Thomas Lobb, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Thomas Lobb

British botanist

Date of Birth: 30-Apr-1811

Place of Birth: Perranarworthal, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1894

Profession: botanist, explorer

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Thomas Lobb (1817–1894) was a British botanist and, along with his older brother, William Lobb, collected plants for the plant nursery Veitch. Lobb worked in India, Indonesia and the Philippines.
In 1845 he discovered the first orchid species of the genus Phalaenopsis growing in the eastern Himalayas, at an altitude of ~1,500 m (4,900 ft).
This plant, Phalaenopsis lobbii, is named in his honour as was Dendrobium lobbii.