Leslie Andrew Garay Explained

Leslie Andrew Garay (August 6, 1924 - August 19, 2016), born Garay László András, was an American botanist.^[1] He was the 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.^[3]

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 and collector of orchids, particularly interested in the orchids of tropical America and Southeast Asia.^[4]

His ideas were influential in orchid taxonomy,^[5] and he reorganized several genera, including Oncidium. In addition to reclassification of various species into different genera, he defined a number of new genera including Chaubardiella in 1969 and Amesiella in 1972.

Publications

Among his influential publications were:

• Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated, Galfrid C. K. Dunsterville & Leslie A. Garay, Andre Deutsch, London & Amsterdam, 1959–76, 334 pp.
• 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, Amer Orchid Soc.
• Orchids of the Southern Ryukyu Islands, 1974, Leslie A. Garay & Herman R. Sweet, Botanical Museum, Harvard University, 180 pp.
• Orchidaceae, Cypripedioideae, Orchidoideae, Neottioideae, vol. 9 of Flora of Ecuador, 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, Chadwyck-Healey, 204 pp.

Legacy

The following plants have been named in his honour:

Genera:

• (Orchidaceae) Garayanthus Szlach.^[6]
• (Orchidaceae) Garaya Szlach.^[7]
• (Orchidaceae) Lesliea Seidenf.^[8]

Species:

(Orchidaceae) Apatostelis garayi Dunst.^[9] (Orchidaceae) Ascocentrum garayi Christenson, 1992^[10] (Orchidaceae) Brassia garayana M.W.Chase^[11] (Orchidaceae) Cranichis garayana Dodson & R.Vásquez^[12] (Orchidaceae) Dendrobium garayanum A.D.Hawkes & A.H.Heller<^[13] (Orchidaceae) Diaphananthe garayana Szlach. & Olszewski^[14] (Orchidaceae) Epidendrum garayi Lojtnant^[15] ^[16] (Orchidaceae) Gongora garayana R.Rice^[17] ^[18] (Orchidaceae) Habenaria garayana Szlach. & Olszewski^[19]

(Orchidaceae) Lepanthes garayi T.Hashim.^[20] (Orchidaceae) Maxillaria garayi D.E.Benn. & Christenson^[21] (Orchidaceae) Otoglossum garayanum Szlach. & Kolan.^[22] (Orchidaceae) Pabstiella garayi (Pabst) Luer^[23] ^[24] (Orchidaceae) Schiedeella garayana R.González^[25] (Orchidaceae) Schlimia garayana H.R.Sweet^[26] (Orchidaceae) Stelis garayi (Dunst.) Carnevali & I.Ramírez^[27] (Orchidaceae) Stigmatosema garayanum Szlach.^[28] (Orchidaceae) Sutrina garayi Senghas^[29]

