George Eiten, US-born Brazilian plant ecologist (Morristown 20 november 1923 - Brasilia 25 September 2012)
World authority on Cerrado
SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Cerrado Vegetation of Brazil. Bot. Rev. 38:201-41, 1972
Delimitation of the Cerrado concept. Veget. 36:169-78, 1978
Formas fisionômicas do cerrado. Rev. Bras. Bot. 2:139-48, 1979
With Silberbauer-Gottsberger. Fitossociologia de um hectare de cerrado. Brasil Florestal 13(54):55-70, 1983
Vegetation of Brasilia. Phytocoenologia 12:271-92, 1984
With Silberbauer-Gottsberger. A Hectare of Cerrado. I. General Aspects of the Trees and Thick-stemmed shrubs. Phyton 27:55-91, 1987
His first wife, Liene de Jesus Teixeira Eiten, Brazilian botanist (Caxias, Maranhão State 09 February 1925 – Brasilia 28 October 1979)
DESCRIBED PLANT TAXA
Tribes
Micropapyreae 1976
Syntrinemeae 1976
Genus
Egleria 1964 (Cyperaceae)
Species
Egleria fluctuans 1964
Eleocharis chamaegyne 1972
SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY
Notes on Brazilian Cyperaceae. I. Phytologia 13(1):36-43, 1966
Anatomia da parte vegetative de Eleocharis interstincta (Vahl) Roem. & Schult. Arqu. Bot. Estado São Paulo 4:187-228, 1969
Notes on Brazilian Cyperaceae. II. Phytologia 20:273-6, 1970
Aspectos morfológicos e sistemáticos da família Cyperaceae. Doctoral Thesis, ESALQ, Univ. São Paulo (1972)
Inflorescence units in the Cyperaceae. Annals of Missouri Botanical Garden 63:81-112, 1976
The Morphology of Some Critical Brazilian Species of Cyperaceae. Annals of Missouri Botanical Garden 63:113-99, 1976
HONORS (both)
Eitenia King & Robinson 1974 (Asteraceae)