> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 160](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33259206) of TL-2 Suppl. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/2080-1) LSID 2080-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2040112) QID Q2040112 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Degener, Otto (1899-1988), American botanist, specialist of the flora of Hawaii, born at Orange, New Jersey 13 Mai 1899, at Massachusetts Agricultural College, laboratorium botanist 1919-1922, BS 1922, MS University of Hawaii 1923, graduate assistant 1923-1924, at Woods Hole 1924, botany instructor at the University of Hawaii 1925-1927, later naturalist at Hawaii, National Park, collaborator from 1935 of the New York Botanical Gardens, on the Archbold expedition to Melanesia 1940. **Abbreviated name**: *O. Deg.* \[standard form in IPNI: *O.Deg.*\] #### Herbarium and types Main sets at [[Collection BISH|BISH]], [[Collection F|F]] (2800) and especially [[Collection NY|NY]], further material at [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection BH|BH]], [[Collection CAS|CAS]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection GB|GB]], [[Collection GOET|GOET]], [[Collection HH (sensu TL-2)|HH]], [[Collection JE|JE]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection L|L]], [[Collection LE|LE]], [[Collection M|M]], [[Collection MASS|MASS]], [[Collection MICH|MICH]], [[Collection MIN|MIN]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection PH|PH]], [[Collection S|S]], [[Collection SI|SI]], [[Collection UARK|UARK]], [[Collection US|US]], [[Collection W|W]], [[Collection WELC|WELC]]. – Many collections with his wife, Isa Degener. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 434 (b. 13 Mai 1899, Orange, NJ); BL 1: 109, 111, 293; Bossert p. 97; Ewan ed. 2: 58; Hortus 3: 1191; IF suppl. 4: 320; IH 2: 156; Kew 2: 44-45; Langman p. 237; MW suppl. p. 54; Plesch p. 194; Zander ed. 10, p. 650; ed. 11, p. 740. #### Biofile - Abbott, I.A., Newsl. Hawaiian Bot. Soc. 27(2): 83. 1988. - Anon., The Honolulu advertiser 5 Jun 1952 (dr. of sci. at Univ. Massachusetts Amherst); Taxon 1: 135. 1952. - Bartlett, H.H., Asa Gray Bull. ser. 2. 3: 197-199. 1957 (portr., biogr., sketch of Degener). - CK., Contact April 1981: 10-11 ("One botanist's good life in the fields", portr. (draw.)). - Degener, O., J. New York Bot. Gard. 44:197-213. 1943 (last cruise Cheng Ho); Naturalist's S. Pacific Exp. Fiji, Honolulu, Hawaii, Paradise of the Pacific, 1919, 303 p. (many info. on the Degeners); New illustr. flora Haw. Isl. unpaged 2 p. 1966; \[Bibliography\], in O. Degener, Fl. Hawaiiensis, 2 p. 1978. - Degener, O. and I., Phytologia 13(7): 449-452, 1966 ("We love ferns"), 28(4): 420-421. 1974, Newsl. Hawaiian Bot. Soc. 5: 34-35.- 1976 (on D.'s collection in G and LE). - Frodin, D.G., Guide standard floras world p. 584 (index). 1984. - Holmgren, P.K., Taxon 37(2): 509. 1988 (D. died 16 Jan 1988, Honolulu (obit.)). - Knobloch, I.W., Phytologia Mem. 6: 20. 1983 (plant coll. Mexico). - Long, C.R., J. Soc. bibl. nat. Hist. 8: 343-349. 1978 (archives incl. mss. of D.). - Merrill, E.D., Chron. bot. 14(5/6): 218, 370. 1954 (Botany Cook's Voy.). - Mill, S.W., W.C. Wagner and D.R. Herbst, Taxon 34(2): 229-259. Mai 1985 (Bibliography of Otto and Isa Degener's Hawaiian Floras). - Pennell, F.W. and J.H. Barnhart, Monogr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1: 605. 1935. - Smith, A.C., Flora vitiensis nova 1: 77, 82-83. 1979 (D. at Fiji, 1968-1969); Taxon 36: 423. 1987 (on coll. Flora Vitiensis nova). - Stafleu, F.A. et al., \[Set of papers on D., now in files TL-2/NY\]. - Steenis, C.G.G.J. van, Fl. males. Bull. 18: 974. 1963 (Linnean Gold Medal for D.'s work on botany of Hawaii). - Stieber, M.T. et al., Huntia 4(1): 78 ("79"). 1981 (mss.). - Stieber, M.T. and A.L. Karg, Huntia 5(3): 159-162. 