Collectors References and expedition initials

[ashley]

This thread is growing into a(nother) very useful resource; thanks Maggi and all.

Iris danfordiae SASA-307 is flowering here now.  SASA: Stevens, Archibald, Seisums & ...     
Stevens, Archibald, Seisums Arnis perhaps?

[Yann]

A&JW A. & J. Watson
A&L Ala, A.; Lancaster, Roy
AB&S(ABS) Archibald, James; Blanchard, John W; Salmon, M.
AC&W Albury; Sidney., Cheese, Martyn.; Watson, John.M.
ACE AGS Expedition to China (1994)
AGS/ES AGS Expedition to Sikkim (1983)
AGSJ AGS Expedition to Japan (1988)
AHEP Hoog, Antoine.M.D. & Pasche, Erich
AS Strid, Arne
B L. Beer, Len
B&L Brickell, Christopher D.; Leslie, Alan C.
B&S Bird P. & Salmon M.
B&SWJ Wynn-Jones, Bleddyn; Wynn-Jones, Susan
BC&W Beckett; Cheese, M.; Watson, J.M.
BM Mathew, Brian F.
BSBE Bowles Scholarship Botanical Expedition (1963)
BSSS Crug Expedition, Jordan 1991
Burtt Burtt, Brian L.
C&C Cox, P.A. & Cox, K.N.E.
C&H Cox, Peter; Hutchison, Peter
C&H Wrongly applied by the RHS for plants originally collected as CH
C&K Chamberlain & Knott
C&R Christian, P.J. & Roderick, Wayne
C&S Clark, Alan; Sinclair, Ian W.J.
C&V K.N.E. Cox & S. Vergera
C&W Cheese, Martyn.; Watson, John.M.
CC Chadwell, Christopher
CD&R Compton, J.; D'Arcy, J.; Rix, E.M.
CDB Brickell, Christopher D.
CDC&C Compton, D'Arcy, Christopher & Coke
CDPR Compton, D'arcy, Pope & Rix, E.M.
CE&H Christian, P.J.; Elliott, D ; Hoog, A.M.D. (an incorrect creation of the RHS, CEH is correct)
CEH Christian, P.J.; Elliott, D ; Hoog, A.M.D. (1982)
CGW Grey-Wilson, Christopher
CH Christian,P.J.; Hoog, A.M.D (1987)
CH&M Cox, P.; Hutchison, P.; Maxwell-MacDonald, D.
CHP&W Kashmir Botanical Expedition
CL Lovell, Chris
CLD Chungtien, Lijiang & Dali Expededition China 1990
CM&W Cheese M., Mitchel J. & Watson, J.
CN&W Clark; Neilson; Wilson
CNDS Nelson, C. & Sayers D. Cooper Cooper, R.E.
Cox Cox, Peter A.
CRO Reference numbers,  Ray Cobb of Nottingham
CSE Cyclamen Society Expedition (1990)
CT Teune, Carla
DBG Denver Botanic Garden, Colorado
EKB Balls, Edward K.
EMAK Edinburgh Makalu Expedition (1991)
EMR Rix, E. Martyn
EN Needham, Edward F.
EP Erich Pasche, Wuppertal
ETE Edinburgh Taiwan Expedition (1993)
ETOT Kirkham, T.S.; Flanagan, Mark
F Forrest, G.
F&W Watson, J.; Flores, A.
Farrer Farrer, Reginald
GG Gusman, G.
GS Sherriff, George
G-W&P Grey-Wilson, Christopher; Phillips
H&B Hilliard, Olive M.; Burtt, Brian L.
H&W Hedge, Ian C.; Wendelbo, Per W.
Harry Smith Smith, K.A.Harry
HW&E Wendelbo, Per; Hedge, I.; Ekberg, L.
HZ Zetterlund, Henrik
J&JA Archibald, James; Archibald, Jennifer
JCA Archibald, James
JE Jack Elliott
JJ&JH Halda, J.; Halda, J.
JJH Halda, Joseph J.
JKP Persson, Jimmy and Karen
JMH Jeaninne Hoog , Michael Hoog
JRM Marr, John
JW Watson, J.M.
K&P Josef Kopec, Milan Prasil
KGB Kunming-Gothenburg Botanical Expedition (1993)
KPPZ Kammerlander, M.; Pasche, E.: Persson, J.; Zetterlund, H.
KRW Wooster, K.R. (distributed after his death by Kath Dryden)
KW Kingdon-Ward, F.
L Lancaster, Roy C.
LD Doyen, Leon.
L&S Ludlow, Francis; Sherriff, George
LM&S Leslie, Mattern & Sharman
LP Leep and Pasche E.
LS&E Ludlow, Frank; Sherriff, George; Elliott, E. E.
LS&H Ludlow, Frank; Sherriff, George; Hicks, J. H.
LS&T Ludlow, Frank; Sherriff, George; Taylor, George
M&PS Mike & Polly Stone
M&T Mathew, Brian.; Tomlinson, John
Mac&W McPhail & Watson, John
McB McBeath, R.J.D.
MH Hoog, Michael H.
MK Kammerlander, Michael
MP Pavelka, Mojmir
MPF Frankis, M.P.
MS Salmon, M.
MS&CL Salmon, Michael.; Lovell, Chris.
NS Stevens, Norman
PD Davis, Peter H.
PF Furse, Paul
PJC Christian, Paul J.
PJC&AH P.J. Christian & A. Hoog – I have seen this attributed however no such collection numbers were ever used, the collection numbers are CH
OS Sonderhousen, Ole
Polunin Polunin, Oleg
Pras Prasil, M.
PS&W Polunin, Oleg; Sykes, William; Williams, John
PW Wendelbo, Per
PW Wharton, Peter
R Rock, J.F.C.
RH Hancock, Richard.
RH Holmberg, R.
RS Suckow, Reinhart
S&B Blanchard, J.W.; Salmon, M.
S&F Salmon, M. & Fillan, M.
S&L Sinclair, Ian W.J.; Long, David G.
SB&L Salmon, Bird and Lovell
SBEC Sino-British Expedition to Cangshan
SBEL Sino-British Lijiang Expedition
SBQE Sino-British Expedition to Quinghai
Sch Schilling, Anthony D.
SEP Swedish Expedition to Pakistan
SG Salmon, M. & Guy, P.
SLIZE Swedish-Lithuanian-Iranian Zagros Expedition to Iran (May 1988)
SS&W Stainton, J.D.Adam; Sykes, William; Williams, John
SSW Smith, Sykes, Williams
RH Hancock, Richard.
VH Horton, Vic
VV Vasak, Vladimir
W Wilson, Ernest H.
WM McLewin, William
Woods Woods, Patrick J.B.