Notes and References

1. Book: American Men & Women of Science - Volume 3. 2009. Thomson/Gale. 978-0787665265. 28.
2. Schultes, Richard Evans. Richard Evans Schultes. 1958. Garay appointed curator of Ames Orchid Herbarium. American Orchid Society Bulletin. 27. 583–584.
3. Web site: Garay, Leslie. The Roanoke Times. 25 January 2017. 3 July 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190703192257/https://www.roanoke.com/obituaries/garay-leslie/article_49f7af1c-f71a-5566-b432-f259db28cf45.html. live.
4. Lankester Botanical Garden . 2010 . Biographies . Lankesteriana . 10 . 2/3 . 183 - 206, page 190 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140523220801/http://lankesteriana.org/lankesteriana/LANKESTERIANA%2010%282-3%29/Lankesteriana%2010%282-3%29%20Part%2010%20-%20Biographies.pdf . 23 May 2014 . live .
5. Levy, Mrs. Ralph. 2005. In Tribute: Leslie A. Garay, PhD. Orchids. 74. 488.
6. Szlachetko, Dariusz L.. 1995. Garayanthus Szlach.. Fragmenta Floristica et Geobotanica. Supp. 3. 136.
7. Szlachetko, Dariusz L.. 1993. Garaya (Orchidaceae, Spiranthinae), a new orchid genus from Brazil. Polish Botanical Studies. 5. 1 - 4, page 4.
8. Seidenfaden, Gunnar. 1988. Orchid Genera in Thailand XIV: Fifty-nine vandoid genera. Opera Botanica. 95. 1 - 398, page 190.
9. Dunsterville, Galfrid Clement Keyworth. 1981. Orchids of Venezuela: Apatostelis garayi - a thank-you orchid. American Orchid Society Bulletin. 50. 9. 1075.)
10. Christenson, Eric A.. 1992. Notes on Asiatic Orchids. Lindleyana. 7. 2. 88–94, page 89.
11. Chase, Mark Wayne . Whitten, Mark. 2011. Further taxonomic transfers in Oncidiinae (Orchidaceae). Phytotaxa. 20. 26–32. 10.11646/phytotaxa.20.1.2.
12. Book: Dodson, Calaway H. . Vásquez Chávez, Roberto. 1989. Orchids of Bolivia. Icones Plantarum Tropicarum, Series 2. Marie Selby Botanical Gardens. Sarasota, Florida. 3. t. 210. 180557331.
13. Hawkes, Alex D. . Heller, Alfonse H.. 1957. Nomenclatorial Notes in the Dendrobium Alliance. Lloydia. 20. 120.
14. Book: Szlachetko, Dariusz L. . Olszewski, Tomasz Sebastian. 2001. Orchidacées, volume III. fr. Achoundong, G. . Morat, Philippe. Flore du Cameroun, 0071-5875 . 36. Ministère de la recherche scientifique et technique. Yaoundé, Cameroon. 666–948, page 740. 492696608.
15. Løjtnant, Bernt. 1977. Notes on the genus Epidendrum (Orchidaceae) in Ecuador. Botaniska Notiser. 130. 3. 325.
16. 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. 10.1007/s00606-013-0815-9. free.
17. 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.
18. Rice, Rod. 2001. Department of Stanhopeinae: notes on the genus Gongora Ruiz and Pavon (Orchidaceae). Oasis, the Journal. 2. 1. 10–12.
19. Book: Szlachetko, Dariusz L. . Olszewski, Tomasz Sebastian. 1998. Orchidacées, volume I. fr. Satabie, B. . Morat, Philippe. Flore du Cameroun, 0071-5875 . 34. Ministère de la recherche scientifique et technique . Yaoundé, Cameroon. 1–320, page 143.
20. 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.
21. Bennett, David E. . Christenson, Eric A.. 1995. New species of Peruvian Orchidaceae, III. Brittonia. 47. 2. 182–209. 10.2307/2806958. 2806958. 32165304.
22. 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. 148. 6. 1148–1159. 10.1080/11263504.2014.916363. 84519749.
23. as Pleurothallis garayi Pabst, Guido Frederico João. 1973. Additamenta ad orchideologiam brasiliensem: 15. Bradea: Boletim do Herbarium Bradeanum. 1. 36. 361–370, page 364.
24. Book: 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. Missouri Botanical Garden. St. Louis, Missouri. 119. 978-1-930723-63-4.
25. González Tamayo, Roberto. 1992. Schiedeella garayana (Orchidaceae), nueva especie del estado de Jalisco . es. Boletin del Instituto de Botanica. 1. 2. 42–48, page 43.
26. 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.
27. 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. 3. 549–558, page 556. 10.2307/2399519. 2399519. 2018-01-13. 2018-10-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20181028151756/https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/89021#page/562/mode/1up. live.
28. Szlachetko, Dariusz L.. 1995. Notes on the genus Stigmatosema (Orchidaceae, Spiranthinae). Lindleyana. 10. 1. 7–17, page 17.
29. Book: Senghas, Karlheinz. 1993. Orchideen: Pflanzen der Extreme, Gegensätze und Superlative / Orchids: Plants of extremes, contrasts and superlatives. Berlin. Verlag Paul Parey. 174. 978-3-489-64024-0.