> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 182](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333321) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/9103-1) LSID 9103-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21607992) QID Q21607992 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Schipp, William August (1891-1967), Australian-born explorer and plant collector; collected in N. Australia, New Guinea and Java; via San Francisco to British Honduras 1929; collected in British Honduras 1929-1935; returned to Australia because of failing health, living ultimately in New South Wales. **Abbreviated name**: *Schipp* \[standard form in IPNI: *Schipp*\] #### Herbarium and types Collections from British Honduras in many herbaria, for full details see R.M. Lowden (1970). The most complete set (1934 specimens) is at [[Collection F|F]], other large sets at [[Collection BM|BM]] (1498), [[Collection BRH|BRH]] (1462), [[Collection K|K]] (1166), [[Collection UC|UC]] (1066); other sets at [[Collection A|A]], [[Collection AMES|AMES]], [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection BKL|BKL]], [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection L|L]], [[Collection LCU|LCU]], [[Collection MICH|MICH]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection PH|PH]], [[Collection S|S]], [[Collection UC|UC]], [[Collection US|US]], [[Collection Z|Z]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 227; Hortus 3: 1203; HR; Kew 4: 626; SK 8: lxxxvi. #### Biofile - Lowden, R.M., Taxon 19: 831-861. 1970 (major treatment of S.'s botanical exploration in the Stan Creek and Toledo Districts, British Honduras; many secondary references, based in part on letters at GH, F, K, MICH and UC). - Schipp, J.M., letter to R.M. Lowden Sep 1969 (returned to Australia from Honduras). - Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 1: 287, 347, 384. 1935, 3: 241, 310. 1937. #### Eponymy *Schippia* Burret (1933). ### Publications ##### n.10.725. Flora of British Honduras **Title** *Flora of British Honduras*. Price list of seeds and herbarium material from William A. Schipp. Stann Creek British Honduras Anno 1933-34. **Abbreviated title**: *Fl. Brit. Hond.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1934 (copy at E rd 12 Nov 1934), p. \[i\], 1-69 (mimeogr.). *Copies*: E, G, HH, NY, USDA. – Some copies have various plant specimens on separate pages.