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flora. He collected around 36,000 numbers, amounting with duplicates to more than 150,000 specimens. The
Haitian species collected and documented by Ekman were mostly described by Ignatius Urban or by Urban and Ekman. Ekman's published account and unpublished field notes provide detailed descriptions
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more than any other previous scientist. He described more than 2,000 species new to science (a great many of which are now named after him); this was remarkable, since by then the flora of the
Caribbean was considered to be extensively documented. His collections are still actively used in the
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of the flora of the Selle and Hotte massifs as they existed in the 1920s. Ekman also made some geographical discoveries: he mapped several mountains of Haiti and was among the first to measure accurately the highest
Dominican (and Caribbean) mountain,
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was established in 1991 in his honour. The aims of the
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when he was eleven and a half. Here, while at school, his passion for botanical collecting started. He was awarded a bachelor's degree in 1907 at
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bearing his name. In Cuba, a special department in the
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botanical project. Ekman agreed to do so, but under protest. His trip to Brazil was further delayed for two years by the onset of
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582:"Naturhistoriska riksmuseet"
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188:doctoral dissertation
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186:Ekman presented his
640:Expatriates in Cuba
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224:Symbolae Antillanae
438:Plantae Ekmanianae
334:Antrostomus ekmani
278:Dominican Republic
274:Massif de la Selle
262:Massif de la Hotte
141:Erik Leonard Ekman
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387:Ekmanochloa
385:The genera
326:Pico Duarte
321:West Indian
292:, bouts of
228:World War I
134:flora/fauna
132:Hispaniolan
118:1914 - 1931
85:Nationality
604:Categories
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444:References
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220:Hispaniola
212:C. Lindman
173:amanuensis
109:naturalist
105:geographer
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426:Elekmania
313:Caribbean
290:pneumonia
286:influenza
241:in Cuba.
181:Stockholm
165:Argentina
157:Jönköping
151:Biography
52:Stockholm
239:epidemic
234:, and a
169:Misiones
101:explorer
97:Botanist
530:2482108
479:1655580
459:Science
416:Manekia
397:Gleason
394:Ekmania
390:Hitchc.
294:malaria
175:at the
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307:Legacy
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369:Ekman
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250:Haiti
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