Leslie Andrew Garay

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Leslie Andrew Garay (born August 6, 1924) is an American botanist.[1] He is the retired curator of the Oakes Ames Orchid Herbarium at Harvard University, where he succeeded Charles Schweinfurth in 1958.[2] In 1957 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Life and work

Garay was born in Hungary, and after the Second World War he emigrated first to Canada and then to the United States. He was a taxonomist with his specialty in the Spermatophytes. Not only was he an orchid taxonomist, he was also an orchid collector. He was particularly interested in the orchids of tropical America and Southeast Asia.[3]

His ideas were influential in orchid taxonomy,[4] and he reorganized several genera, including the Oncidium.[3] In addition to reclassification of various species into different genera, he defined a number of new genera including the Chaubardiella in 1969 and the Amesiella in 1972.

Publications

Among his influential publications were:

  • Venezuelan Orchids, Galfrid C.K. Dunsterville & Leslie A. Garay, éd. Andre Deutsch, Londres & Amsterdam, 1959–76, 334 pp. ISBN 0233964118
  • Natural & artificial hybrid generic names of orchids, 1887-1965, 1966, Botanical Museum leaflets, Harvard University, 212 pp.
  • Flora of the Lesser Antilles: Orchidaceae , 1974, Garay, Los Angeles, HR Sweet, éd. Amer Orchid Soc. ISBN 99941-1-617-7
  • Orchids of Southern Ryukyu Islands, 1974, Leslie A. Garay & Herman R. Sweet, éd. Botanical Museum, Harvard University, 180 pp.
  • Orchidaceae, Cypripedioideae, Orchidoideae, Neottioideae, vol. 9 de Flora of Ecuador, éd. NFR, 304 pp.
  • Orchids Venezuela, Galfrid C.K. Dunsterville & Leslie A. Garay, 3 volumes, 1979, Publ. Oakes Ames Orchid Herbarium of the Botanical Museum of Harvard University. Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Systematics of the genus Stelis SW, 1979, Harvard University, Botanical Museum leaflets, 259 pp.
  • Index to the orchid herbarium of Oakes Ames in the Botanical Museum of Harvard University, 1989, éd. Chadwyck-Healey, 204 pp. ISBN 0-89887-080-1

Hommages

The following plants have been named after Garay in his honour:

Genera
Species
The standard author abbreviation Garay is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[29]

References

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