Canistrum Fosterianum
''Canistrum fosterianum'' is a plant species in the genus ''Canistrum''. This species is named for Mulford B. Foster. This species is endemic to Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area .... Cultivars * ''Canistrum'' 'Big Emma' * ''Canistrum'' 'Flare' * × ''Canmea'' 'Blue Tags' * × ''Canmea'' 'FDTroll' * × ''Canmea'' 'Galaxy' * × ''Canmea'' 'Inci' * × ''Canmea'' 'Jaspe' * × ''Canmea'' 'Majo' * × ''Canmea'' 'Smokey' * × ''Quesistrum'' 'Claudia' References BSI Cultivar RegistryRetrieved 11 October 2009 * fosterianum Flora of Brazil {{Bromelioideae-stub ...
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Lyman Bradford Smith
Lyman Bradford Smith (September 11, 1904 – May 4, 1997) was an American botanist. Smith was born in Winchester, Massachusetts. He studied botany during the 1920s at Harvard University and received his PhD from Harvard in 1930. Between 1928 and 1929, he worked for the first time in Brazil. Most of his life's work came to involve the taxonomy of the flowering plants of South America, in particular the bromeliads ('' Bromeliaceae''). Smith worked on the Bromeliaceae for the North American Flora published by the American botanist Nathaniel Lord Britton, volume 19, no. 2 (1938). Smith was a world authority on ''Begoniaceae'' and also worked with '' Velloziaceae'' and numerous other plant families. He was a curator in the Smithsonian Institution's Department of Botany from 1947 until his retirement in 1974, but continued to work in the United States National Herbarium as an emeritus curator almost until his death in Manhattan, Kansas, in 1997. Works :''This list may be incomplete. ...
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