> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 442](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212484) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/10794-1) LSID 10794-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2613347) QID Q2613347 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Traub, Hamilton Paul (1890-1983), American botanist and plant breeder of German descent; on active service in World War I 1917-1919; Dr. phil. Univ. Minnesota 1927; chief division of horticulture, Texas Agr. Exp. Station at Bryan, Texas 1928-1930, at Austin, Texas 1930-1931; horticulturist at Gainesville, Florida 1932; with USDA at Orlando, Florida 1933-1940, with USDA Beltsville 1940-1952; in retirement at Arcadia and La Jolla, California continuing his work on Amaryllidaceae until 1983; founder of the American Amaryllis Society and American Plant Life Society. **Abbreviated name**: *Traub* \[standard form in IPNI: *Traub*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection MO|MO]] (formerly [[Collection TRA|TRA]]); some types also in [[Collection US|US]]. – Traub left most of his estate to the University of Minnesota. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 398 (b. 18 Jun 1890); Bossert p. 405; Hirsch p. 303; Hortus 3: 1205; IH 1 (ed. 2): 17, (ed. 3): 137, (ed. 4): 153, (ed. 5): 164, (ed. 6): 244, (ed. 7): 142; Langman p. 743; MW suppl. p. 366-367; PH 450; Roon p. 115. #### Biofile - Anon., Amer. men sci. eds. 5-10, 1933-1961; Index Amer. bot. lit. 1886-1966, 4: 375. 1969; Taxon 2: 35. 1953 (retirement), 33: 552. 1984 (herb. TRA to MO); Amer. men Sci. eds. 5-9, 1933-1955; The Tribune, San Diego 16 Jul 1983 (obit., d. 14 Jul 1983). - Beauchamp, R.M., Herbertia 40: 1-25. 1984 (main biogr., bibl., portraits.). - Bullock, A.A., Bibl. S. Afr. bot. 118. 1978. - Kelly, H., Herbertia 40: 25-27. 1984 (personal recoil.). - Löve, A. Taxon 14: 202-203. 1965 (rev. of Traub's Lineagics, 1964). - Lowden, R.M., Taxon, Index pers. names vols. 1-30. 740. 1985. - Traub, H.P. Communication to senior author 1957 (mss.). - Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 1: 377. 1935, 3: 280. 1937, 4: 42, 444. 1938, 5: 371. 1939. - Whitaker, T.W., Herbertia 40: 27-32. 1984 ("master of the Amaryllids"). #### Note Traub's main publications fall outside our period. They include *The Amaryllis manual* 1958 (Taxon 7: 209. 1958), *The phyla of organisms* 1962 (ib. 11: 206. 1962), *The genera of Amaryllidaceae* 1963 (ib. 14: 109. 1965), *Lineagics* 1964 (ib. 14: 202-203. 1965); *An introduction to Herbert's* "*Amaryllidaceae*, etc." 1837 and related works, 1970, 94 p. Traub was also longtime editor of *Plant Life*. He published a summary of the great battle on the typification of *Amaryllis Belladonna* L. in Taxon 32(3): 253-267. Mai 1983 (see also Taxon 3: 102-111. 1954). #### Eponymy *Traubia* H.N. Moldenke (1963).