ABSTRACT
For the French botanist Benedict Balansa, 1825-1891, explorer and botanical collector in Asia Minor, North Africa, Indo-China and Paraguay. See J.H. Barnhart (18711949),
Biographical notes upon botanists
. 1: 110. 1965; Gaston Astre,
La vie de Benjamin Balansa, botaniste explorateur
. Toulouse 1947; Ernest Saint-Charles Cosson (1819-1889),
Compendium florae atlanticae
. Paris 18811887; Carlo Luigi Spegazzini (1858-1926),
Fungi guaranitici pugillus i-ii
. Buenos Aires 1883-1888 and
Fungi guaranitici nonnulli novi v. critici
. Buenos Aires 1891; T.W. Bossert,
Biographical dictionary of botanists represented in the Hunt Institute portrait collection
. 22. 1972; H.N. Clokie,
Account of the Herbaria of the Department of Botany in the University of Oxford
. 124-125. Oxford 1964; Clyde F. Reed,
Bibliography to Floras of Southeast Asia
. 1969.
