| Allen Hiram Curtiss | |
| Birth Date: | c. 1845 |
| Death Date: | 1907 |
| Burial Place: | Hillside Memorial Cemetery and Park, Central Square, Oswego County, New York, USA |
| Occupation: | Botanist |
| Mother: | Floretta Allen Curtiss |
Allen Hiram Curtiss (c. 1845–1907) was an American botanist.[1] [2] He may have been the first professional botanist to reside in Florida. His work included the discovery of fern species at the Pineola Grotto.[3] He collected many specimens, was an author of botanical books and an editor of four exsiccata-like series.[4] The Florida Agricultural Experiment Station (established in 1888 as a division of the Florida College of Agriculture at Lake City), employed Curtiss for a brief tenure and several collections at the University of Florida Herbarium are named for him.[5] Several species are named for him including Calamagrostis curtissii[6] and Polygala curtissii.[7]
His mother, Floretta Allen Curtiss was a keen phycologist, whose biographical sketch Allen H. Curtiss published in 1899.[8]