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### Author
Potanin, Grigorii Nikolajevic (1835-1920), Russian botanist and explorer of Eastern Siberia, China, Tibet and Mongolia.
**Abbreviated name**: *Potanin* \[standard form in IPNI: *Potanin*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection LE|LE]]; other material at [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection BR|BR]], [[Collection DBN|DBN]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection FI|FI]], [[Collection H|H]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection L|L]], [[Collection S|S]], [[Collection TK|TK]].
#### Bibliography and biography
Backer p. 461; Barnhart 3: 102; BM 4: 1602; Bret. p. 1007; CSP 17: 980; IH 1 (ed. 2): 88, (ed. 6): 363, (ed. 7): 340; 2: (in press); Kelly p. 179; MW p. 392 (bibl.), suppl. p. 285-286; TL-2/5735; Urban-Berl. p. 310, 384.
#### Biofile
- Anon., Bot. Centralbl. 56: 288. 1893 (P. ends exploration because of death of his wife); Österr. bot. Z. 72: 124. 1923 (d.).
- Blanc, É., Bull. Soc. bot. France 43: 59-64. 1896.
- Borodin, I., Trav. Mus. bot. Acad. St. Pétersbourg 4: 94-95. 1908 (list of collectors and collections, flora sibirica).
- Coats, A.M., Plant hunters no, 114, 115-116, 135. 1969.
- Embacher, F., Lex. Reisen 236. 1882.
- Hedge, I.C. & J.M. Lamond, Index coll. Edinb. herb. 120. 1970.
- Herder, F. v., Bot. Jahrb. 9: 432, 445. 1888; Bot. Centralbl. 58: 392. 11 Jun 1894 (coll. LE).
- Sutton, S.B., Charles Sprague Sargent 200, 244. 1975.
#### Handwriting
S.V. Lipschitz & I.T. Vasilczenko, Central Herbarium USSR 118. 1968 (q.v. also for further details coll.).
#### Eponymy
*Potaninia* Maximowicz (1881).