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### Author
Holttum, Richard Eric (1895-x), British botanist; on the Malay Peninsula 1921-1954; part of this period director of the Singapore botanical Garden; specialist on ferns and on the flora of the Malay Peninsula.
**Abbreviated name**: *Holttum* \[standard form in IPNI: *Holttum*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection SING|SING]] (original coll. from malesian area).
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 2: 197; Bossert p. 180; Hortus3: 1195 ("Holtt."); IF suppl. 3: 211, 4: 323-324; IH 2: 283; Kew 3: 18-22; Langman p. 374; MW suppl. p. 110; Roon p. 53; SK 1: 239-240, 604; 5: cclxxxvi; 8: xliv; Zander ed. 10, p. 671.
- Allen, Gard. Bull. Singapore 30: 1-3. 1977.
- Anon., Brit. Fern Gaz. 11(2/3): 59. 1975 (portr.); Fl. males. Bull. 27: 2148-2149. 1974; \[Theobald\], Taxon 24(5/6): 614. 1975; J. Roy. Hort. Soc. 98(2). 1973 (portr.).
- Burkill, I. H. et al., Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 8(1): 2-23. 1976; Gard. Bull. Singapore 30: 5. 1977.
- Cheang & Alphonso, Gard. Bull. Singapore 30: 9-12. 1977.
- Craig, Bull. Brit, pteridol. Soc. 1: 107-110. 1975.
- Green, J. W., Ann. Rep. West. Austral. Herb. 1976: 5 (portr.).
- Holttum, R.E., Plant life in Malaya London, 1954; Fl. males. Bull. 28: 2477-2500. 1975 (portr., bibl., autobiogr.).
- Lowden, Taxon, Index vols. 1-20, 2: 93-94. 1973.
- McClintock, D. et al. (H. M. Burkill, A. Johnson, G. Seidenfaden, C. G. G. J. van Steenis, J. Manton, F. A. Jarrett, J. A. Crabbe, A. C. Jermy, M. G. Price), Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 8: 1-23. 1976 (portr.).
- Schollick, Brit. Pteridol. Soc. Bull. 1(3): 106-107. 1975.
- Theobald, Bull. Pac. trop. bot. Gard. 5(4): 60-61. 1975 (portr.; on Holttum as recipient of Robert Allerton Award).
- Wagner, Amer. Fern J. 59(1): 1-3. 1969.
- Woodhams, Brit. Pteridol. Soc. Bull. 1(3): 111-113. 1975 (H's ferns at K).
#### Handwriting
Fl. males. ser. I. 1: cl. 1950.
#### Festschriften
Fern Gazette 11 (2/3), 1975; Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 8, 1976; Gardens' Bulletin, Singapore 30, 1977.
#### Eponymy
x *Holttumara* Hort. (1958); *Holttumia* Lloyd (1924); *Holttumia* E. B. Copeland (1941); *Holttumiella* E.B. Copeland (1941); *Rehia* Fijten (1975).