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Portrait of W.C. Steere

Collectors

W.C. Steere

American botanist and bryologist · 1907–1989

20 specimens, collected between 1932 and 1951 on 19 collecting days. Identified 64 specimens for others.

Specimens
20
Type specimens
0
Years in the field
20
Islands
1
Species
20
Identifications
64
In the Library
0
Named after
1

Specimens by decade

1930s1950s

Earliest: Fungi, 1932 (Chicken Itza). Latest: Fissidens osmundioides, 1951.

Named for Steere

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

Trichostomum involutumPohlia drummondiiAulacomnium acuminatumScopelophila ligulataCirriphyllum piliferumBryoerythrophyllum recurvirostrumRhizomnium andrewsianumLepidopilum scabrisetumMacromitrium scopariumThamniopsis undataSarmentypnum sarmentosumCampylopus filifolius

As a determiner

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