Alexander Zippelius

"Zipp." redirects here. For other uses, see Zipp.

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).[1] He collected plants in the Moluccas, southwestern New Guinea and Timor. He died on Timor in 1828.[2][3]

The botanical genus Zippelia (family Piperaceae) was named in his honor by Carl Ludwig Blume.[2][4] Also, he is associated with plants having the specific names of zippeliana,[5] zippelii,[6] and zippelianum.[7]

The standard author abbreviation Zipp. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[8]
  1. ^ Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1 Archived 2014-05-09 at the Wayback Machine Cyclopaedia of collectors & Cyclopaedia of collectors, Addenda & Corrigenda
  2. ^ a b Archive.org Full text of "Flora Malesiana"
  3. ^ JSTOR Global Plants Alexander Zippelius
  4. ^ Etymologiebank.nl Zippelia
  5. ^ Taiwania, 55(1): 72-77, 2010 Archived 2010-12-14 at the Wayback Machine Ceriops zippeliana Blume (Rhizophoraceae), a New Record of a Mangrove Species in Singapore
  6. ^ JSTOR Edit History: Isotype of Glycosmis zippelii B. C. Stone (family RUTACEAE)
  7. ^ Revision of the Natural Order Hederaceæ by Berthold Carl SEEMANN
  8. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Zipp.