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J.W. Coulter

American botanist and teacher · 1876–1961

290 specimens, collected between 1931 and 1987 on 27 collecting days.

On the labels as Coulter, J.W., coulter, W..

Specimens
290
Type specimens
28
Years in the field
57
Islands
5
Species
178
Identifications
0
In the Library
0
Named after
6

Where Coulter collected

Specimens by decade

1930s1980s

Earliest: Astelia menziesiana, 1931 (Hawaiʻi Island). Latest: Juncus effusus, 1987.

Named for Coulter

Taxa in the collection whose epithet is formed from the name Coulter. 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

Xanthium strumariumVaccinium dentatumTouchardia oahuensisSenna gaudichaudiiAlyxia stellataHydrocotyle verticillataPittosporum glabrumElaphoglossum paleaceumCanavalia catharticaLachnagrostis filiformisPipturus albidusDryopteris wallichiana