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www.ingentaconnect.com/content/nhn/blumea OBITUARY https://doi.org/10.3767/blumea.2021.66.03.01

In memoriam Willem Jan Jacobus Oswald de Wilde

(1936 – 2021)
P.C. van Welzen1,*, P. Baas1

Citation: Van Welzen PC, Baas P. 2021. In memoriam Willem Jan Jacobus Oswald de Wilde (1936 – 2021).
Blumea 66 (3): i – vi. https://doi.org/10.3767/blumea.2021.66.03.01.
Effectively published online: 5 December 2021.

Fig. 1   Teaching Cucurbitaceae to students in Khon Kaen University (NE Thailand), 2011. Photo: Phongsak Phonsena.

In 2016 we celebrated the 80th birthday of Willem and his wife position with the Dutch Overseas Development Agency in tropi-
Brigitta, not knowing that only five years later Willem would pass cal Africa, and was stationed in Cameroon, Ethiopia and Ivory
away, after being diagnosed with lung cancer. In this obituary Coast. During these postings he and Brigitta were engaged in
we will make extensive use of the biographical data assembled botanical collecting, teaching and curation of various herbaria.
for the congratulatory paper written on that occasion (Baas et In 1966 Willem was appointed on the scientific staff of the
al., Blumea 61, 2016: 85, 86). Rijksherbarium by Prof. C.G.G.J. van Steenis, who engaged
Willem de Wilde was born 16 September 1936 in Heemskerk him in his Flora Malesiana work to revise the genus Adenia
(Province of North-Holland, the Netherlands). He studied (Passifloraceae), which also served for his PhD in 1971. Wil-
biology at Leiden University, where he passed his Bachelor lem, in part together with his wife, revised six families for Flora
and Master of Science degrees cum laude. During this study Malesiana (Cornaceae, Cucurbitaceae (Fig. 1), Lythraceae,
in Leiden he met his wife, Brigitta Duyfjes. After their studies Myristicaceae, Najadaceae, Passifloraceae), some of which
they were both teaching assistants at the Rijksherbarium (later were notoriously difficult. The same families (or sometimes
National Herbarium of the Netherlands, now part of Naturalis also others, like the Campanulaceae, Polygalaceae, part of
Biodiversity Center), Leiden, The Netherlands. Willem got a the Rubiaceae) were also treated for the regional floras within
Malesia or in adjacent areas (Flore du Cambodge, du Laos, et
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Naturalis Biodiversity Center, P.O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, The Nether­ du Viêtnam, Flora of Thailand, Flora of the Malay Peninsula,
lands; corresponding author e-mail: peter.vanwelzen@naturalis.nl. Flora of Singapore, Tree Flora of Sabah and Sarawak).

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Fig. 2   Collecting in Thailand, on top of Mt. Phu Kradueng (Loei Province), 2011. Photo: Phanom Sutthisaksopon.

Willem was among the best taxonomists in the world, but family visited Festieux (when it still had a hotel) in the north of
he was too modest to acknowledge that himself. He always France and its beautiful wild flora.
seemed in doubt about his species delimitations, and taxonomic Not only conserved plants were very important to Willem, also
decisions often took a long time, which should sound familiar the living ones in his house and in his gardens. The De Wilde
to all experienced taxonomists. Willem used a morphological home is beautifully situated next to a lake and can only be
approach, which he always gave precedence over molecular reached by foot or bicycle (or if you know the way by car via
and phylogenetic hypotheses. Willem was very productive the neighbouring farmer). The house is surrounded by a large
as he always worked very hard, also after retirement, even piece of land with a flower garden (and old hay stack) and a
up to a few weeks before his death. He did not allow himself vegetable garden with a small green house. Further away,
many social distractions, and continued working while Brigitta Willem had another vegetable garden. These vegetable gar-
maintained social contacts by visiting people. Jointly, Willem dens were Willem’s major hobby. Every year he would dig his
and Brigitta published more than 600 newly described taxa or gardens and grow a large variety of vegetables and fruits. The
new name combinations. yield was always too big for his small family, but it was shared
Mostly together with Brigitta, he collected or helped to col- with many people. The plums and black currents were very
lect about 25 000 herbarium specimens, usually with plenty suitable for making jam and many other veggies/fruits could
of duplicates; 161 are types of new names and the teller is be preserved in one way or another for the rest of the year. Of
still counting. Already during his study Willem organised with course, maintaining the gardens became more difficult with the
several other students an adventurous collecting trip to Turkey, years, but Willem continued to work them to the end.
whereby their van was transported by boat instead of driving The gardens were in fact one of the ways in which Willem
it themselves to Turkey. The most important expeditions were limited his ecological footprint, just like using old frying oil to
to the Gunung Leuser Biosphere Reserve where Willem and drive the car, burning the rest wood from the garden in their
Brigitta collected five times (in 1972, 1974, 1979, 1985 and fireplace. Willem cared much about the environment, but was
1991) and on which they wrote several review papers that very pessimistic about the future of the planet: too many people,
stressed the need for conservation. In addition they collected natural areas disappearing fast, pollution of every environment.
all over Southeast Asia: Thailand (Fig. 2), Cambodia, Borneo, He usually sounded like he foresaw the doom of mankind and
Java, etc. where they were always welcomed and made last- the planet. Often he would start a discussion, sometimes after
ing friends. Willem and Brigitta returned the favours in the listening to others, but always in such a way that it left the
Netherlands as they invited visiting Asian colleagues and others ashamed with the feeling that they were responsible for
students and treated them to excursions (Fig. 3), rowing trips, the mayhem and should do something to improve the situation.
sight-seeing tours and home-cooked dinners in their lovely He felt the same about the future of taxonomy and the Flora
house in Woubrugge. Malesiana Project in Naturalis, and foresaw the extinction of
Willem was an avid ornithologist, and together with family both.
(brothers, wives, etc.) he made annual bird-watching excursions Together with Brigitta, Willem was part of a dream team, partly
to northern Spain during the bird migration and every year the complementary as well as acting in unison, both modest and
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Fig. 3   Trip with PhD students to Kinderdijk (near Rotterdam) in the Netherlands, c. 2011. Photo: Marc Appelhans.

