Joseph Edward Laferrière | |
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Born | 1955 |
Nationality | American |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Botany |
Author abbrev. (botany) | Laferr. |
Joseph Edward Laferrière (born 1955) [1] is an American botanist with a particular interest in ethnobotany.
He obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona in 1991 with a dissertation entitled "Optimal use of ethnobotanical resources by the Mountain Pima of Chihuahua, Mexico". [2] [3] Among other institutions, he has held professional positions at Washington State University, [4] Biosphere 2, [5] and the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos (in Cuernavaca, Mexico). [6]
He is the author or co-author of the botanical names of some 120 taxa, including Berberis pimana, Hymenocallis clivorum, Hymenocallis pimana, Laennecia pimana, Pectis pimana, Prionosciadium saraviki , and Yucca declinata . [7]
Mahonia repens commonly known as creeping mahonia, creeping Oregon grape, creeping barberry, or prostrate barberry, is a species of Mahonia native to the Rocky Mountains and westward areas of North America, from British Columbia and Alberta in the north through Arizona and New Mexico, then into northwest Mexico by some reports. It is also found in many areas of California and the Great Basin region in Nevada.
Hedeoma is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae. It is native to North and South America. They are commonly known as false pennyroyals.
Laennecia or Laënnecia is a genus of flowering plants in the sunflower family. The plants are native to Mesoamerica, South America, and the southwestern United States. Common name is "horseweed."
Agave shrevei is a member of the family Asparagaceae, indigenous to the Sierra Madre Occidental in Mexico, along the boundary between the states of Chihuahua and Sonora. Two subspecies are currently recognized, although a third has been proposed.
Berberis moranensis is a shrub in the genus Berberis in the family Berberidaceae. Because of its compound leaves, some botanists place it in the genus Mahonia. It is native to forested regions of the mountains of Mexico from Sinaloa and Guanajuato to Oaxaca. Berberis moranensis has thick waxy leaves, yellow flowers, and purple berries. This species is closely related to Berberis pimanaJ.E. Laferr. & J.S. Marr.
Pectis pimana is an herbaceous plant in the family Asteraceae. It is endemic to a mountainous area in the Sierra Madre Occidental, in the Mexican State of Chihuahua. Type locale is the village of Nabogame, 18 km of Yepachic and about 10 km east of the state line with Sonora. Most of the inhabitants of Nabogame are of the indigenous ethnic group known as the Mountain Pima or Pima Bajo; the specific epithet "pimana" was chosen in their honor.
Wedelia pimana is a plant species in the genus Wedelia in the family Asteraceae. It is native to the Sierra Madre Occidental in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. It is an herb with yellow flowers, growing in fallow agricultural fields in a region with predominantly pine-oak forest.
Rubus sierrae is a small Mexican species of shrub in the genus Rubus, family Rosaceae. It is known from a single collection from near the village of Nabogame, Chihuahua, Mexico, in the Sierra Madre Occidental approximately 18 km northwest of Yepachic. The specimen was collected in riparian forest dominated by Acer grandidentatum Nutt. and Cupressus lusitanica.
Hedeoma patens is a small herb in the genus Hedeoma, family Lamiaceae. It is native to the Mexican states of Chihuahua and Coahuila.
Mammillaria barbata Engelm. is a small cactus native to Chihuahua, Sonora, and Durango, with the common name greenflower nipple cactus. It is found in mountainous locations in the Sierra Madre Occidental. It has delicate white to pink flowers. The fruits are red and oblong. They are edible but too small to be of much food value to humans.
Prunus gentryi is a species of wild cherry in the genus Prunus, family Rosaceae, native to the Mexican states of Chihuahua and Sonora. It grows along streambanks in mountainous regions of the Sierra Madre Occidental. The scientific description was published in 1937.
Dasylirion durangense, common name "sotol," is a perennial plant in the family Asparagaceae, native to Durango, Chihuahua and Sonora, Mexico. It is closely related to D. wheeleri S. Wats. and considered a variety of that species by some authors. The plant has a large basal rosette of long stiff leaves over 1 m in length, bearing sharp, curved spines along the margins. The flowering stalk can be up to 3 m tall, bearing small wind-pollinated flowers.
Yepáchic, sometimes spelled Yepáchi, is a community in the western part of the Mexican State of Chihuahua, approximately 10 km (6.2 mi) east of the boundary with the State of Sonora. It is located in the Municipio de Temósachic at an altitude of 1,780 meters (5,840 ft) in the Sierra Madre Occidental. Many of the people of the region are members of the indigenous ethnic group called Mountain Pima or the Pima Bajo. They are related to the Pima and Papago of Arizona and northern Sonora, speaking a similar but distinct language.
Hymenocallis occidentalis is a plant species native to the southern United States. It is known along the Gulf Coast from South Carolina to Texas, and in the Mississippi Valley as far north as southern Illinois and Indiana. It is also cultivated as an ornamental elsewhere because of its showy, sweet-smelling flowers. Common names include woodland spider-lily, hammock spider-lily or northern spider-lily.
Berberis haematocarpa, Woot. with the common names red barberry, red Mexican barbery, Colorado barberry and Mexican barberry, is a species in the Barberry family in southwestern North America. It is also sometimes called algerita, but that name is more often applied to its relative, Mahonia trifoliolata.
Berberis muelleri is a shrub with compound leaves, native to the Mexican State of Nuevo León.
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