{{short description|Dutch botanist}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Ding Hou | image = Ding Hou (1921-2008).jpg | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1921|10|11|df=yes}} | birth_place = Hsingkan, Jiangxi, China | death_date = {{Death date and age|2008|9|9|1921|10|11|df=yes}} | death_place = Leiden, Netherlands | residence = | citizenship = | nationality = | ethnicity = | field = Botany | work_institution = National Herbarium of the Netherlands, Arnold Arboretum, Missouri Botanical Garden | alma_mater = | doctoral_advisor = Robert E. Woodson | doctoral_students = | known_for = ''Flora Malesiana'', plant collections | author_abbreviation_bot = | author_abbreviation_zoo = | prizes = | religion = | footnotes = }} '''Ding Hou''' (11 October 1921, Hsingkan, Jiangxi, China – 9 September 2008, Leiden, Netherlands) was a Dutch botanist and mycologist.<ref name=Blumea53-2/>

== Education and career == In 1945, Hou obtained a botany degree from the National Chung Cheng University in Jiangxi, becoming a botanical assistant there on graduation. From 1947 to 1951 he was a botanical assistant at the National Taiwan University in Taipei. He obtained a master's degree and PhD from Washington University in St. Louis in 1952 and 1955 respectively. During this time he also worked for the Missouri Botanical Garden. In 1955 he became a botanist at the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University. In 1956, he was hired by Professor Cornelis van Steenis at the National Herbarium of the Netherlands, working on the ''Flora Malesiana'' project. He worked at the National Herbarium until his retirement in 1986.<ref name="Blumea46-2" />

Hou has made significant contributions to the plant families Anacardiaceae, Anisophylleaceae, Aristolochiaceae, Celastraceae, Rhizophoraceae, Thymelaeaceae and later to Leguminosae.<ref name=ASBS/> He named over 100 plant species, including ''Anisophyllea corneri'', ''Bruguiera exaristata'' and ''Gluta sabahana''.<ref name=IPNI/> The species ''Aristolochia dinghoui'', ''Parishia dinghouiana'' and ''Thottea dinghoui'' are named for him.<ref name=ASBS/>

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==References== {{Reflist | refs =

<ref name=Blumea53-2>{{cite journal | author1 = Baas, Pieter | author2 = Adema, Frits | title = In Memoriam Ding Hou (1921 – 2008) | date = 29 October 2008 | journal = Blumea | volume = 53 | issue = 2 | pages = 233–234 | doi = 10.3767/000651908X607927}}</ref>

<ref name=Blumea46-2>{{cite journal | author1 = Baas, Pieter | author2 = Adema, Frits | title = Dr. Ding Hou 80 years young | date = 2001 | journal = Blumea | volume = 46 | issue = 2 | pages = 201–205 | doi = 10.3767/000651908X607927}}</ref>

<ref name=ASBS>{{cite journal | title = Death notices: Ding Hou (1921–2008) | url = https://asbs.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/08-sept-136.pdf | date = September 2008 | journal = Australian Systematic Botany Society | issue = 136 | pages = 26–27 | issn = 1034-1218}}</ref>

<ref name=IPNI>{{IPNI | id = 2219-1 | author = Ding Hou | access-date = 3 July 2024}}</ref>

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==External links== *{{cite web | url = https://www.nationaalherbarium.nl/FMCollectors/H/HouD.htm | title = Hou, Ding | publisher = National Herbarium of the Netherlands}}

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