[Maggi Young]

Great list, Yann, thank you.

[Maggi Young]

This thread is growing into a(nother) very useful resource; thanks Maggi and all.

Iris danfordiae SASA-307 is flowering here now.  SASA: Stevens, Archibald, Seisums & ...     
Stevens, Archibald, Seisums Arnis perhaps?

I was helped  by Janis Ruksans here, who tells me :

SASA - Seisums Arnis, Stevens Norman, Archibald Jim - Turkey, 2003

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[Maggi Young]

ARGI - Arnis Seisums & Gints .......? - Syria, 2002

BAR or BARAKA - Georgian trip with Dr. Dzhimsheer Kereselidze organised by Henrik Zetterlund (Henrik Sjoman, Henrik Zetterlund & Janis Ruksans, Kereselidze Dzhimsheer, Lamara Asieshvili & Nino ? ) - 2007

JRRK - Janis Ruksans, Vaclav Josht, Hendrick van Bogaert (Rik), Koenrad van Pouche - Turkey, spring, 2009

SASA - Seisums Arnis, Stevens Norman, Archibald Jim - Turkey, 2003

RUDA - Rukšāns Janis, Dambrauskas Eugenius - Turkey, 2003



Janis  adds this note about his collection numbers :

"In  the last years my trips are marked quite uniformly

The first two ciphers indicate the  year, then abbreviation from state/country and A or S - means autumn or spring. This  is  an easier system as now I'm travelling so much.

 14ARMS - means 2014, spring trip to Armenia

14TUS - means 2014, spring trip to Turkey

14GRA - means 2014, autumn trip to Greece

and so on.     

Regards

Janis  "

And here is another list which may be handy for downloading  :    ABBREVIATIONS.2007.10.pdf (127.2 kB - downloaded 1168 times.)

[ashley]

Thanks very much Maggi, Janis and Yann. 
These lists are extremely helpful and it's great to have them gathered in one place  

[carolesmith]

Thanks to all for a super resource.
Now to find the labels I have been curious about.

[Maggi Young]

Another acronym - FEKET   First Edinburgh Kew Expedition Tajikistan  ( 2014 )

[Susan Band]

Also, BO - Bjornar Olsen seed collections will soon be coming to promenance soon

[SJW]

Another acronym - FEKET   First Edinburgh Kew Expedition Tajikistan  ( 2014 )

Coincidentally, I dropped a pot of seedlings the other day and this was the first word that came out of my mouth.

[Maggi Young]

Since the pdf of the list from the RHS site is available to download, I don't seen any harm in placing it here... it is info from the PlantFinder publications....

A reminder that the RHS list of Collectors' acronyms is  here:   CollectorsReferences.pdf (84.22 kB - downloaded 233 times.)

 edit  to update  link

[Maggi Young]

JAA  = Jean-André AUDISSOU

[johnralphcarpenter]

Is MW Michael Wickenden?

[Matt T]

And is BATM simply an abbreviation of BATMAN?

[Maggi Young]

Yes to BATM and , I think, yes to MW too