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Index of Botanists

Name	Plunkett, Orda Allen
Date of birth	1897
Date of death	1975
Remarks	Education history: Wabash College, Illinois, undergraduate 1920; University of Illinois: MS in 1922, PhD in 1924. Moved to California in 1925 to be a professor at the University of California (Southwood branch 1925-1929, Westwood 1929-1965). [collector note: California: BPI, CUP, DAOM, F, FH, ILLS, MICH, NY, PUR, RMS, UC, WSP, YU; Indiana: BPI, ILL, ILLS, WAB (currently at NY), Mexico (1932): BPI, CUP, DAOM, F, FH, LA, MICH, NY, PUR, UC]
ASA Botanist ID	134784 botanist
GUID	http://purl.oclc.org/net/edu.harvard.huh/guid/uuid/0208662d-90c3-4999-9187-08284cbb28a0
Variant name	Orda Allen Plunkett
Author name	Plunkett
B & P Author Abbrev.	Plunkett
Standard/Label Name	O. A. Plunkett
Full Name	Plunkett, Orda Allen
Geography Collector	Mexico, United States of America
Specialty Author	FungiAndLichens
Specialty Collector	Fungi
Specialty Collector	Spermatophytes
Specialty Collector	Bryophytes
Citation as Author	Authors of Plant Names. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Citation as Collector	Index Herbariorum - Collectors N-R
Citation as Collector	example of Bryophytes specimen collected: Anthoceros carolinianus Michx. (YU)
Citation as Author	example of name published: Excioconidium cibotii Plunkett
Citation as Collector	bioraphical detals from Online Archive of California accessed 2022-07-13: http://texts.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb1199n68c&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=div00076&toc.depth=1&toc.id=
Citation as Collector	example of Spermatophytes specimen collected: Annona cherimola mill. (F)
Member of teams/groups
Holdings	Search for specimens collected by O. A. Plunkett
Collections in	1926 (5), 1927 (2), 1929 (3), 1930 (1), 1931 (1), 1932 (10), 1933 (3), 1936 (3), 1937 (1), 1938 (2)
Collector Teams:	O. A. Plunkett, H. G. MacMillan & W. B. Welch O. A. Plunkett & H. G. MacMillan