H.S. Irwin
American botanist and taxonomist · 1928–2019
166 specimens, collected between 1963 and 1973 on 136 collecting days. Identified 3 specimens for others.
- Specimens
- 166
- Type specimens
- 0
- Years in the field
- 11
- Islands
- 0
- Species
- 114
- Identifications
- 3
- In the Library
- 0
- Named after
- 6
Where Irwin collected
Specimens by decade
1960s1970s
Earliest: Pecluma plumula, 1963 (Slopes of Juliana Top, 14 km N of Lucie Rivier). Latest: Scleria latifolia, 1973.
Named for Irwin
Taxa in the collection whose epithet is formed from the name Irwin. 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
As a determiner
3 specimens carry this name as the person who identified them. Most often: