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Robert Louis Dressler
Robert (Louis) Dressler (born 1927, died October 15, 2019, in Paraíso, Costa Rica) was an American botanist specialist of the taxonomy of the Orchidaceae. He graduated from the University of Southern California and Harvard University. In 1977, botanist Hans Wiehler published '' Reldia'', which is a genus of plants from South America in the family Gesneriaceae Gesneriaceae, the gesneriad family, is a family of flowering plants consisting of about 152 genera and ca. 3,540 species in the tropics and subtropics of the Old World (almost all Didymocarpoideae) and the New World (most Gesnerioideae), with ..., with the name honouring Robert Louis Dressler. References External links Webpage of Robert Dressler 21st-century American botanists Orchidologists 1927 births 2019 deaths Place of birth missing Harvard University alumni University of Southern California alumni {{US-botanist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paraíso, Costa Rica
Paraíso () is a district of the Paraíso canton, in the Cartago province of Costa Rica. History It was established in 1823.''Columbia-Lippincott Gazetteer'', 1952 Edition, p. 1428 Geography Paraíso has an area of km² and an elevation of metres. It is located 8 km southeast of Cartago. Demographics As of the 2011 census, Paraíso has a population of inhabitants. Transportation Road transportation The district is covered by the following road routes: * National Route 10 * National Route 224 * National Route 404 * National Route 416 Points of interest *Farmer's Market in the center of town *Finca la Flor de Paraiso (a non-profit organic farm) Sister cities Paraíso has one sister city:Online Directory: Florida, USA " Retrieved on June 20, 2007. * |
Taxonomy Of The Orchidaceae
The taxonomy of the Orchidaceae (orchid family) has evolved slowly during the last 250 years, starting with Carl Linnaeus who in 1753 recognized eight genera.Carolus Linnaeus (Carl von Linné). 1753. ''Species Plantarum'', 1st edition, vol. 2, pages 939-954. Holmiae: Impensis Laurentii Salvii (Lars Salvius). (A facsimile with an introduction by William T. Stearn was published by the Ray Society in 1957). (See ''External links'' below). De Jussieu recognized the Orchidaceae as a separate family in his Genera Plantarum in 1789.Antoine Laurent de Jussieu. 1789. "ORCHIDEAE" pages 64-66. In: ''Genera plantarum: secundum ordines naturales disposita,···'' (See ''External links'' below). Olof Swartz recognized 25 genera in 1800.Olof Swartz. 1800. "Afhandling om Orchidernes Slägter och deras Systematiska indelning". ''Kongliga vetenskaps academiens nya handlingar'' 21:115-139. (See ''External links'' below). Louis Claude Richard provided us in 1817 with the descriptive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Southern California
The University of Southern California (USC, SC, or Southern Cal) is a Private university, private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1880 by Robert M. Widney, it is the oldest private research university in California. The university is composed of one Liberal arts education, liberal arts school, the University of Southern California academics, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, and 22 Undergraduate education, undergraduate, Graduate school, graduate, and professional schools, enrolling roughly 21,000 undergraduate and 28,500 Postgraduate education, post-graduate students from all 50 U.S. states and more than 115 countries. It is also a member of the Association of American Universities, which it joined in 1969. USC is ranked as one of the top universities in the United States and admission to its programs is considered College admissions in the United States, highly selective. USC has graduated more alumni who have gone on to w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and one of the most prestigious and highly ranked universities in the world. The university is composed of ten academic faculties plus Harvard Radcliffe Institute. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences offers study in a wide range of undergraduate and graduate academic disciplines, and other faculties offer only graduate degrees, including professional degrees. Harvard has three main campuses: the Cambridge campus centered on Harvard Yard; an adjoining campus immediately across Charles River in the Allston neighborhood of Boston; and the medical campus in Boston's Longwood Medical Area. Harvard's endowment is valued at $50.9 billion, making it the wealthiest academic institution in the world. Endowment inco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Wiehler
