> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 626](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333765) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/9717-1) LSID 9717-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2839762) QID Q2839762 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Skinner, George Ure (1804-1867), British orchidologist, ornithologist and merchant in London and Leeds and, from 1831, in Guatemala; introduced many orchid species into cultivation. **Abbreviated name**: *Skinner* \[standard form in IPNI: *Skinner*\] #### Herbarium and types Material at [[Collection CGE|CGE]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection FI|FI]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection PH|PH]]. #### Bibliography and biography AG 3: 916; Backer p. 535, 606; Barnhart 3: 285 (b. 18 Mar 1804, d. 9 Jan 1867); BB p. 277; Desmond p. 562. #### Biofile - Ames, O. & D.S. Correll, Orchids of Guatemala vii. 1952 (Fieldiana, Bot. 26(1)). - Anon., Trans. bot. Soc. Edinburgh 9: 91-94. 1868. - Bateman, J., Gard. Chron. 1867: 180-181 (obit.). - Bentham, G., Proc. Linn. Soc. 1866-1867: xxxviii-xl. 1867 (obit.). - Hemsley, W.B., Biol. Centr. Amer., Bot. 4: 124-125. 1886 (biogr. sketch). - Herman, D., Orch. Digest 40(2): 59-61. 1976 (Skinner and J. Bateman). - Reinikka, M.A., Amer. Orchid. Soc. Bull. 33(5): 403-405. 1964; Hist. Orchid 169-173. 1972. - Wilson, J.G. & J. Fiske, eds., Appleton's Cycl. Amer. biogr. 5: 545. 1888. - Yearsley, G.G., Orchideen 41(5): 186-188. 1979; Orchid Digest 46(4): 150-151. 1982 (Orchid personalities). #### Eponymy *Uroskinnera* Lindley (1857).