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### Author
Niven, \[David\] James (1774-1826), Scottish gardener at Edinburgh and Syon House, Middlesex; collected in South Africa 1798-1812.
**Abbreviated name**: *Niven* \[standard form in IPNI: *Niven*\]
#### Herbarium and types
Main collection at [[Collection BM|BM]]; duplicates in [[Collection DBN|DBN]], [[Collection FI|FI]], [[Collection MANCH|MANCH]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection PH|PH]], [[Collection SAM|SAM]]. – Mss. on *Erica*at [[Collection K|K]].
#### Bibliography and biography
AG 3: 536; Barnhart 3: 8; BB p. 230; IH 2:(in press); Kew 4: 151; Lasègue p. 447.
- Britten, J., J. Linn. Soc. Bot. 45: 45. 1920.
- Brown, R., Trans. Linn. Soc. 10: 46, 134. 1810.
- Coats, A. M., Plant hunters 260-261. 1969.
- Garside, S., J. S. Afr. Bot. 8: 217. 1942, 26: 12. 1960.
- Mears, J. A., Taxon 25: 327-328. 1976 (131 specimens at PH).
- Miller, H. S., Taxon 19: 534. 1970.
- Murray, G., Hist. coll. BM(NH) 1: 170. 1904.
#### Eponymy
*Nivenia* R. Brown (1810); *Nivenia* Ventenat (1808.)