Richard Eric Holttum

[3] He served with the Friends' Ambulance Unit on the Western Front during World War I, for which he was awarded the Croix de guerre.Returning from Great Britain, where he departed to in 1925, Holttum continued his job as the Garden's director, until he moved to the University of Malaya in Singapore to serve as its first Professor of Botany.[8] The Flora Malesiana Bulletin published his autobiography, a bibliography of his publications, and a list of 27 plants dedicated to him.[11] Then in 1964, Holttumochloa which is a genus of Malaysian bamboos also in the Poaceae family and native to the hill forests of Peninsular Malaysia.[14] Spending some time at the Kew Gardens to work, Holttum died 18 September 1990 in Roehampton, London,[3] aged 95.
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