Thomas Walter (botanist)

Thomas Walter (c. 1740 – January 17, 1789) was a British-born American botanist. He is best known for his book Flora Caroliniana (1788), an early yet fairly complete catalog of the flowering plants of South Carolina.

The standard author abbreviation Walter is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.^[1]

References

Keir B. Sterling et al. (1997). Biographical Dictionary of American and Canadian Naturalists and Environmentalists. pp. 810–812. http://books.google.com/books?id=TvDiUjSnYKwC&pg=PA810.
Wilson Parham Gee (1918). South Carolina botanists: biography and bibliography. pp. 20–23. http://www.archive.org/details/southcarolinabot00geew.

^ "Author Query". International Plant Names Index. http://www.ipni.org/ipni/authorsearchpage.do.

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Name	Walter, Thomas
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Date of birth	1740
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Date of death	1789
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