Amos Arthur Heller

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Amos Arthur Heller (born March 21, 1867 in Montour County, Pennsylvania, † May 18, 1944 in Vacaville, California) was an American botanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " A.Heller ".

Live and act

Heller was a full-time teacher in California ( Los Gatos (California) (1904 to about 1909, during this time he was collecting in the Santa Cruz Mountains ), Chico (California) ) and laid an extensive herbarium with his wife Emily Gertrude Halbach (marriage 1896) of plants from North America (California), Mexico and also from Hawaii and especially from Puerto Rico .

He undertook his first expedition to Puerto Rico for the New York Botanical Garden in 1898/1899, another in 1900 and 1902/03. Later, the flora of Puerto Rico was explored in particular by Nathaniel Lord Britton and Elizabeth Gertrude Britton (expeditions 1906 to 1933).

His first herbarium is at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden (who acquired it in 1913) and his second is at the University of Washington in Seattle. However, duplicates found their way into many collections around the world.

With P. Beveridge Kennedy he edited the botanical journal Muhlenbergia , which he set and printed himself and in which he published a lot.

Honors

Is named after him, the plant genus Helleranthus Small from the family of the iron herb plants (Verbenaceae).

Fonts

  • Catalog of North American plants north of Mexico: exclusive of the lower cryptogams, 1898. 2nd ed. 1900; 3rd edition 1909–1914

literature

  • Eugenio Santiago-Valentín: Amos Arthur Heller's Puerto Rico Plant Collecting Itineraries of 1900 and 1902-1903 and Their Utility for the Historical Study of Endangered Plants, Brittonia, Volume 57, 2005, pp. 292-294, first page, JSTOR

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Walter Erhardt among others: The great pikeperch. Encyclopedia of Plant Names . Volume 2, page 1950. 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 Heller, Amos Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES A.Heller (botanical author abbreviation)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American botanist
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Montour County , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1944
Place of death Vacaville , California