Konrat M. 1, Engel J.J. 1, Briscoe L. 2, Rodriguez Y. 1, Niezgoda M. 3, Sass-Gyrmati A. 4, Pocs T. 4, Pinheiro da Costa D. 5, Wagner D.H. 6, Renner M.A.M. 7, Enrique Gil Novoa J. 5, Larrain J. 8, Tabua M. 9, Ranft H., Le J. 1, Glenny D. 11, Long R. 11, Pitts G.M. 12, Evans N. 1, Salm R. 1, Volunteers of the Collections Club 1 2021. The herbarium of Rudolf M. Schuster: unlocking over a half a century of botanical exploration // Arctoa. Vol. 30: 126–137 [in English].
1 – Gantz Family Collections Center, Field Museum, 1400 S. DuSable Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605, U.S.A.
2 – Cryptogamic Herbarium, New York Botanical Garden, 2900 Southern Boulevard, Bronx, NY 10458, U.S.A.
3 – University of Wisconsin, 1550 Engineering Drive Madison, WI 53706, U.S.A.
4 – Botany Department, Institute of Biology, Eszterházy Károly Catholic University, Eger, Pf. 43, H-3301, Hungary
5 – Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botвnico do Rio de Janeiro, Rua Pacheco Leгo 915, 22460-030 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
6 – Northwest Botanical Institute, PO Box 30064, Eugene, Oregon 97403, U.S.A.
7 – National Herbarium of New South Wales, Royal Botanic Garden and Domain Trust, Mrs. Macquaries Road, Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia.
8 – Instituto de Biologнa, Pontificia Universidad Catуlica de Valparaнso, Av. Universidad 330, Curauma, Valparaнso, Chile
9 – University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji
10 – University of Minnesota Duluth, Minnesota, U.S.A.
11 – Allan Herbarium, Manaaki Whenua, PO Box 69-040, Lincoln 7640, New Zealand
12 – Shapiro+Raj, 425 S. Financial Pl. Suite 3250, Chicago, IL 60605, U.S.A.
KEYWORDS: Rudolf M. Schuster, herbarium, collections, liverworts, taxa, volunteers
ABSTRACT. The esteemed scholar, bryologist, and botanist, Prof. Rudolf M. Schuster, was a prolific collector and author of over 300 scientific publications. His staggering number of collections, reliably estimated at over 80,000 specimens, span almost six decades of fieldwork in over 38 countries. For almost his entire career, over two thirds of R. M. Schuster’s herbarium was largely inaccessible at his private residence. In 2013 his herbarium, in its entirety, was transferred to Field Museum. A detailed overview of the herbarium of R. M. Schuster is provided, including a description of the collections, the geographical extent, and status of curation and accessibility. This is complemented by tabulations and summary data representing the number of liverwort taxa R. M. Schuster described during his career and appended with a complete list of publications associated with liverworts and hornworts. Supplementary material provides a complete list of validly and legitimately published names at all ranks, from species to order, coupled with their original publication. This is the only publication that attempts to centralize and summarize the collections, publications, and exhaustive list of described taxa representing the career of the pre-eminent scientist, Prof. R. M. Schuster.
Doi 10.15298/arctoa.30.14