Leslie Andrew Garay

Leslie Andrew Garay (born August 6, 1924) (died August 19, 2016) was an American botanist.^[1] He is the retired curator of the Oakes Ames Orchid Herbarium at Harvard University, where he succeeded Charles Schweinfurth in 1958.^[2] In 1957 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Life and work

Garay was born in Hungary, and after the Second World War he emigrated first to Canada and then to the United States. He was a taxonomist with his specialty in the Spermatophytes. Not only was he an orchid taxonomist, he was also an orchid collector. He was particularly interested in the orchids of tropical America and Southeast Asia.^[3]

His ideas were influential in orchid taxonomy,^[4] and he reorganized several genera, including the Oncidium.^[3] In addition to reclassification of various species into different genera, he defined a number of new genera including the Chaubardiella in 1969 and the Amesiella in 1972.

Publications

Among his influential publications were:

• Venezuelan Orchids, Galfrid C. K. Dunsterville & Leslie A. Garay, éd. Andre Deutsch, Londres & Amsterdam, 1959–76, 334 pp. ISBN 0233964118
• Natural & artificial hybrid generic names of orchids, 1887-1965, 1966, Botanical Museum leaflets, Harvard University, 212 pp.
• Flora of the Lesser Antilles: Orchidaceae , 1974, Garay, Los Angeles, HR Sweet, éd. Amer Orchid Soc. ISBN 99941-1-617-7
• Orchids of Southern Ryukyu Islands, 1974, Leslie A. Garay & Herman R. Sweet, éd. Botanical Museum, Harvard University, 180 pp.
• Orchidaceae, Cypripedioideae, Orchidoideae, Neottioideae, vol. 9 de Flora of Ecuador, éd. NFR, 304 pp.
• Orchids Venezuela, Galfrid C. K. Dunsterville & Leslie A. Garay, 3 volumes, 1979, Publ. Oakes Ames Orchid Herbarium of the Botanical Museum of Harvard University. Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Systematics of the genus Stelis SW, 1979, Harvard University, Botanical Museum leaflets, 259 pp.
• Index to the orchid herbarium of Oakes Ames in the Botanical Museum of Harvard University, 1989, ed. Chadwyck-Healey, 204 pp. ISBN 0-89887-080-1

Hommages

The following plants have been named after Garay in his honour:

Genera

• (Orchidaceae) Garayanthus Szlach.^[5]
• (Orchidaceae) Garaya Szlach.^[6]
• (Orchidaceae) Lesliea Seidenf.^[7]

Species

(Orchidaceae) Apatostelis garayi Dunst.[8] (Orchidaceae) Ascocentrum garayi Christenson, 1992[9] (Orchidaceae) Brassia garayana M.W.Chase[10] (Orchidaceae) Cranichis garayana Dodson & R.Vásquez[11] (Orchidaceae) Dendrobium garayanum A.D.Hawkes & A.H.Heller<[12] (Orchidaceae) Diaphananthe garayana Szlach. & Olszewski[13] (Orchidaceae) Epidendrum garayi Lojtnant[14][15] (Orchidaceae) Gongora garayana R.Rice[16][17] (Orchidaceae) Habenaria garayana Szlach. & Olszewski[18]

(Orchidaceae) Lepanthes garayi T.Hashim.[19] (Orchidaceae) Maxillaria garayi D.E.Benn. & Christenson[20] (Orchidaceae) Otoglossum garayanum Szlach. & Kolan.[21] (Orchidaceae) Pabstiella garayi (Pabst) Luer[22][23] (Orchidaceae) Schiedeella garayana R.González[24] (Orchidaceae) Schlimia garayana H.R.Sweet[25] (Orchidaceae) Stelis garayi (Dunst.) Carnevali & I.Ramírez[26] (Orchidaceae) Stigmatosema garayanum Szlach.[27] (Orchidaceae) Sutrina garayi Senghas[28]

