Stephen Thayer Olney Explained

Stephen Thayer Olney
Birth Date:15 February 1812[1]
Birth Place:Burrillville, Rhode Island
Death Place:Providence, Rhode Island[2]
Nationality:American

Stephen Thayer Olney (February 15, 1812 – July 27, 1878) was an American manufacturer and botanist with expertise in the genus Carex.[3] He issued the exsiccata Carices Boreali-Americanae ex coll. variorum, distribuit S. T. Olney anno 1870.[4]

The monotypic plant genus Olneya (Olneya tesota, desert ironwood) was named in his honor by his friend and fellow botanist Asa Gray.[5]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Stephen Thayer Olney (1812-1878) Papers . botlib.huh.harvard.edu . Library of the Gray Herbarium . 2018-09-27.
  2. Memoirs: Stephen Thayer Olney . Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . 1879 . 14-15 . 367–368.
  3. Web site: Brown University Herbarium: History. www.brown.edu . Brown University . 2018-09-28 . en.
  4. Web site: Carices Boreali-Americanae ex coll. variorum, distribuit S. T. Olney anno 1870: IndExs ExsiccataID=2147199730 . IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae . Botanische Staatssammlung München . 28 August 2024.
  5. Book: Quattrocchi . Umberto . CRC world dictionary of medicinal and poisonous plants : common names, scientific names, eponyms, synonyms, and etymology . 2016 . CRC Press . 9781482250640.

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