James Lauritz Reveal
James Lauritz Reveal (born March 29, 1941 in the United States , † January 9, 2015 in Ithaca , New York ) was an American botanist who developed the Reveal system and was appointed professor emeritus in the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group ( APG II ) collaborated. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Reveal ".
life and work
Reveal joined the University of Maryland's Norton-Brown Herbarium in the late 1960s, which he directed from 1979 to 1999. He retired on July 31, 1999. His publications and scientific work deal with floristic investigations on West-North American vascular plants, with the pre-Linnaeus plant collections from temperate North America in herbaria , with the genus Eriogonum , Polygonaceae and the supraging nomenclature of vascular plants.
Reveal system
The taxonomic system, which was continuously expanded by James Lauritz Reveal until the end of 1999, is outdated by the appearance of the APG III system , but still contains valuable explanations in the notes on the individual taxa , especially with regard to nomenclature and taxonomic synonyms.
Honors
The plant genus Revealia R.M. King & H.Rob is named after Reveal . from the sunflower family (Asteraceae).
Web links
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for James Lauritz Reveal at the IPNI
- Obituary from Norton-Brown Herbarium (English)
- Literature by and about James Lauritz Reveal in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Norton Brown Herbarium
- ^ Reveal System of Classification
- ↑ 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 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reveal, James Lauritz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 29, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 9, 2015 |
| Place of death | Ithaca , New York |