Dennis Eugene Breedlove Explained

Dennis Eugene Breedlove (September 14, 1939, Oakland, California – June 4, 2012) was an American botanist, herbarium curator, and plant collector. He is "best known for his collections and floristic studies in the Mexican state of Chiapas, and his ethnobotanical work in that state with various collaborators."[1] [2]

Education and career

After graduating from St. Joseph Notre Dame High School in 1957,[3] Dennis Breedlove attended the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he graduated with an A.B. degree in 1962. In 1968 he graduated from Stanford University with a Ph.D.[1] His doctoral dissertation, entitled "The systematics of Fuchsia section Encliandra (Onagraceae)", was written under the supervision of Peter H. Raven.[4] After briefly working as a research botanist at the University of California Botanical Garden on the Berkeley campus,[1]

Breedlove became in 1969 an assistant curator at San Francisco's California Academy of Sciences herbarium.[5] [6] For his entire career he was employed by the California Academy of Sciences, where he was promoted to associate curator, chaired the botany department, and retired as curator emeritus and a lifetime fellow.[5]

In 1960, he began working with ethnographer, anthropologist, and linguist Robert M. Laughlin to compile a comprehensive ethnobotanical inventory of the plants known to the Tzotzils living in the municipality of Zinacantán in the highlands Chiapas.[5]

In 1964, Breedlove (who could speak Tzeltal Mayan), Brent Berlin, and Peter H. Raven began 10 years of ethnobotanical research among the Tzeltals and other Maya peoples in the highlands of Chiapas.[7] Their 660-page book Principles of Tzeltal Plant Classification was published in 1974 with a paperback reprint in 2013.[8]

San Francisco Botanical Garden's Apulca pines, which can grow to over 45 meters, were grown from seed brought back to San Francisco by Breedlove in 1986.[9]

Deppea splendens[10] is a synonym of Csapodya splendens.[11]

In 1968, a species of lizard Anolis breedlovei (junior synonym of Anolis cuprinus) was named in honor of Dennis Breedlove.[12]

Selected publications

Articles

Books

References

  1. Daniel. Thomas F.. Almeda. Frank. Dennis Breedlove, an Appreciation. Taxon. 61. 5. 2012. 1137–1139. 0040-0262. 10.1002/tax.615036. free.
  2. 10.1086/412871. Flora of Chiapas. Part I: Introduction to the Flora of Chiapas.Dennis e. Breedlove. 1982. Knobloch. Irving W.. The Quarterly Review of Biology. 57. 3. 334–335.
  3. News: Saint Joseph Notre Dame, SJND News. The Legacy of Botanist Dennis Breedlove '57: San Francisco's MesoAmerican Cloud Forest. March 12, 2014. November 16, 2020. November 21, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201121100423/https://sjndlaunchpad.t324.com/news-and-events/news/post/legacy-botanist-dennis-breedlove-%E2%80%9957-san-francisco%E2%80%99s-mesoamerican-cloud. dead.
  4. Breedlove, Dennis Eugene. The systematics of Fuchsia section Encliandra (Onagraceae). Stanford University Libraries. 1968 . (See Fuchsia.)
  5. Web site: Breedlove, Dennis Eugene. JSTOR Global Plants.
  6. Raven, Peter H.. Berlin, Brent. Breedlove, Dennis E.. The origins of taxonomy. Science. 174. 4015. 1971. 1210–1213. 10.1126/science.174.4015.1210. 1732886. 17806924. 1971Sci...174.1210R. 52827153.
  7. Friends/BG Co-sponsor Breedlove Talk. Botanical Garden Quarterly, University of California Berkeley. 1. 2. Fall 1977. 5.
  8. Book: Principles of Tzeltal Plant Classification: An Introduction to the Botanical Ethnography of a Mayan-Speaking, People of Highland, Chiapas. 9781483220987. Berlin. Brent. Breedlove. Dennis E.. Raven. Peter H.. 11 September 2013. Academic Press .
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  9. Web site: San Francisco Botanical Garden. Featured Plant: Pinus pseudostrobus var. apulcensis.
  10. Web site: Our Work, Deppea splendens. California Academy of Sciences.
  11. Web site: Deppea splendens. The Plant List.
  12. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . ("Breedlove", p. 38).

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