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- ↑ Laurence J. Dorr (1997). Plant Collectors in Madagascar and the Comoro Islands: A Biographical and Bibliographical Guide to Individuals and Groups who Have Collected Herbarium Material of Algae, Bryophytes, Fungi, Lichens, and Vascular Plants in Madagascar and the Comoro Islands. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. pp. 498–499. ISBN 978-1-900347-18-1.
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- ↑ IPNI. Wassh.
