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Thomas Lobb
Deceased Person
1820 – 1894
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Who was Thomas Lobb?
Thomas Lobb was a British botanist and, along with his older brother, William Lobb, collected plants for the plant nursery Veitch.
Lobb worked in India, Indonesia and the Philippines. In 1845 he discovered the first orchid species of the genus Phalaenopsis growing in the eastern Himalayas, at an altitude of ~1,500 m. This plant, Phalaenopsis lobbii, is named in his honour.
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