Lyman Bradford Smith
Lyman Bradford Smith (born September 11, 1904 in Winchester , Massachusetts , † May 4, 1997 in Manhattan , Kansas ) was an American botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ LBSm. "
Life
He studied biology at Harvard University in the 1920s . In 1928/1929 he traveled to Brazil for the first time . He was a curator at the Botanical Department of the Smithsonian Institution from 1947 to 1974. In his life's work, he focused on the taxonomy of South American flowering plants, particularly the bromeliad (Bromeliaceae). For the North American Flora edited by the American botanist Nathaniel Lord Britton , he edited “Bromeliaceae” for volume 19 number 2 (1938).
Honors
The plant genus Lymania Read from the bromeliad family (Bromeliaceae) is named after him .
Works
- The Bromeliaceae of Brazil , 1955
- The Bromeliaceae of Colombia , 1957
- Begoniaceae , 1986
literature
- Stephen F. Smith: Lyman Bradford Smith (1904-1997) . In: Taxon . tape 46 , no. 4 , November 1997, pp. 819-824 .
Web links
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Lyman Bradford Smith at the IPNI
Individual evidence
- ↑ Robert Zander : Zander hand 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 .
- ↑ 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 | Smith, Lyman Bradford |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 11, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Winchester , Massachusetts |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 4, 1997 |
| Place of death | Manhattan , Kansas |