New Zealand Fl. xxxiv-xxxv. 1906.
- Cockayne, Veg. New Zealand 4. 1921.
- Bagnall and Peterson, William Colenso, Wellington 1948, 494 p. (portr.).
- Glenn, The botanical explorers of New Zealand 173. 1950.
- Coats, The plant hunters 233, 236-239. 1969.
#### Eponymy
*Colensoa* J. D. Hooker (1852).