Cirilo Nelson
Cirilo Nelson (born July 30, 1938) is a Honduran botanist and researcher at the Department of Biology of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras.[1] In 1965, he earned his master's degree at the University of Colorado. In the mid 1980s, he collected plants with the likes of David Ruiz and Sandra Gomez in the Swan Islands.[2] He is particularly renowned for his catalogue of Honduran plants, around 10,127 described species, believed to be representative of about 60 percent of what exists.[3]
References
- ^ Robles, Gabriel; Ocampo, Rafael (1 January 1996). Situación de los herbarios de Centroamérica y el Caribe. CATIE. p. 91. ISBN 978-9977-57-258-1.
- ^ Brenesia. 1994. p. 74.
- ^ "El herbario de Zamorano" (in Spanish). El Heraldo. Retrieved 23 May 2015.
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