Frederick William Foxworthy

Botanist (1877-1950).

Frederick William Foxworthy (1877–1950) was an American botanist and plant collector. He was born in Goodland, Indiana in 1877. He graduated from Cornell University in 1904. He was employed as a botanist of the Bureau of Science in Manila where he specialized in Philippine timber trees. In 1911 he was transferred to the Philippine Bureau of Forestry. In 1918 he joined the Forest Department of the Malay Peninsula in British Malaya. In 1926 he became the first research director of the Forest Research Institute at Kepong, where he established the forest nursery and large experimental plantation.

Abbreviations: Foxw.
Occupations: botanist
Citizenships: United States
Languages: English
Dates: 1877-00-00T00:00:00Z – 1950-02-04T00:00:00Z
Birth place: Chicago
Direct attributions: 31 plants, 0 fungi
Authorship mentions: 47 plants, 0 fungi

31 plants attributed, 16 plants contributed to47 plants:

Shorea johorensis (Light Red Meranti) Foxw. 1932
vulnerable plant species in the dipterocarpaceae family
Rubroshorea johorensis (also called seraya majau or meranti majau) is a species of plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is a tree native to Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia (including Singapore) and Sumatra, where it grows in lowland rain forest up to 300 metres elevation.
Podocarpus brevifolius (Stapf) Foxw. 1911
plant species in the podocarpaceae family
Podocarpus brevifolius is a species of conifer in the family Podocarpaceae. It is found only on Mount Kinabalu and surrounding ridges in Sabah, Malaysia.
Shorea astylosa Foxw. 1918
endangered plant species in the dipterocarpaceae family
Shorea astylosa is a species of plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is endemic to the Philippines, where it is known as yakal in the Filipino language. Yakal is a medium to large tree about 25 to 30 meters tall. Its wood is hard and dark brownish-yellow, its branchlets slender, blackish, and slightly hairy. Its leaves are coriaceous, ovate to lanceolate, or oblong-lanceolate or apex acuminate. The base are rounded to cuneate, glabrous above and slightly hairy underneath. Its blade is 6.5-nine centimeters long and two-4.5 centimeters wide, with its petiole slender, 10-23 millimeters long,
Podocarpus pilgeri Foxw. 1907
plant species in the podocarpaceae family
Podocarpus pilgeri is a species of conifer in the family Podocarpaceae. It is a small to medium-sized tree that is found in India and Bangladesh, Indochina and Malay Archipelago. Its timber is hard and water-resistant. Podocarpus wangii of southern China is often treated as synonym of P. pilgeri.
Dipterocarpus caudatus (Tailed Leaf Apiton) Foxw. 1918
plant species in the dipterocarpaceae family
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Shorea uliginosa (Rubroshorea Uliginosa) Foxw. 1932
endangered plant species in the dipterocarpaceae family
Rubroshorea uliginosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is a tree found in Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo.
Shorea negrosensis (Red Lauan) Foxw. 1911
plant species in the dipterocarpaceae family
Rubroshorea negrosensis (called, along with some other dipterocarp species, red lauan) is a species of flowering plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is endemic to the Philippines. It is a tall tree, growing up to 50 meters tall with a bole up to 1 meter in diameter. The species is native to the islands of Luzon (provinces of Cagayan, Isabela, Aurora, Nueva Ecija, Laguna, Quezon, Camarines, Albay, and Sorsogon), Polillio, Negros, Cebu, Leyte, Biliran, Samar, Mindanano (provinces of Zamboanga, Lanao, Cotabato, Bukidnon, Davao, Surigao, Agusan), and Basilan. It grows, often gregariously, in
Shorea dasyphylla (Rubroshorea Dasyphylla) Foxw. 1932
plant species in the dipterocarpaceae family
Rubroshorea dasyphylla is an endangered species of plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is native to Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo.
Shorea almon (Philippine Mahogany) Foxw. 1938
plant species in the dipterocarpaceae family
Rubroshorea almon (called, along with some other species in the genera Rubroshorea and Shorea, light red meranti, Philippine mahogany, or white lauan) is a species of plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is native to Borneo and the Philippines. It grows on hillsides in lowland mixed dipterocarp rain forests up to 1,000 metres elevation. The species was first described as Shorea almon by Frederick William Foxworthy in 1938. In 2022 Peter Shaw Ashton and Jacqueline Heckenhauer placed the species in genus Rubroshorea as R. almon.
Dipterocarpus sublamellatus Foxw. 1932
endangered plant species in the dipterocarpaceae family
Dipterocarpus sublamellatus grows as a large tree up to 70 m (230 ft) tall, with a trunk diameter of up to 3 m (10 ft). Bark is orange-brown. The fruits are round, up to 3 cm (1.2 in) in diameter. It is found in a variety of now vulnerable habitats from sea level to 400 m (1,300 ft) elevation. Dipterocarpus sublamellatus is native to Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo.
Vatica lobata Foxw. 1932
endangered plant species in the dipterocarpaceae family
Vatica lobata is a species of plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae.
Vatica flavida Foxw. 1932
critically endangered plant species in the dipterocarpaceae family
