Organisation(s)
ASU (main), OBI (main), OS (main), ARIZ, BM, BRY, CAS, COLO, CPUN, CSU, DAV, DES, DS (currently CAS), ENCB, F, FSU, G, GH, HUT, ID, ISC, K, LIV, LL (currently TEX), MARY, MEXU, MICH, MIN, MO, MSC, NCU, NY, OKL, RM, RSA, S, SD, TEX, UC, UCR, UMO, US, USM, UT, WTU
Countries
Tropical South America: Bolivia, PeruCentral American Continent: El Salvador, Honduras, MexicoCaribbean region: Jamaica, Puerto RicoSouthern Africa: Lesotho, South AfricaNorth American region: United States
Associate(s)
Bretting, Peter K. (fl. 1982-2002) (co-collector)
Burandt, Charles L. (1950-) (co-collector)
Burandt, Lizbeth (fl. 1987) (co-collector)
Butterwick, Mary Lois (fl. 1970-1994) (co-collector)
Canne, Judith M. (1943-) (co-collector)
Daniel, Thomas Franklin (1954-) (co-collector)
Gallagher, Peg (fl. 1983) (co-collector)
Lehto, Elinor Dixon (1915-) (co-collector)
Luckow, Melissa Ann (1948-) (co-collector)
McGill, Lyle Angus (1949-) (co-collector)
Mohlenbrock, Mark (fl. 1983-1984) (co-collector)
Pinkava, Donald John (1933-) (co-collector)
Reeves, Timothy (Tim) (1947-) (co-collector)
Roberts, Marvin L. (fl. 1972-1983) (co-collector)
Sagástegui Alva, Abundio (1932-2012) (co-collector)
Theroux, M.E. (fl. 1974) (co-author)
Turner, Charles Edward (1945-1997) (co-collector)
Walters, D.R. (fl. 1975-2004) (co-author)
Wood, Dennis (fl. 1983) (co-collector)
Biography
American botanist. David J. Keil grew up in Illinois and by the end of his sophomore year in high school had decided on a career in botany. He received his BS (1968) and MS (1970) degrees from Arizona State University, and was awarded a doctorate in 1973 from Ohio State University for his re-evaluation of Pectis subgenus Pectidopsis (DC.) Fernald (Asteraceae). In 1978 he joined the faculty of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, where he is currently Professor of Biology. His primary research has continued to focus on Asteraceae systematics and on the floristics of western North America, especially Arizona and California. He is the author of numerous scientific papers, textbooks, and study guides, and was a major contributor to the Jepson Manual project and to the Asteraceae volumes for the Flora of North America North of Mexico, including the entire thistle tribe. His collection numbers began in 1966 and are now well over 30,000. He has collected in the western, midwestern, and southeastern United States, as well as Alaska, Hawaii, and Guam. In Latin America, he has made various expeditions to Mexico between 1968 and 1995, and has also visited other parts of Central America (1972), the West Indies (1982), and Peru (1987). In 2002-2003, he collected in South Africa and Lesotho.
Sources:
Personal communication, March 2008.
References
Knobloch, I.W., Phytologia Mem. 6 (1983): 48, 80; Knobloch, I.W., Pl. Coll. N. Mexico (1979): 33; Villareal Quintanilla, J.Á., Fl. Coahuila (2001): 13;
