William Munro

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William Munro (* 1818 in Druids Stoke , Gloucestershire , † January 29, 1880 in Taunton ) was a British officer and botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Munro ".

Live and act

William Munro (in addition to his military career in the English infantry) collected many plants in India between 1834 and 1838, in Kashmir in 1847, in the Crimea and in Barbados from 1870 to 1875. His special interest was tropical grasses and bamboo species.

Honors

The plant genera Munroa Torr were named Mach Munro . , Hemimunroa Parodi and Munrochloa M.Kumar & Remesh from the sweet grass family (Poaceae) and also Munronia Wight and Nurmonia Harms from the mahogany family (Meliaceae).

Works

A monograph of the Bambusaceae . In: Transactions of the Linnean Society of London / 1st series , vol. 26 (1868)

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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

^ ^A ^b ^c 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 described plant names for William Munro at the IPNI
CV at Wikisource (English)

personal data
SURNAME	Munro, William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British botanist
DATE OF BIRTH	1818
PLACE OF BIRTH	Druids Stoke , Gloucestershire
DATE OF DEATH	January 29, 1880
Place of death	Taunton

[Burkhardt_2018-1] A ^b ^c 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 .