> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 395](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33066735) of TL-2 Vol. VII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/2180-1) LSID 2180-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q957174) QID Q957174 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Wit, Hendrik Cornelis Dirk de (1909-x), Dutch botanist; studied at the University of Amsterdam 1931-1937 and at Pretoria, M.Sc. 1938, Dr. phil. 1941; agricultural research officer, Dept. Agriculture, Pretoria 1938-1940; botanist at the Botanical Garden Buitenzorg (Bogor) 1941-1946; botanist with the Flora malesiana foundation 1946-1953; also high school teacher at Bussum and Amsterdam 1951-1953; lecturer at the University of Leiden 1953-1959; lecturer at the Agricultural University Wageningen 1953-1959, ordinary professor of plant taxonomy and plant geography of the tropics and subtropics ib. 1959; also director of the laboratory of plant taxonomy and plant geography from 1969-1980. **Abbreviated name**: *de Wit* \[standard form in IPNI: *de Wit*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection WAG|WAG]], also L. – Further material and types in [[Collection BO|BO]]. – *Letters* in [[Collection G|G]], IAPT-files. #### Bibliography and biography BFM 1288; Bossert p. 440; Hortus 3: 1191; IH 1 (ed. 2): 70, 125, (ed. 3): 88, 161, (ed. 4): 96, 179, (ed. 5): 99, 195, (ed. 6): 289, (ed. 7): 304; MW suppl. p. 395; NI suppl. 20, 22, 44, 59, 67; Roon p. 124; SK 1: 582 (coll., itin.), 8: cix; Zander ed. 10, p. 651-652, 733, ed. 11, p. 741. #### Biofile - Anon., Rijnstreek, Wageningen 24 Oct 1979 (interview; anecdotes. *Copy*: FAS). - Arditi, J., ed., Orchid biology 1: 296 \[index\]. 1977 (on p. 47-94 commentary on Rumphius' orchids). - Boelema, G., *in* J.C. Arends et al., Liber gratulatorius, Misc. Pap. Wageningen 19: 1-2. 1980 (curr. vit., portr.). - Bos, J.J., ed., H.C. Delia gaat in ontwikkelingshulp/zwart-witboek over de periode 1953-1980, 100 p., Veenman, Wageningen ("non sine pugna", informal sketches on H.C.D. de Wit). - Bruijn, J. de, *in* J.C. Arends et al., Liber gratulatorius 89-144 (e.g. portr., on p. 97; work on WAG). - Frodin, D.G., Guide standard floras world nos. R89, S91-93, 928. 1984. - Jacobs, M., Fl. males. Bull. 34: 3549-3551. 1981 (curr. vit.); Hermann Johannes Lam 16, 40, 100, 122, 171. 1984. - Lowden, R.M., Taxon, index pers. names vols. 1-30. 801. 1985. - Steenis, C.G.G.J. van, Fl. males. Bull. 11: 405. 1955 (lecturer Wageningen), 14: 626. 1959 (prof. syst. bot. ib.), 15: 710. 1960 (id.). - Taylor, S.S. & M. Spruytenburg, Who's who Netherlands ed. I. 795. 1963. #### Composite works - (1) *History of Malaysian phytography, in* C.G.G.J. van Steenis, ed., Fl. males. ser. I. 4: lxx-clxi. 1949. - (2) Editor, *Rumphius memorial volume*, Amsterdam 1959 (see e.g. Blumea 10: 318-319); author of *A checklist to Rumphius's Herbarium amboinense*, ib. p. 339-460; see also a further commentary in J. Arditti, ed., Orchid biology 1: 47-94. 1977, and Taxon 1: 101-110. 1952. - (3) With M.S. Abdallah, *The Resedaceae*, Wageningen 1978, 2 vols., 416 p. and atlas (Belmontia n.s. vol. 8). #### Festschrift J.C. Arends et al., *Liber gratulatorius* in honorem H.C.D. de Wit, Wageningen 1980, Misc. Pap. Landbouwhogeschool Wageningen 19, 1980 (see Taxon 30: 714. 1981). #### Thesis Setaria in South Africa (publ. in abbreviated form as *Contributions to the knowledge of the genus Setaria Beauv., in South Africa*, in *Bull. Jard. bot. Buitenzorg* ser. 3. 17: 1-87. 1941. #### Handwriting Fl. males. ser. I. 1: clii. 1950. #### Note Most publications of this profilic author fall outside our period, such as *An introduction to the Botanic Garden* ('*s Lands Plantentuin*), *Buitenzorg*, Buitenzorg 1942, 45, 17 p., map. 1942; *Revision of the genus Sindora*, Bull. Bot. Gard. Buitenzorg ser. 3. 18(1): 5-82. 1949; *A revision of Malaysian Bauhineae* Reinwardtia 3(4): 381-539. 1956; *Wereld der planten*, 3 vols. (vol. 3 by K.B. Boedijn), Den Haag 1963-1966; *Aquarium plants*, London 1964 (German transl. *Aquarienpflanzen*, Stuttgart 1971). ### Publications ##### n.18.065. Conspectus of the genus Archidendron **Title** *Conspectus of the genus Archidendron* F. von Mueller (Legum.)... Buitenzorg (Archipel Drukkerij) 1942. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Apr 1942, cover-t.p., p. \[256\]-272. *Copy*: B. – Reprinted and to be cited from Bot. Gard. Buitenzorg ser. 3. 17(2): 256-272. 1942.