Terence Macleane Salter

Captain
Terence Macleane Salter
Born(1883-02-05)5 February 1883
Cheltenham, Gloucester, United Kingdom
Died30 March 1969(1969-03-30) (aged 86)
Cape Town, South Africa
Known forCape flora
Scientific career
FieldsBotany
InstitutionsRoyal Navy
Bolus Herbarium, Cape Town
Author abbrev. (botany)T.M.Salter

Terence Macleane Salter (5 February 1883 – 30 March 1969) was a British/South African plant collector and botanist. Among the plant taxa named in his honor are the genus Saltera (Penaeaceae) and the orchid Disa salteri.

Biography

Salter was the second child of Emily Susannah Wilding and James Colam Salter. He was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. He joined the Royal Navy in 1900 and was promoted to assistant paymaster in 1901. He served aboard HMS Majestic in Gibraltar. He became paymaster-captain in 1916.[1][2]

He was stationed at Naval Base Simon's Town, South Africa, from 1927 until his retirement in 1931 at the rank of Paymaster Commander.[2] During his commission in Simon's Town, he collected mainly from the Cape area. The specimens he collected during this period were added to the herbarium collection at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Natural History Museum, London.[3][4]

After his emigration to South Africa in 1935, he resumed his collecting work, for the herbarium collections of South African National Biodiversity Institute and the Bolus Herbarium until 1957.[3]

Double-flowered Oxalis compressa

He worked with Robert Stephen Adamson, with whom he published the Flora of the Cape Peninsula in 1950. He was employed at the Bolus Herbarium until 1960, during which time he became a specialist on the Cape flora, in particular the genus Oxalis.[3][4]

He died in Cape Town at an age of 86 years old.[2][4]

Eponyms

Salter has several plant taxa named in his honor, including the genus Saltera (Penaeaceae), the orchid Disa salteri, Lachenalia salteri,[5] Lampranthus salteri[6] and Oxalis salteri.[4][7][8]

The standard author abbreviation T.M.Salter is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[9]

Selected publications

  • Notes on some of the species of Drosera occurring in the cape Peninsula, including the new species D. glabripes (Harv.) Salter and D. curviscapa Salter, 1939
  • The genus Oxalis in South Africa, a taxonomic revision, 1944

See also

References

  1. ^ "The London Gazette" (PDF). 17 March 1916.
  2. ^ a b c Moira Owen. "Further information about the Wildings of Shropshire". James Owen Penrhos and his descendants. Retrieved 7 June 2019.
  3. ^ a b c "Salter, Terence Macleane (1883-1969)". JSTOR Global Plants. Retrieved 7 June 2019.
  4. ^ a b c d Ray Desmond, ed. (1994). Dictionary Of British And Irish Botanists And Horticulturists - Including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers (2 ed.). CRC Press. p. 605. ISBN 978-0850668438. Retrieved 7 June 2019.
  5. ^ "Pacific Bulb Society | Lachenalia". PBS Wiki. Retrieved 7 June 2019.
  6. ^ "Threatened Species Programme | SANBI Red List of South African Plants". redlist.sanbi.org. South African National Biodiversity Institute. 2010. Retrieved 7 June 2019.
  7. ^ Anthony Hitchcock & Alice Notten (2013). "Saltera sarcocolla". SANBI PlantZAfrica. Retrieved 7 June 2019.
  8. ^ Umberto Quattrocchi (1999). CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms. Synonyms, and Etymology. Vol. 4. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0849326738.
  9. ^ International Plant Names Index.  T.M.Salter.