Thomas Gordon Hartley
Thomas Gordon Hartley (born January 9, 1931 in Beaumont , Texas , † March 8, 2016 in Canberra ) was an American botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " TG Hartley "
biography
In 1955, Hartley graduated from Wisconsin State University in botany with a Bachelor of Science degree . He earned a Masters degree from the University of Iowa in 1957 and a Ph. D.
From 1961 to 1965 he led an expedition of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization to research phytochemicals in New Guinea . From 1965 to 1971 he was assistant curator of the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts . From 1971 he was Senior Research Scientist at CSIRO Plant Industry, Canberra , Australia .
Thomas Gordon Hartley is primarily for his scientific treatises on the family of Rutaceae become known. He described several newly discovered plant taxa from Southeast Asia , Papua New Guinea , New Caledonia and Australia for the first time scientifically and revised genera such as Zanthoxylum and Acronychia, among others . Together with Benjamin Clemens Stone , he wrote a major revision of the genus Pelea in 1989 , with which almost all species of the genus Pelea were transferred to the genus Melicope . Together with Dianxiang Zhang he revised the 11th volume of the "Flora of China".
Works (selection)
- 1966: A revision of the Malesian species of Zanthoxylum (Rutaceae)
- 1967: A revision of the genus Lunasia (Rutaceae)
- 1969: A revision of the genus Flindersia (Rutaceae)
- 1970: Additional notes on the Malesian species of Zanthoxylum (Rutaceae)
- 1974: A revision of the genus Acronychia (Rutaceae)
- 1975: Additional notes on the genus Flindersia (Rutaceae)
- 1975: A new species of Zanthoxylum (Rutaceae) from New Guinea
- 1977: A revision of the genus Acradenia (Rutaceae)
- 1977: A revision of the genus Bosistoa (Rutaceae)
- 1989: (with Benjamin Clemens Stone ): Reduction of Pelea with new combinations in Melicope (Rutaceae) . Taxon 38: 119-23
- 2001: Allertonia. On the taxonomy and biogeography of Euodia and Melicope (Rutaceae).
Individual evidence
Web links
- Short biography in the Nationaal Herbarium Nederland (English)
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Thomas Gordon Hartley at the IPNI
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hartley, Thomas Gordon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 9, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Beaumont , Texas |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 8, 2016 |
| Place of death | Canberra |