Turner, Billie Lee (1925-)

Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
Billie Lee
Last name
Turner
Initials
B.L.
Life Dates
1925 -
Collecting Dates
1947 - 1978
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
SMU (main, currently BRIT), TEX (main), ARIZ, BOL, BRIT, DAO, GH, LL (currently TEX), MEXU, MICH, PRE, SRSC, TAES, UC, UTC
Countries
Central American Continent: MexicoTropical South America: PeruSouthern Africa: South AfricaNorth American region: United States
Associate(s)
Adams, Robert Phillip (Bob) (1939-) (co-author)
Ayers, Tina J. (1957-) (co-collector)
Bacon, John Dudley (1943-) (co-collector)
Birdsong, A. (fl. 1980) (co-author)
Crozier, B. (fl. 1995) (co-collector)
Crutchfield, John (fl. 1960-1973) (co-collector)
Dillon, Michael Owen (1947-) (co-collector)
Enquist, Marshall Frank (1948-) (co-collector)
Leverich, W.J. (fl. 2000) (co-collector)
Magill, Robert Earle (1947-) (co-collector)
Powell, Albert Michael (1937-) (co-collector)
Preece, Sherman Joy (1923-1993) (co-collector)
Raven, Peter Hamilton (1936-) (co-collector)
Shantz, Homer LeRoy (1876-1958) (co-collector)
Smith, J.M. (co-collector)
Turner, G. (fl. 1980) (co-collector)
Whalen, Molly A. (fl. 1987-2004) (co-collector)
Biography
Born in Yoakum, Texas, in 1925, Billie Lee Turner is director emeritus of the botany research programme and herbarium at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on the composites and legumes. Not to be confused with his son, the geographer Billie Lee Turner II.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 657; Gunn, M. & Codd, L.E. Bot. Explor. S. Afr. (1981): 352; Knobloch, I.W., Pl. Coll. N. Mexico (1979): 69; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. N-R (1983): 709; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. T-Z (1988): 1050; Villareal Quintanilla, J.Á., Fl. Coahuila (2001): 14;
Turner, Billie Lee (1925-)
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