References

1. American Men & Women of Science - Volume 3. Thomson/Gale. 2009. p. 28. ISBN 0787665266.
2. Schultes, Richard Evans (1958). "Garay appointed curator of Ames Orchid Herbarium". American Orchid Society Bulletin. 27: 583–584.
3. Lankester Botanical Garden (2010). "Biographies" (PDF). Lankesteriana. 10 (2/3): 183–206, page 190. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 May 2014.
4. Levy, Mrs. Ralph (2005). "In Tribute: Leslie A. Garay, PhD". Orchids. 74: 488.
5. Szlachetko, Dariusz L. (1995). "Garayanthus Szlach.". Fragmenta Floristica et Geobotanica (Supp. 3): 136.
6. Szlachetko, Dariusz L. (1993). "Garaya (Orchidaceae, Spiranthinae), a new orchid genus from Brazil". Polish Botanical Studies. 5: 1–4, page 4.
7. Seidenfaden, Gunnar (1988). "Orchid Genera in Thailand XIV: Fifty-nine vandoid genera". Opera Botanica. Societate Botanica Lundensi. 95: 1–398, page 190.
8. Dunsterville, Galfrid Clement Keyworth (1981). "Orchids of Venezuela: Apatostelis garayi—a thank-you orchid". American Orchid Society Bulletin. 50 (9): 1075.)
9. Christenson, Eric A. (1992). "Notes on Asiatic Orchids". Lindleyana. 7 (2): 88–94, page 89.
10. Chase, Mark Wayne; Whitten, Mark (2011). "Further taxonomic transfers in Oncidiinae (Orchidaceae)" (PDF). Phytotaxa. 20: 26–32.(subscription required)
11. Dodson, Calaway H.; Vásquez Chávez, Roberto (1989). Orchids of Bolivia. Icones Plantarum Tropicarum, Series 2. 3. Sarasota, Florida: Marie Selby Botanical Gardens. p. t. 210. OCLC 180557331.
12. Hawkes, Alex D.; Heller, Alfonse H. (1957). "Nomenclatorial Notes in the Dendrobium Alliance". Lloydia. Lloyd Library and Museum. 20: 120.
13. Szlachetko, Dariusz L.; Olszewski, Tomasz Sebastian (2001). Achoundong, G.; Morat, Philippe, eds. Orchidacées, volume III. Flore du Cameroun, 0071-5875 (in French). 36. Yaoundé, Cameroon: Ministère de la recherche scientifique et technique. pp. 666–948, page 740. OCLC 492696608.
14. Løjtnant, Bernt (1977). "Notes on the genus Epidendrum (Orchidaceae) in Ecuador". Botaniska Notiser. 130 (3): 325.
15. Szlachetko, Dariusz L.; Mytnik-Ejsmont, Joanna; Baranow, Przemyslaw (2013). "New species of the genus Epistephium (Orchidaceae, Vanilloideae)". Plant Systematics and Evolution. 299 (8): 1519–1522. doi:10.1007/s00606-013-0815-9.
16. Rice, Rod (2001). "The Department of Stanhopeinae: Gongora garayana Rice sp. nov.: a new species of the subgenus Portentosa from Colombia". Oasis, The Journal. 1 (4): 3–6.
17. Rice, Rod (2001). "Department of Stanhopeinae: notes on the genus Gongora Ruiz and Pavon (Orchidaceae)". Oasis, The Journal. 2 (1): 10–12.
18. Szlachetko, Dariusz L.; Olszewski, Tomasz Sebastian (1998). Satabie, B.; Morat, Philippe, eds. Orchidacées, volume I. Flore du Cameroun, 0071-5875 (in French). 34. Yaoundé, Cameroon: Ministère de la recherche scientifique et technique. pp. 1–320, page 143.
19. Hashimoto, Tamotsu (1974). "Contributions to the Orchidology of Andean Countries: Bolivian Novelties from the Collection of the Scientific Expedition to South America. University of Tokyo, 1971, Part 1". Journal of Japanese Botany (Shokubutsu Kenkyu Zasshi). 49 (11): 12.
20. Bennett, David E.; Christenson, Eric A. (1995). "New species of Peruvian Orchidaceae, III". Brittonia. 47 (2): 182–209. doi:10.2307/2806958.
21. Szlachetko, Dariusz L.; Kolanowska, Marta (2014). "Generic delimitation of the genera Brevilongium and Otoglossum (Orchidaceae) with description of new species from Colombia and Panama". Plant Biosystems. doi:10.1080/11263504.2014.916363.
22. as Pleurothallis garayi Pabst, Guido Frederico João (1973). "Additamenta ad orchideologiam brasiliensem: 15". Bradea: Boletim do Herbarium Bradeanum. 1 (36): 361–370, page 364.
23. Luer, Carlyle A. (2007). A Third Century of Stelis of Ecuador, Systematics of Apoda-Prorepentia: Systematics of Miscellaneous Small Genera, Species and Combinations (Orchidaceae). Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXIX, Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 112. St. Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. p. 119. ISBN 978-1-930723-63-4.
24. González Tamayo, Roberto (1992). "Schiedeella garayana (Orchidaceae), nueva especie del estado de Jalisco". Boletin del Instituto de Botanica (in Spanish). Universidad de Guadalajara. 1 (2): 42–48, page 43.
25. Sweet, Herman Royden (1973). "Orquideas andinas poco conocidas. VII. Schlimia Planchon & Linden ex Lindley. (Little-known Andean orchids. VII)". Orquideologia. 8: 3–14, page 8.
26. Carnevali, Germán; Ramírez Morillo, Ivón Mercedes (1990). "New or Noteworthy Orchids for the Venezuelan Flora. VIII. New Species and Combinations from the Venezuelan Guayana". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 77: 549–558, page 556. doi:10.2307/2399519.
27. Szlachetko, Dariusz L. (1995). "Notes on the genus Stigmatosema (Orchidaceae, Spiranthinae)". Lindleyana. 10 (1): 7–17, page 17.
28. Senghas, Karlheinz (1993). Orchideen: Pflanzen der Extreme, Gegensätze und Superlative / Orchids: Plants of extremes, contrasts and superlatives. Berlin: Verlag Paul Parey. p. 174. ISBN 978-3-489-64024-0.
29. IPNI.  Garay.