Gloria Galeano Garcés

Gloria Amparo Garcés Galeano ( born April 22, 1958 in Medellin ) is a Colombian botanist and agricultural scientist. Your official botanical author abbreviation is " Galeano ".

Life stages

Gloria Amparo Garcés Galeano was born in Medellin in 1958. She studied at the National University. With the title " agricultural engineer " she graduated in 1983 from this course. The years 1982 to 1984 she spent in the Department of Forest Resources at the University of the same name. In 1984 she was appointed to the Institute of Natural Sciences at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogota. Your doctor of philosophy she was also awarded in 1996 by the University of Aarhus.

Areas of Practice

She has published more than 20 articles and several books on the systematics of the palms and published jointly with Andrew Henderson, a monograph on the flora Neotropica to the genus Euterpe, Prestoea and Neonicholsonia. Her research at the Institute of Natural Sciences in Bogota deal with the taxonomy of palms, especially with deposits in the Chaco region. Also on ethnobotanical questions it addresses from their research. Together with Rodrigo Bernal worked Galeano Garcés a glossary of common names of Colombian plants. In addition, she is committed to the conservation of endangered plant species. They developed a four -volume Red List of flowering plants in Colombia. The first volume was published in 2002.

Writings (selection )

• Gloria Galeano, Andrew Henderson, Rodrigo Bernal: Field Guide to the Palms of the Americas. Princeton 1995, ISBN 0-691-08537-4.

Swell

• Gloria Amparo Garcés Galeano at Jstor Plant Sciences
• International Pflantnames Index