> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 806](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120937) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/2589-1) LSID 2589-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15627363) QID Q15627363 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Evans, Alexander William (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author ### Author Evans, Alexander William (1868-1959), American bryologist and lichenologist at Yale. **Abbreviated name**: *A. Evans* \[standard form in IPNI: *A.Evans*\] #### Herbarium and types Main collections at [[Collection YU|YU]]. The Heller types from Puerto Rico are at [[Collection NY|NY]], much other material also at [[Collection NY|NY]] and further at [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection BP|BP]], [[Collection FH|FH]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection H|H]], [[Collection MICH|MICH]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection PC|PC]], [[Collection US|US]]. *Ref*.: IH 2: 187. - Urban, Symb. ant. 5: 6. 1908. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 518; BM 2: 548, 6: 309-310; Bossert p. 119; CSP 14: 890; GR p. 187-188; LS suppl. 7759-7760; MW p. 110, suppl. p. 62. - Urban, Symb. ant. 5: 5-6. 1908. - Verdoorn, Ann. bryol. 11:3. 1938 (portr.) - Nichols, Ann. bryol. 41: 1-5. 1938 (portr.) - Fernald, Rhodora 52: 49-51. 1950. - Anderson, The Bryologist 63: 84-88. 1960 (portr.) - Asahina, J. Jap. Bot. 35(2): 64. 1960. - Hale, Bull. Torrey bot. Cl. 87: 354-356. 960. - Reeder, Taxon 9: 168-169. 1960. - Reeder and Reeder, Rhodora 62: 245-250. 1960 (portr.) - Schuster, The Bryologist 63: 73-81. 1960, Rev. bryol. lichénol. 29: 132-140. 1960 (portr.) - Schuster, Rev. bryol. lichénol. 29: 132-140. 1960 (portr., bibl.) - Lenley et al., Cat. manuscr, coll. New York Bot. Gard. 155-156. 1973. #### Composite works *NAF, Marchantiales* 14(1): 9-66. 19 Jan 1923. #### Eponymy *Evansia* C. Douin (1914); *Evansianthus* Schuster & Engel (1973); *Evansiolejeunea *Vanden Berghen (1948). *Note*: *Evansia* S.A.J. Pocock (1972) is dedicated to C. R. Evans, Canadian micropalaeontologist.