Standley, Paul Carpenter (1884-1963)

Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
Paul Carpenter
Last name
Standley
Initials
P.C.
Life Dates
1884 - 1963
Collecting Dates
1904 - 1949
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Bryophytes
Fungi
Pteridophytes
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
F (main), US (main), A, AMES, B, BH, BM, BPI, BR, C, CM, CR, CUP, DAO, DPU, DS, E, EAP, ENAG, FH, G, GH, GRI, JE, K, L, M, MAD, MICH, MO, NMC, NY, P, PH, POM, S, W
Countries
Central American Continent: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, PanamaTropical South America: PeruNorth American region: United States
Associate(s)
Blake, Sidney Fay (1892-1959) (co-author)
Calderón, Salvador (1884-1940) (co-author, co-collector)
Chacón G., Isidro A. (1956-) (co-collector)
Conzatti, Cassiano (1862-1951) (co-author)
Kenoyer, Leslie Alva (1883-1964) (co-author)
Killip, Ellsworth Paine (1890-1968) (co-collector)
Lundell, Cyrus Longworth (1907-1994) (co-author)
Maxon, William Ralph (1877-1948) (co-collector)
Miller, Gerrit Smith (1869-1956) (co-author)
Morelos, Deter (fl. 1927) (co-collector)
Morton, Conrad Vernon (1905-1972) (co-author)
Rose, Joseph Nelson (1862-1928) (co-collector)
Russell, Paul George (1889-1963) (co-collector)
Smith, Albert Charles (1906-1999) (co-author)
Torres Rojas, Ruben (fl. 1923-1931) (co-collector)
Valerio, Manuel (fl. 1927-1937) (co-collector)
Valerio Rodríguez, Juvenal (1900-1971) (co-collector)
Wooton, Elmer Ottis (1865-1945) (co-collector)
Biography
American botanist from Avalon, Missouri who later studied for his Master's degree at the Agricultural College of New Mexico under the supervision of E.O. Wooten. Standley worked at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington (US) from 1909 and established himself as a field botanist. In 1928 he left for the Field Museum in Chicago (F) where he worked until 1950, then moved to Honduras for an active retirement. Standley specialised in plants of Central America, in particular Costa Rica (1923-1927) and Guatemala (1922-1941) and became one of the most prolific collectors in the world. He received an honorary doctor's degree from the government of Guatemala. Though best known for his publications on phanerogams, Standley also collected cryptogams. Vegter refers to 125 specimens of bryophytes from Costa Rica at K, but these were transferred to BM after 1960 under the terms of the Morton Agreement.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 612; Holmgren, P., Holmgren, N.H. & Barnett, L.C., Index Herb., ed. 8 (1990): 135; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. M (1976): 518; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. N-R (1983): 784; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. S (1986): 942; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. T-Z (1988): 1032, 1066;
Standley, Paul Carpenter (1884-1963)
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