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genus Lymania Read |
(subfam. Bromelioideae)Publ: J. Bromeliad Soc. 34(5): 199-201,212-216 (1984)
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J. Bromeliad Soc. 34: 201. Sep-Oct 1984.
Type Araeococcus alvimii L.B. Sm. & Read, Phytologia 38: 139. 1977. Lymania alvimii (L.B. Sm. & Read) Read, J. Bromeliad Soc. 34: 213. Sep-Oct 1984. Currently recognized in the subfam. Bromelioideae. See Leme (in Bradea 4: 395-397. 1987). Named in honor of American botanist Lyman Bradford Smith (1904-1997), curator at the Smithsonian Institution and renowned monographer of the Bromeliaceae. Named that year in honor of his 80th birthday. Smith was the world authority on the taxonomy of the Bromeliaceae from roughly 1930-1986, and was a specialist of the Begoniaceae, Velloziaceae, and Xyridaceae. He was the author of Bromeliaceae treatments in Flora of Peru (1936), North American Flora (1938), Flora of Panama (1944), The Bromeliaceae of Brazil (1955), The Bromeliaceae of Colombia (1957), Flora of Guatemala (1958), The Bromeliaceae of Bolivia (1969), Flora de Venezuela (1971), and Flora of Uruguay (1971). Smith published most of his papers on the Bromeliaceae in two series. While at Harvard University he published the series ‘Studies in the Bromeliaceae’. It was reprinted in its entirety (papers I-XVII, 1930-1954) from ‘Contributions from the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University’ and ‘Contributions of the United States National Herbarium’ in a single volume by Clyde Reed in 1977. Once establishing himself at the Smithsonian, Smith changed the name of the series to ‘Notes on Bromeliaceae’ and the journal to ‘Phytologia’. Clyde Reed reprinted papers (I-XXXIII, 1953-1971) in a single volume in 1971. With his collaborator R.J. Downs, Smith compiled the monumental three-volume monograph of the family for ‘Flora Neotropica’: Pitcairnioideae (1974); Tillandsioideae (1977); Bromelioideae (1979). It continues to be the best selling of the ‘Flora Neotropica’ series.
(from Grant & Zijlstra 1998)