> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 750](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33190221) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/8328-1) LSID 8328-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5512554) QID Q5512554 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Reynolds, Gilbert Westacott (1895-1967), Australian-born (of English parents) South-African botanist; specialist in *Aloe*; educated at St. John's College, Johannesburg; served in the 1914-1918 war; practicing as an optician 1917-1960; in retirement in Swaziland 1960-1967. **Abbreviated name**: *Reynolds* \[standard form in IPNI: *Reynolds*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection PRE|PRE]]; isotypes in [[Collection EA|EA]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection P|P]], [[Collection SRGH|SRGH]], [[Collection TAN|TAN]]; further material at [[Collection NBG|NBG]], [[Collection NY|NY]]. #### Bibliography and biography Bossert p. 330 (d. 7 Apr 1967); Hortus 3: 1202; IH 1 (ed. 7): (in press), 2: (in press); Roon p. 94. #### Biofile - Anon., The flowering plants of Africa 34(3/4): frontisp., portr. 1961. - Bullock, A.A., Bibl. S. Afr. Bot. 94. 1978 (bibl.). - Exell, A.W. & G.A. Hayes, Kirkia 6(1): 100. 1967 (coll. Fl. Zambesiaca). - Guillarmod, A. J., Fl. Lesotho 54, 64. 1971. - Gunn, M. & L.E. Codd, Bot. expl. S. Afr. 295-297. 1981 (journeys, coll., epon.). - Kimberley, M.J., Excelsa, Salisbury 1: 3-6. 1971 (obit., portr., b. 10 Oct 1895, d. 7 Apr 1967). - L.C.L., Cactus Succ. J. Great Britain 29(3): 41. 1967 (obit.). - Parr, Bull. Afr. Succ. Pl. Soc. 9(2): 69-71. 1974 (biogr. sketch, portr.). - Reynolds, G.W., communication to senior author. 1956. - Stieber, M.T. et al., Huntia 4(1): 85. 1981 (arch. mat. at HU). - Verdoorn, F. et al., Chron. bot. 3: 252. 1937. - White, A. & B.L. Sloane, The Stapelieae ed. 2. 21 \[index, many entries\]. 1937. #### Eponymy *Reynoldsia* A. Gray (1854) was named for J.N. Reynolds who collected plants in Chile in the early 19th century. #### Note Reynolds' two standard works on African *Aloe* fall outside our period: - (1) *The Aloes of South Africa*, Johannesburg, South Africa, xxiv 520 p., 77 col. pl., published December 1950 (private comm. by author), see also Taxon 1: 30. 1951. - (2) *The Aloes of tropical Africa and Madagascar*, Mbabane, Swaziland, xxii, 537 p., *106 col. pl.* 1966; see Taxon 16: 59, 206. 1967.