Roelof Benjamin van den Bosch (1810–1862) was a Dutch

botanist Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...

known for studying

fern A fern (Polypodiopsida or Polypodiophyta ) is a member of a group of vascular plants (plants with xylem and phloem) that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers. The polypodiophytes include all living pteridophytes except t ...

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moss Mosses are small, non-vascular flowerless plants in the taxonomic division Bryophyta (, ) '' sensu stricto''. Bryophyta (''sensu lato'', Schimp. 1879) may also refer to the parent group bryophytes, which comprise liverworts, mosses, and hor ...

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Works

* ''Bryologia Javanica seu descriptio muscorum frondosorum Archipelagi Indici iconibus illustrata'' - auctoribus F. Dozy et J. H. Molkenboer. Post mortem auctorum edentibus R. B. van den Bosch et C. M. van den Sande Lacoste - E. J. Brill in Lugduni-Batavorum - Leiden, 1855-187
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* ''Prodromus florae batavae'' - Editio altera. Nieuwe lijst der Nederlandsche phanerogamen en vaatkryptogamen. Uitgegeven door de Nederlandsche Botanische Vereniging. Nijmegen, F.E. Macdonald, 1901-1916 * ''Plantae Junghuhnianae'' - Leiden, 1856 * ''Hymenophyllaceae Javanicae, sive Descriptio hymenophyllacearum archipelagi Indici iconibus illustrata'' - Leiden, 1861

Eponyms

Vandenboschia ''Vandenboschia'' is a fern genus in the family Hymenophyllaceae. The genus is accepted in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I) but not by some other sources. Taxonomy The genus ''Vandenboschia'' was erected by Edwin C ...

in the family

Hymenophyllaceae The Hymenophyllaceae, the filmy ferns and bristle ferns, are a family of two to nine genera (depending on classification system) and about 650 known species of ferns, with a subcosmopolitan distribution, but generally restricted to very damp pla ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bosch, Roelof Benjamin van den 1810 births 1862 deaths 19th-century Dutch botanists Dutch pteridologists Dutch bryologists Scientists from Rotterdam