Dressler, Robert Louis (1927-)

Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
Robert Louis
Last name
Dressler
Initials
R.L.
Life Dates
1927 -
Collecting Dates
1948 -
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
FLAS (main), JBL (main), MO (main), U (main), B, BH, BM, BR, CAS, COL, CR, DAV, DUKE, F, GH, HBG, HEID, K, LE, LL (currently TEX), MEXU, NY, P, PAN, PMA, RB, RPSC, S, SEL, STRI, UC, US, USJ, VEN, W
Countries
Tropical South America: Colombia, VenezuelaCentral American Continent: Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, PanamaCaribbean region: CubaNorth American region: United States
Associate(s)
Ackerman, James D. (1950-) (co-collector)
Andrews, Robin (fl. 1972) (co-collector)
Atwood, John T. (1946-) (co-collector)
Barboza V., G. (fl. 1995-2001) (co-collector)
Berg, Cornelis Christiaan (1934-) (co-collector)
Braga, Pedro Ivo Soares (1950-) (co-collector)
Bunting, George Sydney (1927-) (co-collector)
Correa A., Mireya D. (1940-) (co-collector)
Cowan, Clark Paul (fl. 1978-2001) (co-collector)
D'Arcy, William Gerald (1931-1999) (co-collector)
Díaz Dumas, Marta Aleida (1950-) (co-collector)
Díaz, Marta Aleida (co-collector)
Dodero, Rodolfo (fl. 1994-2000) (co-collector)
Dodson, Calaway H. (1928-) (co-collector)
Dressler, Kerry (fl. 1980-1999) (co-collector)
Duke, James Alan (1929-) (co-collector)
Dwyer, John Duncan (1915-2005) (co-collector)
Escobar Restrepo, Rodrigo (fl. 1978-1996) (co-collector)
Folsom, James P. (1950-) (co-collector)
Garibaldi E., C. (fl. 1976) (co-collector)
Gentry, Alwyn Howard (Al) (1945-1993) (co-collector)
Hágsater, Eric (1945-) (co-collector)
Hamilton, Clement W. (1954-) (co-collector)
Hammel, Barry E. (1946-) (co-collector)
Hartman, Ronald Lee (1945-) (co-collector)
Horich, Clarence Klaus (1930-1994) (co-collector)
Jones, Quentin (1920-) (co-collector)
Kennedy, Helen (1944-) (co-collector)
Knapp, Sandra (Sandy) Diane (1956-) (co-collector)
Kuhn, Janet (fl. 1970-1981) (co-collector)
Lewis, Walter Hepworth (1930-) (co-collector)
Llamacho, Juan A. (fl. 1997-2001) (co-collector)
Luer, Albert Eben (co-collector)
Luer, Carlyle August (1922-) (co-collector)
Luer, Jane Pfeiffenberger (1922-) (co-collector)
Maas, Paulus Johannes Maria (1939-) (co-collector)
Mahler, A. (fl. 1973) (co-collector)
Moore, Harold Emery (Hal) (1917-1980) (co-collector)
Mora-Monge de Retana, Dora Emilia (1940-2001) (co-author, co-collector)
Mori, Scott A. (1941-) (co-collector)
Nee, Michael (Mike) (1947-) (co-collector)
Pupulin, Franco (1960-) (co-collector)
Retana, Dora Emilia de (co-collector)
Retana, Emilia (co-collector)
Retana, Marcos (co-collector)
Salazar Allen, Noris (1947-) (co-collector)
Schubert, T. (fl. 1953) (co-collector)
Soderstrom, Thomas Robert (1936-1987) (co-collector)
Stevenson (co-collector)
Stevenson, F.L. (fl. 1969-1996) (co-collector)
Steyermark, Julian Alfred (1909-1988) (co-collector)
Sucre, Benjamin Dimitri (fl. 1962-1979) (co-collector)
Sytsma, Kenneth J. (1954-) (co-collector)
Taylor, Peter Geoffrey (1926-) (co-collector)
Thurston, Beatrice F. (fl. 1977-1984) (co-collector)
Webster, Grady Linder (1927-2005) (co-collector)
Williams, N.F. (co-collector)
Williams, Norris H. (1943-) (co-collector)
Wirth, Michael (fl. 1959) (co-collector)
Biography
American botanist. Robert Dressler is a curator of the Missouri Botanical Garden and an associate of the University of Florida Herbarium, who currently resides in Costa Rica. He was born in Branson, Missouri, and attended the University of Southern California and Harvard, where he earned his PhD in 1957. His research interests are orchid classification and evolution and floral ecology. He has made a special study of the orchids of Panama and Costa Rica. The orchid genera Dresslerella Luer and Dressleria Dodson, and the genus Dressleriopsis Dwyer in the Rubiaceae, are named after him.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 174; Holmgren, P., Holmgren, N.H. & Barnett, L.C., Index Herb., ed. 8 (1990): 388; Knobloch, I.W., Phytologia Mem. 6 (1983): 22; Knobloch, I.W., Pl. Coll. N. Mexico (1979): 13; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. M (1976): 475;
Dressler, Robert Louis (1927-)
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