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P.A. Fryxell

American botanist · 1927–2011

91 specimens, collected between 1930 and 1985 on 45 collecting days. Identified 134 specimens for others.

On the labels as Fryxell, P.A., Fryxell, P.S., Fryxell.

Specimens
91
Type specimens
3
Years in the field
56
Islands
2
Species
81
Identifications
134
In the Library
0
Named after
1

Where Fryxell collected

Specimens by decade

1930s1980s

Earliest: Goodenia azurea, 1930 (Northern Territory: on Tanami Track, ca. 400 km. northwest of Alice Springs (between Yunedumu and Rabbit Flat).). Latest: Gyrocarpus americanus, 1985.

Named for Fryxell

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

Tricoryne elatiorBlepharocarya depauperataHibiscus fluvialisAcacia hemignostaEuploca cupressinaRadyera farrageiHaemodorum corymbosumNymphoides crenataBrunonia australisErythrina vespertilioEuploca ovalifoliaTalipariti tiliaceum

As a determiner

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