Jennie van Ackeren Dieterle
Jennie van Ackeren Dieterle (August 2, 1909 – April 15, 1999) was an American botanist, plant collector, curator, university teacher and taxonomist.[1] She collected more than 3,700 plant specimens and identified over 570 of them, the majority from the Cucurbitaceae family. Most of the plants collected came from Mexico and the United States.[1][2] She identified and named nine previously undescribed species of Cucurbitaceae.[3] She has been recognised for her expertise in this family of plants and had an entire genus of Cucurbitaceae from Mexico named after her, known as Dieterlea.[4]
Career
[edit]Van Ackeren Dieterle worked at the University of Michigan. Her contributions to the Herbarium collection include an extensive number of plant specimens from 1931 to 1979.[1][2][5]
Selected publications
[edit]- Dieterle, J. V. A. (1960). Sandbags as a Technical Aid in Mounting Plants. Rhodora, 62(743), 322–324. JSTOR 23305877[6]
- Dieterle, J. V. A. (1975). Parasicyos maculatus, a new genus and species of Cucurbitaceae from Guatemala. Phytologia. 32:289-290.[7]
- Dieterle, J. V. A. (1980). Two new Cucurbitaceae from Mexico. Contributions From the University of Michigan Herbarium. 14:69-73.[8]
The standard author abbreviation Dieterle is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Jennie van Ackeren Dieterle". bionomia.net. Retrieved 2023-01-04.
- ^ a b "Dieterle | 51-100 | Search Results | University of Michigan - Herbarium | University of Michigan Library Digital Collections". quod.lib.umich.edu. Retrieved 2023-01-09.
- ^ "Dieterle, Jennie van Ackeren | International Plant Names Index". www.ipni.org. Retrieved 2023-01-04.
- ^ Lott, Emily J. (1986-10-01). "Dieterlea, a new genus of cucurbitaceae from Mexico". Brittonia. 38 (4): 407–410. doi:10.2307/2807088. ISSN 1938-436X. JSTOR 2807088. S2CID 84164152.
- ^ AEggli, Urs (2010). Etymological dictionary of succulent plant names. Leonard E. Newton. Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-07125-0. OCLC 861706365.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Dieterle, Jennie V. A. (1960). "Sandbags as a Technical Aid in Mounting Plants". Rhodora. 62 (743): 322–324. ISSN 0035-4902. JSTOR 23305877.
- ^ Dieterle, J. V. A. (1975). "Parasicyos maculatus, a new genus and species of Cucurbitaceae from Guatemala". Phytologia. 32: 289–290.
- ^ Dieterle, J. V. A. (1980). "Two new Cucurbitaceae from Mexico". Contributions from the University of Michigan Herbarium. 14: 69–73.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Dieterle.
