> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 92](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212134) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/10292-1) LSID 10292-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1771270) QID Q1771270 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Summerhayes, Victor Samuel (1897-1974), British botanist (orchidologist); B.Sc. Univ. Coll. London 1920; travelled to Spitzbergen 1921; at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in charge of the orchid herbarium 1924-1964. **Abbreviated name**: *Summerh.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Summerh.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection K|K]]; some further material at [[Collection BM|BM]] (lich.), [[Collection C|C]], [[Collection NMW|NMW]], [[Collection OXF|OXF]]. – *Letters* at [[Collection G|G]]. #### Bibliography and biography Backer p. 662; Barnhart 3: 347; BJI 2: 174; BL 1: 100, 320; Bossert p. 388; Clokie p. 251; Dawson p. 592 (b. 21 Feb 1897, d. 27 Dec 1974); Hortus 3: 1205; IH 1 (ed. 1): 49, (ed. 2): 66, (ed. 3): 82, (ed. 4): 87, (ed. 5): 89, 2(4): 505; Kleppa p. 293; MW p. 475, suppl. p. 338; Plesch p. 418; Roon p. 109; Zander ed. 10, p. 722, ed. 11, p. 824. #### Biofile - Anon., Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1925: 346 (assistant herb. K); Index Amer. bot. lit. 1886-1966. 4: 300. 1967; Orchid Rev. 42: 194-195. 1934 (portr.); The Times 7 Jan 1975 (obit. not.). - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 269.344. 1980. - Bullock, A.A., Bibl. S. Afr. bot. 115. 1978. - Frodin, D.G., Guide standard floras world no. 480. 1984. - Garay, L.A., Orchidee 26(3): 60. 1975 (obit. not., portr.), Bull. Amer. Orch. Soc. 44: 200. 1975 (id.). - Hunt, P.J., Orchid Rev. 83: 77-78. 1975 (obit.); J. Kew Guild 9: 515-516. 1977 (obit.). - Lowden, R.M., Taxon, Index pers. names vols. 1-30. 712. 1985. - Lucas, G., AETFAT Bull. 16: 32-33. 1965. - Merrill, E.D., Contr. U.S. natl. Mus. 30(1): 291. 1947 (Pacific orchids). - Milne-Redhead, E., Watsonia 11 (1): 90-92. 1976 (obit.). - Summerhayes, V.S., and C.S. Elton, J. Ecol. 11: 214-286. 1923 (contr. to ecology Spitsbergen, Bear Isl.), 16(2): 193-197. 1928. - Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. ed. 1: 167. 1935, 2: 185. 1936, 3: 161. 1937, 5: 354. 1939, 6: 307, 417. 1941. #### Composite works - (1) *African orchids*, a series of 19 papers in *Bull. misc. Inf. Kew* (1-11): (1) 1927: 415-419, (2) 1931: 378-398, (3) 1932: 188-193, (4) 1932: 338-344, (5) 1933: 246-254, (6) 1934: 205-214, (7) 1935: 195-204, (8) 1936: 221-233, (9) 1937: 457-466, (10) 1938: 141-153, (11) 1939: 489-500, (12) *Bot. Mus. Leafl. Harv. Univ.* 10: 257-299. 1942, (13) in 11: 137-140. 1943, (14) in 11: 201-214. 1944, (15) in 11: 249-260. 1945, (16) in 12: 89-116. 1945, (17) in *Kew Bull*. 1947: 123-133. 1948, (18) 1948: 277-302, (19) 1949: 427-443. - (2) *Orchidaceae*, 830 entries in E.R. Farr et al., *Index nominum genericorum* 1979. #### Note Outside our period e.g. *Wild orchids of Britain*, London 1951, xvii, 366 p., *48* and *24 pl*; *Orchidaceae*(*1*) Fl. west trop. Afr. 1968, Fl. trop. East Afr. 1968. #### Eponymy *Summerhayesia* P.J. Cribb (1977). ### Publications ##### n.13.411. An enumeration of the Angiosperms of the Seychelles archipelago **Title** *An enumeration of the Angiosperms of the Seychelles archipelago*... London (printed for the Linnean Society...) 1931. Qu. **Notes** *Publ*.: Aug 1931 (date on cover-t.p.), cover-t.p., p. \[261\]-299, table. *Copy*: Peterson. – Reprinted and to be cited from Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Zool. 19(2): \[261\]-299, table. 1931. *In*: J. Stanley Gardiner, The Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905.