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Portrait of M.A. Howe

Collectors

M.A. Howe

American curator and botanist · 1867–1936

49 specimens, collected between 1890 and 1934 on 35 collecting days. Identified 4 specimens for others.

Specimens
49
Type specimens
1
Years in the field
45
Islands
13
Species
37
Identifications
4
In the Library
0
Named after
6

Specimens by decade

1890s1930s

Earliest: Anotrichium, 1890 (Pacific Grove). Latest: Desmarestia viridis, 1934.

Named for Howe

Taxa in the collection whose epithet is formed from the name Howe. The naming author’s intent is not recorded, so where several collectors share a surname they are listed under the best-known one.

From the field

Halimeda discoideaCaulerpa microphysaChamaedoris peniculumHalimeda incrassataHalimeda opuntiaGalaxaura rugosaDictyosphaeria ocellataHalimeda simulansSymplocaAsteronema breviarticulatumCaulerpa cupressoidesCaulerpa taxifolia

As a determiner

4 specimens carry this name as the person who identified them. Most often: