Thomas Boat ( born Thomas Bernard Croat , born 1938) is an American botanist and specialist in seed plants .
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The author of the names of a number of botanical taxa . In the botanical ( binary ) nomenclature, these names are supplemented by the abbreviation " Croat " . List of such taxa on the IPNI website Personal page on IPNI website |
One of the leading scientific experts on aroid , the creator of one of the largest collections of aroid in the world, numbering 10 thousand living plants [1] . Known for collecting 100 thousand species in the wild.
Professor at the University of Missouri . Doctor of Botany. One of the leading employees of the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis .
Scientific editor of the Aroideana magazine of the International Aroid Society [2] .
Bachelor of Simpson College in Iowa , MA from the University of Kansas, defending a doctoral dissertation at the University of Kansas in 1967. Associate Professor of St. Louis and the University of Missouri.
Research interests: taxonomy and ecology of the aroid tropics, floristry of the aroid tropics, cultivation of aroid tropics, etc.
The author of more than 100 publications and publications [3] .
He described many plant species from the genera Anthurium , Chlorospatha , Dieffenbachia , Philodendron , Rhodospatha , Spathiphyllum , Syngonium , Xanthosoma . For example, Anthurium centimillesimum Croat [4] and many others.
Selected Works
- The Araceae of Venezuela. Thomas B. Croat & N. Lambert; in "Aroideana" 9 - 1987: 3-214 (Aroid Venezuela)
- Xanthosoma feuersteiniae ( Araceae ), a new species from southeastern Ecuador (link not available) . Thomas B. Croat & Josef Bogner; in: “Willdenowia” 35 - 2005, 327—331