Harold Emery Moore

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Harold Emery Moore Jr. (born July 7, 1917 in Winthrop (Massachusetts) , † October 17, 1980 ) was an American botanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " HEMoore ".

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Moore received a Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1946 and 1955 . He was at the Bailey Hortorium in Ithaca in upstate New York operates. Moore was co-editor of Hortus third by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1976). He published partially together with William Thomas Stearn and with Robert Gardner Wilson .

Honors

The plant genus Halmoorea J.Dransf is named after Moore . & NWUhl from the palm family (Arecaceae).

Works

  • African Violets, Gloxinias and their relatives . 1957.
  • An Annotated Checklist of Cultivated Palms . In: Principes . tape 7 , 1963.
  • The Major Groups of Palms and their Distribution . 1973.

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Individual evidence

  1. Harold E. Moore Jr. at the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation .
  2. Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .

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