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Philip Barker Webb

Philip Barker Webb (1793 - 1854) was an English botanist.

Webb collected plants in Italy, Spain and Portugal, and was the first person to collect in the Tetuan Mountains of Morocco. Enroute to Brazil he made what was intended to be a brief visit to the Canary Islands, but he ended up stopping for a considerable time. The results can be seen in the nine-volume L'Histoire Naturelle des Iles Canaries, which he coauthored with Sabin Berthelot.

Webb's herbarium was bequeathed to the Natural History Museum in Florence.

The standard botanical author abbreviation Webb is applied to species he described.



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