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Index of Botanists

NameThaxter, Roland
Date of birth1858
Date of death1932
Remarks [author note: Herbarium and types: FH; additional material at B (250 slides, probably destroyed), BM, CUP, E, GH, NYS; Exsiccatae: Reliquiae Farlowianae at BPI, CINC, CUP, DAOM, DPU, F, FH, ILL, LPS, MICH, NY, OSC, PAC, PUR, SOLH, TRTC, TUR, UC, UPS, W, WIS] [collector note: Herbarium (Alg., fungi, bryo. from West Indies, South America & E United States): FH; South America: DPU (Musci from Chile), GH (plants from Tierra del Fuego), L (Alg., col. 1905-1906); Canada: GH; United States: GH, NEBC, NMW, NY, TUR, W; West Indies: MICH, NMW, NY, W; Fungi: B, BM, NMW, NYS]
ASA Botanist ID102466 botanist
GUIDhttp://purl.oclc.org/net/edu.harvard.huh/guid/uuid/152cf07f-60a8-4ba7-a3b7-6e1690f4d26a
Variant nameRoland Thaxter
Author nameThaxter
B & P Author Abbrev.Thaxt.
Standard/Label NameR. Thaxter
Full NameThaxter, Roland
Geography AuthorUnited States of America
Geography CollectorCanada,  United States of America
Specialty AuthorFungi and Lichens
Specialty CollectorAlgae
Specialty CollectorBryophytes
Specialty CollectorFungi
Specialty CollectorPhanerogams
Citation as Author Authors of Plant Names. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Citation as Author Taxonomic Literature. Second Edition. Utrecht
Citation as CollectorIndex Herbariorum - Collectors T-Z
Member of teams/groups
Author in Cryptog. Farlow Herb., Reliq. Farlow.
HoldingsSearch for specimens collected by R. Thaxter
Collections in[no date] (487),  1874 (1),  1876 (1),  1877 (5),  1880 (44),  1881 (1),  1882 (1),  1883 (5),  1884 (4),  1885 (102),  1886 (109),  1887 (388),  1888 (135),  1889 (51),  1890 (30),  1891 (58),  1892 (30),  1893 (24),  1894 (9),  1895 (28),  1896 (240),  1897 (349),  1898 (315),  1899 (12),  1900 (15),  1901 (183),  1902 (31),  1903 (9),  1904 (5),  1905 (119),  1906 (153),  1907 (13),  1908 (4),  1909 (3),  1910 (1),  1911 (14),  1912 (89),  1913 (54),  1914 (25),  1915 (3),  1916 (12),  1917 (9),  1918 (13),  1919 (4),  1920 (14),  1921 (26),  1922 (59),  1923 (15),  1925 (2),  1927 (3),  1929 (5),  1931 (5),  1932 (3)
Collector Teams:R. Thaxter & D. H. Linder  R. Thaxter & E. A. Burt