Hans Joachim Wiehler (8 July 1930 in Klecie, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Klettendorf – 2003) was a German botanist who specialized in the plant family Gesneriaceae. In 1954 he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Goshen College in Goshen, Indiana and a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Goshen Biblical Seminary in 1956. He married in 1958 and remained in the United States for the rest of his life. He obtained a master's degree in botany from Cornell University and in 1979 a PhD in Botany from the University of Miami. Wiehler was on the staff of the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens from 1973 until 1982, when he left Selby to found the Gesneriad Research Foundation in Sarasota, Florida. Wiehler tended to be a taxonomic "Lumpers and splitters, splitter" but many of his generic rearrangements have found acceptance: the segregation of ''Gasteranthus'' from ''Besleria'', of ''Alsobia'', ''Chrysothemis'', ''Nautilocalyx'', and ''Paradrymonia'' from ''Episcia'', and of ''Moussonia (plant), Mouss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reldia
''Reldia'' is a genus of plants in the family Gesneriaceae. They are also in the Beslerieae tribe. They are native to Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panamá and Peru in South America. It contains the following species, according to Plants of the World Online; * '' Reldia alternifolia'' Wiehler * '' Reldia calcarata'' L.P.Kvist & L.E.Skog * '' Reldia grandiflora'' L.P. Kvist & L.E. Skog * '' Reldia longipedunculata'' J.L.Clark * '' Reldia minutiflora'' (L.E. Skog) L.P. Kvist & L.E. Skog * '' Reldia multiflora'' L.P.Kvist & L.E.Skog The genus name of ''Reldia'' is in honour of Robert Louis Dressler (b. 1927), an American botanist specialist of the taxonomy of the ''Orchidaceae'' family. It was first described and published in Selbyana Vol.2 on page 124 in 1977. The genus is recognized by the United States Department of Agriculture and the Agricultural Research Service The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) is the principal in-house research agency of the United States Departme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plant
Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclude the fungi and some algae, as well as the prokaryotes (the archaea and bacteria). By one definition, plants form the clade Viridiplantae (Latin name for "green plants") which is sister of the Glaucophyta, and consists of the green algae and Embryophyta (land plants). The latter includes the flowering plants, conifers and other gymnosperms, ferns and their allies, hornworts, liverworts, and mosses. Most plants are multicellular organisms. Green plants obtain most of their energy from sunlight via photosynthesis by primary chloroplasts that are derived from endosymbiosis with cyanobacteria. Their chloroplasts contain chlorophylls a and b, which gives them their green color. Some plants are parasitic or mycotrophic and have lost the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gesneriaceae
Gesneriaceae, the gesneriad family, is a family of flowering plants consisting of about 152 genera and ca. 3,540 species in the tropics and subtropics of the Old World (almost all Didymocarpoideae) and the New World (most Gesnerioideae), with a very small number extending to temperate areas. Many species have colorful and showy flowers and are cultivated as ornamental plants. Etymology The family name is based on the genus ''Gesneria'', which honours Swiss naturalist and humanist Conrad Gessner. Description Most species are herbaceous perennials or subshrubs but a few are woody shrubs or small trees. The phyllotaxy is usually opposite and decussate, but leaves have a spiral or alternate arrangement in some groups. As with other members of the Lamiales the flowers have a (usually) zygomorphic corolla whose petals are fused into a tube and there is no one character that separates a gesneriad from any other member of Lamiales. Gesneriads differ from related families of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
21st-century American Botanists
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Orchidologists
This is a list of orchidologists, botanists specializing in the study of orchids. The list is sorted in the surname alphabetical order. A * Oakes Ames (botanist) (1874–1950), an American biologist specializing in orchids Joseph Arditti (1932-), an American plant physiologist specializing in orchids B * Ray Barkalow (born 1952), a US scientist and engineer, known for using science to explain or dispel orchid-growing myths. * James Bateman (1811–1897), a British landowner and accomplished horticulturist * Carl Ludwig Blume (1796–1862), a German-Dutch botanist * Diego Bogarín (born 1982), a Costa Rican biologist specialised in orchid phylogenetics, systematics and taxonomy of Neotropical Orchidaceae C * Cedric Errol Carr (1892–1936), a New Zealand botanist, specialising in orchids * Arthur Chadwick (born 1962), an american orchid grower * James Boughtwood Comber (1929-2005), a British botanist * Eugène Jacob de Cordemoy (1835-1911), a French physician and bota ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1927 Births
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2019 Deaths
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