John Thomas Howell | |
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| Nationality | American |
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| Fields | Botany |
| Institutions | California Academy of Sciences |
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.
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
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
See also
References
- ^ 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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