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Lakela, Olga Korhoven (1890-1980)

Date Updated: 19 April 2013

Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
Olga Korhoven
Last name
Lakela
Initials
O.K.
Life Dates
1890 - 1980
Collecting Dates
1936 - 1966
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Algae Pteridophytes Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
A, BM, DUKE, DUL, F, GH, IA, MIN, MO, NY, US, USF, WS
Countries
North American region: United States
Associate(s)
Almeda, Frank (1946-) (co-collector)
Lassiter, James A. (fl. 1963-2000) (co-collector)
Lassiter, Rita (fl. 1963-2000) (co-collector)
Long, Robert William (1927-1976) (co-collector)
Ray, James Davis (1918-) (co-collector)
Biography
Finnish-born American botanist. Olga Korhoven Lakela moved to the United States in 1906 and later worked as a school teacher in North Dakota and Minnesota for 26 years. In around 1943 Lakela became Professor of Botany and Curator of the herbarium at Duluth State Teachers College and at the Duluth campus of the University of Minnesota, retiring in 1958. Lakela published the names of many flowering plant species, particularly in the genera Heuchera L. and Tiarella L. of the family Saxifragaceae.

Sources:
F.A. Stafleu, 1958, "Personalia", Taxon, 7: 293
F.A. Stafleu and R.S. Cowan, 1976-1998, Taxonomic Literature, 2nd edition (TL-2): 2: 727.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 354;
Lakela, Olga Korhoven (1890-1980)
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