Johan Baptist Spanoghe (1798,

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– 22 April 1838,

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) was a Dutch botanical collector of Belgian parentage. A native of Madras, then part of

British India The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent. Collectively, they have been called British India. In one ...

, in 1816 he became a civil servant with the

Dutch East Indies The Dutch East Indies, also known as the Netherlands East Indies ( nl, Nederlands(ch)-Indië; ), was a Dutch colony consisting of what is now Indonesia. It was formed from the nationalised trading posts of the Dutch East India Company, which ...

government. In 1821 he was named as an "assistant resident" for the southern divisions of the

Bantam Residency Bantam Residency ( nl, Residentie Bantam), sometimes spelled Banten Residency, was an administrative division (Residency) of the Dutch East Indies which existed from 1817 to 1942; it was located at the western point of Java and its capital was at ...

in western Java. From 1831 to 1836, he was stationed on the island of

Timor Timor is an island at the southern end of Maritime Southeast Asia, in the north of the Timor Sea. The island is East Timor–Indonesia border, divided between the sovereign states of East Timor on the eastern part and Indonesia on the western p ...

.Spanoghe - Nationaal Herbarium Nederland
Flora Malesiana As a botanist in the East Indies, he collected plants in Java, Timor and neighboring islands, and also in

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. The genus ''

Spanoghea ''Alectryon'' is a genus of about 30 species of trees and shrubs from the family Sapindaceae. They grow naturally across Australasia, Papuasia, Melanesia, western Polynesia, east Malesia and Southeast Asia, including across mainland Australia, ...

'' was named in his honor by

Carl Ludwig Blume Charles Ludwig de Blume or Karl Ludwig von Blume (9 June 1796, Braunschweig – 3 February 1862, Leiden) was a German-Dutch botanist. He was born at Braunschweig in Germany, but studied at Leiden University and spent his professional life wor ...

, who for a period of time, worked closely with Spanoghe in Java.

Publications

* ''Prodromus Florae Timorensis'', . 1838. (Linnaea, XV. 161-208, 314-350, 476-480. 1841).Google Books
The Bradley Bibliography: Dendrology. 1911-12 by Alfred Rehder, Charles Sprague Sargent

References

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