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Index of Botanists

NameChester, Thomas Jay
Date of birth1951
RemarksExample of Name Published: Brodiaea santarosae T. J. Chester, W. P. Armstrong & Madore, Madroño 54(2): 188. 2007. "Tom Chester is an astrophysicist retired from Caltech and the Jet Propulsion Lab, who become a docent at the Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve in 2000 and then a botanist in 2001. He spent two years, 2005 and 2006, doing fieldwork on the flora of the Santa Rosa Plateau. He has produced plant trail guides to 116 trails across southern California, all available online. His southern California plants website is Native and Introduced Plants of Southern California at tchester.org/plants. Tom lives in Fallbrook, in north San Diego County." (vide web info). [collector note: RSA, SD, UCR]
URLhttp://tchester.org/plants/analysis/brodiaea/bsr/press_release.html
ASA Botanist ID189682 botanist
GUIDhttp://purl.oclc.org/net/edu.harvard.huh/guid/uuid/b8c5875a-b2db-41e8-893f-0550288fbc7f
Variant nameThomas Jay Chester
Variant nameTom Chester
Author nameT. J. Chester
B & P Author Abbrev.T. J. Chester
Standard/Label NameT. J. Chester
Full NameChester, Thomas Jay
Geography AuthorUnited States of America
Geography CollectorUnited States of America
Specialty AuthorSpermatophytes
Specialty CollectorPhanerogams
Citation as Author Madroño; Journal of the California Botanical Society. Berkeley, CA
Citation as AuthorEmail message on full name and birth date from T. J. Chester
Citation as Collector Madroño; Journal of the California Botanical Society. Berkeley, CA

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