Pilz, George Edmund (1942-)

Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
George Edmund
Last name
Pilz
Initials
G.E.
Life Dates
1942 -
Collecting Dates
1965 - 1977
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Pteridophytes
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
EAP, K, MO, OS, P, TEX, UC
Countries
Central American Continent: Honduras, MexicoTropical Africa: Nigeria
Associate(s)
Huettel, Milton Davis (1942-1997) (co-collector)
Pilz, Marjorie (fl. 1975) (co-collector)
Strother, John Lance (1941-) (co-collector)
Biography
United States botanist who trained at Stanford University (BA), San José State University, California (MA) and the University of California, Berkeley (PhD 1974). He joined the Escuela Agrícola Panamericana el Zamorano in Tegucigalpa, Honduras in 1983 as a lecturer in botany and genetics. He was appointed head of the Wilson Popenoe Library, head of the Department of Natural Resources and Biological Conservation (1994-1999) and later in the department of Socio-Economic Development and Environment. He is director of the Herbario Paul C. Standley (EAP) in Tegucigalpa. A specialist in Nyctaginaceae, Sapotaceae and trees of Honduras. Chrysanthellum pilzii Strother and Justicia pilzii T.F. Daniel are named after him.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 496; Knobloch, I.W., Phytologia Mem. 6 (1983): 75; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. N-R (1983): 685; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. S (1986): 969; Villareal Quintanilla, J.Á., Fl. Coahuila (2001): 14;
Pilz, George Edmund (1942-)
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