Elli Stamatiadou (born 1 April 1933 in Andros,

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- died 1 May 2015,

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, Greece) was a successful amateur Greek botanist.

Biography

She was the chief curatorial assistant at the

herbarium A herbarium (plural: herbaria) is a collection of preserved plant specimens and associated data used for scientific study. The specimens may be whole plants or plant parts; these will usually be in dried form mounted on a sheet of paper (called ...

of Goulandris Natural History Museum (ATH), from 1965 to 2009 and the greatest contributor to the Museum’s botanical collections (23,705 specimens from all over Greece including over 20

type specimens In biology, a type is a particular specimen (or in some cases a group of specimens) of an organism to which the scientific name of that organism is formally attached. In other words, a type is an example that serves to anchor or centralizes t ...

). She retired in 2003 but continued working voluntarily until 2009.

Family

She was married to Yiannis Stamatiadis, together they had 2 children. Their son Stamatis Stamatiadis is a soil microbiologist and he has developed the Soil Ecology and Biotechnology Laboratory at the

Goulandris Natural History Museum The Goulandris Museum of Natural History is a museum in Kifisia, a northeastern suburb of Athens, Greece. It was founded by Angelos Goulandris and Niki Goulandris in 1965 in order to promote interest in the natural sciences, to raise the aware ...

Species

The plant species '' Dianthus stamatiadae'' Rech. f. (a Greek

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...

plant species from the region of Kozani), '' Veronica stamatiadae'' M.A. Fischer & Greuter (a '' Veronica'' species, first collected by Stamatiadou from the island of Ro in the

Kastellorizo Kastellorizo or Castellorizo (; el, Καστελλόριζο, Kastellórizo), officially Megisti ( ''Megísti''), is a Greece, Greek island and Communities and Municipalities of Greece, municipality of the Dodecanese in the Eastern Mediterranean ...

island group) and '' Allium stamatiadae'' are named after her.

Publications

* Zahariadi, C., Stamatiadou, E. & Dima, A. 1982. Geographical distribution of species of Ornithogalum (Liliaceae) in Greece, including two new taxa. – Ann. Mus. Goulandris, 5: 131-162. * Snogerup, S., Snogerup, B., Stamatiadou, E., von Bothmer, R. & Gustafsson, M. 2006. Flora and vegetation of Andros, Kiklades, Greece. – Ann. Mus. Goulandris, 11: 85-270.

References

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