Alexander Zippelius

{{Short description|Dutch horticulturalist and botanical collector}}

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Alexander Zippelius (1797, Würzburg – 31 December 1828, Kupang) was a Dutch horticulturalist and botanical collector in the East Indies.

From 1823 he worked as an assistant curator in the botanical gardens at Buitenzorg, and in 1827 he joined the Natuurkundige Commissie (Commission for Natural Sciences).[http://wiki.floramalesiana.org/wiki/Zip(p)elius,_Alexander Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140509001902/http://wiki.floramalesiana.org/wiki/Zip%28p%29elius%2C_Alexander |date=2014-05-09 }} Cyclopaedia of collectors & Cyclopaedia of collectors, Addenda & Corrigenda He collected plants in the Moluccas, southwestern New Guinea and Timor. He died on Timor in 1828.[https://archive.org/stream/floramalesiana104stee/floramalesiana104stee_djvu.txt Archive.org] Full text of "Flora Malesiana"[http://plants.jstor.org/person/bm000330294 JSTOR Global Plants] Alexander Zippelius

The botanical genus Zippelia (family Piperaceae) was named in his honor by Carl Ludwig Blume.[http://www.etymologiebank.nl/trefwoord/zippelia Etymologiebank.nl] Zippelia Also, he is associated with plants having the specific names of zippeliana,[http://tai2.ntu.edu.tw/taiwania/pdf/tai.2010.55.1.72.pdf Taiwania, 55(1): 72-77, 2010] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101214160658/http://tai2.ntu.edu.tw/taiwania/pdf/tai.2010.55.1.72.pdf |date=2010-12-14 }} Ceriops zippeliana Blume (Rhizophoraceae), a New Record of a

Mangrove Species in Singapore zippelii,[http://plants.jstor.org/specimen/a00044095?history=true JSTOR] Edit History: Isotype of Glycosmis zippelii B. C. Stone (family RUTACEAE) and zippelianum.[https://books.google.com/books?id=RKpWAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA71 Revision of the Natural Order Hederaceæ] by Berthold Carl SEEMANN

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