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WILLIAM ASHBROOK KELLERMAN'S BOTANICAL EXPEDITIONS TO GUATEMALA (1905–1908)
Author(s) -
Lowden Richard M.
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
taxon
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1996-8175
pISSN - 0040-0262
DOI - 10.2307/1217909
Subject(s) - herbarium , archaeology , taxon , session (web analytics) , botanical garden , history , geography , state (computer science) , trips architecture , library science , biology , botany , computer science , world wide web , parallel computing , algorithm
Summary In 1891 W. A. Kellerman came to The Ohio State University as Professor of Botany, which position he held until his death in Guatemala on March 8, 1908. From January through March of the years 1905 through 1908, Kellerman made four collecting trips to Guatemala on which parasitic fungi and vascular plant material were secured. Prior to the 1908 trip Dr. Keller‐man's Tropical School of Botany was organized with its first session scheduled for the winter of 1908. New taxa were described from Kellerman's Guatemalan collections, of which twenty‐one fungus and forty‐one vascular plant taxa are known. Itineraries and maps were constructed for each trip based predominantly on 1152 specimen labels in The Ohio State University Herbarium. The information from these itineraries will enable herbaria that have inadequately labeled material to supplement specimen labels with pertinent information of either place or date of collection.