Gladys T. Nisbet

Gladys Turner Nisbet (Grafton, Illinois, 11 September 1895 – Highlands Ranch, Colorado, 7 October 1994) was an American botanist known for researching the genus Penstemon, particularly in New Mexico.[1][2][3][4] Nisbet earned a Masters in Biology at the University of New Mexico expanding on work she had done as an undergraduate at New Mexico Normal University.[5] [6][7] A species of fossil coral which she discovered in Arizona, Iowaphyllum nisbeti, is named in her honor.[8] The standard author abbreviation G.T.Nisbet is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[9]

Gladys T. Nisbet
Born11 September 1895
Grafton, Illinois
Died7 October 1994
Highlands Ranch, Colorado
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of New Mexico
OccupationBotanist
Known forPenstemon research

References
  1. Barr, Claude A. (2015). Jewels of the Plains: Wildflowers of the Great Plains Grasslands and Hills. U of Minnesota Press. p. 192. ISBN 9781452945231. Retrieved 13 December 2018.
  2. "Southwest Colorado Wildflowers, Penstemon breviculus". Retrieved 13 December 2018.
  3. Committee, New Mexico Native Plant Protection Advisory (1984). A Handbook of Rare and Endemic Plants of New Mexico. University of New Mexico Press. p. 287. ISBN 9780826307224. Retrieved 13 December 2018.
  4. "Tropicos | Person - Nisbet, Gladys T." www.tropicos.org. Retrieved 13 December 2018.
  5. Garden, Missouri Botanical; Holland, Douglas (1997). Guide to the Ewan Papers. Missouri Botanical Garden Press. p. 150. ISBN 9780915279456. Retrieved 13 December 2018.
  6. Obituary. Springer (New Mexico) News-Bulletin. 28 October 1994. page 4.
  7. Springer educator is teacher of the year. Las Vegas (NM) Daily Optic. 13 May 1954. section 1 page 1.
  8. Oliver, W.A. Iowaphyllum (rugose coral) from the upper Devonian of Arizona. Journal of research, U. S. Geological Survey. Vol. 6, No. 6, Nov.-Dec. 1978, p. 7&7-805.
  9. IPNI.  G.T.Nisbet.


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