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This list is far from complete.
This is a list of orchidologists, botanists specializing in the study of orchids. The list is sorted in the surname alphabetical order.
Note that an entry is required "usually" or "in general," not always.
This list is far from complete.
This is a list of orchidologists, botanists specializing in the study of orchids. The list is sorted in the surname alphabetical order.
Joseph Arditti (born 1932), American plant physiologist specializing in orchids. Doctorate from the University of Southern California, 1965. Professor of Biology University of California, Irvine, 1966-2001. Professor Emeritus, 2001-
Friedrich Richard Rudolf Schlechter was a German taxonomist, botanist, and author of several works on orchids.
Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach was a botanist and the foremost German orchidologist of the 19th century. His father Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach was also a well-known botanist.
The following outline is an overview of and topical guide to botany, the biological academic discipline involving the study of plants.
Calaway Homer Dodson was an American botanist, orchidologist, and taxonomist.
Jean Jules Linden was a Belgian botanist, explorer, horticulturist and businessman. He specialised in orchids, which he wrote a number of books about.
Józef Warszewicz Ritter von Rawicz was a Polish botanist, biologist and plant and animal collector.
Paul Hamilton Allen (1911–1963) was an American botanist noted for his work on the ecology of Central America, orchid systematics and economically important species including bananas. He was married to the former Dorothy Osdieck of Kirkwood, Missouri.
Charles Schweinfurth was an American botanist and plant collector who distinguished himself by his studies on orchids. He predominantly collected species from Peru which he described in his four volume reference work Orchids of Peru (1958). He was a researcher at the Botanical Museum of Harvard University, and director of the Ames Orchid Herbarium where, in 1958, he was succeeded by Leslie Andrew Garay.
Neottieae is an orchid tribe in the subfamily Epidendroideae. It contains six genera and over 200 species distributed mainly in temperate and subtropical zones of the northern hemisphere. All its members are terrestrial plants, hinting at an early branching with Epidendroideae which is largely an epiphytic group. Neottieae is likely to be the result of a single temperate radiation of epidendroids, although it appears that some lineages in this tribe have crept back into the tropics.
Leslie Andrew Garay, born Garay László András, was an American botanist. He was the curator of the Oakes Ames Orchid Herbarium at Harvard University, where he succeeded Charles Schweinfurth in 1958. In 1957 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.
William Cattley was a British merchant and horticulturist. He was significantly involved with the trade between Britain and Russia, including the importation of grain to England. He also collected, and had others collect on his behalf, plants from locations throughout the world. He was particularly fond of orchids.
Fritz Hamer was an outstanding German botanist who worked in Central America, specializing in orchids.
Charles Wesley Powell was an American hobbyist turned horticulturist specializing in the study of orchids (Orchidaceae). He is credited with providing scientists the first large-scale collection of orchid specimens found in Panama. In the early 1900s, he became internationally famous for his new discoveries and valuable contributions to orchidology by gathering, rediscovering, cultivating, preserving, documenting, and submitting-for-study a diverse assortment of hundreds of distinct specimens: yielding many new to science species.
Vicki Ann Funk was an American botanist and curator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, known for her work on members of the composite family (Asteraceae) including collecting plants in many parts of the world, as well as her synthetic work on phylogenetics and biogeography.
Carolus Adrianus Johannes "Karel" Kreutz is a Dutch orchidologist, botanical writer and taxonomist, currently affiliated with the Centre for Biodiversity Naturalis in Leiden, Netherlands. He is regarded as an exceptionally experienced orchidologist, and has published orchid floras of Cyprus, Turkey, Rhodes, Crimea, Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, and is currently preparing a major overview in ten volumes of all orchid taxa in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, employing modern taxonomy, nomenclature and research techniques.
Mark Alwin Clements (b. 1949) is an Australian botanist and orchidologist. He obtained his doctorate at the Australian National University defending his thesis entitled Reproductive Biology in relation to phylogeny of the Orchidaceae, especially the tribe Diurideae.
Donald Frederick Blaxell, is an Australian botanist, botanical collector and taxonomist.
Jose Cuatrecasas Medal for Excellence in Tropical Botany was initiated in 2001 by the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, USA. It is named after José Cuatrecasas, a pioneering botanist and taxonomist who worked on the flora of tropical South America. It is awarded annually to a scientist who has made a very significant contribution to advancing the field of tropical botany. Nominations for the award can be made by all in the Botany Department at the museum.