> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 103](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120234) of TL-2 Vol. I
> Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/404-1) LSID 404-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4081202) QID Q4081202
> Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]]
> [!example] See also [[Baker, Edmund Gilbert (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author
### Author
Baker, Edmund Gilbert (1864-1949), British botanist.
**Abbreviated name**: *E. G. Baker* \[standard form in IPNI: *Baker f.*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection K|K]], also [[Collection RTE|RTE]].
*Ref*.: IH 2: 50.
- Kent, Brit. herbaria 41. 1953.
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 1: 108; BL 1: 284-285 \[index\], 2: 273; BM 1: 89, 6: 50; CSP 13: 251-252; Kew 1: 126-128; Langman p. 104; LS 1576; MW p. 27, suppl. p. 19.
- Lousley, Watsonia 1(6): 343-344. 1950.
#### Composite works
Rendle et al., *Catalogue of the plants collected* by Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Talbot *in the Oban district*, South Nigeria, by A. B. Rendle... E. G. Baker... and others, x, 157 p., 17 pl. London 1913, Oct. (see BM 6: 135).- See also BL 1: 284-285 for further references to composite works.
#### Eponymy
*Bakeridesia* Hochreutiner (1913); *Bakerophyton* (J. Léonard) J. Hutchinson (1964, probably also dedicated to John Gilbert Baker (1834-1920), q.v.)
*Note*: For other eponyms based on the name Baker, cf. supra, sub C. F. Baker and infra, sub J. G. Baker.
### Publications
##### n.264. Synopsis of Malveae
**Title**
*Synopsis of Malveae*: or an enumeration of the plants contained in the first tribe of the natural order Malvaceae... Reprinted from the "Journal of Botany" 1890-1894. London (West, Newman & Co) s.d. \[1895\]. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Syn. Malv.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1895, p. \[i-iii\], \[1\]-124. *Copy*: NY. – Reprinted from J. Bot. 28-32, 1890-1894 q.v. for original publication and dates.
##### n.265. The Leguminosae of Tropical Africa
**Title**
*The Leguminosae of Tropical Africa*. 3 parts, Gent (Erasmus Press) Ostende (Unitas Press) 1926-1930. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Legum. Trop. Africa*.
**Notes**
1: \[1\]-215. Jan 1926. *Copies*: G, MO, NY.
2: \[i-iii\], 216-607. Ostende, Jul 1929. *Copies*: G, MO, NY.
3: \[i-iii\], 608-953. Ostende, Apr 1930. *Copies*: G, MO, NY.
*Ref*.: Kew 1: 127.