| Name | Shannon, William Cummings |
| Date of birth | 1851 |
| Date of death | 1905 |
| Remarks | [author note: Herbarium and types: US; additional material at B (mostly destroyed), BR, E, F, GH] [collector note: B, E?, F, GH, US (orig.)] |
| ASA Botanist ID | 140904 botanist |
| GUID | http://purl.oclc.org/net/edu.harvard.huh/guid/uuid/2200a6c1-9255-4d46-af14-b763811ad36f |
| Variant name | William Cummings Shannon |
| Author name | Shannon |
| B & P Author Abbrev. | Shannon |
| Standard/Label Name | W. C. Shannon |
| Full Name | Shannon, William Cummings |
| Geography Author | United States of America |
| Geography Collector | El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras |
| Specialty Author | Spermatophytes |
| Specialty Collector | Phanerogams |
| Citation as Author | Authors of Plant Names. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |
| Citation as Author | Taxonomic Literature. Second Edition. Utrecht |
| Citation as Collector | Index Herbariorum - Collectors S |
| Holdings | Search for specimens collected by W. C. Shannon |
| Collections in | 1892 (4), 1893 (1) |