> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 32](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333133) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/35156-1) LSID 35156-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21607697) QID Q21607697 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Sanderson, John (1820/21-1881), Scottish journalist, trader, botanical collector and horticulturist; to Durban, S. Afr., 1850; active in the Horticultural Society of Natal; secretary of the "Natal Times" Company 1851. **Abbreviated name**: *J. Sanderson* \[standard form in IPNI: *Sand.*\] #### Herbarium and types Material at [[Collection DBN|DBN]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection NH|NH]], [[Collection S|S]], [[Collection SAM|SAM]], [[Collection TCD|TCD]]. – Notebook at [[Collection PRE|PRE]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 207; BB p. 268; BM 4: 1800; Desmond p. 541; NI 807; PR alph. #### Biofile - Anon., Bot. Centralbl. 7: 160. 1881 (d.); Bot. Gaz. 6: 232. 1881 (d.); Nat. Nov. 3: 135. 1881 (d.). - Bayer, A.W., S. Afr. J. Sci. 67: 404. 1971. - Gunn, M. & L.E. Codd, Bot. expl. S. Afr. 71, 307-308. 1981. - Harvey, W.H., *in* W.H. Harvey & O.W. Sonder, Fl. cap. 1: ix. 1894 (sent collections from Natal and Transvaal "containing many new genera and species"). - Hooker, W.J., Curtis's Bot. Mag. 79: text to pl. 4716. 1853. - White, A. & B.L. Sloane, The Stapelieae ed. 2 102, 360. 1937. - Sanderson, J., J.R. Geogr. Soc. 30: 233-255. 1860 (account trip 1851-1852). #### Composite works *Rough notes on the botany of Natal* kindly supplied by John Sanderson, ... *in* J. Chapman, *Travels in the interior of South Africa* 2: \[443\]-463. 1858; on p. 438-440 *Notes on trees... of the Zambesi*, and on p. 441-442, *The Baobab*, presumably also by Sanderson. The *List of Natal trees* on p. 464-465 is by J.C. Brown. #### Eponymy *Sandersonia* W.J. Hooker (1853). *Note*: *Sandersoniomyces* Benjamin (1968) honors M.W. Sanderson, American entomologist.