Field data of the Sino-American botanical expedition

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Series: Biodiversity Heritage Library Field Notes Project

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Collection guide: Field data of the Sino-American botanical expedition, 1980. Harvard University Botany Libraries

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Sino-American Botanical Expedition to Western Hubei Province, People's Republic of China 1980-

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The collection consists of field data for collecting numbers 1-2085 recorded on preprinted specimen labels. Specimens were collected between August 25 and October 9, 1980. The preprinted sheets include Thomas S. Elias in the list of collectors. He was replaced on the expedition by James L. Luteyn.

After several months of communication among committee members from the Botanical Society of America and Academia Sinica, five American botanists were invited to participate in a botanical expedition in China with Chinese colleagues. Between August 15 and November 15, 1980, Bruce Bartholomew of the California Academy of Sciences, David E. Boufford of the Harvard University Herbaria, Theodore R. Dudley of the National Arboretum, James L. Luteyn of the New York Botanical Garden, and Stephen A. Spongberg of the Arnold Arboretum, visited botanical institutes and gardens and spent six weeks collecting in the field. The expedition was led by S.C. Sun, director of the Wuhan Institute of Botany, and collected 2,085 specimens. Of these, 1,715 were vascular plants. Complete sets of the vascular plants were deposited at the Wuhan Institute of Botany and at the Arnold Arboretum. The expedition was funded by the Academia Sinica. Travel support for the American botanists was provided by the National Geographic Society. Support for follow-up work was provided by the American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta.

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(1980) , (Theodore R.), , 1936- , 1948- , Bartholomew, Bruce , Botanical Society of America , Botany , Boufford, David E , China , Discoveries in geography , Dudley, T. R , Hubei Sheng , Luteyn, James L., , Plants , Scientific Expeditions , Sino-American Botanical Expedition to Western Hube , Spongberg, Stephen A , Zhongguo ke xue yuan

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.140734
OCLC: 177499870
Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q51414201