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### Author
Banister, John (1650-1692), British missionary in the West In dies and Virginia, ardent naturalist.
**Abbreviated name**: *Banister* \[standard form in IPNI: *Banister*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection BM|BM]] (Sloane herb.) and [[Collection OXF|OXF]]. Letters and manuscripts at [[Collection BM|BM]], Bodleian Library, Oxford (see Ewan and Ewan 1970, below in note).
*Ref*.: IH 2: 53.
- Dandy, The Sloane herbarium 84-87. 1958.
- Clokie, Account herbaria Oxford 125-126. 1964.
#### Bibliography and biography
AG 4: 450; Barnhart 1: 117; BB p. 18; DNB 3: 119; ME 1: 162, 3: 533; PR (ed. 1) 464.
- Petiver, Monthly Miscellany 7: 227-232. 1707.
- Barton, Philadelphia med. phys. J. 2(2): 134-139. 1806.
- Lewis, Virginia J. Sci. ser. 2. 8: 35-41. 1957.
- Humphrey, Makers North Amer. Botany 17-18. 1961.
- Ewan, Amer. Fern J. 53: 138-144. 1963 (fern records).
- Crosswhite, Two early North American botanists, s.l. 1966 (contains facsimile repr. of Banister's *Catalogue* from Ray).
- Ewan, DSB 1: 431-432. 1970.
#### Note
For full information, facsimiles of handwriting, etc., see Ewan and Ewan, John Banister and his Natural History of Virginia 1678-1692, Urbana, Chicago, London 1970, xxx, 485 p. (bibl.) (see also Stafleu, Taxon 20: 811-812. 1971).
#### Eponymy
*Banisteria* Linnaeus (1753, *nom. rej.*); *Banisteriaecarpum* Kräusel (1951); *Banisterioides* Dubard & Dop (1908); *Banisteriophyllum* Ettingshausen (1887); *Banisteriopsis *C. B. Robinson ex J. K. Small (1910); *Banisterodes* O. Kuntze (1891).