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William Russell Anderson

(25 Sep) 1942 - 2013 (2 Nov)





William Anderson was an American botanist who specialized in the systematics and floristics of the Malpighiaceae. Anderson began his career at the New York Botanical Garden and was Professor of Botany and Curator of the Herbarium at the University of Michigan. He collected widely in Latin America and Mexico throughout his long career. Anderson and Rogers McVaugh collected together in the western Mexican region known as Novo-Galicia, and he served as general editor for eight volumes of the Flora Novo-Galicia.

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1966. Anderson, W. R. and M. R. Crosby. A Revision of the Hawaiian Species of Elaphoglossum. Brittonia (4): 380-397.Google Scholar
1967. Anderson, W. R.. Banisteria Adr. Juss.. Taxon (5): 472-474.Google Scholar
1971. Anderson, William R.. The Correct Spelling of the Generic Name Mitracarpus (Rubiaceae). Taxon (4): 643-643.Google Scholar
1973. Anderson, William R.. A Morphological Hypothesis for the Origin of Heterostyly in the Rubiaceae. Taxon (5/6): 537-542.Google Scholar
1975. Anderson, W. R., Rogers McVaugh and E. G. Voss. Resolutions Accepted at the Closing Plenary Session of the XII International Botanical Congress, 10 July 1975, in Leningrad. Taxon (5/6): 701-704.Google Scholar


1976. Anderson, William R.. A New Species of Pterandra (Malpighiaceae) from the Guayana Highland. Brittonia (4): 407-409.Google Scholar
1976. Anderson, William R.. A New Species of Jubelina (Malpighiaceae) from Central America. Brittonia (4): 410-412.Google Scholar
1978. Estabrook, George F. and William R. Anderson. An Estimate of Phylogenetic Relationships within the Genus Crusea (Rubiaceae) Using Character Compatibility Analysis. Systematic Botany (2): 179-196.Google Scholar
1979. Anderson, William R., Frans A. Stafleu, Mason E. Hale and Richard S. Cowan. Rogers McVaugh, an Appreciation. Taxon (1/3): 1-3.Google Scholar
1979. Anderson, William R.. Mcvaughia, a New Genus of Malpighiaceae from Brazil. Taxon (1/3): 157-161.Google Scholar
1980. Anderson, William R., Peter H. Davis and James Cullen. The Identification of Flowering Plant Families.,. Systematic Botany (3): 331-332.Google Scholar
1980. Anderson, William R.. A New Species of Acmanthera (Malpighiaceae). Systematic Botany (4): 438-441.Google Scholar
1981. Anderson, William R. and Bronwen Gates. Barnebya, a New Genus of Malpighiaceae from Brazil. Brittonia (3): 275-284.Google Scholar
1982. Anderson, William R.. . Brittonia (2): 268-270.Google Scholar
1983. Anderson, William R.. Lophanthera, A Genus of Malpighiaceae New to Central America. Brittonia (1): 37-41.Google Scholar
1985. Anderson, William R.. Peregrina, a New Genus of Malpighiaceae from Brazil and Paraguay. Systematic Botany (3): 303-307.Google Scholar
1987. Johnston, Marshall C., Rogers McVaugh and William R. Anderson. Flora Novo-Galiciana a Descriptive Account of the Vascular Plants of Western Mexico, Volume 5 Leguminosae.,. Systematic Botany (3): 449-450.Google Scholar
1990. Kress, W. John, Rogers McVaugh and William R. Anderson. Flora Novo-Galiciana, Volume 15, Bromeliaceae to Dioscoreaceae.,. Systematic Botany (2): 347-348.Google Scholar
1991. Anderson, William R.. Warren H. Wagner, Jr.-Winner of the 1990 Asa Gray Award. Systematic Botany (1): 1-2.Google Scholar
1993. Yatskievych, George, W. R. Anderson, R. McVaugh and J. T. Mickel. Flora Novo-Galiciana, Volume 17, Gymnosperms and Pteridophytes.,,. Systematic Botany (3): 538-539.Google Scholar
1994. Anderson, William R.. New Species of Hiraea (Malpighiaceae) from the Guianas and Adjacent Brazil. Brittonia (2): 126-133.Google Scholar
1996. Orchard, A. E., W. R. Anderson, M. G. Gilbert, Sebsebe D, W. T. Stearn and E. G. Voss. Harmonized Bionomenclature. A Recipe for Disharmony. Taxon (2): 287-290.Google Scholar
1997. Anderson, W. R.. Introduction to Commentary of R. K. Brummitt. Systematic Botany (1): 182-182.Google Scholar
1998. Anderson, William R. and William R. Buck. Registration of Names. Brittonia (4): 428-429.Google Scholar
2001. Davis, Charles C., William R. Anderson and Michael J. Donoghue. Phylogeny of Malpighiaceae: evidence from chloroplast ndhF and trnl-F nucleotide sequences. American Journal of Botany (10): 1830-1846.Google Scholar
2002. Vega, Andrea S., Maria A. Castro and William R. Anderson. Occurrence and phylogenetic significance of latex in the Malpighiaceae. American Journal of Botany (11): 1725-1729.Google Scholar
2006. Anderson, William R. . Eight Segregates from the Neotropical Genus Mascagnia (Malpighiaceae). Novon: A Journal for Botanical Nomenclature (2): 168-204.Google Scholar
2006. Anderson, William R. and Charles C. Davis. Expansion of Diplopterys at the Expense of Banisteriopsis (Malpighiaceae). Harvard Papers in Botany (1): 1-16, 16.Google Scholar
2007. Anderson, William R.. Reply to van Rijckevorsel's Proposal to Suppress Selbyana Vol. 23 Supplement. Taxon (2): 615-616.Google Scholar
2012. Anderson, William R. and Charles C. Davis. (2091) Proposal to conserve the name Mascagnia against Triopterys (Malpighiaceae). Taxon (5): 1124-1125.Google Scholar
2015. Anderson, William R. and Christiane Anderson. Three new species of Bunchosia (Malpighiaceae): B. cuscana, B. hedraiophylla, and B. neillii. Brittonia (3): 243-249.Google Scholar