> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 430](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333569) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/9366-1) LSID 9366-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3609344) QID Q3609344 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Schweinfurth, Charles (1890-1970), American botanist (orchidologist); A.B. Harvard 1913; curator of O. Arnes herbarium 1914-1931, from 1931 idem with the Orchid Herbarium of Oakes Ames at the Botanical Museum, Harvard University; honorary professor of botany Univ. Mayor de San Marcos, Peru 1948; id. Cuzco 1962. **Abbreviated name**: *C. Schweinf.* \[standard form in IPNI: *C.Schweinf.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection AMES|AMES]] (types); local collections in [[Collection A|A]], [[Collection F|F]], [[Collection NEBC|NEBC]], [[Collection NMW|NMW]]. – *Letters* at [[Collection G|G]]. #### Bibliography and biography Backer p. 521; Barnhart 3: 249 (b. 13 Apr 1890); Bossert p. 357; Hortus 3: 1203; IH 1 (ed. 1): 21, (ed. 2): 37, (ed. 3): 42, (ed. 4): 45, (ed. 5): 38, (ed. 6): 364 (err. G.A.S.); Langman p. 689; Lenley p. 362; MW p. 442; NI 1819n; Roon p. 101; Tucker 3: 275; Zander ed. 10, p. 715, ed. 11, p. 816 (d. 16 Nov 1970). #### Biofile - Anon., Amer. men sci. ed. 8: 2210. 1949, ed. 9: 1402. 1955, ed. 10: 3625. 1961, ed. 11: 4773. 1967. - Arditti, J., ed., Orchid biol. 1: 22, 97, 114. 1977. - Garay, L.A., Orquideologia 6(1): 56-60. 1971 (obit., portr.)., Rhodora 74: 71-75. 1972 (obit., portr.), see also Orquidea 1(8): 11-13. 1971 (abstract). - Schuhes, R.E., Bot. Mus. Leafl. Harvard Univ. 23(2): 93-99. 1971 (obit., portr., d. 16 Nov 1970). - Stieber, M.L. et al., Huntia 9(1): 86. 1981. - Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 3: 293. 1937, 4: 565. 1938, 5: 173, 370. 1939. #### Note Most major publications fall outside our period, such as e.g. his *Orchids of Peru*, Fieldiana, Botany 30 (1-4), 1958-1961, 1005 p., see e.g. R.E. Schuhes, Taxon 10: 229. 1961. #### Eponymy *Cischweinfia* Dressler et N.H. Williams (1970).