John Thomas Howell (November 6, 1903[1] – May 7, 1994[2]) was an American botanist and taxonomist. He became an expert of Eriogonum (buckwheat) species, which are widely represented in the native California flora.
John Thomas Howell | |
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| Nationality | American |
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| Fields | Botany |
| Institutions | California Academy of Sciences |
He was the assistant of Alice Eastwood (1859−1953), the renowned botanist and botanical collection director at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, California.
Taxa named for Howell edit
The genera of Howelliella (in the family Plantaginaceae),[3][4] Howellanthus (a synonym of Phacelia in the Boraginaceae family) and also Johanneshowellia (Howell's buckwheat) of the family Polygonaceae,[5] are all named in his honor.[6][7]
Taxa named by Howell edit
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Placer County Flora Introduction Archived 2010-05-08 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Remembrance of John Thomas Howell", in Flora of North America newsletter, vol.8, no.3
- ^ Quattrocchi, Umberto (2000). CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names, Volume II, D–L. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-2676-9.
- ^ "Howelliella Rothm. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
- ^ "Johanneshowellia Reveal | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 15 May 2021.
- ^ Reveal, James L. "Eriogonoideae (Polygonaceae) of North America north of Mexico: Johanneshowellia". University of Maryland. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
- ^ Reveal, James L. (2004). "Johanneshowellia (Polygonaceae: Eriogonoideae), a new genus from the Intermountain West". Brittonia. 56 (4): 299–306. doi:10.1663/0007-196X(2004)056[0299:JPEANG]2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0007-196X. JSTOR 3218353. S2CID 20181547.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. J.T.Howell.
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