> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 235](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355322) of TL-2 Vol. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/22706-1) LSID 22706-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q613031) QID Q613031 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author MacOwan, Peter (1830-1909), British botanist; B. A. Univ. London 1857; from 1861 in South-Africa; teacher at Grahamstown (1861-1869); at Gill College, Somerset East (1861-1881); director botanical garden Capetown (1881-1892); Government Botanist (1892-1905). **Abbreviated name**: *MacOwan* \[standard form in IPNI: *MacOwan*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection GRA|GRA]]. Duplicates see IH. *Exsiccatae*: *Herbarium austro-africanum* (with Harry Bolus, 1834-1911), cent. 1-20, 1855-1899, sets see IH. #### Bibliography and biography AG 3: 366, 570; Barnhart 2: 432; BB p. 202; BJI 1: 38; BL 1: 54, 307; BM 3: 1214, 7: 778; Bossert p. 248; Clokie p. 205; CSP 10: 685, 12: 472, 16: 985; Desmond p. 413; Hortus 3: 1199 ("MacOwan"); IH 1 (ed. 6): 361, 2: 487-488; Jackson p. 1144; Kew 3: 550; Lenley p. 278; LS 16235, 36378-36381; Morren ed. 2, p. 33, ed. 10, p. 114; PH 239; Rehder 5: 535; Tucker 1: 452; Urban-Berl. p. 278, 307, 372; Zander ed. 10, p. 687, ed. 11, p. 784. - Anderson, F. and D. Geary-Cooke, Veld & Flora 62(1): 12-14. 1976 (portr.). - Anon., Bot. Not. 1910: 16 (d. 1 Dec 1909); Bot. Zeit. 68(2): 120. 1910; Gard. Chron. 1910(1): 57; J. Bot. 10: 159. 1872,48:64. 1910; Nat. Nov. 3: 23. 1881 (app. dir. bot. gard. Cape Town), 14: 200. 1892 (retired from directorship Capetown Botanic Garden), Nat. Nov. 27: 222. 1905 (retired as Government Botanist), 32: 148. 1910 (d. 1 Dec 1909); Österr. bot. Z. 60: 167. 1910. - Beck, G., Bot. Centralbl. 19: 253. 1884, 34: 149. 1888 (exs. W). - Britten, J., J. Bot. 48: 64. 1910. - Bullock, A. A., Bibl. S. Afr. Bot. 72. 1978. - Candolle, Alph. de, Phytographie 430. 1880. - Doidge, E. M., Bothalia 5: 36-37. 1950 (on M's lichens). - Gager, C.S., Brooklyn Bot. Gard. Rec. 27(2): 324. 1938. - Hedge, I. C. &J. M. Lamond, Index coll. Edinb. herb. 107. 1970. - Hutchinson, J., Botanist in S. Africa 643-644. 1946. - Jackson, B. D., Proc. Linn. Soc. 122: 92-93. 1910. - Juritz, C. F., S. Afr. J. Sci. 6(3): 71-79. 1910 (obit., portr., bibl.). - Karsten, M. C., The Old Company's garden 180 \[index\]. 1951. - Kneucker, A., Allg. bot. Z. 16: 64. 1910 (d.). - Lindemann, E. von, Bull. Soc. imp. Natural. Moscou 61: 44. 1886. - Marloth, R., Fl. S. Afr. 1: ix-x. 1913 (portr.). - Nelson, E. C., Glasra 4: 54. 1980 (coll. DBN). - Phillips, E. P., S. Afr. J. Sci. 27: 41, 43, 47, 48, 49-50, 57, 61. 1930. - Sayre, G., Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 19(3): 364. 1975. - Schönland, S., Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1910: 84-90 (obit., b. 14 Nov 1830, d. 1 Dec 1909). - Wittrock, V. B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(3): 84, *pl. 146*. 1905 (portr.). - White, A. &B. L. Sloane, The Stapelieae 205 \[index\]. 1933, ed. 2, 19. 112. 1937 (portr.). #### Eponymy *Macowania* D. Oliver (1870); *Macowania* C. Kalchbrenner ex M. J. Berkeley (1876); *Macowaniella* E. M. Doidge (1921); *Macowanites* C. Kalchbrenner (1882).