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Taxonomic Authorities Index

Browse all botanists and institutions who have named or classified plants in this database.

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400 authorities
Rodr.
0 names
Roem.
Johann Jacob Roemer, 1763-1819. Professor of botany in Zurich, Switzerland.
2 names
Rose
0 names
Roth
Albrecht Wilhelm Roth, 1757-1834. German botanist and physician.
1 names
Rottb.
Christen Friis Rottboell, 1727-1797. Denmark.
1 names
Rupr.
Franz Joseph Ruprecht, 1814-1870. Russian botanist and curator of the herbarium of the Academy...
0 names
Rusby
Henry Hurd Rusby, 1855-1940. Dean of the Columbia College of Pharmacy in New York.
0 names
Rydb.
Per Axel Rydberg, 1860-1931. Swedish-born botanist and curator at the New York Botanical...
17 names
S. Wats.
Sereno Watson, 1826-1892. Assistant to Asa Gray and curator of the Gray Herbarium at Harvard...
5 names
S.D. Koch
Stephen D. Koch, 1940-.
0 names
S.F. Blake
Sidney Fay Blake, 1892-1959. American botanist.
2 names
S.T. Blake
Stanley Thatcher Blake, 1910-1973. Australian botanist; president of the Royal Society of...
1 names
Salisb.
Richard Anthony Salisbury, 1761-1829.
2 names
Sav.
Paul Amed&#233e Ludovic Savatier, 1830-1891, French Botanist.
0 names
Savi
Gaetano Savi, 1769-1844. Italian botanist.
0 names
Scheele
George Heinrich Adolf Scheele, 1808-1864. Germany.
1 names
Schkuhr
Christian Schkuhr, 1741-1811. Germany.
3 names
Schleid.
Matthias Jacob Schleiden, 1804-1881, German botanist.
1 names
Schoepf
Johann David Schoepf, 1752-1800. Germany.
1 names
Schott
Heinrich Wilhelm Schott, 1794-1865, Austria.
3 names
Schrad.
Heinrich Adolph Schrader, 1767-1836. German botanist, professor in Goettingen.
4 names
Schreb.
Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber, 1739-1810, Germany.
2 names
Schult.
Joseph August Schultes, 1773-1831, Austrian botanist
0 names
Schultz-Bip.
Carl Heinrich Schultz, Bipontinus, 1805-1867. Germany.
1 names
Schur
Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur, 1799-1878, German botanist.
1 names
Schwein.
Lewis David von Schweinitz, 1780-1834, German-born clergyman in Pennsylvania.
1 names
Scop.
Johann Anton (Giovanni Antonio) Scopoli, 1723-1788. Austrian botanist, physician, and...
3 names
Scribn.
Frank Lamson Scribner, 1851-1938. Grass specialist at the U.S. department of Agriculture.
2 names
Seem.
Berthold [Carl] Seeman, 1825-1871. German botanist and publisher; traveled in Central and South...
1 names
Selander
Nils Sten Edward Selander, 1891-1957, Sweden.
0 names
Semple
John Cameron Semple, 1947-.
1 names
Sennen
E. C. Sennen, 1861-1937, France.
1 names
Ser.
Nicholas Charles Seringe, 1776-1858, French botanist.
0 names
Shaver
Jerse Milton Shaver, 1888-1961, U.S. botanist.
1 names
Sheviak
Charles John Sheviak, 1947-. Botanist in New York state.
1 names
Shinners
Lloyd Herbert Shinners, 1918-1971. Canadian-born botanist and professor at Southern Methodist...
10 names
Siebold
Philipp Franz von Siebold, 1796-1866, German botanist.
1 names
Sims
John Sims, 1749-1831. Served for 25 years as the editor of "Curtis' Botanical Magazine" in England.
1 names
Small
John Kunkel Small, 1869-1938. Botanist and head curator of the New York Botanical Garden.
8 names
Smyth
Bernard Bryan Smyth, 1843-1913. Curator of the State Museum of Kansas.
2 names
Smyth & Smyth
1 names
Soó
Károly Rezsö Soò von Bere, 1903-1980. Hungary.
1 names
Spach
Edouard Spach, 1801-1879. French botanist.
3 names
Spreng.
Curt Polykarp Joachim Sprengel, 1766-1833. German professor of medicine and botany in Halle.
7 names
Standl.
Paul Carpenter Standley, 1884-1963. Curator of the U.S. National Herbarium and later the Field...
1 names
Steud.
Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel, 1783-1856. German physician and authority on grasses.
5 names
Steyermark
Julian Alfred Steyermark, 1909-1988, botanist, curator of the Field Natural History Museum in...
0 names
Subils
Rosa Subils, 1929-, Argentina.
1 names
Sulliv.
William Starling Sullivant, 1803-1873. Specialist in mosses who worked in Ohio.
1 names
Sw.
Olof Peter Swartz, 1760-1818. Swedish botanist.
6 names