1984 (on his papers (Holographs and EC)). - Wagenitz, G., Index coll. princ. herb. Gotting. 41. 1982. #### Manuscript Preliminary pages to a flora Hawaiiensis or illustrated flora of the Hawaiian Islands, manuscript at HH, 1926 p. \[1-101\]. #### Composite works The *Flora Hawaiiensis*, or new illustrated flora of the Hawaiian islands issued by Otto and Isa Degener was printed on unbound sheets with illustrations and descriptions, without pagination and with unnumbered plates, but each sheet is dated. Many different authors contributed parts of this flora. For an extensive bibliography see S.W. Mill. et. al., Taxon 34(2): 229-259. Mai 1985 and R. Schmid, id. 35(2): 314-315. Mai 1986. See also E.D. Merrill, Bull. B.P. Bishop. Mus. 144: 72. 1937 and Bryan, E.H. Jr., The Honolulu advertiser 29 Sep 1935. ### Publications ##### n.29.554. Videant consules **Title** *Videant consules*... De revista sudamericana de botanica... Montevideo 1923. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1923, p. \[38\]-41. *Copy*: B. – Reprinted and to be cited from Rev. Sudamer. Bot. 6(1/2): 38-41. 1923. ##### n.29.555. Lycopodium prothallia **Title** Four new stations of *Lycopodium prothallia*... Reprinted... from The Botanical Gazette... 1924. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 19 Mar 1924 (in journal), cover-t.p., p. 89-95, *pl. 11-13* (uncol. phot.). *Copy*: B. – Reprinted and to be cited from Bot. Gaz. 77(1): 89-95, *pl. 11-13.* 1924. ##### n.29.556. Preliminary pages **Title** *Preliminary pages* to a *Flora Hawaiiensis* or illustrated flora of the Hawaiian Islands ... \[Mimeographed descriptiva on selected genera and species\] 1926. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1926, p. 1-102. *Copy*: NY. ##### n.29.557. plants **Title** Illustrated guide to the more common or noteworthy ferns and flowering *plants* of *Hawaii National Park* with descriptions of ancient Hawaiian customs and an introduction to the geologic history of the islands... Honolulu... \[1930\]. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Pl. Hawaii Natl. Park*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1930 (date on p. \[ii\*\], copyright by Otto Degener), col. pl. \[i\*-ii\*\], p. \[i\]-xv, \[3\]-312, \[313\]. *Copies*: B, G, HH, MO, NY. – See BL 1: 111. *Note*: A photo-lithoprint edition of this publication appeared in 1945 with the title: "Plants of Hawaii National Park illustrative of plants and customs of the South Seas". – Ann Arbor. (Edwards Brothers, Inc.). *Copy*: U. ##### n.29.558. Kokoolau **Title** *Kokoolau*, the Hawaiian tea, with a key to all species of Bidens known from the Hawaiian islands and description of a few representative kinds... \[Honolulu\] (Printed by Honolulu Star Bulletin...) 1932. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Kokoolau*. **Notes** *Publ*.: Apr-Jun 1932 (date on cover-t.p.). Issued as J. Pan. Pacific Rec. Inst. 7(2): \[1\]-16, *pl. 6.* *Copies*: B, L, NY. ##### n.29.559. Rutaceae **Title** *Rutaceae* Rue family... Zanthoxylum semiarticulatum... Reprinted from O. Degener, Flora Hawaiiensis... 1932. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 15 Dec 1932 (date on p. \[1\]), p. \[1\], with illustration \[3\], dated 18 Jan 1933 (sic.). *Copy*: L. – *Flora hawaiiensis* each publ. loose. ##### n.29.560. Hawaiian Mosses **Title** *Hawaiian Mosses*... Separately printed... Torreya... 1933. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 27 Dec 1933 (date on p. \[1\]), p. \[1\]. *Copy*: L. – Reprinted and to be cited from Torreya 33: 151. 1933. ##### n.29.561. new Hawaiian species of Rutaceae **Title** A *new Hawaiian species of Rutaceae*... Reprinted from Brittonia... 1937. Oct. **Notes** *Co-author*: Carl Johan Fredrik Skottsberg (1880-1963), see TL-2/5: 627-639. *Publ*.: 9 Jun 1937 (in journal), p. \[1\]. *Copies*: B, L(2). – Reprinted and to be cited from Brittonia 2(4): 362. 1937.