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 ". Previously was also the abbreviation " Woods. " In use.

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

Ehrentaxon

To him, the genus Wood Sonia LHBailey plant the palm family is named ( Arecaceae ) in honor.

Works

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

Swell

  • Robert Zander, Fritz Encke, Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold (eds.): Handbook of Plant Names. 13th edition. Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5.
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