| Julian Alfred Steyermark | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 27, 1909 St. Louis, Missouri |
| Died | October 15, 1988 |
| Nationality | Venezuelan American |
| Known for | Research in New World vegetation, Specialist in the family Rubiaceae |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Botany |
| Institutions | Field Museum of Chicago, Instituto Botánico of Caracas, Missouri Botanical Garden |
| Thesis | (1933) |
| Author abbrev. (botany) | Steyerm. |
Julian Alfred Steyermark (January 27, 1909 – October 15, 1988) was a Venezuelan American botanist. His focus was on New World vegetation, and he specialized in the family Rubiaceae.
Life and work
Julian Alfred Steyermark was born in St. Louis, Missouri as the only child of the businessman Leo L. Steyermark and Mamie I. Steyermark (née Isaacs). He studied at the Henry Shaw School of Botany at Washington University in St. Louis, where he completed his Ph.D. in 1933. His distinguished career included the Field Museum of Chicago, the Instituto Botánico of Caracas, and he was with the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis from 1984 until his death. Steyermark's major works were his Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana, Flora of Missouri, and his Flora of Guatemala.
During his life, Steyermark collected over 130,000 plants in twenty-six countries, which earned him an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records. He made the initial descriptions of 2,392 taxa of plants, including one family, 38 genera, and 1,864 species.
The standard author abbreviation Steyerm. is used to indicate Steyermark when citing a botanical name.
Honours
Julian Alfred Steyermark is honoured in several genera of South American plants;
- Steyermarkina is a genus of plants within the Asteraceae family,
- Steyermarkochloa is a genus of plants in the Poaceae family.
- Steyerbromelia in the family Bromeliaceae, published also in 1987,
- Steyermarkia (in the family Rubiaceae) was also named in his honor in 1940.
- Stanmarkia published in 1993, which is a genus of flowering plants from Mexico and Guatemala, belonging to the family Melastomataceae. The name also honours another American botanist Paul Carpenter Standley (1884–1963).
Steyermark is also commemorated in the scientific name of a species of South American snake, Atractus steyermarki.
Major works
- Flora of Missouri (1963) Ames, Iowa: The Iowa State University Press. ISBN 0-8138-0655-0.
- Bromeliaceae of Venezuela with Francisco Oliva-Esteva (1987) Caracas, Venezuela: Graficas Armitano, C. A. ISBN 978-980-216-020-4
See also
References
- "International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (Saint Louis Code), Electronic version". International Association for Plant Taxonomy. 2000. Archived from the original on December 12, 2002. Retrieved November 14, 2007.
- Gerrit Davidse (1989). "Julian Alfred Steyermark". Taxon. 38 (1): 160–163. doi:10.1002/j.1996-8175.1989.tb04615.x. JSTOR 1220929.
- ^ Mary Susan Taylor (1989). "Plant taxa described by Julian A. Steyermark". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 76 (3): 652–780. doi:10.2307/2399648. JSTOR 2399648.
- "Steyermark, Julian Alfred (1909–1988)". Author Details. International Plant Names Index. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
- Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. S2CID 187926901. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- King, Robert Merrill & Robinson, Harold Ernest 1971. Phytologia 22: 43-45 descriptions in Latin, commentary in English
- Davidse, Gerrit & Ellis, Roger P. 1987. Steyermarkochloa unifolia, a new genus from Venezuela and Colombia (Poaceae: Arundinoideae: Steyermarkochloeae) Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 71(4): 994-1012, figures 1–27 descriptions in parallel Latin and English; commentary in English; line drawings, macroscopic and microscopic photographs, anatomical diagrams
- "Bromeliad Society International- Genera Etymology". Archived from the original on 2007-02-03. Retrieved 2021-12-19.
- "Steyermarkia Standl. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
- Fritz Encke; Günther Buchheim; Siegmund Seybold; Robert Zander, eds. (1984). Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen (13th ed.). Stuttgart: Ulmer. ISBN 978-3-8001-5017-5.
- "Stanmarkia Almeda | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
- Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Steyermark", p. 254).
Further reading
- Anonymous (1989). "Dedication to Julian Steyermark". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 76 (3): frontispiece. JSTOR 2399646.
- Raven, P.H. (1989). "Steyermark recollections". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 76 (3): 627–651. doi:10.2307/2399647. JSTOR 2399647.