DEAR VISITOR. I AM SORRY THAT MY PAGES HAVE BEEN UNAVAILABLE FOR MORE THAN A MONTH: I have moved to a new provider so that access should be smooth now.
I am a Danish botanist researching tropical forest plants, especially gingers and other ground herbs.
In March 2010, I visited the herbarium collections in Basel, Switzerland, and was delighted to find material of a ginger collection made by the Sarasin cousins in Sulawesi in 1894. This collection is a type that is assumed lost when the Berlin herbarium was destroyed in the Second World War. The material in Basel is thus likely to be the only surviving fragment and very important for the correct identification of this species.
Read more in DANISH about the project "Gingers on Tropical Islands" (Ingefær på tropiske øer – et projekt på Galathea 3 or the newly uploaded pages on VIRTUEL GALATHEA 3)