Theodoric Valeton

{{short description|Dutch botanist (1855-1929)}}

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Theodoric Valeton (1855 in Groningen – 1929 in The Hague) was a Dutch botanist.{{Cite web|url=https://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/botanist_search.php?mode=details&id=2744|title = Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.nationaalherbarium.nl/FMCollectors/V/ValetonT.htm|title=ValetonT|website=www.nationaalherbarium.nl}}

He studied at the University of Groningen and received his doctorate in 1886. In 1893, he began working at the botanical garden in Bogor, Indonesia and managed its herbarium between 1903 and 1913. Valeton studied Zingiberaceae in Bogor between 1916 and 1919.

He was honoured in the naming of 2 plant taxa;{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen |trans-title=Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2022 | isbn=978-3-946292-41-8 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2022|format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2022 |access-date=January 27, 2022}}

Valetonia {{Au|T.Durand}} (in the Icacinaceae family), which was published in 1888, the name is now a synonym of Pleurisanthes {{Au|Baill.}}{{cite web |title=Valetonia T.Durand {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:289114-2 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=29 November 2022 |language=en}}

In 1909, Franz Xaver Rudolf von Höhnel published Valetoniella {{Au|Höhn.}}, which is a genus of fungi (in the family Niessliaceae).{{cite web |title=Valetoniella - Search Page |url=http://www.speciesfungorum.org/Names/Names.asp?strGenus=Valetoniella |website=www.speciesfungorum.org |publisher=Species Fungorum |access-date=29 November 2022}}

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