Alberto Castellanos

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Alberto Castellanos (born December 11, 1896 in Córdoba (Argentina) , † September 5, 1968 in Rio de Janeiro ) was an Argentine botanist and paleobotanist . He was a leading specialist in South American cacti and the flora of Argentina. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " A.Cast. ".

Life

Castellanos received his doctorate from the University of Buenos Aires , where he became professor of botany. In 1938 he was President of the South American Botanical Congress in Rio de Janeiro. He was also the founder of the Faculty of Botany in Montevideo and for many years head of the Botany section at the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia . In 1958 he had to flee to Brazil and taught at the National Museum there until his retirement in 1966. Even after that, he continued his collecting trips and helped set up the Herbarium Bradeanum.

He published a catalog of the plants of Argentina and collected plants in often remote regions of Argentina such as Tierra del Fuego. He was also a pioneer in paleobotany in Argentina, studying phytogeography of Argentina and the history of natural sciences in South America.

In addition to cacti, he especially studied Mayacaceae , Xyridaceae , Eriocaulaceae and Pontederiaceae and was a leading expert on Bromeliaceae .

The Herbarium Alberto Castellanos (GUA) in Rio de Janeiro is named in his honor, as is the cactus genus Castellanosia and the amaryllis family Castellanoa . Castellanos was a founding member of the International Association of Plant Taxonomists and Honorary President of the Argentine Succulent Society.

He was married to the botanist (originally a mathematics professor) Herminia Violeta Lelong (1910-2010), with whom he also published, and had two children with her.

Honors

The genus Castellanoa grape from the amaryllis family (Amaryllidaceae) and Castellanosia Cárdenas from the cactus family (Cactaceae) were named after Castellanos .

Fonts

  • Editor with R. Descole: Genera et Species Plantarum Argentinarum, 1945 to 1955 (from Castellanos and Lelong in it the section Cactaceae)
  • with RA Pérez Moreau: Los tipos de vegetación de la República Argentina, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Monografías del Instituto de Estudios Geográficos, 4, 1945
  • with HV Lelong: Los géneros de las cactáceas argentinas. Anales del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia", Botánica 39, 1938, pp. 383-420

literature

  • R. Singer: Alberto Castellanos 1896-1968, Taxon, Volume 18, 1969, pp. 308-309.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter Erhardt among others: The great pikeperch. Encyclopedia of Plant Names . Volume 2, page 1901. Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2008. ISBN 978-3-8001-5406-7
  2. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]

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personal data
SURNAME Castellanos, Alberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine botanist and paleobotanist
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Cordoba (Argentina)
DATE OF DEATH 5th September 1968
Place of death Rio de Janeiro