Luisa Eugenia Navas

Luisa Eugenia Navas Bustamante (Chillan 1918-) Chilean pharmacist and botanist.

Life

On 9 of May of 1951 she got a degree in Chemistry and pharmacy, in that same year the became assistant of the chair of Botany in the School of Chemistry and Pharmacy of the University of Chile. In 1958 she was “Professor extraordinarius”, and assistant of Hugo Gunckel in the Instituto Pedagógico in the section of the criptogamic plants and finally chair Professor in the Faculty Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences the 1985. From early, when she was dedicated to the study of the seaweed, she concurred with his father to the Marine Biology Station at Montemar. With authorization of the dean of Pharmacy, she went twice in week National Museum of Natural History of Santiago. On Behalf of Humberto Fuenzalida, she reorganizes the Botanical section for Cryptogamy. With a scholarship of UNESCO she studies Plant ecology in Mexico, in the Polytechnical School with specialists of Montpellier and of the San Luis of Potosí. Later she concurs to the botanical Garden of the Central University of Caracas.

Taxa described by L.E.Navas

* "Gavilea longibracteata" (Lindl.)Sparre ex L.E.Navas [ [http://www.chlorischile.cl/weborchis/g%20sinu.htm Gavilea venosa] ]
* "Dioscorea humifusa" var."gracilis" (H.et A.)L.E.Navas
* "Myrceugenia colchaguensis" (Phil.)L.E.Navas
* "Parietaria fernandeziana" (Steud.)L.E.Navas [ [http://www.19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-Reports/Bot-03/PDFpages/B01-03-055.pdf "Freirea fernandeziana" Steud.] ]
*"Urtica tricantha" (Wedd.)Acev. et L.E.Navas [http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/3391692.pdf ]

Links

* [http://mazinger.sisib.uchile.cl/repositorio/lb/ciencias_quimicas_y_farmaceuticas/navasl01/index.html Flora de la cuenca de Santiago de Chile Tomo I]
* [http://mazinger.sisib.uchile.cl/repositorio/lb/ciencias_quimicas_y_farmaceuticas/navasl02/index.html Tomo II]
* [http://mazinger.sisib.uchile.cl/repositorio/lb/ciencias_quimicas_y_farmaceuticas/navasl03/index.html Tomo III]

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