Vatica flavida is a species of plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is a tree endemic to Peninsular Malaysia. It is a critically endangered species threatened by habitat loss.
Vatica elliptica Foxw. 1938
critically endangered plant species in the dipterocarpaceae family
Vatica elliptica is a rare species of tree in the family Dipterocarpaceae, native to Mindanao island in the Philippines.
Podocarpus glaucus Foxw. 1907
plant species in the podocarpaceae family
Podocarpus glaucus is a species of conifer in the family Podocarpaceae. It is found in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, and Solomon Islands.
Dipterocarpus concavus Foxw. 1932
vulnerable plant species in the dipterocarpaceae family
Dipterocarpus concavus is a species of flowering plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is a tree native to Peninsular Malaysia and Sumatra. It is a large tree with a grey trunk. It is native to lowland mixed dipterocarp rain forest, including hill forest and coastal forest, from 200 to 1,000 metres elevation. In Sumatra it ranges from Lampung Province, including Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park, in the south to Aceh Province in the north, and to the Riau Islands. In Peninsular Malaysia it is native to six states. The species is threatened by habitat loss from deforestation and from
Shorea malibato Foxw. 1913
vulnerable plant species in the dipterocarpaceae family
Shorea malibato is a species of plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is endemic to the Philippines.
Shorea falciferoides Foxw. 1918
vulnerable plant species in the dipterocarpaceae family
Shorea falciferoides, also known as yakal yamban in the Philippines, is a species of plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is native to Borneo and the Philippines. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Hopea mindanensis Foxw. 1911
endangered plant species in the dipterocarpaceae family
Hopea mindanensis is a species of plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is endemic to the Mindanao islands region of the southern Philippines.
Hopea malibato Foxw. 1913
vulnerable plant species in the dipterocarpaceae family
Hopea malibato is a species of plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is endemic to the Philippines. Hopea malibato produces the oligostilbenes malibatol A and B, dibalanocarpol and balanocarpol.
Hopea basilanica Foxw. 1911
critically endangered plant species in the dipterocarpaceae family
Hopea basilanica is a species of flowering plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is a tree endemic to the Philippines. It is a large tree, which typically flowers in May and June and fruits in August. It is native to the islands of Mindanao, Basilan, and Sibutu, where it grows in primary lowland rain forest below 70 meters elevation. The species was first described by Frederick William Foxworthy in 1911.
Hopea auriculata Foxw. 1932
critically endangered plant species in the dipterocarpaceae family
Hopea auriculata is a species of plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is a tree endemic to Peninsular Malaysia. The species was first described by Frederick William Foxworthy in 1932.
Gnetum arboreum Foxw. 1911
vulnerable plant species in the gnetaceae family
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Dipterocarpus rotundifolius Foxw. 1932
endangered plant species in the dipterocarpaceae family
Dipterocarpus rotundifolius is a species of flowering plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is a tree native to Peninsular Malaysia. It is native to coastal hill dipterocarp rain forest in Johor, Pahang and Perak states. The species was first described by Frederick William Foxworthy in 1932.
Shorea blumutensis (Yellow Meranti) Foxw. 1932
vulnerable plant species in the dipterocarpaceae family
Richetia blumutensis (called, along with some other species in the genus Richetia, yellow meranti) is a species of plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It a large, slow-growing tree native to Sumatra and Peninsular Malaysia, where it grows in lowland rain forest below 500 meters elevation.
Anisoptera aurea Foxw. 1938
plant species in the dipterocarpaceae family
Anisoptera aurea is a tree species in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is a small to large tree endemic to the Philippines (Luzon, Samar, and Negros). No subspecies are listed in the Catalogue of Life. In the Philippines it grows in lowland mixed dipterocarp rain forest, especially on ridges, in the ever-wet zone at 400 meters elevation.
Dipterocarpus orbicularis Foxw. 1918
plant species in the dipterocarpaceae family
Dipterocarpus orbicularis is a species of flowering plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is a tree endemic to the island of Luzon in the Philippines, where it grows in lowland and mid-elevation rain forest. The species was first described by Frederick William Foxworthy in 1918.
Shorea hemsleyana (King) King ex Foxw. 1932
vulnerable plant species in the dipterocarpaceae family
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Agathis alba (Amboina Pine) Foxw. 1825
plant species in the araucariaceae family
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Shorea platyclados Slooten ex Foxw. & Slooten
plant species in the dipterocarpaceae family
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Morinda capitellata Wall. ex Foxw. 1922
plant species in the rubiaceae family
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