Lyman Bradford Smith

Lyman Bradford Smith (born 11 September 1904 in Winchester, Massachusetts, died 4 May 1997 in Manhattan, Kansas) was an American Botanist. His formal botanical author abbreviation was "L.B.Sm.".

He studied botany during the 1920s at Harvard University. Between 1928 and 1929, he worked for the first time in Brazil. Most of his life's work came to involve the taxonomy of the flowering plants of South America, in particular the bromeliads ("Bromeliaceae"). Smith worked on the Bromeliacea for the North American Flora published by the American botanist Nathaniel Lord Britton, volume 19, no. 2 (1938),

Works

* "The Bromeliaceae of Brazil", 1955
* "The Bromeliaceae of Colombia", 1957
* "Begoniaceae", 1986

References

* Taxon, Vol. 46(4) (1997): 819-824.
* Robert Zander, Fritz Encke, Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold (editor): Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen. 13th ed. Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5.

External links

* [http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advPlantNameSearch.do?find_includePublicationAuthors=on&find_includePublicationAuthors=off&find_includeBasionymAuthors=on&find_includeBasionymAuthors=off&find_rankToReturn=all&output_format=normal&find_authorAbbrev=L.B.Sm. List of plants described by Lyman Bradford Smith (IPNI)]