Julian A. Steyermark
Friday, January 27, 2023
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Steyermark's many publications took in the Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana, the Flora of Guatemala and the Flora of Missouri.
Steyermark was a prolific botanical collector and the over 130,000 specimens he gathered in twenty-six countries even earned him a mention in the Guinness Book of World Records. In all, Steyermark made initial descriptions of 2,392 taxa, including one family, 38 genera, and 1,864 species.
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Fuchsia steyermarkii P.E.Berry (Fuchsia Sect. Fuchsia), a novel species he first collected in the cloud forests of Ecuador's Zamora-Chinchipe Province in 1943, was published in his honor in 1982.
In 1979 the Missouri Department of Conservation acquired a 73-acre wooded tract within the city limits of Hannibal, Missouri. The rich woodlands would be named after Steyermark in recognition of his work on the flora of the state.