Cirilo Nelson

Honduran botanist (1938–2020)

Cirilo Nelson (30 July 1938 – 26 December 2020)^[1] was a Honduran botanist and researcher at the Department of Biology of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras.^[2] In 1965, he earned his master's degree at the University of Colorado. In the mid 1980s, he collected plants with the likes of David Ruiz and Sandra Gomez in the Swan Islands.^[3] He is particularly renowned for his catalogue of Honduran plants, around 10,127 described species, believed to be representative of about 60 percent of what exists.^[4]

The standard author abbreviation C.Nelson is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.^[5]

References

^ Muere en España destacado científico hondureño Cirilo Nelson (in Spanish)
^ Robles, Gabriel; Ocampo, Rafael (1 January 1996). Situación de los herbarios de Centroamérica y el Caribe. CATIE. p. 91. ISBN 978-9977-57-258-1.
^ Brenesia. 1994. p. 74.
^ "El herbario de Zamorano". El Heraldo (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 May 2015.
^ International Plant Names Index. C.Nelson.