Richard Evans Schultes

Richard Evans Schultes ( born January 12, 1915 in Boston, † April 10, 2001 ) was an American biologist. He is considered the father of ethnobotany. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " RESchult. ".

Schultes was from 1953 Curator of the Oakes Ames Orchid Herbarium of Harvard University and from 1970 director of the Harvard Botanical Museum and Edward Jeffrey Professor of Biology.

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