Ira Schreiber Nelson

Ira Schreiber Nelson
Born1911
St. Joseph Missouri
Died1965
Lafayette Louisiana
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipU.S.
Alma materIowa State University
SpouseBarbara Nelson
Scientific career
FieldsBotany, Spermatophytes
Author abbrev. (botany)I.S.Nelson

Ira Schreiber Nelson (1911–1965) was an American botanist, working in Louisiana.

Career

A member of the Southwestern Louisiana Institute and University of Southwestern Louisiana Horticulture Departments. His interests were iris and camellias, two major flowers native to south Louisiana. He died suddenly in an automobile accident in 1965.[1]

Lowell Randolph (a Cornell University botany professor) had collaborated with Ira S. "Ike" Nelson since 1942, after the first show of the 'Society for Louisiana Irises' was held. They both identified a new iris from Abbeville, Louisiana. Randolph named the new iris after him.[2][3] Iris nelsonii was then first published and described by Randolph in 'Baileya' (a Quarterly Journal of Horticultural Taxonomy of Ithaca, New York) 14: 150 in 1966.[4]

Publications

Awards

  • 1964 American Horticultural Society Teaching Award[5]
The standard author abbreviation I.S.Nelson is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[6]

References

  1. ^ University of Louisiana, Lafayette: Ira Schreiber Nelson Collection
  2. ^ "PlantFiles: Louisiana Iris, Abbeville Red Iris, Abbeville Swamp Iris, Iris x nelsonii". davesgarden.com. 24 November 2003. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
  3. ^ Sloan, Dick. "The Louisiana Iris Suite". victoria-adventure.org. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
  4. ^ "Iridaceae Iris nelsonii Randolph". ipni.org (International Plant Names Index). Retrieved 28 November 2014.
  5. ^ American Horticultural Society: Winners
  6. ^ International Plant Names Index.  I.S.Nelson.

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