Robert Everard Woodson

Robert Everard Woodson (born April 28, 1904 in St. Louis , Missouri , † November 6, 1963 ) was an American botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Woodson ". The abbreviation “ Woods. " in use.

Live and act

Woodson was the curator of the herbarium at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis. He contributed to the work "North American Flora" by Nathaniel Lord Britton the description of the plant family Apocynaceae in volume 29 (2).

Honor taxon

The genus Woodsonia L.H.Bailey from the palm family (Arecaceae) was named in his honor. The plant genus Allowoodsonia Markgr. from the dog poison family (Apocynaceae) is named after him.

Works

Studies in the Apocynaceae, IV. The American genera of Echitoideae . 1933.
Contributions toward a Flora of Panama . 1937.

swell

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 .

literature

Edgar Anderson, George B. Van Schaack: Robert Everard Woodson, Jr. 1904-1963 . In: Taxon . tape 13 , no. 2 , March 1964, p. 45–48 ( first page online at JSTOR ).

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymic 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 .

Web links

Author entry and list of the described plant names for Robert Everard Woodson at the IPNI

personal data
SURNAME	Woodson, Robert Everard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American botanist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 28, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH	St. Louis , Missouri
DATE OF DEATH	November 6, 1963
Place of death	St. Louis , Missouri

[Burkhardt_2018-1] Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymic 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 .