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Significance of August Weberbauer's plant collecting for today's Río Abiseo National Park, northern Peru
Author(s) -
León Blanca
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
taxon
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1996-8175
pISSN - 0040-0262
DOI - 10.2307/1554975
Subject(s) - centennial , national park , geography , archaeology , taxon , honor , type (biology) , botanical garden , ecology , biology , computer science , operating system
Abstract The year 2001 marked the centennial arrival of the most famous 20th century botanist and explorer in Peru, August Weberbauer. To honor this occasion, a brief account is presented of his botanical contributions to the area in northern Peru that has been established as a national park. In this area, Weberbauer collected nearly 57 collection numbers, of which approximately 50% are type material, and at least four of which represent taxa still only known from the type.