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Index of Botanists

NameShear, Cornelius Lott
Date of birth1865
Date of death1956
Remarks [author note: Herbarium and types: BPI; additional material at A, CUP, DAOM, F, GH, H, MASS, MICH, MO, MSC, NY (grasses, fungi), PAD, RM (flowering plants), S, US; exsiccatae: New York Fungi cent. 13 at B (mostly destroyed), BPI, CUP, DAOM, F, FH, IA, ILL, KSC, MASS, MICH, MSC, NEB, NY, NYS, OC, OS, RUTPP, SCHN, SOC, UC, UT, WIS, WVA] [collector note: collected Oregon ca. 1899, Colorado ca. 1897]
URLhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelius_Lott_Shear
ASA Botanist ID100561 botanist
GUIDhttp://purl.oclc.org/net/edu.harvard.huh/guid/uuid/811dca94-57c1-4406-98f7-1f024d61080c
Variant nameCornelius Lott Shear
Variant nameShear, C. L.
Author nameShear
B & P Author Abbrev.Shear
Standard/Label NameC. L. Shear
Full NameShear, Cornelius Lott
Geography AuthorUnited States of America
Geography CollectorUnited States of America
Specialty AuthorFungi and Lichens
Specialty AuthorSpermatophytes
Citation as Author Authors of Plant Names. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Citation as Author Taxonomic Literature. Second Edition. Utrecht
Citation as CollectorIndex Herbariorum - Collectors S
Member of teams/groups
Author in Stud. Amer. Grasses
Author in Fungi Columb.
Author in New York Fungi
HoldingsSearch for specimens collected by C. L. Shear
Collections in[no date] (12),  1871 (1),  1889 (1),  1890 (2),  1891 (25),  1892 (116),  1893 (91),  1894 (165),  1895 (37),  1896 (32),  1897 (17),  1898 (41),  1899 (64),  1900 (17),  1901 (8),  1902 (96),  1904 (3),  1917 (1),  1922 (3),  1926 (1),  1929 (1),  1936 (1),  1937 (1),  1938 (1),  1939 (1),  1942 (1),  1984 (1)
Collector Teams:P. P. B. Kennedy, A. Nelson, C. L. Shear & D. Griffiths  C. L. Shear & H. S. Fawcett  H. H. Whetzel, F. D. Kern & C. L. Shear  C. L. Shear & E. A. Bessey 
Author Teams:Clements & Shear