Lyman Bradford Smith

Lyman Bradford Smith ( born September 11, 1904 in Winchester, Massachusetts; † 4 May 1997 Manhattan, Kansas) was an American botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " LBSm. ".

He studied in the 1920s at Harvard University biology. 1928/1929, he traveled for the first time in Brazil. Even in his other life's work, he focused on the taxonomy of the South American flowering plants, especially bromeliads ( Bromeliaceae ). For published by the American botanist Nathaniel Lord Britton North American Flora, he edited " Bromeliaceae " for Volume 19 Number 2 (1938).

Works

  • The Bromeliaceae of Brazil, 1955
  • The Bromeliaceae of Colombia, 1957
  • Begoniaceae, 1986
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