Frans Stafleu

Frans Stafleu
Born	September 8, 1921(1921-09-08) Velsen, North Holland, Netherlands
Died	December 16, 1997(1997-12-16) (aged 76)
Residence	Netherlands
Fields	Botany
Known for	Taxonomic Literature: A Selective Guide to Botanical Publications and Collections, with Dates, Commentaries, and Types, and its successor with Richard Sumner Cowan, TL-2
Author abbreviation (botany)	Stafleu

Frans Antonie Stafleu (8 September 1921, Velsen – 16 December 1997, Utrecht) was a Dutch systematic botanist, former Chair of the Institute of Systematic Botany at the University of Utrecht, and author of Taxonomic Literature: A Selective Guide to Botanical Publications and Collections, with Dates, Commentaries, and Types^[1] along with 644 other publications. He occupied several positions in the International Association for Plant Taxonomy. The latter organization now triennially awards the Stafleu Medal "for an excellent publication dealing with historical, bibliographic and/or nomenclatural aspects of plant systematics".

The standard author abbreviation Stafleu is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.^[2]

References

Farjon, Aljos; Victor Westhoff and Gea Zijlstra (1998). "In Memory of Frans Stafleu (8 September 1921-16 December 1997)". Brittonia (Brittonia, Vol. 50, No. 4) 50 (4): 420–427. doi:10.2307/2807750. JSTOR 2807750.

^ "TL-2 online:History of Taxonomic Literature II". Smithsonian Institution Libraries. http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/tl-2/history.cfm.
^ "Author Query". International Plant Names Index. http://www.ipni.org/ipni/authorsearchpage.do.

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Name	Stafleu, Frans
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Date of birth	8 September 1921
Place of birth	Velsen, North Holland, Netherlands
Date of death	16 December 1997
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