> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 114](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120245) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/446-1) LSID 446-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1375875) QID Q1375875 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### 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).