Dieter Carl Wasshausen

Dieter Carl Wasshausen (born 15 April 1938 in Jena, Germany)[1] is an American botanist specialized in Spermatophytes. In 1962 he started working at the Smithsonian Institution as a technician. In 1976 he became chairman of the Botany Department, a post he held until 1982[2] He studied at the George Washington University receiving a PhD in 1972. Wasshausen has described approximately 247 new species in various families, and five new species have been named for him.[2]

References

Laurence J. Dorr (1997). Plant Collectors in Madagascar and the Comoro Islands: A Biographical and Bibliographical Guide to Individuals and Groups who Have Collected Herbarium Material of Algae, Bryophytes, Fungi, Lichens, and Vascular Plants in Madagascar and the Comoro Islands. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. pp. 498–499. ISBN 978-1-900347-18-1.
"The Plant Press" (PDF). Retrieved 2018-03-02.
IPNI. Wassh.

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[Dorr1997-1] Laurence J. Dorr (1997). Plant Collectors in Madagascar and the Comoro Islands: A Biographical and Bibliographical Guide to Individuals and Groups who Have Collected Herbarium Material of Algae, Bryophytes, Fungi, Lichens, and Vascular Plants in Madagascar and the Comoro Islands. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. pp. 498–499. ISBN 978-1-900347-18-1.

[press-2] "The Plant Press" (PDF). Retrieved 2018-03-02.

[3] IPNI. Wassh.