John F. Akers

This article is about the botanist John F. Akers. For the manager, see John Fellows Akers .

John Frank Akers (born February 16, 1906 - October 10, 1967 in Los Angeles County , California ) was an American botanist .

Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Akers ".

Live and act

Akers specialized in the cactus family (Cactaceae). He collected in Peru from 1943 to 1947 .

In 1947 Akers set up the genus Peruvocereus , which is now counted among Haageocereus . In 1949 he described the genus Azureocereus together with Howard Wilfred Johnson . Today this genus belongs to Browningia . In 1950, in the magazine Succulenta , he and the Dutch botanist Albert Frederik Hendrik Buining described the genus Maritimocereus , which is now synonymous with Cleistocactus .

From 1941 to 1957 he worked for the Cactus and Succulent Society of America (CSSA). From 1946 to 1955 Akers published articles in the Cactus and Succulent Journal .

Honor taxon

In 1961, Albert Frederik Hendrik Buining named the cactus genus Akersia (now part of the genus Cleistocactus ) in honor of Akers.

literature

• Robert Zander : Zander concise dictionary of plant names . Ed .: Fritz Encke , Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold . 13th, revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Date of death according to the California Deaths Index . The CSSA reports October 9th as a different information .
2. ^ Gordon Douglas Rowley : A History of Succulent Plants . Strawberry Press, 1997. p. 355. ISBN 0-912647-16-0
3. ↑ History of CSSA Officers, Directors and Editors (English)
4. ^ Succulenta . Volume 40, 1961, p. 25.
5. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]

Web links

• Author entry and list of the described plant names for John F. Akers at the IPNI