Organisation(s)
BM (main), K (main), WU (main), A, B, C, E, H, IBF, LE, LI, M, MO, NMW, P, US, W
Countries
Europe: Austria, Italy, United Kingdom, Croatia, HungaryWestern Asia: Iran
Associate(s)
Burtt Davy, Joseph (1870-1940) (co-author)
Johnston, Henry (Harry) Hamilton (1858-1927) (co-author)
Wiesner, Julius von (1838-1916) (student)
Biography
Austrian botanist who studied at the University of Wien under J. von Wiesner; after receiving his doctorate (1882) he was employed as a lecturer. He subsequently accepted a post at K (1890-1922) and moved to England, becaming Assistant Director of Kew in 1909. Stapf was initially employed to work on plants of India but published on botanical subjects as varied as the genera Aconitum, Paeonia, the floras of Africa and Malaysia and botanical illustration in the monumental Index Londinensis. The botanical journal Stapfia was named in his honour. Many plants were also named after him including the genera Stapfia Burtt Davy and Ottochloa Dandy in the Poaceae and Stapfiella Gilg in the Turneriaceae. Original cryptogams, formerly deposited at K, were transferred to BM after 1961 under the terms of the Morton Agreement.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 613; Jackson, B.D., Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew (1901): 62; Kent, D.H. & Allen, D.E., Brit. Irish Herb. (1984): 249; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. S (1986): 943;