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– (with Duyfjes BEE) Survey of Lagerstroemia L. (Lythraceae) in Indochina 2020

(excl. Thailand) with the description of Lagerstroemia densiflora, sp. nov., – (with Duyfjes BEE) Flora of Singapore precursors, 18: Change of rank for
a new species from Vietnam. Adansonia, sér. 3, 38: 241– 255. two species in Polygalaceae and Cornaceae. Gardens’ Bulletin Singapore
– (with Duyfjes BEE) Lagerstroemia (Lythraceae) in Malesia. Blumea 59: 72: 133 –134.
113 –122. – (with Duyfjes BEE) Cornaceae-2. In: Van Welzen PC (ed), Flora Male-
– (with Duyfjes BEE) Lythraceae. In: Van Welzen PC (ed), Flora Malesiana, siana, Ser. I, Spermatophyta, 24: 1– 66. Naturalis Biodiversity Center,
Ser. I, Spermatophyta, 22: 1– 64. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden. Leiden.
– (with Cámara-Leret R, Frodin DG, Adema F, et al.) New Guinea has the
2017 world’s richest island flora. Nature 584: 579 – 583.
– (with Duyfjes BEE) Taxonomy of Alangium section Conostigma (Alangia-
ceae). Blumea 62: 29 – 46. 2021
– (with Duyfjes BEE) The species of Alangium section Rhytidandra (Alan- – (with Duyfjes BEE, Chung RCK) Cornaceae. In: Kiew R, Chung RCK,
giaceae). Blumea 62: 75 – 83. Saw LG, et al. (eds), Flora of Peninsular Malaysia, ser. 2, Seed plants
8: 143 –168. Forest Research Institute Malaysia, Kepong.
2018 – (with Duyfjes BEE) Hernandiaceae. In: Kiew R, Chung RCK, Saw LG, et
– (with Duyfjes BEE) Myristicaceae. In: Kiew R, Chung RCK, Saw LG, et al. (eds), Flora of Peninsular Malaysia, ser. 2, Seed plants 8: 201– 213.
al. (eds), Flora of Peninsular Malaysia, ser. 2, Seed plants 7: 127– 256. Forest Research Institute Malaysia, Kepong.
Forest Research Institute Malaysia, Kepong. – (with Duyfjes BEE, Siti-Munirah) Lythraceae. In: Kiew R, Chung RCK,
– (with Duyfjes BEE) Passifloraceae. In: Kiew R, Chung RCK, Saw LG, et Saw LG, et al. (eds), Flora of Peninsular Malaysia, ser. 2, Seed plants
al. (eds), Flora of Peninsular Malaysia, ser. 2, Seed plants 7: 273 – 292. 8: 237– 274. Forest Research Institute Malaysia, Kepong.
Forest Research Institute Malaysia, Kepong. – (with Duyfjes BEE) Canthium obscurum W.J.de Wilde & Duyfjes, sp. nov.,
– (with Duyfjes BEE, Phonsena P) Cornaceae (part 2). In: Chayamarit K, a new name for a widespread, wrongly interpreted species (Vanguerieae-
Balslev H (eds), Flora of Thailand 14, 1: 14 – 30. Forest Herbarium, Rubiaceae). Blumea 66: 93 – 95.
Bangkok.
– (with Duyfjes BEE) Miscellaneous Cucurbit News V. Thai Forest Bulletin,
Botany 46: 123 –128.

2019
– (with Chen LMJ, Duyfjes BEE, Ali I) Flora of Singapore precursors, 16:
New records and notes on the plant diversity in Singapore. Gardens’
Bulletin Singapore 71: 401– 406.
– (with Duyfjes BEE) Three new species of Lythraceae and one new spe-
cies of Stemonaceae described from Indochina. Blumea 64: 177–182.