> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 641](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333780) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/9728-1) LSID 9728-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2833117) QID Q2833117 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Skutch, Alexander Frank (1904-x), American botanist; BA Johns Hopkins 1925, Dr. phil. 1928; assistant botanist ib. 1925-1928; Johnston scholar 1928-1930; Natl. Res. Counc. fellow 1930-1931; collected in Guatemala, Costa Rica and Ecuador. **Abbreviated name**: *Skutch* \[standard form in IPNI: *Skutch*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection A|A]]; further material [[Collection AMES|AMES]], [[Collection BR|BR]], [[Collection DS|DS]], [[Collection F|F]], [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection MICH|MICH]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection PH|PH]], [[Collection S|S]], [[Collection U|U]], [[Collection US|US]]. *Field notes* at [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection US|US]]. #### Bibliography and biography Hirsch p. 277; SIA 105, 223, 1010014. #### Biofile - Acosta-Solis, M., Natural. Viaj. ci. Ecuador 66. 1968. - Anon., Amer. men sci. eds. 5-9. 1933-1955; Johns Hopkins Univ. Circ. 44: 710, 807. 1925. - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 340.34. 1980. - Skutch, A.F., A naturalist in Costa Rica 1971, x, 363 p. (bibl.); Naturalist on a tropical farm, 1980, ix, 397 p. - Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 3: 279, 293, 300, 310. 1937, 4: 76, 278, 566. 1938, 5: 308, 516. 1939, 6: 40, 172, 325. 1941. 7: 118. 1943. #### Eponymy *Skutchia* Pax et K. Hoffmann (1937).